Sakura Stars
Super16bits · 2020 · Arcade, Retro, Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Cute
PC
4 user reviews100% · 4
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About Sakura Stars
Description
When hordes of Youkai threaten the world, the Tanukis send a messenger to choose human girls to receive magical powers to defend humanity. They are known as SAKURA STARS.
Take on hordes of youkai in this 8bit horizontal shmup and defend humanity from supernatural beings.
Sakura Stars is a game made on Pico-8, a retro fantasy console with purposeful limitations and low-resolution to simulate an 8-bit era console.
But like modern shmups, the player has a small hitbox, indicated for a circle, allowing a greater number of enemy shots on the screen, as well as patterns with closer shots.
The characters have an artistic style of Japanese anime, purposely made in low resolution to create, together with the music, a more casual and relaxed atmosphere.
Features:
- Three characters, each with a different shooting pattern, and different speed. Choose the one that best fits your playing style.
- Enemy waves have a fixed pattern, encouraging them to be memorized to facilitate gameplay. Just like old arcade games.
- Four levels in retro style. Face Youkai girls at the end of each one.
- Soundtrack by authors of classical music, in chiptune style
- Made on Pico-8, a fictional virtual console, created to impose the limitations and low-resolution of the 8bit era and simulate the sensation of playing a game from that time.
- Anime like pixel art style. Drawn pixel by pixel, in a 16-color palette.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the game as a charming retro bullet-hell shooter with attractive pixel art aesthetics and solid audio, appreciating its arcade-style difficulty and reasonable gameplay loop. However, critics point out significant balance issues, particularly with enemy explosions that unfairly damage the player, along with awkward control schemes and mechanics that seem unfinished, leading some to feel the game needs more polish despite its unique appeal.
The game is very hard but have boobs.2 found this helpful
8-bit classical music1 found this helpful
[quote][b]Check out our [url=store.steampowered.com/curator/36364102-Horny-Hentai-Festival/]Steam curator[/url] , [url=www.youtube.com/curatorhhf/]YouTube channel[/url] and [url=twitter.com/hhfcurator]Twitter[/url]![/b][/quote] [Shoot'em up] Not a Sakura VN series? :D This is a KAWAII bullethell shumup. The pixel artworks are nice for old gamer. Every pixel boobs looks good for hentai gamer. [STG]可愛いドット絵キャラの弾幕STG。ドットおっぱいが良い1 found this helpful
First impressions of the game is that it needs a lot more work. I figured out the controls, arrow keys to move about and 1 and 2 on the numerical keyboard to select menu option and fire. The game is a horizontal shooter and each time you destroy an enemy it turns into a smart bomb creating a huge ring which sadly also kills you on contact. Avoiding that ring proves difficult due to the size of the sprites. Perhaps the idea is to avoid killing everything, but killing stuff seems the only way to get points. I am unable to rate this game more then 2 due to the lack of controls and unbalanced game play. sorry Dev the game needs a lot more work, but good effort!1 found this helpful
il give it a thumb for uniqueness
Sakura Stars ---{ Graphics }--- {} Beautiful {x} Good {} Decent {} Bad ---{ Gameplay }--- {x} Very good {} Good [ Combat Stances & Weapon Attributes / Variants ] {} It's just gameplay ---{ Audio }--- {x} Good {} Not too bad {} Bad ---{ Game Size }--- {x} Old Fashioned {} Workable {} Big ---{ Difficulty }--- {} Easy {x} Easy to learn / Hard to master {} Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- {x} No Grind {} Only if u care about achievements {} Average grind level {} Too much grind ---{ Story }--- {} No Story {x} Average {} Good {}Lovely ---{ Game Time }--- {} Long enough for a cup of coffee {} Short {x} Average ---{ Price }--- {} It's free! {x} Worth the price {} If it's on sale {} If u have some spare money left Overall thoughts This is a great side scrolling Shooter (shump) 9.8/10 Review Score
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