Spectacular Sparky

Spectacular Sparky has the vibe of a classic Genesis-era scrolling shooter, similar to Gunstar Heroes. The game has an open ended quality to its design, as you have not just standard action stages but flying ship shoot em up levels and parts where you ride animals to proceed. What really sets this game apart from the glut of other similar indie shooters is the personality. Sparky is a pretty funny character and some of the dialogue is hilarious. The voice work and sound design in general is also really well done. There are tons of boss fights and you meet up with bosses you've defeated later for a rematch which I found to be a lot of fun. The game is decent length compared to other scrolling shooter games, but it also happens to be super easy and lacks replayability. Once you beat the game, there's a time trial mode with no achievements attached and "Frenzy mode" which sounds like it will be hard but is actually easier than the original mode. This is because while your health slowly drains you also get infinite hover and your gun has no cooldown. As a result, you can pummel enemies nonstop and the final boss is even easier since the lack of cooldown practically instakills him. There's also a checkpoint after every 30 second section in both modes, so really, if you're looking for a big challenge, you won't find it here. What you will find is a beautifully made somewhat casual shooter that ticks all the boxes on quality without really leaving a huge impact due to the lack of replayability or pulse pounding challenge.

2d清版射击游戏，上世纪的味道。 流程不长，总共五个章节，每章有四小关，都是步战。前四章每章结束后都会有一个单独的stg关，说实话第一次打还算新鲜，后面再打就很无聊了，stg关无法改变射击方向、没有替换武器，就只是单纯的躲避弹幕。章节内的载具关就好多了，毕竟只是改变了移动方式，射击体验还是不变的。 难度适中，有五种难度可选，关卡内检查点很多，消灭敌人或者boss的爆炸物会爆星星，星星可以回血。 单摇杆八向射击，有两种锁定，一种是锁住人物的移动只控制射击方向，另一种是锁住射击方向只控制移动。 除了默认的武器外还可以捡到四种枪，最多同时带两把，碰到就会替换掉手上的，没有子弹限制，但持续射击会导致武器过热。拾取的枪过热就会被丢弃换回默认枪，默认枪过热则会暂时无法射击。 主角可以多段跳和闪避，都会消耗精力。 全成就很简单，一共就六个成就，其中五个是流程成就，打败五个章节最后的boss就会解锁，剩下一个是要打通“冻结模式” 冻结模式是通关一次普通模式后解锁的，这个模式中武器不会过热、闪避和跳跃不消耗精力，但是血量会不断流失。 你打通第一章第一关的boss后回到主菜单，就会发现冻结模式的所有关卡都可以选了，然后你直接去打通最后一关就能拿到成就.

El video juego es divertido y tiene un Pixel Art muuy bueno. El personaje principal tiene muy buen diseño y las armas están bien, me gustó que el arma se sobrecaliente y que tenga consecuencias si mantienes el botón de disparo constantemente presionado como también la stamina y que te limite los movimientos, ambos indicadores le dan un toque personal al juego. El último nivel tiene un subidón de dificultad notable muy interesante. Lo que si hubiese agregado es una un contador de puntaje acumulado para hacer records públicos y la gente se motive a mejorar. También los momentos en que el juego se convierte en un matamarcianos ( shoot em up) puede ser una oportunidad un poco perdida y que se podrían haber agregado más mecánicas a la nave para darle mas variabilidad a esas situaciones. Es interesante el modo de juego desbloqueable en el que va bajando el hp pero que la stamina y heat se mantienen constantes, le da una nueva forma de entender el juego.

fine little game, but one of the shortest games ive ever played too the game gets worse on average as it goes on, with the game just spamming more and more enemies on screen, its mostly manageable but sometimes it feels impossible to properly dodge everything its throwing at you bosses are alright, simple but they do the job, really not much to say about this game and for some reason they hired arin hanson to do some of the voice work, despite him not being a very good voice actor, everyone else does a decent job for what i assume is meant to be a very intentionally cheesy set of performances meant to be overly exaggerated parody the fact there's a curvy furry wolf oc character amongst everyone else in the game being so grotesque and unnatural is probably the funniest joke in the whole game 6/10

Got this game for dirt cheap and at that price it was more than worth it! Feels like an indie euro platformer but with a big love for games made By Treasure (alien soldier, gunstar heroes, dynamite headdy, mischief makers) and..., voice acting for some reason?! The voice acting is solid for what it is, a couple parts are even funny, but overall the story felt like it needed a bit more time to cook. I recommend dpad for the aiming you will be doing but not the steam controller dpad. For some reason it hurt my fingers to use?

It's basically a mish-mash of Genesis games rolled into one thing. It's got the world atmosphere and chunky sprite art of Ristar, the battle mechanics of Gunstar Heroes, and power-ups of Contra, a main character who's basically an ironically quippy take on a 90's game mascot, ann floating feet and white glove hands Reminiscent of the Raymond series. The main character's personality kinda strikes me as Bubsy-like, but if Bubsy was about 10% more rugged (MC is a bounty hunter). Also worth noting is that the cover art features a character who is strikingly similar to Dr. Robotnik, and the MC even rides around in a similar machine to what Robotnik uses, which is no coincidence given what this game was clearly gong for. Ristar+Gunstar+Contra+Bubsy+Raymond+Sonic= 6 game influences in this one game. And yes, it's fun, and very much does feel very close to a legit Sega Genesis game.

At a 90% sale discount, I'd say it's worth for an afternoon, but there's so much wrong going on here not a lot little done right. The game is nearly devoid of any challenge up until last stage (more on that later). 90% of bosses are all about just "dash right/shoot/dash left/shoot repeat". Homing missile is so much better than all other weapons that you don't even need to use other weapons (though some have very specific situational advantages). Bosses take too long to die even more considering all of them have just 1 or 2 attacks repeating over, over and over. The dialogues are absolutely annoying that even skipping them takes too long (And who had the BRILLIANT idea of having title appearing over the shoot'em up levels covering up the screen?), the heat mechanic is nothing but annoying and feels out of place And then comes that last stage, where I would expect a difficulty spike. But then something comes clear: The devs had no idea of how to properly design the game. They had a very strong base here, but they obviously didn't know how to design stages/bosses around it, and the last stage made this very obvious. The only thing they could do to make the game "feel" hard was to throw a lot of stuff and hope the player can use the armor/health to deal with all before the next armor bonus. Absolutely no sense of pace, finesse, flow, nada. Just... throw a lot of stuff on screen and hope for the best. And this is the summary of the level design/boss design/enemy design, it feels like stuff are thrown without any thought or finesse. As for the good... love the reference to Alien Soldier and Gunstar Heroes, though they are just references, the game throws some variety (Though the T-Rex level is dumb as hell for a couple of reasons), and the graphics are pretty nice. I really didn't hate the game but...it felt like such a huge wasted opportunity. Yet, since it goes for sale constantly, Getting it cheap is a fair price for a nice rainy afternoon.

El juego esta bien, pero el problema que tengo es que no me deja cambiar los controles y los controles por defecto son terriblemente incomodos. por mas que haya un cartel enorme diciendo "CONFIGURACIONES DE CONTROLES" no me deja modificar las acciones como disparar, saltar, etc.

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É um jogo bem feito — zerei e platinei na dificuldade máxima (Super Nightmare). No começo, a experiência foi divertida, mas conforme avancei, virou puro estresse. Chegou um ponto em que quase joguei o controle no monitor. Ainda assim, valeu a pena pela sensação de conquista e por desbloquear o Frenzy Mode (basicamente o God Mode do jogo), que transforma você em uma máquina de destruição imparável. Finalizei tudo em 4,3 horas. Foi uma experiência intensa e legal. No fim das contas, é um jogo de tiro frenético contra criaturas insanas — não tenta reinventar a roda, mas entrega bem o que propõe. Os gráficos são bonitos, a trilha sonora tem uma pegada retrô que encaixa bem, e os designs dos chefes me agradaram bastante. Em resumo: é um jogo já feito, mas bem executado. Recomendo que joguem numa dificuldade mais baixa pra não se estressarem que nem eu HUE NOTA FINAL = 6/10