There was a time when you couldn’t take a single step in the App Store without tripping over dozens upon dozens of old-school-inspired top-down shooters. I think I “blame" Geometry Wars for this “problem" due to its dazzling particle effects and neon-soaked everything, with numerous developers trying to emulate the formula with their iOS offerings. It also didn’t hurt that a dual-stick top-down shooter was extremely well-suited to touchscreen controls. As such, even the earliest days of the App Store were filled with Geometry Dash-like games, and developer Jean-Francois Geyelin was right in the mix with his PewPew series.
The original PewPew that launched around this time in 2009 started off extremely basic with just a couple of game modes, but it was still extremely fun and, well, extremely free. Due to this it developed a cult following and over the coming years gained quite a few new features via updates. Then about a year after the original game’s release, PewPew 2 arrived and built off of the solid foundation of the first game but added numerous new game modes, a full campaign, online components, and tons more. It also cost money, though just a couple of bucks, and we felt it was well worth it in our review.
While both PewPew games remained functional, neither had been updated in a number of years and I kind of figured that we’d never hear from old PewPew again. Much to my shock this week I was proven wrong when PewP...