About This Game Legacy of the Elder Star is a mouse-driven shoot 'em up for the rest of us. You are the Cosmonaut, an eternal cosmic hero who must shatter the robotic Infinite Legion and rekindle a dying star!“Legacy of the Elder Star knocks it out of the park, retaining the retro charm of the genre without shackling itself to the past.” — GamerProsUsing a one-handed, mouse-driven control scheme, you'll dodge and strike with 1:1 precision and unlimited movement speed. Evade intense bullet patterns in the blink of an eye, then dash through entire enemy squads to crush them in a single gesture. Movement is everything in Legacy of the Elder Star, and no other shoot 'em up moves like this.“Instantly feels familiar and intuitive.” — TechRaptorLegacy of the Elder Star is focused on playing smart offense, not picking your way through overwhelming bullet hell. Enemy patterns change each time you play, keeping you on your toes and avoiding rote sequence repetition; daily challenges are even further randomized.Extensive accessibility options like a colorblind mode, auto-fire toggle, and adjustable game speed are included for gamers with disabilities, or even just those who want a more laid-back experience.“An absolute joy to look at, as well as play.” — Gamers Haven 7aa9394dea Title: Legacy of the Elder StarGenre: Action, IndieDeveloper:Kickbomb Entertainment LLCPublisher:Kickbomb Entertainment LLCRelease Date: 7 Jun, 2016 Legacy Of The Elder Star Crack legacy of the elder star. legacy of the elder star linux Hardcore shmup with movement mechanic I haven't seen anywhere else.This game is hard hard hard (to me at least) which is awesome. Lots of replay-ability, there is a ton of point\/achievement hunting, unlocking new load outs, things like that. I haven't unlocked them all yet, but can't wait to. If you are a shmups fan you will need this period. See you on the leaderboards!. Readers might find this odd to mention first and foremost, but I have to start with praise for the music of Elder Star. Props to the composer for writing something that's at once epic, spacey and robotic that evokes the classic 8\/16-bit legends. I'm particularly sensitive to music in video games, and this one struck the nail on the head for me.The gameplay is through controling the protagonist as if he were a mouse cursor on the screen. Left click is the classic gun, right click is a smash attack that turns your little robot into a ball of death when you touch enemies. There are upgrades that I assume come with each successful completion of the Story Mode. Story Mode is five stages, and using about 12 continues (most on Stage 4), I managed to beat the game in under 30 minutes. This is good because you about six weapons to unlock, and you unlock one weapon per play-though (I am assuming). I unlocked one new gun (left click), and a new play mode (Practice Mode, i.e. choose any stage to play). Most of the game's worth is through replay value. The story is simple, but well done. It's not the centerpiece of the experience, that's learning how to survive. The enemy attacks aren't very forgiving, but they are fair. The stages ascend in difficulty at a correct rate, so that I was learning from my mistakes quickly rather than being bombarded by a million bullets from the get-go. The artwork, which emulates the Behemoth Games style cartoon work, makes it easy to distinguish bullets trying to kill you, moving enemies, and backgrounds. You should be able to recognize what kinds of attacks are coming at you to move accordingly through the deeper circles of bullet hell. If I have one major complaint, it's that the final boss was one of the easiest for me to defeat. I was expecting a THIS ISN'T MY FINAL FORM sort of ordeal, but nope. I'll probably give this another couple playthroughs, but I'm not likely to unlock everything. If you are looking for a quick bullet-hell game, this is it.. This game is worth picking up. Is it going to take a long time to play? No. Is it going to be enjoyable? Yes. It is very pretty and the music is incredible (though not as good as halo, sorry to say it but halo music is like gods voice in your ear.). Its great for shmup fans and a nice game to play for a little when your bored or something. While everyone is debating in teamspeak about what to play, just pop on this little gem and play.. I'm a casual fan of the shmup genre and this game hit just the right spot for me. There are options and modifiers to crank up the difficulty to challenge even the most skillful players, but the game remains friendly to the less skilled with continue after death options that allowed me to play through and experience all the levels at the cost of a decreased score.Every level has a scoreboard as well as various challenges that drive you to replay and improve your score, also the soundtrack is kickin'. Legacy of the Elder Star is a simple SHMUP with a very pretty art and twist in the control scheme.The beautiful art, nice effects and good music unfortunately masks a game devoid of any character in any area. It's telling that the only characteristics of the protagonist are his name and his tacked on grin, without which he would sit right at home amongst the enemy drones. The pattern continues with art which lacks most of world building background detail and most enemies have a theme of mechanical and gray. I'd really like to see more beautiful high-resolution 2d art in games, but the resolution must be filled with detail - otherwise low-res pixel art is better when I can use my imagination subconciously to fill gaps of pixels with detail. The Music is great and fits the game very well. Nothing above would really matter if the game had an interesting gameplay that challenged and surprised the player. There's a serious lack of bullet patterns in this game. Fighting becomes so predictable and boring way too fast. Unfortunately bosses know only a few tricks, different phases only having more difficulty or speed added. Same applies to basic enemies. First level of most other shmups has more to see that this game. Most shmup pattern staples are just missing like bullet barrages that move at different speeds or mazes. Currently once I find where the bullets come from and find a safe spot I rarely have to move.The replayability is really nice touch with challenges and different weapon loadouts. Unfortunately replayability won't fix these problems.. Finished the story in 30 minutes. Then I unlocked practice mode. A bit backwards, don't you think?So here's how it works:You are the cosmonaut, basically a herodude out to kill hordes of machine enemies who share your colour scheme. You move your mouse to move around like it was the mouse pointer, left button is a standard attack, right charges your super attack when you hit\/kill things with it, both buttons at the same time unleashes your super attack. You gather points and unlock in-game achievements in the 5 different stages. There are things I like - the infinite continues, the mouse moving the character (as a concept), but I really don't care about hunting points and trophies when the story and gameplay is this anemic, the soundtrack just alright and the design sort of bland (with some additional issues keeping track of the hero and shots). The stage variations are of the early arcade model - they're a different background with a different set of enemies, there's no terrain features that do anything (to my recollection).In short and my humble opinion: cool controller idea, needed some more work before being worth 7.99 Euro.. This game plays as beautiful as it looks. It is a well-crafted shoot-em-up whose departures from genre norms are both intuitive and refreshing. Legacy of the Elder Star shows off all the things a modern-day shoot-em-up is capable of being.. Looks good by the the graphics and sounds but it's a very strange, awkward, clumsy and poor controled shooter. Not compatible with controllers or keyboard control because relies on a weird mouse sensibility input changed with the mouse wheel as you play the game, what? So you gotta play a shooter game using only your mouse while the keyboard input is configured by default to... take screenshots and record animated GIFs, LOL? I've just played for 5 minutes and felt some strain in my right hand, gee I ain't gonna keep playing this.What were this game developers thinking? I don't understand it...
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