星火 (2023)

星火 is yet another of literally hundreds of lazy amateur 2D retro top-down twin stick shooters infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one has a bizarre science fiction theme as, in a few decades in the future, we're back on steam trains and the primary goal in our lifetime is to kill gigantic DJ Mavic drones in twin stick shooter format. I guess. It's not in English... and I don't hold that against the game, but it also doesn't matter. The language of bad games is universal. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The controls can't be customised, …