HellStar Squadron

This game has some issues with its controls. At first, the keyboard controls are only made for QWERTY-keyboards. Playing this on a QWERTZ-keyboard is nearly impossible. Secondly, you have to hold down the fire button all the time. Thirdly, you control the ship via the arrow keys. This feels very awkward, when 99% of the games you play use WASD (, which you control with your left hand). All of this wouldn't be that bad, if you could rebind the keys. But you simply can't. So I plugged in my controller and it worked for the game itself - But you still had to hold down the fire button. And not all of the controls seemed to work in the menu. I played a bit and what I could see were some red enemies shooting red bullets and my blue ship shooting blue bullets. But it couldn't keep my attention. This game could be worth playing, if it hadn't the controlling issues. But for now, I'm going to refund it.

Y u no go full screen properly?? Y no key rebinding??

It's a decent space shooter, on the easy side, but it was still too hard for me one year ago, but after a year of shooters I managed to get to stage 4 boss, that keeps wiping me to the floor. You have different ships, and after you clear a stage you can start from that stage again. The only two negatives for me are really: I)the enemy bullets are always orange, and when you are playing on a stage with an orange background..you can imagine, you need to sharpen your eyes. II)there is some needless dialogue at the start of every stage and boss, sure it's just a couple of lines..but if you keep dying and repeating again,and again it becomes really dull to repeat the dialogue.

Honestly a fantastic bullet hell. Beautiful detailed pixel art, catchy chiptune soundtrack, tight mechanics, fun bullet patterns, and a charming little story <3 <3

Fun little shmup. Nothing groundbreaking but it's a fun afternoon waster. And for a $1.99, who's gonna argue?

Decent