Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)

Sausage Bomber originally started out as a 2-D horizontally scrolling mobile game shooter.  And now a sequel of sorts is available for all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.  It’s a cartoony shooter with all sorts of hot dog puns and up to four can play at the same time!

Play control is super easy.  Move with the left stick and fire shots with one button.  Another button lets you fire a secondary weapon, usually a bomb for ground targets.  And another button lets you flip around and shoot enemies from behind.  You’ll go through nine stages with a boss at the end of each one.  You can take multiple hits, and if you do run out of energy, you can press the flip button to try and shake out of a dive, kind of like SkyKid.  Shooting certain enemies will let you nab power-ups for your weapon, and shooting groups of enemies can reveal point pickups.  At the end of each stage you’ll be ranked for up to five stars.  You can even unlock tons of new weapons, but I have no idea how to do that.  Up to four can play at the same time, which is kind of rare in a shooter.  Only other four player 2-D shooter I know of is Dariusburst.  My only problem with this one is so minor it’s hardly worth mentioning.  It’s just that the cartoony graphics have that ‘generic’ Flash animation look to them.  I think it would’ve been cooler if they had that pixel art Metal Slug style.  But otherwise I really enjoyed this one.

Kid Factor:

Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.  When you shoot enemy planes, they explode, but the pilots jump out and run along the ground, so it negates a lot of the violence.  Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.  Multiple difficulty selections and four player simultaneous play mean that the whole family can enjoy this one.

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