Stellar Warrior

The game goes SUPER slow for the first level, which makes it very boring up front. While this works well for the fact there are no controls/instructions provided, it would be better to have that instead. Getting a 100% perfect run is easy on the first level. The second level, well, it's obliteratingly hard. If the difficulty scaled better, this would be more enjoyable. As it is, I was lulled into complacency only to be wiped out a few minutes later. A second try resulted in the same thing. Moreover, there are bugs abound. First, I pressed a few different key combinations trying to figure out how to play. I managed to turn on (I presume unintentional) perma-autofire. With the keybinding being what it is, this was actually a nice thing to work with. Alas, I couldn't figure out how to turn it on or off during subsequent plays. Next, when I died (I only died in the second level, at the same point, so not sure if it's specific to that, or in general), the game kept playing! I lost all my lives, my ship disappeared, but the enemies kept coming and kept shooting! I had to force quit the game to get back to the menu. Third, the achievements don't work. As I said, I made it to level 2, w…

Stellar Warrior is an unfinished/broken game disguised as a SHMUP that is both impossibly difficult and mind-numbingly simple. The first level is a basic SHMUP where enemies can be fought and their bullets dodged. The rest of the levels are just thrown together without any sort of flow or guaranteed way out. The player is quickly overrun by enemies and even off screen enemies are firing well in advance. There is no indication of how much damage your bullets are doing and boss fights can last around 20 minutes while hitting them constantly. There are numerous bugs that are just short of game breaking. Upon dying, the player is invulnerable for several seconds, but it also prevents the hit box from collecting pick-ups. There is no way to restart a level or get back to the main menu and the game must be force closed. The game states its saving checkpoints, but these are never used. Don’t plan on getting 100% achievements either as all of the level completion ones are broken. The leaderboards have their share of problems as well – there is an overall score one that is broke and I am still trying to wrap my brain around how the developer thought combining the scores of both …

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Stellar Warrior is an uninspired vertical scrolling shmup. The controls are muddy, the graphics simplistic, uninspired low-fi "art". Either deliberate or badly done, it's hard to be sure. This is a very mediocre entry in the list of hundreds of shmups on Steam. I can't recommend this over any of the others.

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