CometStriker DX

Buy This Game!! What an underappreciated gem! The retro style and gameplay are impeccable. Controls are tight and have a unique mechanic of slow while shooting/fast while neutral movement system that reminds me of some the best shooters like DoDonPachi and Crimson Clover. The music is perfect, the bosses are interesting, the difficulty is tough, but not punishing. It really hits the right balance of challenge vs. reward that keeps you coming back for one more try. Seriously, do yourself a favor and pick this one up. A truly refreshing 2D side scroller, that takes inspiration from a number of genres and delivers the goods.

I found that game while scrolling randomly into my library and was really surprised it didn't catch my attention earlier as I'm usually very keen to play anything getting its inspiration from [url=https://www.remar.se/daniel/herocore.php]hero core[/url] (go play it !) CometStriker DX is an arcade shmup where you can only shoot left/right. It also features a dash that can make you iframe through bullets / obstacles. It's very easy to pick up and play and the levels are finely crafted, one thing I liked was that the space at the entrance of each room was almost always safe, which helps think about your strategy for clearing the room before jumping into action ! It's a very good tool that can really help to learn the levels if you wanna speed through them for a high score later. The base game is not really long (5 levels, pretty short, standard length for a shmup) but there a lot of replayability with higher difficulties, unlockable characters, unlockable game modes and a huge set of achievements ranging from slaying bosses with specific character to finishing the game without getting hurt once on max difficulty so you can really try hard and complete EVERYTHING if you want to. About difficulty, I managed to 1cc hard difficulty on my very first try, it still was pretty tense experience and I barely made it so I guess I would have to train a bit at least to do it in very hard. Not sure I wanna go deep on this game as I wanna go further on my backlog right now but it certainly was a very fun time I would recommend if it looks like your thing !