WOW! I love the bosses!
Reviews for "Starfire"
I love Tyrian, and this was pretty good as well
Great effort, I can see a lot of work put into this that some people don't realize. I've felt the similarities to toe retro shmups, as well as many differences. Not that this is necessarily bad, I'm just pointing that out. The graphics I was hoping to be pixellated(No, I don't mean the low quality) like them you've described to give it a better fangame feel.
Now for the cons.
The game over remarks are very rude.
At first, I've played it on medium difficulty and went all the way to the Fleet boss, where I got my ass handed to me repeatedly by his cheapo dash attack. (HE STILL ONE-SHOTS ME ON MEDIUM WITH THE BEST GEAR.) The hitbox for that is way too large and he dashes too quickly. You MUST reduce at least one of those aspects in order to actually allow people to even beat the whole thing on medium to hardest difficulty. So I had to go to an easier difficulty, and the freaking boss dies in a heartbeat, he doesn't even get to dash. Blarf. The final boss was loads easier than that angel freak.
Not necessarily a con, but I noticed you don't get your money back for your old stuff when you upgrade. They did this with Tyrian.
Anyways pretty good, worth trying. Good job.
sspecter responds:
Thanks for your review.
Ship-against-enemy collision was really an issue. The point was to avoid at all costs colliding with the enemy, but it didn't got too when shield and plating were suposed to protect you.
Awesome game
I just hate the fleet boss on hardest. Even if I make a perfect run till I get to him, cheap ass always kills me in one hit, even with full shield and chassis. In fact I have all the damn upgrades up till that level and still can't beat the mofo (on hardest). He kills me when he kamikazes into me you know, there needs to be some kinda way to know in which direction he's going to fly-by.
So instead of beating it on hardest, I had to settle for easiest -.-
Awesome.
A handy tip, get dumbfires for anti-boss, and fission generator. Thats how i beat the first boss on normal.
loved it
but the bosses seemed a bit easy