Shooting Saucer

Fun but challenging shooter gameplay, charming designs, and swaths of characters that give this already decently long game a lot of replayability? For five bucks?? It's a no-brainer! I did find a couple bugs during play [spoiler]Turr never games over except for the first boss in the sky world while also regaining their cake if you save and restart. Krinkly can even run right behind the saucer![/spoiler] but that's to be expected of an indie platformer, and with the devs (dev?) working so hard on bugfixes i'm sure they won't be there for long! god i ♥♥♥♥♥♥ love turr mannn ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ funny bird make my brain go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Don't let the cute aesthetic fool you because this is definitely a challenging game. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a classic retro platforming experience, however, there's plenty of modern touches of balance and design such as the saucer always being right behind you. I'd have to say my favorite thing about Shooting Saucer could be the music, it has a fantastic soundtrack.

Shooting Saucer is a cute and challenging retro 2D pixel platformer. I love the simplicity of this game.

Really good retro action game. Loads of different characters to play as and nice challenging gameplay.

this game is so good. gets more clever (and devious) the further you get. play this! it's like if Kero Blaster got so manic it started to feel like Gunstar Heroes.

What if the cake instead of being a lie was what made you being chased by aliens? Have you ever thought of that? Well, the people behind this game certainly did as that is what triggers this run and gun game where you’re constantly being chased by one saucer across different worlds. You can only take one hit though so be fast and careful or try again and learn, that’s the way. At least, depending on the character you choose you can also upgrade your hit points and attack range and power. You’re certainly gonna need those in the later ones as you get to understand how to dodge and attack effectively. Regarding the characters, Piggy is the standard shooter with a decent jump upgraded to more directions than just horizontal, giving you a bigger cover to hit some enemies and bosses. Then Paraffin is the melee character that hits upon being nearby but not touching the enemies, so be careful with that; and Turr just summons a buck of little birds that will most likely die but at least they can very easily get revived with an upgrade (it’s actually easier to control it than it may seem). In case you’re wondering, there are other characters which can be unlocked by either beating the campaign, really beating the campaign (reaching the final boss without dying) and doing some secret stuff (like going backwards in certain sections). As you can see, the main highlight of the game is not only the main challenge but the one coming from learning to use other characters as well. Some are certainly more accessible than others yet all of them have their respective reward, more so all of them. Plus, the aesthetics portraying this might have plain colors but the bubbly effects from their animation and the horn sounding effects give it that charm that after every death soothes the pain a little bit. I can’t say whether I’ll go back to this game in the future or not but you should definitely give it a shot in case this sounded like your alley. Oh and let me know in case you’re able to unlock mirror mode somehow.

While I happened to play this before Crowtel, this is absolutely a huge improvement over it imo. I do appreciate the more refined focus of welcoming core gameplay and wrappings, but allowing for a stronger, much more challenging post-game and completion. It admittedly is not for me, but I do think what is here will appeal a lot to fans of Cave Story and older PC indies that aim to emulate more arcade-y trappings. I don't have much criticism on it - it [i]could[/i] be longer, but I actually feel like it stays its welcome perfectly. There could be more "weapons" to pick up, but I feel the game is at its strongest as you learn your chosen character's attributes against levels you practice against over and over. I will say the "good ending" requirements are a bit much for me, but that's a tiny wrinkle in what is a incredibly delightful package most people should give a proper shot.