A fun, lighthearted mashup of naval and outer-space combat.
Highlights:
- Gameplay is everything you'd expect from a sci-fi spaceship action game.
- Fun dialogue/cast of characters
- Game's art, audio is a delight and thematically consistent
- First capstone game I've seen with Steam achievements (even if you only get them upon closing the game), gj devs.
Room for improvement:
- Stray white pixels on outside of 2D character dialogue portraits are noticeable on dark UI panel background.
- Audio (both music and sound design) crackle/pop when they cut out. To fix this for music, try playing music on a singleton object that goes between scenes like a GameManager. To fix this for sound effects, try having them quickly fade out before deleting the GameObject or abruptly stopping the sound.
- Typo in "The Battle's Not Won" mission description, should say "asteroid" not "astroid"
- Scrolling text is sometimes wicked slow, which can deflate the excitement of characters' conversations and slow down cutscenes.
- No controller support which also means steam deck playthrough is not ideal :(
- Escape button pauses the game but doesn't unpause the game...?
- Unskippable cutscenes, no matter how short, are still no bueno imo
- An explosion sound effect that played when taking out the last spaceship in the first part of mission 1 was really loud, then the difficulty spiked dramatically right after.
- Some of the enemy ships seemed to have way better handling and speed, even when I had double thrusters equipped for faster turning. I get that you want the controls to be "boatlike" but I just wish that it was more of a level playing field.
- Those recommended specs seem insanely high. Either the recommended specs need to be more accurate or this game needs better optimization (probably the former because it ran fine on my modest rig).
Hope this helps! Great work, y'all.
