Xbox.com describes Death By Cube as an “exhilarating action game in which you must take out endless hordes of enemies, while avoiding the rapid barrage of their fire that envelopes the screen”. The key words here are “rapid barrage” and “fire”, and the missing words are insane, impossible and smashed Xbox.
I know twin-stick shooters are supposed to be hard but this game sets a new notch on the bar of difficulty. Left stick to move, right stick to shoot, nice and simple, and the same as every other game in the genre. What the game does differently, or at least to my knowledge, is allowing you to dash with LB/LT, creating a clone of yourself to distract enemy fire, and pressing RB/RT to summon a shield that sucks up enemies bullets and fires them right back at them.
But simple controls does not equate to a simple game, quite the opposite in fact, as Death By Cube throws a relentless amount of enemies at you. You have your standard enemies, which are cubes of course, that simply run towards you with the intent of exploding. These are fairly easy to deal with but again the amount increases the difficulty. When you throw in shooting enemies then the whole thing becomes a horrid laser filled mess.
