Arc Savior

Arc Savior tries to present 15 missions in 3 different story arcs that tells a coherent story, but the game relies way too much on try-fail-retry loop where you are tasked with learning what you failed to do each time. However, the lack of any checkpoints means if you miss any step, you have to redo the WHOLE MISSION. So instead of space combat, it became more of a shooting gallery where your success is not measured by your combat prowess but trick-shooting, while playing Simon, the perfect repeat performance. Let's just say, if I am unable to pass the level even with help of a trainer, maybe the game's a bit too hard. I played the first 5 missions, plus the tutorial mission. I understand using a trainer is lame, but I just want to see the next mission. Turns out, the game was being very literal in mission 6. It literally wants you to put yourself pretty close to the engine of the command ship, but not so close as you get cooked by the "exhaust", but close enough so that when the other enemy ships fire their big beam lasers at you, they'll hit the command ship's engines as you dodge aside. And do this while infinite number of enemy fighters will strafe you. Then once you disabl…

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I enjoyed playing this one - very nice asthetically. Definitly a great nostalgia hit from the way that you've done the graphics. Controls feel very star-fox meets freespace & the combat felt very nice, especially the missiles. I feel like they carried me hard through the first few levels. I noticed after the short amount of time playing that there was an absolute tonne of levels to complete. Looking forward to getting back into this one :)

TOO TOY

A very hesitant dislike for me. I feel like the space combat systems and mechanics are sound for such a game, but the missions really need more polish. The mission tuning and balance really need work. Dialogue pops up in the heat of the action (including instructions) so if you don't take a quick look you may miss what you have to do next. I guess the turning point for me was an escort mission where a freighter was so much more fragile than my fighter despite being about 10x my size, going through an asteroid field filled with enemy fighters and finally deciding to go head first into a bunch of mines. Could have been a more impressive game.

A decent template of a basic space combat game. As much as the feeling of the controls could be more refined, the developer at least gets that space fighters shouldn't control like ass, because duh they are in space, and as a video game they should be fun to fly regardless. The barrel rolls are a bit of a mess though. Visually and musically it is not spectacular, but certainly enough effort was put in by the obviously very Indie developer here. It is a lot better than other similar budget games in terms of base game play. Unfortunately it has been overpriced for today's market, where it is probably worth not more than 5 USD. So I can only recommend it given a steep discount.