Ex-Zodiac

cool fun game, still incomplete, and the ranking system does boggle me, but i recommend it

A amazing and fun call back to games like Starfox, Ex-Zodiac is a game with a lot of charm and unique levels with fun and addicting gameplay. I can't wait to see what else is in store for this game as it goes through Early Access. some small points/improvement/feedback in case the developers read this: - wish there was some form of optional training/tutorial area where you could practise with the different Vehicles. - some different difficulties to ease in players who may have never played games like this so that they can have a less punishing time with learning the controls. - an small intro crawl or something similar at the beginning to set the stage before the game actually begins just to set the stage. - some way of telling you when you have or haven't completed the data discs/chips so can keep track of the ones that you still need to collect/complete.

very fun! mouse aiming is definitely not required. if a specific point is too hard to hit use lock-on and maybe brake or bomb. (don't listen to reviews with playtimes that begin with a zero.) i definitely want to praise the auto-fire option and the remappable controls. my biggest gripe is the amount of downtime--stage beginnings especially could use extra enemies; the menu animation that plays after beating a level is long and boring; it always auto-selects the one unplayable stage; boss intros are slow, boring, and unskippable. i get you're meant to delay killing for the combo but having more enemies would just be more fun and give the game a higher ceiling. i got the S rank in every level. epaphos was the hardest stage to S-rank because i was missing the hidden laser upgrade. most of the times i got the S-rank it was completely surprising. even on the last stage (currently stage 12) i didn't feel i did particularly better than when i was getting As or even Bs. i've only played a little Star Fox but i have played Space Harrier and last year's Night Striker Gear. i like the Space Harrier-like bonus levels more than a lot of the recent Space Harrier-like indie games out there. i wish there was a mode to just play all the bonus levels consecutively. i also wish it saved/displayed the ranks for the bonus stages. the player model in the bonus levels looks a lot cooler than the main ship tbh. i'd also like restarting a stage after finishing it to be a lot faster. even just being able to speed up boss intros & stage-ending cutscenes would help the feel of the pace a lot. i don't know if the devs plan on doing a visual pass on the opening stages before 1.0, but i feel like the look improves a lot as the game goes on and it'd be nice to see the first-impression stages brought up to that level. definitely worth it!

First boss and you already have a tiny hitbox that moves too much and homing projectiles that make aiming difficult. Real bad first impression and not a welcomed one for someone looking for a Star Fox replacement

Star Fax X Space Carrier Only played like 20 minutes but I can safely say I like this game as it's almost exactly like the two games their paying hommage to. It doesn't seem to bring anything new on the table, but it's a GREAT throwback and feels exactly like back in the days, but with much better framerate.

This game deserves way more attention! One of the tightest gameplay and levels I've seen of its contemporaries and I was shocked to realize there's still more to come in the final version! While development seems to have taken awhile the current version is well and truly worth playing!

starfox by LESBIANS