Xenoraid: The First Space War

식민지로 전락한 지구를 수복하기 위한 인류의 사투 [b]《종족습격: 제1차 우주 대전》[/b]이다. 슈팅 게임인데 움직임이 좀 특이하다. 보통 이런 게임이 좌·우로 움직이면 '위치'만 이동하면서 공격은 정면으로 나가는데, 이건 '기체의 각도'까지 같이 틀어지면서 위치가 이동된다. 분명 나는 [← →] 이렇게 무빙하면서 공격하는데, 총알은 [↑] 이게 아니라 [↖ ↗] 이 방향으로 나간다. 처음에 이거 적응 안 되서 특수탄 엄청 날려먹었지······. + 무난하게 엔딩볼 수 있는 일반 모드 + 총 4기의 우주선을 이용하여 전투가 이루어진다(목숨도 따라서 4개!) + 각각 공격 구성 및 스텟이 다른 6가지의 우주선 + 적의 공격을 손 쉽게 피할 수 있는 개사기 '닷지' 시스템(하드 모드는 닷지 숙련 안 되면 못깰 수준) + 트레이딩 카드 존재(플탐 대비 파밍시간 적절) - 하.드.모.드.의.괴.랄.한.난.이.도.상.승(시​팔, 공격력이랑 체력만 끽 해야 올라갈줄 알았더니) - 위의 사유로 인해 도전과제 올클리어가 나름 빡센 편에 속한다 챌린지도 그럭저럭 쉽게 되서 방심했다. 하드 모드는 뭔가 달라도 다르더라. 체력, 공격력, 적이 움직이는 속도, 화면에서 사라지는 시간, 한 번에 적이 나오는 숫자, 그리고 총알이 유도성을 가지는 등의 변화가 일어난다. 잡몹 구간, 보스 구간 가릴 거 없이 미치도록 손가락을 바삐 놀려야 된다. 특히 개인적으로는 '다중 유도탄'을 못 쓰는 첫 번째와 두 번째 행성이 극심한 고통이었다. 일단 기존 모드만 놓고 보면 괜찮은 슈팅 게임이라고 보는데, 만약 유저가 하드 모드를 플레이하지 않는다면 가성비는 꽤 떨어지는 편이라 엄지는 내리도록 하겠다. 절대 내가 하드 모드 보스한테 뒤지게 쳐맞아서 그런 거 아니다······.

Hum... Not a good one. This is a vertical shooter. The graphics are OK. The music is OK too. The Story is nothing to write to home about. No bugs or crashes. Overall, it is barely entertaining. The game is unbalanced and the design is very poor. There's only one thing that the game wants you to do: evade things. The levels are too long and there's no way to fix or power up your ships. There are no advantages, but lots of disadvantages: guns overheat, you run out of ammo, lack of maneuvering space, and limited resources. You earn very few credits in any run (and you can't replay single missions to stock more), and everything is expensive. If you lose a ship, for instance, you'll need to buy another for about the same credits you got in the mission, so you won't gonna be able to upgrade your ships. Once you are behind there's no way to come back. So restart, and restart, and restart... It's not really fun to play. It's the classic reflexes-only niche that appeals to the arcade-oriented players only. If you're not one of them, you just gonna experience a miserable time here. Unto something else.

Random, tedious, and difficult in frustrating ways. The devs speak in the forums of their crafted design where they spent time weighing options and creating the best game they could. Too bad they couldn't be arsed to spend that time creating actual levels. Instead you get a total enemy count to deplete and some sort of enemy "heat meter" that spawns enemies from the remaining pool that match the desired threat level based on what is already on screen. Enemies are varied in design but bland in execution. The game would be trivialized if it had normal shmup mechanics, so now your main gun overheats if you fire continuously and then must cool off. That doesn't sound carefully-crafted to me. It sounds like your game design is weak and you have set up artificial difficulty to disguise that. This isn't even going into the pseudo-meta-progression which is necessary to advance further, but also resets between chapters. Yes, when I purchased a shmup, what I was really looking for was a resource management sim. Good thing I got this in some sort of bundle, b/c I'm pretty sure if I realized I had payed $10 for this I'd shoot myself. What a joke. Bullet Heaven 2 is $12, Jamestown is $5. Both of those games have great style and gameplay. This game is, to put it plainly, fugly. The character art is awful and as I said before, the enemy design is samey and bland. There is zero justification for the price, but that's fine, because there's zero reason to play this game in the first place. There's no shortage of quality shmups in the $10-15 range. Pick any one of them over this trash.

Third re-install, and this game is GREAT! You control one ship of a squadron of four ships selectable between 7, changeable anytime in-game, with invulnerability when changing, but with cooldown. The mechanics of changing and weapon heating are awesome, works like a "dark souls roll" or dodge, and even comboes with two of the ships! The game is nicely balanced with this, with its inertial movement and slightly diagonal shooting (with was a turn off 4 me at the start) Must play!

the controls absolutely kill this one for me. either you rubber band back and forth around where you've moved the mouse or you completely overshoot where you intended to go with key strokes. I like 10tons' titles normally, but this one is just aggravating.

I played this years ago and thought it was a lot of fun. Since then I've gotten heavily into danmaku style shmups and this game is what people in that scene would call a "euroshmup" (this is not generally a positive term). I decided to take a second gander at it recently to see if my opinion of this has changed it all.... It hasn't. This game is still a load of fun and I think this game is criminally underrated. Most shmup players might be turned off by the inertia based movement but I say it ties in really well. It's an intentional design decision vs something thrown in there without thought to the overall experience. A "retro" or "classic" or "arcade" shmup this game is not - and I don't think it's trying to be that. The movement of the shmup tilts the vessel which controls the direction of the fire and so the inertia movement ties into this and overall makes the weapons satisfying to control and fire. The upgrade mechanics are not overly "gamified" - they are within a context of a run and reward mastery, not grinding/play time. It has flaws like any game - but I think overall it's a fun and satisfying experience to play.

Good small game, the gameplay is solid, the usual from the developer.

The game is pretty solid and I liked it a lot. This is my opinion after beating the campaign on normal. [b]Pros:[/b] [list] [*]The combat feels pretty solid. [*]You can change the pilots (with their accompanying ships) mid game, also allowing you to evade some projectiles. [*]There is different kind of ships with different movement, main and secondary weapons, and upgrades. [*]There is upgrades that affect a single ship. [*]There is upgrades that affect every ship, or the game (like the one that makes the game a little bit easier). [*]There is a decent story to keep the progress from mission to mission going. [/list] [b]Cons:[/b] [list] [*]The game can be a bit difficult sometimes. [/list] [b]Conclusion:[/b] I give it a 4.5 of 5 stars. If it were a roguelike it would be a 5 of 5 stars for me. [u]10tons is a good developer.[/u]

4/10

It is the most addicting shoot em up I played. The idea of 4 spaceships you can choose any time and the firing mechanisms make the game a solid one. I highly recommend