Crystal Breaker (2024)

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I really like everything about this shooter. Awesome music and game play. Has a PC Engine shooter vibe to it ( Soldier Blade - Blazing Lasers - Star Soldier ) Cool art style as well. I highly recommend this game.

RagingBlasters is my favourite waste of time. Crystal Breaker offers hours of fun but no Caravan. BooHoo.

It's a competent caravan style shmup. My only real gripes are that when your ship is fully powered up that the music changes which is unfortunate for the audiophile shmup players and that there is no mode that has you play every stage all at once. To me the levels felt a bit long as well especially the 5min+ levels. Lastly, I don't see much of a use for Layla at all. For scoring and survivability Jenny is way better. I could be wrong. Other than that I had fun with this one.

Someone said this game was easy and they played right through it. I own a lot of shmups and to me this is one of the most difficult. In fact, it is hard as balls. I struggled to get past the third level and now I'm working on the fourth. I think this game is a major challenge for shmuppers.

Very fast and exhilarating, with each stage being its own challenge that can be selected individually instead of a set order of stages.