Son of Scoregasm

A bright and brutal twin stick arcade that keeps you on your toes!
Gameplay
The game moves fast. So you have to be faster. You’re in a ship within a space IN space. (Space-ception? O.O) And your limited range of movement makes it that much more difficult to time your attacks and maneuver your way around and away from enemies.
Timing is very important as it’s the key to get the highest score and staying alive. Using your Pulse Cannon let’s you destroy a bunch of enemies in a small radius around you. This is absolutely vital because if you find yourself cornered, a perfectly timed Pulse Cannon can stand between sweet, sweet victory or utter death and dishonor on your family and your cow.
I admit, at first, I really did NOT like this game simply because I got frustrated very easily since I was dying all the time. But after I revisited the tutorial and fiddled around with the Pulse Cannon, it became progressively easier if a bit more challenging, but in a ‘I’m not dying every 2 minutes’ kind of way. And that’s good.
There are a variety of levels with various enemies that come at you in patterns or sporadically. You need to be alert as sometimes they mix. What may start as a pattern could quickly end up a smorgasbord of death coming straight for you if you don’t pay attention. Also, don’t go willy nilly with the Pulse Cannon as the ring your ship is inside of indicates how much juice you have left to use it. Killing enemies refills it and there are tricks to use the Pulse Cannon indefinitely if you can kill as many enemies as you can and time its use. Killing enemies also changes your single shooter and upgrades it to a triple stream of death.
Controls
You can play with a keyboard/mouse or controller. I highly recommend playing with a controller. It just feels a much more natural. Left thumbstick moves your ship while the right fires. Left and right bumper activate your Pulse Cannons.
Graphics/Music
Low-poly make for lovely visuals as the colors are vibrant and the particle effects are great. The music is outstanding and I found myself moving and bobbing left and right to the music. It definitely fits the genre well and changes with and during each level, so it’s never the same.
Overall
If you’re a fan of twin sticks with a twist and swarms of enemies trying to kill you all at once, then Son of Scoregasm is deininitely one you shouldn’t pass up. Coupled with challenging gameplay, sick beats, and pleasing visuals, SoS is a pretty good time if you don’t mind dying a whole lot before coming up with the perfect strategy. You will die A LOT in the beginning, but once you master your Pulse Cannon timing, picking off packs of enemies becomes easier. I believe in you, Young Padawans!
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Here's a carefully crafted, well balanced, crazy and frantic twin-stick shmup ! It took its developer a lot of time to develop and litterally costs peanuts : go get it !!

I'm so glad there's people like Charlie Knight out there that keep up the good tradition of British programmers to produce insaely colorful and difficult shoot'em ups. Small price, small download, honest twin-stick shooting fun. Just like Jeff Minter at his best.

This review is mostly based on my experience with the Vita version of this game, but it applies to this version too.
Tip: get a controller. This game is meant to be played with a controller, and while keyboard works, it misses the precision of a joystick.
Pro:
twin stick shooter with a twist
Interesting score-system
Quick levels, excllent for short bursts of gameplay
Each level has its own challenge
Each level has an 'easy' and 'hard' version
Con:
Outdated graphics
Definitely not easy, even on 'easy'
Son of Scoregasm (SoS) is an excellent but difficult twin-stick shooter, where you manouver through 28 unique levels. Every level has it's own special challenge. In one level you are faced with hordes of enemies, the next one you have to keep two rollers at bay.
Most interesting is the score-system. It is perfectly possible to finish a level, kill all enemies, and have zero points. This is due to the face that you have two attacks, one with regular bullets, and one that acts like a proximity EMP. In order to score points, you have to first kill enemies using your EMP attack, which increases your multiplier, after which you can score points with your bullets, This leads to very interesting gameplay: while trying to survive, you also have to balance killing enemies with your two attack-types. How far will you raise your multiplier before going for the bullet-kill? It's the difference between simply survival and the top-score on the leaderboard!
SoS is a fun, but difficult game. But of course you don't shy away from a challenge, do you?

simply put, if you love score-based twin stick shooters where gameplay is king you need this game in your life
it is a hard game, and you will be doing some of the levels multiple times to finish them, but you can always see what has killed you and its never the games fault:
with just one more go you'll do it... maybe

From my limited play time this is a fine twin-stick shooter. Perhaps a little perverse (ie difficult) at the start but I'll come back to this review after I progress more through the game.
The game has a retro feel, a sense of fun and some neon graphics reminiscent of other popular twin-stick shooters but is not over the top in trying to provoke a seizure.

Best shooter of this kind I've played this year.
Bloody hard tho.