A blast from Flump Studios past! Pester was released on Xbox live indies back in early 2013 and was Flump Studios first game developed for public release. A remake of one of my early C64 games, Pester is a very fast paced and busy retro vertical shooter.
Mixed
41 Steam reviews
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Cheap bullet hell shooter with basic modes, muddy visuals, imprecise controls and frustrating invisible bullet issues
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Simple and feels a little bit rough. Controls are ok and stages are ok too. Not much to say else except ok music. Slight recommendation for shoot 'em up fans.
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Flump Studios is an appropriate name.
I am 32 years old.
My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old.
When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing.
Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side.
With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of you. In fact, I may have played this game for only a day or two. That being said, after doing so, I had a new joy and hope for life. I managed to leave behind the pain and suffering that had been thrust upon me. I could experience the joy and happiness of other people. I relaxed for 5 ♥♥♥♥ minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.
After realizing this, I turned off the game and went back to work. My hand hurt a lot, but I was motivated. I stopped feeling so sorry for myself and became the father I needed to be at that moment, not the weak boy I was behaving like.
Today, I am close friends with the mother of my children. We don't fight, argue, or say hurtful things to each other. We are parents and friends.
Now I have 3 children. My third child is, wait, ALSO 4 YEARS OLD. The woman I am with was going through a very similar situation at the time of my separation, and we just unexpectedly stumbled into each other's lives. We have been dating for a year and are very happy together.
Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today. This silly little game helped me realize that.
Thank you.
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My gambling addict friend said if I post a review on Pester and it gets 350 likes and 150 Awards that he will buy me a case of beer and some vodka So im just gonna leave this here.
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Yes.
My recording shows I've been hit by phantom (invisible) bullets. I don't know if it's because of resolution shenanigans with existing bullets or whatever but it's very noticeable after a while and I can't even aim for a clear of the first loop that way. Unfortunate.
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在初次接触到这款游戏时，我对其新颖的游戏机制和独特的设计理念抱有很高的期待，然而经过深度试玩后，我发现它在执行和优化方面存在显著的问题，使得整体游戏体验远未达到预期。
游戏玩法与控制体验： 主打的是策略与动作相结合的玩法，但实际操作起来，游戏的控制反馈迟钝且不够精确。游戏中的核心战斗系统本应是亮点所在，却因复杂的指令响应和不够直观的操作界面让人感到困扰，而非享受其中。尤其是在紧张的战斗环节中，由于操作不便经常导致战术执行受阻，降低了游戏的战略深度和趣味性。
技术性能与bug频现： 从技术层面上看表现不尽如人意。频繁的卡顿、掉帧以及偶尔的崩溃问题严重影响了游戏流程的连贯性。此外，我还遇到了一些关键性的游戏内bug，比如任务无法完成、角色行动不受控制等问题，这些都极大地削弱了游戏的完整性与可玩性。
用户界面与用户体验： 游戏的用户界面设计欠佳，菜单布局混乱，重要信息不易查找，教程指导也不够详尽，新手玩家可能需要花费大量时间去摸索基础功能和游戏规则。另外音效设计的粗糙和重复使用也让沉浸式体验打了折扣。
总结： 拥有颇具吸引力的概念和框架，但在实际开发和打磨的过程中显然出现了不少失误。游戏的技术性能问题、操控难题以及剧情薄弱都构成了对玩家体验的不良影响。虽然它在某些创意上有闪光之处，但综合来看，目前版本的《Pester》难以推荐给寻求优质游戏体验的玩家们。真心希望开发商能够关注到这些问题并进行重大改进，以释放这款游戏真正的潜力。
It was ok...
garbage. game isn't fun, I think has a slight input lag, doesn't stay in windowed mode, you just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ explode randomly with no enemy or bullet in sight even though you supposedly have a small hitbox, which of course is awful for the survival mode where you only have one life, there's no clever design at all just random enemy spam and just overall the game's a sack of ♥♥♥♥. I only have this game because of a bundle. I keep opening the game every now and then trying to give it a fair chance but no this is just stupid. this is bad. don't play this. go play void rains or fantasy of tempest or zeroranger or something, not this trash.
kart düşürmelik oyun
"Pester" ist ein Old-School Bullet-Hell-Shooter.
Und mit Old-School meine ich altmodisch. Richtig altmodisch. Das beginnt schon bei der pixeligen Grafik, die nur einen Teil des Screens einnimmt. Der treibende Soundtrack ist passend.
Das Gameplay ist direkt. Man steuert sein 2D-Schiff am besten mit einem Controller, schießt mit Dauerfeuer und versucht den Massen an Gegnern und Schüssen auszuweichen. Zwischendrin sammelt man noch Sternchen und kleine Perks ein, die aber auch das klassische Arsenal mit Bombe, Schutzschild und Mehrfachschuß nicht wesentlich überschreiten. Die Gegner kommen in Wellen mit ihnen eigenen Angriffsmustern. Hin und wieder taucht auch ein kleiner Boss auf oder es gibt auch mal eine Passage, in der wir gar nicht schießen, sondern wie bei einem Hindernisrennen Objekten ausweichen müssen, die schnell auf uns zukommen.
Und auch darin ist "Pester" klassisch: es gibt nur drei Leben und der Schwierigkeitsgrad ist recht happig. Andere Spielmodi können freigeschaltet werden, es ist allerdings nicht einfach, die notwendige Punktezahl zu erreichen.
"Pester" ist roh, ursprünglich, ohne Schnickschnack. und erinnert dabei an uralte Shooter auf uralten Computern wie dem C64. Wer so etwas Rudimentäres und mechanisch funktionierendes mag, wird Spaß an "Pester" finden, wer allerdings heutige Shooter gewohnt ist, für den kann es ein ziemlich frustrierendes Erlebnis sein.
[h1]Wertung:[/h1]
6/10 Atmosphäre
-/10 Story
6/10 Grafik
7/10 Sound
7/10 Spielmechanik
5/10 Balancing
6/10 Spielspass
[h1]Fazit:[/h1]
Nicht nur Old-School, sondern schon altmodisch.
[h1][b]6/10 Gesamtwertung
gg!
6/10
I like it.
Tags: Shootemup & Bullet Hell
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Ship fires in akward bursts. Tiny play area. Ugly engine. Derivative of Invaders but falls short.
This is a bundle filler shovelware grade title. The screen quickly becomes cluttered beyond what I consider to be playable. Ship sprites are large. Enemies fire the letter O in neon green and the like. The akward firing pattern of your ship just seems to start and stop at random. Enemies always come from the top making the ability to navigate through the screen rather pointless as it is always best to stick to the bottom.
Removing local content permanently and hiding from library for declutter. This genre has been heavily saturated and this is one of the poorer examples of it.
Ultimately a very simplistic and repetitive shmup that could use some more intentional wave/pattern design and really any features beyond bare bones shoot-em-up elements. Has the look and feel of a project that was probably very educational for the developer, but a few projects or a lot of revision away from something worth buying.
[h1]Es un juego de medio dolar...[/h1]
el cual puede llegar a costar 1/4 de dolar o menos y que cumple su cometido: entretener un rato.
>a grandes rasgos: es un shoot em up que parece mas bullet hell, muy generico en el cual tienes que sobrevivir lo mas que puedas; tienes 2 vidas inicialmente, bombitas para salir de situaciones dificiles y un modo "berserker" el cual se llena conforme recolectas estreshitas...
>¿vale la pena?
Pues... hay peores juegos, y con un mayor precio... en este caso es un juego decente por lo que vale y da: por lo regular lo dan en bundles o sale muy barato en ventas/descuentos... no esperes mucho de este jueguito, y no pierdes mucho si lo ignoras, a menos que seas un amante de los shoot em ups...
Jogo bem legalzin pra destrair e rlx
desviando das armas e tudo +
vale a pena
recomendo
Pester
pros:
//modern day graphics
cons:
//static background/location never changes
//a lot of difficult battles
//losing is a grindfest (backtracking and all enemies respawn)
//sucks
Simplón, pero divertido.
Has a good and working menu, but gets old after 5 minutes.
Wonderful shmup, several different game modes and lots of personality. Reminds me of shmups on the SNES or NES, great game!
It's Fun. good selection of music and a cool scanline filter which i'm a sucker for :D
overall a good budget shmup
Старенький инди скролл-шутер, от которого даже не стоит ждать чего-то особенного... Годно!
Hey everyone and this is my review about the game!
This is a bad spaceship game.
[h1]Interface/Menu/Settings[/h1]
You can only change the music volume between 0-10.
You can't change the sound.
There are some Resolution sizes.
Pressing Q will change full screen or windowed mode.
You can toggle vibration :D.
You are able to play this game with a xbox controller.
[h1]About the game.[/h1]
You play with a spaceship and you move to left or right and your job is to destroy the enemy ships on your path. You will find some powerups on your way which you could use. Killed enemies will give you a star for "hyper mode" which you can only activate when the bar is full. Once released you will hit basically every enemy in your way from every direction. I have to say that this game is very boring, poorly executed and replayablity isn't high too.
Has "manual" on the side of the screen.
Meh music.
bad graphics.
I don't get why someone would ever like this game at all.
Really low gameplay replayability.
No steam overlay?
[h1]Other things.[/h1]
The sound from shooting is faster then the actual effects. So if you hold the shooting button you will eventually get annoyed from the sound.
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I Give this game a 2/10
Норм игра
И эта пока НЕ пошла.
Having read that this was a remake of a very old game, and having played a lot of games as a kid on a Commodore 64, I was excited for a good bit of nostalgia. The C64 sported these amazing specs:
1 MHz CPU!
64 kB of RAM!
320x200 pixel 16-color monitor!
It was such an incredible machine back then, and just as incredible now, but for different reasons.
I got the retro feel I was looking for. It's a good remake, in the sense of improving the graphics. If anything, they should not be so good, if they were to really emulate the look of a C64 game. Do an image search. Top of the line gaming fun back then. It's also hard and fast, like the arcade games which followed.
1920x1080 resolution works just fine on my PC, in both full screen and windowed mode (Core 2 Duo, 8 GB RAM, AMD HD 5750, Win 7).
Pester is fun shmup throwback experience that falls somewhere between simple early game consoles and rage-quit hard arcade games. Best eight bits I've spent in a long time.
I play this when I'm bored and have money to spend.
It's a nightmare, I like it!
Very basic but challenging bullet hell arcade shoot em up. The graphics are somewhat poor but the gameplay is unforgiving. For the low price it is recommendable for genre fans
Blurry sprite scaling with "programmer art" assets, obvious sprite mismatches in the time attack mode, and a general feel of being a mediocre school project make me question why this game is on Steam. There are many better examples of SHMUPS, danmaku, bullet hell games; don't waste your time with this one.
Bought it for the cards, 3/10 would not recommend.
Edit: All in-game achievements done after ~90 minutes of play, and there's a hitbox bug in the asteroid mode too. Not much content to be found here.
--- WARNING: There is a large crashing bug in this game whenever you try to set the resolution to 1920x1080. You can change to other resolutions (though there are only 3 options), but getting to 1080p is impossible. I personally love this game, and love seeing it again for such a great price, and I will be recommending it, but please keep this in mind. ---
I am a fan of bullet hell games, and this gives a goold old style feel considering its of course a newer game. Techno-grumble style music makes it feel like an arcade game, and for $0.99 this is a huge deal and a fun time passer.
I would love to recommend this game with all of my heart, however there are crashing issues on launch, not to the point of unplayability, but trying to get into the levels can be a bit taxing.
