Legends of the Universe - StarCore

StarCore — це екшн-платформер у стилі метроїдванії. Досліджуйте гігантський космічний корабель, покращуйте та покращуйте статистику, перемагайте величезних босів і зустрічайте нових союзників. Ви граєте за Тріона, лідера арконіанської команди, яку відправили викрасти Зоряне Ядро у Дракетів. Дракети — це передова імперія видобутку корисних копалин, яка використовує StarCore для легкого знищення планет. Хоча вони ще не нападали на жодну цивілізацію, арконіани сприймають їх як загрозу. Без допомоги Галактичної Ради арконіани самі повинні вкрасти Зоряне Ядро.

Legends of the Universe - StarCore is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. It's an extremely badly made ripoff of Metroid (copyright Nintendo, 1986). To date, it's unclear whether Nintendo have taken any legal action against the "developer" to preserve their intellectual property rights. It's a very buggy (to the point of being unplayable) 2D retro pixel side scrolling "Metroidvania" platformer slapped together with GameMaker Studio, so the developer chose pretty much every way one could fail at game development and ran into them headfirst (again). It gets worse. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed. Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing. They dropped the ball on this one. Resolution is locked and can't be changed, and Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The developers hamfisted decision here means it's impossible to ensure this runs at the native resolution of any given modern PC gaming display... it simply won't look right. The "artwork" is terrible, too, despite being over 30 years newer than Metroid, the game looks considerably worse in quality. PC gamers will be insulted by the presence of console peasant children's toy controller prompts, despite this being on PC. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're developing for. Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the GameMaker Studio construction kit/toolset. This is a very poor quality toolset favoured by amateur developers as it's cheap and requires little in the way of development skill, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities. Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. GameMaker Studio is most commonly used to make retro pixel shovelware and cash grabs. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Legends of the Universe - StarCore has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for playing long enough to collect the "slide" ability, trivial to do, yet only around 2 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show only 2 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who weren't even playing the game? Trading cards. Players will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game. That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. The game doesn't demonstrate any true popular appeal with gamers, most likely due to the reasons raised in this review. Legends of the Universe - StarCore is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

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Alerta!! es un Metroidmega... muy buen juego, no me esperaba que fuera tan bueno, buena música, controles, muy bueno. =)

Звуки в игре очень громкие. Расположение кнопок на клавиатуре могло бы быть лучше. Не рекомендую использовать эту игру для чего-либо, кроме фарма карточек.

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