Syder Reloaded

6/10 It's okay, well made but very short and there isn't much impetus to complete it with all the different ships. Decent graphics, music and sound though.

This game was fun to play for a bit. + On opening the game i was met by a really epic cutscene, I had to double check to see if this was an indie project or not it was legitimately that good. + Visually the entire game looks awesome. Both in space and above ocean, everything was super fleshed out. + The gameplay was satisfying, if a bit easy at times, it was legitimately really easy to exploit I-frames on supers. + Speaking of I-frames, a really neat gimmick of this game is you get none after taking a hit, which is something I was very much not used to after playing other shmups. - The dialogue sucked, like bad, at one point you reach out to the commander of the oben something, (im horrible at names), and she is like "good, you survived, just like i asked" followed by my character just randomly blurting "the universe is a dangerous place", which was really goofy. - finally, and this is a hard sticking point for me, this game is TINY, like 90 minutes long for 11$. I just don't really think the price on this one is justified. I think this game is more or less in the 3-5$ range. Also if you are looking for a good shmup, i highly recommend Sophstar instead, as it is the same q…

I love Shmups but in this the ship controls like it swims through molasses. In addition, in a Defender style game where you have a giant tunnel ... enemies have to spawn right next to you instead of spawning on the far left/right side of the tunnel, so you can prepare for what is coming. I also didn't like that all you will get is 8 ships where each has its own "bomb" move that can't be switched and a basic main weapon it starts with. That main weapon can be changed while playing, but the power-up that lets you do so flips through all the different options so fast that you can't reliably pick what you want. In addition I had originally problems to get my Steam 2026 Controller working, because I had a few other controllers also plugged in. In such a case, the game randomly decides which one it takes as the main one, and you can't change this. You have to go into the folders and delete a folder, unplug all controllers ... only leaving the controller you intent to play with in and start the game. From then forward it memorized which controller it is you want to use. But not only that, the game lacks any setup that allows you to change button configuration ... in 2020 we have a …

One of the most underrated shmups of the last decade. A true retro gem in todays language for fans of the genre (or newcomers).

It's alright if you get it on sale. There are several ships to unlock, but half of them are using the same 3D model. The SVG640 filter looks so much better than all the other options that it should probably be the default setting. There's no reason not to hold down the fire button, & there's no built in fire toggle, but you can add one yourself easily enough using Steam Input. The optional anime style portraits look like absolute arse. It's a bit basic, & I would like more content; more levels, more ships, more stuff to unlock & upgrade between missions.

Thank god, they didn't change the basic style from Syder Arcade: it's the same cosy retro arcade feeling! Music and sound effects are superb! Graphics have many retro modes like C64, Amiga, 8Bit, etc. The best "modern" in "ultra" ist good enough for Arcade, but I would love to see a more blleding edge mode with ray traced ships, bullets, asteroids, ... :-) So, almost perfect, but the fixed keyboard layout is not optimal because the special weapon on "Z" is bad for german keyboard layouts - hope for an update to make the keys configurable. Other than that: a gorgeous side scrolling shooter at it's best! :-)