Legends of the Universe - StarCore

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[h1] Metroidvania pretty much with basic gameplay. [/h1]

Jumped into a core, respawned as legend. Duct taped my boots, saved the galaxy before lunch. Aliens owe me beer, lasers owe me favors. Died twice, still tipped the bartender. 9/10 would self destruct again.

[i][b]Legends of the Universe - StarCore[/b][/i] may look a little… [i]familiar[/i]… and play kind of awkwardly, but it's actually quite an enjoyable experience — with some exceptions. [b]Full disclosure:[/b] I only played up to my fourth area (the Armory, in my case) before [b]two[/b] soft-locks sent me back to my last save — which was too far back for me to bother continuing. [u]The Good[/u] The gameplay is pretty decent, the controls are good enough, and there are some fun things you can do that the game never tells you about. [u]The Bad[/u] The soft-locks. I've found two of them, and they made me stop playing for now — but that's partly my fault for not saving more often. [u]The Ugly[/u] The moment you realize that 90% of the enemy sprites are poorly edited [i]Mega Man[/i] sprites… [u]Further Analysis[/u] I think the game's [b]story takes itself too seriously[/b], considering the gameplay. It's a story about a galactic war, these baubles of great power called the StarCores, and a stealth mission gone wrong. You're framed as being part of the "good guys," but if you hadn't been tasked with the opening mission, everything would have stayed roughly the same. It's only this es…

Adequate Metroidvania for the price.

I really couldn't finish this. I kept consistently forgetting which buttons did what and checking the controls in the menu didn't tell me anything. Otherwise I found a lot of the environments forgettable and the exploration was really weak. And its not even just cause of how crappy the keyboard controls are, the controls section in the menus doesn't even show much more than the shoot button