Space Dragons

[quote]Just saying, but I do have a curator page. If you like my remarks about games, you can find more of them here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44130985-TDP%27s-Gaming-Escapades [/quote] [i][b]UPDATED TO REFLECT THE REVIEWER'S OPINIONS OF v1.0.0.1[/b][/i] I was introduced to Team Black Hat Robot through their first game on Steam: Q-YO Blaster. It's a game I have not yet reviewed as I have no memory of it right now, yet I remember appreciating the visual design of the whole thing and thought it was decent. Eventually, my positive experience with that game caused me to become interested in Space Dragons, the team's next game, and purchase it in its early access phase to support the developers. Unfortunately, the game got abandoned after the announcement of final incoming update. For two whole years, we had no idea about what had happened to the game. And the fact that a new game got released by the developers while this one wasn't even finished, just raised my suspicions. I was pretty harsh in my initial review about this matter, as early access games devs nowadays have gotten very used to just abandoning their titles. However, suddenly an unexpected development happen…

played just a bit of the first stage and already loved it, I'm a old person that really misses the good and old pixel art style games like this, no 3d b.s and all, the only thing I didn'g liked was the music, it's something like ps1 low quality ps one era, if the music was like in the snes era would 10/10, and the chars that appears on the conversations could be done in pixel art too.

Not sure how this is still early acesss. Its a well made and challening game. Thats a lot of fun one you get the hang of the melee system.

Really great old school shmup with some satisfying an imaginative pixel artwork. I'm always on the hunt for great pixel horishmups. This isn't anywhere near the level of Super Hydorah (possibly the best shmup ever). But it is very good. Hey developer! get it out of "early access" and finish the game!

This game is awesome. And difficult. If you play this kind of game, you need to play this.

It's a shame that this game will never get out of early access and has been abandoned, because I enjoyed it way more than the studio's first and previous effort "Q-YO Blaster". (By the way what happened to them?) The design is tighter, weapons are functional, enemies are cool with some grotesque pixelated designs I hadn't seen since R-Type and the like, soundtrack is good too. Yes it's still unbalanced, with some stages that are too long and others too short, and some pilots that are much stronger/more useful than others (but maybe that is intended as a difficulty/skill level?), but it was a really promising title, especially if compared with the studio's previous and following mediocre shmups.