Strike Suit Zero

Very cool game that gives me Rogue Squadron or Ace Combat vibes! Its selling points are: *A level-based structure with a strong narrative where you have large-scale fights against fleets, capital ships and bases as a pilot taking on various objectives with their allies. It's quite the breath of fresh air as it seems like every other space flight games wants to do open-world nowadays, and while that's nice, sometimes you just want pure concentrated dog-fighting action and bombastic scripted scenarios! *A great power fantasy as you pilot a jet that can transform into a badass Gundam/Jehuty-esque mech. It's very fun to get skilled at switching between the two forms to best suit the situation: close in quickly with the jet's thrusters, switch to the mech to fast-turn and then unload a barrage of missiles in Itano Circus style to obliterate an entire capital ship and its escorts. Way more involved combat than your typical jet dogfights where you just circle around constantly! *High replayability with a scoring/medal system, special bonus objectives that unlock new upgrades and ships, multiple difficulty levels, and even a bonus arcade version of the game called Strike Suit Infinity! *Really cool vibes and music that reminds me of stuff like Homeworld, Ghost in the Shell, Zone of the Enders, Gundam and more! If I were to have any complaints about the game, it would be that getting the controls all configured can be a bit of a pain: had to go through a lot of remapping and even then, I wasn't able to figure out how to invert Y properly so I just got used to it. Also the unlocks you get from bonus objectives seem a bit superfluous, especially the other jets because they don't have the strike suit to go with it: what's the point of that? I guess you can treat it as a bonus difficulty mode.

In all honesty the gameplay is fine and fun. My biggest con is that the battlefields are just plain confusing with no way to get a grasp on your situation. You can often only get your position by superstructures or nearby ships. With the crazy amount of stuff going on - if you don't know precisely where your objectives are and how they look (e.g. Turrets on Frigates, flight behaviours of different fighters since all you see are their engine-stripes and they all look the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ same) it will be a quite frustrating experience, beating the game on hardest difficulty with all unlocks and objectives.

This is a game that, even 10 years since I last played, and even longer since I really dived into, I still remember. It's a fun, dynamic shooter/dogfighter that makes asks you to execute well to succeed and doing well feels rewarding.

This game is really fun in the first stages. The dog fights are extremely satisfying to do. However, it gets very frustrating in the endgame, and you can basically only rely on your mecha-form to defeat the enemies. Some of the missions, like "kill 40 units of a certain ship" don't seem to track well either. But it's an overall fun game. Flying in the beginning stages is always cool

Cool concept, fun gameplay

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Top weltraumkampf Epische Grafik! rosskampfschiffe alles was das Herz begehrt!

Super histoire et très bon défouloir à frag. Dommage qu'il n'y ait pas eu de suite.

4/5 Complete blast.