Aster

Absurdly short and controls terribly. Especially on the missions orbiting Earth.

It's a short game, but it's REALLY HARD to control. Whether you enjoy it depends on how you adapt to the controls—if you can't get the hang of them, you'll probably hate it. scenes are OK.

It's practically impossible to aim in this game, because movement has no friction, there's no side movement and stepping on the edge of the arena teleports you to the opposite side, as well as enemies and asteroids. Unless you stand still on brakes, but any damage pushes you away and all your attempts in aiming. There are 4 heavy weapons: grenade against debree, which makes asteroids fly across arena with extreme velocity(hard to evade and dangerous), laser which doesn't have damage and stops at the edge of arena, pulse - the only usable one, and sword, that.. pushes enemies away from itself. Levels are mostly fun, they make you manage your resources and make use of the arenas pretty well. However the last level is disgusting. The thing is, there is upgrade system in this game, and before the last fight you have enough money to upgrade all your stats last time and heal, but you are maxed out. And you want to have better stats, because last level enemies are very spongy, and there is barely any safe space you can use. Speaking about it, last enemy is a battle station that throws projectiles all around the arena and the only way to defeat it is to find 2 little corners that it canno…

Art and H-Scenes are good, Gameplay and Controls are difficult if you don't play this kind of games. It's the H version of Asteroids. I enjoying playing this game, and I take the difficult like a challenge. If you're looking for a REALLY short clasic experience with good pixel art and a FEW nice H-Scenes, you're in the correct place.

Controls are garbage

I really, REALLY wanted to like this game- but it is genuinely so frustrating to control. Using a controller (which is the preferred method for this game imo) has the accelerate and decelerate on the same stick as turning, without letting you know alterative methods of moving (triggers for turning and dpad for throttle) anywhere in game. It took me getting to the final boss to realize i could move via other buttons, but even then the movement is so floaty (there is no friction so no natural slowdown). Combining the hard to use controls and sometimes absurd enemies (seriously why do those UFOs exist?) makes it unfun to play, not to mention the fact that you will likely need to restart your first run due to all the mistakes you WILL make on it, and likely wont realize you have screwed your save until you are too late. Which is a shame because you can tell how much they cared about this game- the music, the graphics, scenes, enemy design all have a lot of effort put into them. Its a game with passion weighed down by bad controls. Is it good for 3$? Yes.