Cybertrash STATYX bills itself as a “a tactical 2D action-platformer.” What this means is you have to think through your moves, when to jump, when to slide, and when to slide jump. There is a story here involving our heroine, Janet, escaping the clutches of an evil corporation, but it’s really just the set up for the action-platforming sections and not all interesting. The levels are mazes, filled with deadly robots. There are boxes to hack and kiosks to buy stuff from. At the end of the level there is a giant robot boss, who oddly is easier than the level that came before. Finally, there are terminals where you can upgrade your stats, which help you through the levels.
I wanted to like Cybertrash STATYX, and initially I did. But then a single flaw dragged it down to hell. You slide with the L button. Not ZL, L. It is an odd placement for a button constantly used, and makes slide jumping, which is required, much harder than it needs to be. I’m not alone in this. The Nindie Spotlight Review said:
The area where the game unfortunately lost me is with its control scheme, specifically the needlessly clumsy way you’re forced to first slide in order to jump higher drew my ire. Aside from being nonsensical conceptually, it mechanically feels inconsistent as you try to pull it off, and there are situations and areas where the need to do this can be an active liability.
Nindie Spotlight
Yes the controls in Cybertash STATYX are clumsy and make things way harder than the need to be. If there’s a patch that changes the control scheme to something better, points would be added to the back-end score, which is getting a six.
In the end, Cybertrash STATYX could have been a winner, instead of the middling experience that it is. It aims for the sky, and in some ways succeeds, but falls short because of that one bad decision with the control scheme. If they fix the controls, I’ll go back in and change the Verdict and back-end score. As it is, the game gets a YMMV and a six back-end score.
Overall: If you can put up with a bad control scheme, you may find a lot to like in Cybertrash STATYX.
Verdict: YMMV(Your Mileage May Vary).
| Release Date | 3/13/24 |
| Cost | $9.99 |
| Publisher | Sometimes You |
| ESRB Rating | E10+ |
Game Received for free from the Publisher!
