
Swordship is a roguelike where dodging is your best weapon. Trick your enemies into killing each other, steal containers to upgrade your ship and unlock new ways to play. Dodge, dive, die, learn, repeat.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
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Too modern in the wrong ways. It's visually sleek but that's where all the emphasis went, not enough on fun and approachable gameplay, it's all style and no substance. It is overwhelmingly hard due to how bad ship movement is, this is not possible to play well with WASD, there's an acceleration factor that makes precisely and quickly maneuvering around the screen impossible without 1:1 raw mouse input, which would immediately make the game trivial. If they did fix the movement by gutting acceleration and making the difficulty more progressive instead of nothing followed by way too much ♥♥♥♥ all at once it might be worth a few hours, tops. It's a scorehunting game, so if you aren't able to full of confidence with every keystroke that your ship is going to go pixel-perfect exactly where you want it to it just ends up being frustrating. I don't think I'd recommend this even for free to anyone that didn't max out an arcade cabinet in the 80s through sheer grit and little-kid patience.
Easily the most visually clean, artistically sharp, and mechanically chiseled games I've ever played. Sometimes the chaos of 3 enemies triggering each other's attacks gets too much, but I've never had a death that I felt wasn't my fault for being unaware or positioned poorly. The ONLY problem I have is that it truly is a difficult game. If you are not LOCKED [b]IN[/b], then you are not moving past city 2. Swordship demands your full focus and attention, but uses it well.
Would be a fun game but the controls are broken (for instance no way to quit the level until you die?) especially with a controller, which mine had inverted controls and no way to change them. Also got stuck on a tutorial part that said "bomb crates to screen wipe" but the game didn't give me any bombs to progress.
Meine Review zu "Swordship": "Swordship" ist ein reiner Arcade-Titel wie er im Buche steht! Um hier durchzusteigen braucht man schon die eigene volle Aufmerksamkeit, denn auch wenn's auf den ersten Blick Simpel aussieht, hat es das Spiel ganz schön in sich! Ich habe es auf den leichten Schwierigkeitsgrad durchgespielt, insgesamt 3 Stages mit je 3 Unter-Level und am Ende gab's dann einen Boss-Fight. Das war's. Finito. Ende im Gelände. - Aber mehr muss so ein Titel auch nicht können. 20€ für den Standartpreis finde ich tatsächlich ziemlich happig. Ich habe mir das Game zu einem schmalen Kurs geholt und dafür hat es sein Ziel voll erreicht. Wie gesagt habe ich es im leichten Schwierigkeitsgrad durchgespielt. Die Herausforderung war dabei voll in Ordnung, nie Unfair. Auf der mittleren Stufe allerdings hat das Game mir ziemlich am Nervenkostüm gezerrt und ich habe in Stage 2 irgendwo das Handtuch geworfen. Ach ja, vielleicht noch ein paar Worte zum Gameplay selbst: Man spielt das Titelgebende gelbe Swordship durch eine anscheinend apokalyptischen Zukunft (die Story hat mich jetzt nicht sonderlich interessiert muss ich sagen, da ich wegen dem Gameplay da war) und man muss auf seinen Fahrten Pakete einsammeln, diese dann auch unterwegs abliefern um dafür Punkte, Leben und Upgrades freizuschalten oder man wirft diese als Bomben ab um seine Feine aus den Weg zu räumen und das war's auch an Gameplay-Elementen. Technisch lief das Spiel bei mir Butterweich in 2K und 60FPS, nur ein einziges mal gab's einen längeren Freezeframe - der sich zum Glück wieder gefangen hat. Was mir nicht gefallen hatte war, dass man im mittleren Schwierigkeitsgrad aufgrund der massiv auftauchenden Gegnerwellen schon arg mit der Übersicht zu tun bekommt, klar gehört das auch bei diesen Arcade/Rogue-like-Genre dazu aber wenn mir das Game eine kurze Zeitlupen-Sequenz in Szene setzt, meine Sicht dadurch dann eingeschränkt wird und ich dadurch Gnadenlos in das nächste Hindernis baller - da hört der Spaß auf und das empfinde ich dann nur noch als Unfair, denn dies ist mir in Stage 2 sehr häufig passiert. Fazit: Holt euch das Game für ein paar schmale Euronen, spielt auf den leichten Schwierigkeitsgrad und ihr habt 1-2 Stunden feinen Arcade-Spaß und dann gibt's auch einen Daumen hoch. Alles was den mittleren Schwierigkeitsgrad betrifft, hat mich zu sehr gefrustet und da würde ich dann tendenziell vom Kauf abraten, vor allem bei den normalen Verkaufspreis von 20€, bei aller Liebe, nein. Empfehlung mit Einschränkungen. ;) Danke für's lesen bis hier hin. :)
The difficulty level is just right, and the music and sound effects are amazing. You really need to concentrate to complete the game, and they've added lots of details to make your tricks look cool. However, this details and freeze frames could bother some people. It's WAAAAY easier with a controller! It made me realise that arcade-type games have potential and that I would probably like some of them. Buy it when it's on sale, 20€ is expensive for ~3.5 hours of gameplay, but it's fairly replayable once you've completed it. LOVE IT!
Really really cool. I played on easy, to my surprise I finished a run through. I'm not very skilled but I felt like a stunt driver and with the electronic music felt like a rock star. Gonna give it a go again someday.
если игра ♥♥♥♥ основана на мувменте, ну сделайте его ♥♥♥♥♥ нормальным
I'm not sure where they get roguelike from in the game's description because you collect many extra lives and you only start over when you lose them all, but aside from being mislabeled, it is still a very competent ARCADE-style game. It takes a while to get used to the controls and to have the enemies kill each other on purpose, but I like the idea of you being a pacifist who makes the enemies blow each other up. The dodge mechanic feels good (you go underwater), the difficulty is fair given how many extra lives they provide, and the final boss is super fun. There are a decent amount of unlocks from reaching higher scores and for performing certain actions X amount of times, so there is replayability to be had. All in all, a pretty fun little game.
建議使用手柄遊玩 全成就使用13小時達成 也不簡單 玩到後面會有點膩 需要多少耐心
This game is awesome and dripping with style. It's like a reverse bullet hell in that you cannot shoot, but must use enemy attacks against themselves, and your actual objective is to “catch” packages delivered to you as projectiles, and deliver them at a drop point, while dodging explosions and the like. Quick to play, and difficult to master, what’s not to like?
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