Moon Dancer

A nice simple shooter with a very catchy soundtrack. The 'lock om' system is quite simple and feels good. I just bought this game as the former ones felt more just like development models towards Moon Dancer and looked too unpolished to me. After reading about the KS an an updated Switch version done by a 3rd party but limited just to the Switch I decided to not to buy further PC games from the developer even the decision of the Switch version is probably out of his hands from the development hell in Japan. Still recommend this one game for real Shoot'Em Up' fans for the simple but easy to learn mechanics and that damn catchy soundtrack as Steam doesn't offer a mid-thumb option.

A small but endearing homage to the RayForce system. I like the chaining system during boss fights, but the level design could be more involved.

I think that I might like the core gameplay mechanics of Moon Dancer more than those of Raging Blasters (not trashing that game, it's just my personal preference). The lock on missile mechanic is very satisfying and rewarding to use. One thing that I should point out, this game does have a checkpoint system- in other words, when you lose a life, you will be sent back to a checkpoint. The Gradius and R-Type games have this infamous system as well. This game is nowhere near as difficult as those games, so that system is not nearly as bad here. Get this on sale.

Checkpoints and powerless. If you like unfun shmups enjoy.

Game's excellent! The Switch version is way more polished, tho.

Another solid release from terarin. The game is fun. The game in terms of mechanics has a minimalistic aproach. you have the directional inputs and a button. It may sound too basic even for retro game lovers but it works has the mechanics are elegant and the button has two functions that work pretty well. First functions is a multishoot (forward and diagonbals), second function is a lock on system like rayforce. there are weapon pickups for the lock on system and powerup pickups that increase the power of your shots(bot normal shoot and lockon). the lock on range depends on pick up. it may have a form of a small circular area around you ship or a square in front of your ship with sligtly more range. On rayforce you had a 2 level dimensional areas for the enemyes (one for normal shoot, other for lockon). In moon dancer you only have 1 area for both shoots. At first glance and by this description you will ask why you have the need of lock on system since a normal shoot has more range and always hits the enemy and here lays the elegant design that i spoke in the beggining of the review and i am going to explain now. to avoid this problem the designer made the elegant choice to have th…