CometStriker DX

Отличная аркада с аркадной сложностью! Пока многие современные индиигры водят за ручку, эта способна бросить реальный вызов даже фанатам хардкорных шутемапов. В игре простое управление - герой может летать во все восемь сторон, стрелять влево или вправо, а также проноситься на некоторое расстояние насквозь любые препятствия, врагов и пули. Но чем игра берёт, так это разнообразнейшими комнатами с ловушками и самыми разными видами врагов, в случае с которыми нужна не только реакция, но и тактика. Поэтому во многих комнатах присутствует безопасное место, где игрок может подумать, а как надо справляться с той или иной комбинацией врагов и препятствий. Игра короткая, но с реиграбельностью. Первоначально доступен аркадный режим, в котором надо пройти сюжетку длительностью в один час. Не спешите с выводами - если жизни закончатся, а они тут конечные, то можно приплюсовать ещё часик-другой как минимум. Можно конечно включить сложность Easy, но вы же не боитесь трудностей? Если этого мало, в игре открываются новые персонажи, новые способы усложнить себе жизнь вроде полного отказа от аптечек, а также целый режим с генерируемыми уровнями, как это нынче модно. Лично я прошёл сюжетку на сложности Hard с большим удовольствием и планирую ещё возвращаться к этой игре. Всем фанатам аркад рекомендую!

Iced Lizard Games’ CometStriker is a game I slept on for too long. I knew it was something I’d probably enjoy after watching someone play through hard mode. I’m not sure if it’s because of life or focus on other games but I didn’t purchase it for quite some time. After finally getting around to playing it I’m pleased to say it’s as least as good as I expected if not better. CometStriker is an arcade style shooter complete with score/time leaderboards and achievements for getting a 1cc on each difficulty level. There is a story but I was more interested in the action than the lore so I don’t have anything to say about it. It has quite a few extras including unlockable modes and characters. The game takes place on several different planets. Each planet is essentially a themed dungeon. The player must travel from room to room fulfilling whatever is required to proceed. This consists of killing all of the enemies or collecting keys. The characters that I tried were all armed with a weapon and a dash with invincibility frames. There are three power-ups and the character loses a powerup upon taking damage. The first hit removes the shield power-up and later instances of damage remove either the gun upgrade or the triple dash. The scoring system is relatively simple as far as I’ve seen. It involves progressing through rooms quickly, killing enemies, and collecting gems. If the player takes damage while unshielded the score multiplier is reduced. While shielded, enemies that would normally drop a shield drop a valuable score gem. Achieving a high stage grade/score will require getting hit as few times as possible. It’s easy to see that Iced Lizard Games tried hard or very hard to produce a great arcade style shooter, and I’d say they succeeded. Unfortunately as of writing this, it seems that CometStriker has flown under the radar of many. Don’t hesitate to give it a try!

A really cute and challenging bullet hell game. The controls and movement are nice and comfortable while the combat is excellent and hard. There's a variety of enemies on each stage and their attack pattern is different so goodluck confronting them. There is a timer that can give you a rank bonus if you exit a room before time runs out, but it is entirely optional. Finally, the art is cute. Will play it again.

Really cool, visually stunning, and has a lot of amazing patterns. A lot of fun for the time I played. It's really neat just exploring around and facing bosses, though truthfully it started to get very samey for how many times the game expects you to do arcade mode. I ended up tapping out trying to do the very hard mode, I think it ends up tipping over to far too hard to manage with very unpredictable enemies and bosses. Sometimes it felt like I didn't really have a way to get out of situations without the fully upgraded moveset, which may be by design but when you have to refight bosses without any powerups it started repeating over and over. Each character has a lot of positives and negatives so usually you can just try another one but it did end up annoying sometimes. Ultimately I had a lot of fun playing normal and hard mode so I don't think it's too fair to have the highest difficulty drag that down for me. It's not a game I ever see myself going 100% for (there is so much things to do for that), but playing it for around 8 hours I felt satisfied.

This game leaves a strong first impression, and coming from the developers of Mute Crimson+, that should be expected. In fact, in my 20 minute play session, I found nothing complaint-worthy. It seems like a solid game. The actual reason I'm leaving this review is as a warning for Linux users. Depending on your window manager, this game may flicker like a mad man on startup and be completely unplayable (as in: you can't even get past the main menu). To fix this, first grab an app launcher and run [code]pkill CometStriker[/code]. If you can't do that, try dropping into a TTY with Ctrl+Alt+F{1-3}, logging into the console and running the command from there (to get back to your X session, it's usually Ctrl+Alt+F7, if that doesn't work, just try every F* key until you find it). Now modify [code]~/.local/share/CometStriker/userconfig.ini[/code] and set fullscreen to 0. Further, you can make use of xdotool to emulate fullscreen by just resizing and positioning the window exactly to fit your screen. For instance, I wrote a script: [code] winid=$(xdotool selectwindow) # then click on the game window leftborder=4 topborder=4 # Set these to the thickness, in pixels, of your window border xtodool windowsize $winid 1920 1080 xdotool windowmove $winid -$leftborder -$topborder [/code] Then just go into the game's video settings (do not activate fullscreen) and set the internal resolution to 1920x1080 and uncheck (IIRC) bipolar filter so that the game knows the internal resolution matches the native resolution. So if that happens to you, now you know.

It's one of those hidden gems, you know? It's just plain good. If you like shmups, it's an easy pick. If you haven't played a shmup yet, it's a very good start because it has many difficulty settings and even a Practice mode for you to train bosses without the risk of running out of lives. It features a classic arcade mode where you play 5 levels back to back (it doesn't save in between, you have to finish all 5 in the same run), it has limited lives and credits if you lose all lives. But it's also kind of a roguelike with its Labyrinth mode, which features a randomly generated campaign! I've only sank in 4 hours and can't wait to unlock more modes, characters and try everything the game has to offer. It's such a shame this game hasn't received much attention :/

BEST GAMEPLAY I saw from AGES !!! mixing shmup + topdown shooter mechanics, with enemies and also traps, and a dodging dash. what is amazing in this game is certainly - level design - enemy patterns - boss patterns the geometrical enemy shots are so cool !! and you can even play co-op 2 players !! challenging and very satisfying, I don't understand why it is so hidden, this games deserves way more downloads !! give it a try !

This game deserves waaaaaay more attention. It's loads of fun, especially the bosses. Mastering the whole game and hunting down every last achievement should've gotten boring considering how many times you have to play through the same stuff, but it didn't get boring even a bit. It's that good.

A short and sweet bullet hell with handcrafted encounters, a challenge mdoe and a semirandom mode Art and sound designs is good Especially very fun in 2p coop where I notably really appreciate you respawn on every screen in a safe zone while other bullet heavy games tend to overlook that kind of thing. The game is very short (1h to beat in coop +-) but the difficulty levels are very well crafted and warrant at least one replay as they change bullet patterns drastically. Speaking of bullet patterns, they are surprisingly fair, especially with the addition of a generous but mandatory iframe dash which makes it just right in terms of difficulty for a somewhat casual audience on easy/normal mode, while hard is a valid challenge afterwards.