In my continuing attempts to find things to do that are not finishing my thesis, I ran into this wonderful gem of a flash game. Amorphous is best understood as Geometry Wars with a different attack method, a combo system, and a larger set of enemies. This game is everything an arcade game should be. Its combo system rewards risky play, tricksy preparation, and knowledge of the enemies. It’s got a great achievements system for all sorts of accomplishments both low level (hitting four different color enemies in one swing) and high level (getting one thousand points in one game). It’s punishingly hard, too, so it doesn’t have that annoying scale-up period that arcade games tend to have where it’s so easy for the first few minutes because they’re trying to scaffold you into the heart of the game slowly. Instead, Amorphous lets you choose the difficulty scaling factor, as well as choose whether new enemy types come one at a time or all at once. All in all, a wonderful game. Go play!. If you’re new to Kongregate, you can sign up for an account using this link and it’ll auto make us friends. Yay!