Stellar Bewitching (Remastered)

Игра 'Stellar Bewitching (Remastered)' – это восхитительное переосмысление классики, вдохновленное играми серии 'Touhou Project'. Ремастер вдохнул новую жизнь в игровой процесс, сделав его более динамичным и отзывчивым. Прекрасная смесь bullet hell механики с элементами RPG создает захватывающее приключение, где каждое сражение требует концентрации и стратегического мышления. Визуальная составляющая преобразилась, приобретя современный облик при сохранении очарования оригинала. Музыка безупречно дополняет атмосферу игры, создавая нужное настроение во время напряженных битв и спокойных передышек. Персонажи получились яркими и запоминающимися, с уникальными способностями и предысториями. Сюжет, хоть и не является главным достоинством игры, достаточно увлекателен, чтобы поддерживать интерес к происходящему. Новичкам жанра игра может показаться сложной, но она щедро вознаграждает за старания и улучшение навыков. 'Stellar Bewitching (Remastered)' – это настоящая находка для любителей динамичных аркад и bullet hell игр. Однозначно рекомендую к ознакомлению!

RPG Maker strikes again! It uses a construction kit meant for amateurs. "Stellar Bewitching (Remastered)" is just a collection of low quality assets and cringeworthy high school anime club dropout fan-fiction. This RPG Maker garbage is pure cringe... it's less of a game and more of a rambling RPG Maker high school anime club dropout fan-fiction all about, you guessed it, the developers imaginary girlfriend, who is an underaged teenage girl. Which makes this equal parts cringey and seriously creepy... you're guaranteed to throw up. Like other RPG Maker "games", the game engine is extremely low quality. It displays badly in fullscreen, and has no real graphics settings or HD support. It's not up to the same standard we expect from a modern PC game. We can make the argument that construction kit toys like RPG Maker are intended for making small games and demos and things to pass around with friends. They shouldn't be used as a substitute or "Ez-mode" to allow unqualified amateurs to LARP that they're real, actual game developers. Like most RPG Maker shovelware, the game uses low quality 2D "retro" pixelcrap art and has bad gameplay. RPG Maker is garbage and never results in products with any real value as PC games. There are some original game assets here, and you can tell because they look worse than the garbage canned/stock RPG Maker assets that usually get flipped into these kitbashes. PC gamers expect and deserve quality, high fidelity, immersive 3D visuals, not this lazy crapware. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design.. "Show, don't tell." So you'll spend a huge amount of time not playing the game, but clicking through endless lines of poorly written VN text cutscenes because the developers couldn't work out how to relate their narrative through the game mechanics, and decided instead it would be better to compete with reading a book for your time. We're here to play games, not read through hours of garbage intersituals. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. Visually, this features mediocre hand drawn style "Baby's First Wacom Tablet" art instead of contemporary graphics. This obviously looks better than pixelcrap, but that's a really low bar to barely stumble over. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks worse than a professionally made game would look, and that's a major deterrent. Next is pricing and what value this has for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. A peak of [b]3 concurrent players[/b] (according to SteamDB) for a "free" game is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential players here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for the quality of the game. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? What's the verdict? Nope. There's no up front cost here, but I still feel like I got ripped off, and I didn't even spend any money. That's how bad this is.