Liquid Space Dimension

Disclaimer: I recieved a copy of Liquid Space Dimension for free through my Steam Curator page. Liquid Space is a low-poly space shooter with both on-rails and free-flight sequences that take a lot of cues from the SNES and N64-era Starfox games. It has colorful visuals and an interesting soundtrack, and the controls are mostly competent. It is however noticibly faster then Starfox, which creates some issues with the gameplay. In addition, the game's difficulty curve is a 90 degree upwards right angle. The first five or so levels are very easy as compared to the game's inspirations, but my progress came to a screeching halt at the boss called the "Supreme Inhibitor", who throws a lot of geometric ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at you and is only vulnerable to damage for a few seconds after destroying small crystals that are blocked by said ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, which will also quickly shave off your health. Overall the game feels a bit amateurish. If they give it a serious difficulty rebalance I'd be willing to give it another chance, but for now if you are looking for this kind of experience, EX-Zodiac might be more to your liking.

Great music, coherent story, really fun controls, and great ship design! Rewards players for figuring out timings on how to attack efficiently and the movement is just really slick overall