I loved Parsec on the TI-99/4a. This is a faithful reproduction, except for one thing.
The controls are terrible! They only work intermittently, and the fixed location and small trigger areas only serves to highlight the shortcoming of touch-screen controls - you have to look at the controls, to use them.
The control area is too small, which means you frequently miss them.
Because they are fixed, you constantly have to look down to reorient your fingers.
They also seem far more sensitive than the controls on the original. The game and ship speed at level 1 feels like level 3, on the original; it’s too easy to fly into the ground or an enemy ship.
I want to love this game again, but it’s pretty much unplayable past level 1.
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