1917 - The Alien Invasion DX

The date: April 15th, 1917. As the citizens of Verdun-sur-Meuse had believed the fighting along their city had finally waned, the bones of all the fallen soldiers could only look on as a lone Fokker Dr-1 takes flight against a threat too outrageous for words. 1917: The Alien Invasion DX takes place in an alternate WWI where the world is violently besieged by aliens. You play Dr. Brunhild Stahlmüller, performing an solo act of vernichtungsstrategie against the aliens and flying her 'Red Beezlebub' to the heart of the interplanetary menace. The game has a nod to the developer's earlier title Sturmfront: The Mutant War as the assistant to Dr. Stahlmuller, a Dr. Hartmuth Griesgram, is a key character in Sturmfront. The game functions well as a tate shump with plenty of risks and rewards for good flying. One specific factor in the gameplay loop is the use of a score locking pickup, in which the combo you build from downing enemies increases as long as the combo is unlocked, but can quickly drop if you're not careful. Once the combo is locked by a pickup at the end of the level, the combo can be continued into the next stage, and so on. The Red Beezlebub also come equipped with two different firing modes, a green weapon that does modest damage, and a heavy hitting weapon that pushes back your ship with each shot. Sebastian de Andrade shows their trademark capabilities with pixel art as every portion of the game is lovingly rendered and easy to read. Can you get through all eight levels and defeat the Chessmaster?

A vertical shmup that's metal af, and will have you fighting robots, weird humanoid ships, tanks, weird penis alien ships, and an assortment of deranged demonic bosses. Challenging, fun, and the soundtrack's good. 4 different ships, 2 of them basically being different game modes

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Jogo indie bem interessante, demorei bastante tempo para me dedicar a ele e hoje tive tempo e paciência para finaliza-lo. Basicamente é um bullethell com temática invasão alienígena infernal (onde será que já vi isso?) e com mesclas de elementos tecnológicos tetônicos de primeira e segunda guerra. Ao contrário do que alguns falaram achei os gráficos bonitos e chamativos, alguns deles meio que incômodos (já explico). Boa trilha sonora, principalmente da primeira fase "Verdun" mas nada memorável. Dois tipos de tiros, um normal com abrangência maior e outro mais poderoso como um canhão, porém com efeito recoil (recuo, achei legal, é um fato que realmente acontece em armas de calibre elevado, porém aqui estamos lidando com lasers, enfim... A terceira nave não tem escudo mas não sofre com recuo). A principio vc tem 2 naves, mais 4 são liberadas cada vez que vc finaliza as 8 fases. O jogo é bem difícil e punitivo, vi nas minhas conquistas que menos de 5% dos jogadores chegaram a fase final (8ª fase). Gostei bastante do jogo, uma pena que na história é feito um ataque ao cristianismo colocando Jesus como um emissário dos alienígenas infernais e que a religião é um engodo dos mesmos. Ok, como católico não me abalo com esse tipo de coisa tão comum hoje em dia, tão pouco farei um julgamento negativo do restante do jogo por causa dessa característica. Enfim, se vc é um aficionado hardcore de shmups como eu, o jogo é bem desafiador, para novatos eu escolheria algo mais amigável.

Ne vous attendez pas à un bullet hell, même s'il s'en réclame, ce jeu se rapproche bien plus d'un shmup old school que d'un Dodonpachi. Il utilise cependant un système de chaîne/combo comme ce dernier pour le score, ce qui fait le taf sans être vraiment intéressant. De manière générale, le gameplay est correct mais très peu intéressant et en dehors d'essayer vite fait les vaisseaux déblocables, il n'y a pas vraiment de raison d'y rejouer (j'ai 100% le jeu parce qu'il ne me manquait pas grand chose pour le faire mais c'est pas extrêmement passionnant). Les patterns sont vraiment simples et oubliables, et chaque run se déroule exactement pareil que la précédente. Donc si vous vous intéressez à ce jeu pour une expérience de shmup prenante, il y a risque de déception. Le véritable intérêt de ce jeu, c'est surtout son ambiance et histoire assez dingues et uniques. Ca ne plaira certainement pas à tout le monde mais le jeu est vraiment trippy, et son mélange alien-body horror/gore-sexualité déformée-imagerie religieuse sort du lot et propose vraiment une expérience narrative différente. Il m'a rappelé entre autres R-Type, Yume Nikki et H.R Giger et c'est vraiment l'aspect que j'ai adoré de ce jeu. Le style graphique colle très bien à l'ambiance et est assez plaisant. Enfin, la musique, elle, n'est pas exactement terrible, elle accentue le côté trippy et accompagne bien l'aventure mais elle est vraiment oubliable et parfois même assez bof. Au final, je conseille de soit regarder une run complète sur youtube, soit de prendre le jeu quand il est en promo. Je dirais qu'il ne vaut le coup au prix normal que si vous avez vraiment flashé sur l'esthétique. Encore une fois, si vous cherchez une expérience de shmup nerveux, mieux vaut aller voir ailleurs. Je recommande quand même car il offre une expérience unique et reste assez peu cher.

What a fantastic little shmup

Great shoot em up. One hit dead except that there is shield that takes one hit. Infinity continue from beginning of the stage with no continue screen (continue right away). 4 different ships with a few levels of level up (3?). One of the ship has no shield. The last ship is the hard mode. 8 levels total. It has well-balanced difficulty. It is not easy but not impossible like those old arcades. Two bosses (maybe three) has really fast bullets and are much harder than the others. Some levels have some unforgiving terrain. The hard mode is pretty hard. Every enemy shoots loads of bullets. Still, not too bad compared to many other coin-eating shoot em up. I like the style and the BGM. There is some kind of satanic BDSM theme going on. Kind of weird but fun.

Nao consigo ter compatibilidade com meu controle. Utilizo um controle de sega saturno conectado a um adaptador. Nao eh possivel baixar o volume da musica nas opcoes a ponto de nao ter musica, tive que baixar no windows, pois dentro do jogo faz pouca diferenca, isso me incomodou mais do que sobre o controle. Caso esses pontos sejam consertados considero mudar minha analise para positiva.

The History Channel when it's three in the morning.

Feels like trial and error game. The first couple of levels are fine, starting with the third level you get more enemies with lots of health and more bullets, the bullets from the boss also fly a lot faster. Pattern repeats in the next level. In turn more into a bullet hell situation than a normal shoot em up where you need to hide more than fight. But given the graphical style it becomes very hard to read the screen if youre shooting. I also found the alternate attack useless as it deals only somewhat more damage, but in return you can move. You keep repeating levels over and over until you memorize the patterns, but it becomes a drag and its not fun gameplay.