Starlight: Eye of the Storm
Strides Interactive Game Studio · 2021 · Bullet Hell, Top-Down Shooter, Shoot 'Em Up, Shooter, Arcade
PC
Positive88% · 17 📈 Making a comeback 96%
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About Starlight: Eye of the Storm
SHOOT 'EM UP!
Just keep shooting! Starlight: Eye of The Storm is a retro 2D Arcade bullet hell vertical shooter. Unleash your special powers, upgrade your weapons, get better ones! Danger can come from any direction, including 3D objects in the background.
The Full Release shall comprise of the following modes you can play:
- Campaign Mode - A storytelling modular mission-based play style where you can choose which missions to fly first. Each main mission consists of 3 short segments that must be completed in order to complete the mission as a whole. There'll be 7 main missions and 8 side missions. Side missions offer a slightly different flavour and can yield different types of bounty. Weapon shop can be accessed anytime as well.
- Arcade Mode - A no-frills 10-stage play style where the Weapon Shop is accessed once upon a stage's completion. An abridged version of the whole story without the storytelling elements; all action!
- Duel PvP Mode - This is a player vs player mode where you and your friends can duke out above Phobos City armed with weapons of your choice. Experiment different builds, different upgrades and see how much it can change the dynamics of the game. Steam Remote Play recommended!
- Survival Mode - All action, no story. Challenge yourself over 40 different waves. Each wave scales up in difficulty over time and you'll still be allowed to upgrade your weapons to counter them!
- Boss Rush Mode - All action, but BOSSES ONLY. Unlocked after completing the Campaign mode once (for good reason), you'll have good initial funding to spec your fighter properly before diving into a 12-boss fight without stop. A good mode to challenge yourself against the big guys all at once. Try the Bullet Hell difficulty to get the best experience - All around the Eye of the Storm!
DRIFT MODE
Drift (auto-pivot mode) around your enemies with style as they may challenge you to a dogfight duel! Can be upgraded later to intelligently focus on the most important or current target while ignoring non-essential targets.
WEAPONS
Each playable ship has a different set of emplacements (up to 3) that can be installed with different types of weapons.
WEAPON SHOP!
Fit your ship from a huge range of weapons (up to 77 unique combinations)! Fight with skill and you'll be rewarded with Capsules necessary to upgrade your existing weapons to a higher level!
You'll also get to enjoy the full range of ship upgrades to improve your odds in the next battle!
CREATE YOUR OWN SHIP!
Create your own customized ships with ease using your own jpg, png or tiff files with or without transparency. A set of guided criteria will help ensure that your ship is good to go! Upload your customized ship onto Steam Workshop to share with the community!Plot
Earth, 300 years after the devastation of the Final Nuclear War. (6 months before the events of https://store.steampowered.com/app/315080) After the experimentation of opening wormholes went awry, several massive wormholes opened up randomly near the vicinity of the already devastated Earth.
The Council of Foresight has since chosen you and 2 of your top ace pilot friends for the mission to re-establish contact with the Council on Mars. Your ships will therefore deliver the top secret communication data via the massive wormhole and to the orbit of Mars where the local government forces will be waiting. You'll be supported tacitly by allies of the UNC through sales of secret weapons to your team. Since your mission is under absolute secrecy, you'll be attacked by ALL forces.
As enemy ships (pirates) began pouring forth and your immediate mission is to protect the UNC Headquarters Space Station that is still currently under construction from attack. Henceforth, the Starlight: Eye of The Storm saga begins....
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise Starlight as a well-crafted bullet hell shooter with beautiful retro-inspired graphics blending 2D sprites and 3D backgrounds, engaging gameplay mechanics like the 360-degree twist ability, and an interesting progression system that appeals to classic shmup fans. However, the game suffers from significant control issues in the official release, including non-functional keyboard controls, broken mouse clicking, and missing controller button functionality (despite these working in the demo), along with menu navigation problems that even prevent properly quitting the game.
Here is the official review since the demo. I have had more time in the demo than this version (1.05b), but it should hold up for now. I have been following the game for a couple years now and have a lot of faith in the progress having since tasted that tease of a demo. ---{ Graphics }--- Starting with graphics, they are a mix of 2D sprites and 3D renders. Don't be fooled by its simplicity. Once you get into the game, the graphics immerse you into a fever dream of Starfox, chrono trigger, and such other SNES and Genesis era game graphics whilst maintaining a pretty 3D background render. ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- The features offered in this game go above and beyond what other schmups and bullet hell/r-type clones have to offer. The "drift" mode is awesome. Simply press a button to automatically aim 360 degrees toward the nearest enemy that may come across any direction on the screen. The ship customization and effects are just fun to keep experiencing. ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- I personally enjoyed the mission …5 found this helpful
This is complete garbage. Not because it's a bad game. Fundamentally its extremely fun. Too bad it literally doesn't work. I try to use the keyboard, the controls that the screen indicates that you should use in the menu to select things don't work. The mouse pointer can be used, but not to click things. Then when I plug in my controller, it works for literally everything except the X button. The annoying thing is that the X button worked just fine in the Demo when I was using my controller. I truly can't believe that I couldn't even quit the game. I was trying to exit the game from the game menu, and that didn't work either. Just didn't do anything. I have a Razer Blackwidow Elite keyboard, and it works just fine with everything else. I went to the discussions only to discover the developers have indicated that xbox controllers don't work, but only with the X button. This is honestly so stupid. The fact that I cant even use the keyboard is absurd. Tried setting controls to how I want them, but since the keys don't work in the menu properly, that was just not happening. I loved the game for the whole 5 to 10 mintes I played it, but then you just get stuck on the tutorial in the beg…2 found this helpful
I've have been looking for a classic bullet hell type of game for a long time now and have tired some that were out already on the market but they didn't scratch my itch. Then i came across starlight which thankfully did the job. While it doesn't have a story mode it makes up with beautiful artwork, challenging enemies, an interesting progression system, and a good soundtrack. The only thing that is missing from this game is in the endless mode. If you want a classic bullet hell shooter Starlight would be the game I would recommend2 found this helpful
A modernized game from distant past. I could see this game in an arcade. Adding the 360* twist ability adds to the mindless gunship game genre. Easy to loose yourself in the mass bullet swarms!1 found this helpful
Although this isn't really my genre, I think it would really appeal greatly to fans of SHMUPS! [b]FULL VIDEO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aswCY3NflLM[/b]
Great shooter. oldschool like and nice
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