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Pulstar
A twin-stick style arcade shooter.
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| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
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| English | Y | — | Y |
A twin-stick style arcade shooter.
| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
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| English | Y | — | Y |
Tiny top-down twin-stick shooter limited in almost every way. Only one level and three different enemies. You'll be hard pressed to survive more than 5 minutes. The only incentive to replay would be to get a higher score, but the leaderboards only show the top 10 in the world. Not your own ranking, not your friends' rankings. The only saving grace would be that the controls are good with gamepad and keyboard/mouse combo. Played around 18 minutes, the hours shown are from idling for cards long ago.
2d uzay shoot em up oyunu çizimleri güzel hipnoz ediyor gibi havası var sevdim
Este jogo é fiel à sua descrição, valeria os 2 dólares se ainda estivesse na loja!
Eu gostei do jogo, é despretensioso e você não necessita de foco total nem tela cheia, você precisa desviar tentar sobreviver o quanto conseguir... mas ele usa o plano de fundo para tornar o jogo mais difícil. Às vezes, você encontrará inimigos porque eles são difíceis de ver graças ao plano de fundo.
Também fica difícil aos 5 minutos de jogo e este é um jogo melhor jogado em sessões de jogo pequenas e curtas.
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Pulstar é basicamente um jogo de desviar de inimigos e sobreviver o mais tempo possível, fora alguns power up que você pode pegar o jogo é só isso. Ele não está mais disponível pra comprar, mas mesmo que você já tiver o jogo, não vejo muito motivo pra jogar por mais que 15 ou 20 minutos, porque com pouco tempo assim você já viu tudo que o jogo pode oferecer.
E os achivements são baseados em classificação de jogadores, que como sempre nesses casos, estão hackeadas.
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Pulstar is basically a game about dodging enemies and surviving as long as possible, apart from some power ups that you can get, that's it. It's no longer available to buy, but even if you already have the game, I don't see much reason to play for more than 15 or 20 minutes, because with that little time you've already seen everything the game can offer.
And achievements are based on player ratings, which as always in these cases, are hacked.
don't know what to say. I hate this game but i keep coming back to it.
Is it good then?
Maybe.
Meybe recommended?
☀️
Nice game to play for a little while, bought it because It was going offsale but actually enjoyed it.
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.
一般般吧，中等偏下
机制没玩儿太明白，时不时打出一些光球也不能互动
弹幕判定也有点不习惯，总感觉有些弹幕无法抵消
poof
Ну что это за пиздeц такой? Ну как это может быть в 21 веке?
dont end your game sell plz. if u resale, will change to good Revi. chinese, cloud save need. we need u, Dev.
3/10 this game is getting removed from steam soon, get it well you can. or dont
Will be Removed soon.
Get it now or nah.
Довольно качественная мини-игра, развивает реакцию)
Can't increase resolution past 1080p
Basic shmup which suffers from bland gameplay and poor visuals.
Pulstar, türünün temellerini geri getiren hızlı tempolu bir arcade oyunudur. Gereksiz detaylar olmadan, mümkün olduğunca yüksek puan almak için öldüğünüz sürece devam edin! Bu konsept, gerçek bu türün hayranlarının ihtiyaç duyduğu zorluk ve yüksek tekrar oynanabilirlik sağlar!
Pulstar aynı zamanda yerel çok oyunculu bir co-op özelliğine sahiptir, bu da arkadaşınızla birlikte dünya sıralamalarını domine etmenizi sağlar!
Ana özellikler:
Oynaması kolay, ustalaşması zor bir konsept
Daha fazla öldürdükçe artan ses ve görsel deneyim
Zamanı yavaşlatmak için Pulsetime'ı etkinleştirin
Yerel çok oyunculu co-op
Çevrimiçi liderlik tablolarıyla dünyaya karşı mücadele edin (tek oyunculu ve çok oyunculu)
Çift analog kontrol desteği
Steam başarıları ve Steam kartları içerir
Windows, Mac ve Linux için mevcuttur
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敵を視認しずらいのが残念です…
My teacher made this game as such i have too give it a good grade because otherways he will give me a failing grade and then break my kneecaps behind the school.
Управление мышью будто сделано через эмулятор джойстика(
juegovich 👌
Pretty lights and colors. Otherwise a basic shoot em up experience with clunky controls and enemies that can be difficult to even spot during the light show.
The music in pulstar is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. The game is hard but it's good.
Some achievements are too difficult to get :c
This is a twin-stick style shooter along the lines of Geometry Wars. Lazy pixel-like graphics and garish neon lighting accompanies you as you fight waves of samey boring enemies endlessly.
The controls don't work properly, you can't change the vector of your shots properly. Ugly graphics don't help. You can try to change the game resolution but this causes a crash to desktop, so there's some grade-A quality assurance there.
This is a pretty bad shovelware game and I don't recommend it.
一个刷刷刷游戏，支持2人同屏！
游戏的目的似乎就是在刷分数，很没意思~
字体总有种分辨率不足的感觉~虽然字体很漂亮~
[b]Pulstar[/b] has several issues that cause me to not recommend it and consider removal from my library:
-Enemies lack contrast, sometimes they blend right in with the background
-Variety of enemies is low
-One or two short music tracks loop, that's it
-Achievements pop-up after you leave the game
-You can't really "beat" the game because many of the achievements involve getting a top 10, or number 1, leaderboard score. Sadly the leaderboards are hacked. (Show me a video of someone genuinely playing an 8hr run.)
Graphics were nicer than I first thought and with controller movement and shooting was pleasant. Difficulty curve is a bit weird because after 4 minutes it gets fast really hard. In overall ok game, if you are a high score junkie but I'm not and most achievements are ultra hard to get (and some probably impossible for me) so I cannot recommend this game because playing same stuff over and over again without any goal starts to feel boring really fast.
Tags: Shootemup&BulletHell
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Pixelated singlescreen geometry wars style shooter. Low quality sprites. Gameplay feels chaotic and approximated. One endless mode only.
A servicable and working bundle filler. It lacks widescreen resolutions. The spritework has some minimal animation but nothing that great. The sprites that do not have added lighting to them can easily blend with background.
Some enemies will charge bullets, others shoot bullets upon death. It gets messy.
Since I have a large selection of superior shooters to pick from I will remove this permanently for declutter.
the steering in this game is unprecise. in this type of game, I need a super precise steering, to avoid all obstacles. therefor a thumbs down from me.
IMHO, the game looks and sounds great and is fun to play. I'm not so bad at action games, but I haven't cracked 60 seconds yet. [b]VERY[/b] tough.
But is is fun, for as long as you can last. More than one life at the start would be an improvement.
10/10 best game ever
great Time Waster.
i'm giving this a positive review in the hope that my teacher will give me better grades.
all jokes aside. i like this game. i like playing it for 5 min when i'm bored, adn its addictive to try and break my highscore.
plz giv me better grades m8
Good old game:)
I was going to give this a negative review... But seeing the price tag I've changed my mind.
This game is your run-of-the-mill twin-stick arena shooter. It does very little differently, but it also doesn't really do anything wrong. It's alright, but certainly not great.
And for $2, you could do a whole lot worse.
So I was looking for something mindless and endless to play while listening to music, podcasts or watching youtube\netflix videos in the background. This is one of those quick little games that works well for that end, and in such a context I can recommend it. No need to play it on full focus.
trash
The game forces you to only use one tactic because of how fast enemies spawn at 4 minutes, how enemies shoot you before even appearing on the map, how your ship has delay in it's movement and how much space there is to move in.
The tactic is called "circling around the map". You pretty much have to circle around the map, strictly staying in middle of the edges (where enemies come from) and the center (where unkilled enemies follow you to) while constantly shooting and going forward. This kind of gameplay gets boring very quickly and only rewards those who have the patience to keep circling around.
Decided to get cards after 2 tries.
A fun skills based game.
Smooth mechanics, multiplayer, stays very focused.
Clearly delineates goals
An enjoyable experience.
I played it for 5 minutes but wondered why this game is even on steam. It's basically an ipad or phone game.
Cannot recommend this game.
슈팅 게임.
사방에서 몰려드는 적들을 제거하는 게임.
오래 버티면서 높은 점수를 모으는 것이 목표이죠.
기본 체력은 5개이며, 극히 적은 확률로 회복제가 등장합니다.
또한, 맵의 모든 적을 제거하는 폭파 아이템도 존재하죠.
스폐셜 능력으로 게임의 속도를 느리게하는 슬로우가 있습니다.
3분을 기점으로 몬스터의 리젠정도가 극명하게 높아지기에 힘들어지죠.
짧은 시간 집중하기에는 좋은 게임.
참고로, 멀티 시 생명이 공유 됩니다.
i r8 dis b8 an 8/8.
This game is true to its description, worth the 2 bucks.
found it boring and bland, I cheated most of the achievements, I only got 2 legitly.
achievement fanatics bite me :)
Fast and fluid game with a fine design, but it lacks variety of enemies and weapons.
Pulstar is a game that reminds the old school because it's an arcade game. It is simple, colorful, requires agility and practice. It's a good game to play at moments that you are without internet or don't have so much time to play. I really enjoyed it and if you like arcade games you will probabily enjoy it too.
Nice game!!!!
Un des pires twin stick shooter... 1e pour ça c'est déjà trop, on peut trouver mieux sur navigateur j'en suis sur, une seul mode de jeu et 3 ou 4 type d'enemies qui vous fonceront dessus et/ou vous tirerons dessus.
Je suis dans une école avec des étudiants en Jeux vidéo et même eux à leurs niveau ils peuvent faire un jeu pareil.
à éviter!
I payed £5 for this game as i thought it would be quite fun. I actually can't remember why i decided to £5 for this game when it's the sort you'd pay 69p for on a mobile device. Game get's difficult quickly and soon becomes extreamely boring, the replayability for such a one dimensional game is next to none.
Ah the poor cousin of gemetry wars, slightly more difficult but a good way to kill 10 minutes or so if you need to.
This game is an interesing concept for a twin stick shooter but it it very bare bones. This could be a really small time killer but I don't recommend paying the full $4.99 amount fot this title. I bought this game with a %50 coupon and i still felt it wasn't justified to still pay $2.49. It the game's benefit, it does have a lot potential but the game falls on it's face by not reaching further and developing on the concept. It could use some work and I would think they could build on this concept and makie it a little bit deeper.
[b]PROS:[/b]
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[*] Controller-support
[*] Simple concept
[*] Decent time killer
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[b]CONS:[/b]
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[*] Shallow, almost no depth
[*] Lack of potential
[*] Not worth the price
[*] Control Sensitivity
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I find it to be very relaxing in its simiplicity. If I'm looking for a shooter that doesn't make me want to lose it like Geometry Wars, Pulstar is fun to play for a bit. For $5 it's a little steep, but it's worth the chillout time on sale.
Very simple game where you float around dodging and shooting stuff. Controls feel clunky, which I assume is deliberate, but makes the game less fun. Singleplayer ran fine on Linux, when I clicked "Start" in multiplayer it crashed. Seeing as this game isn't much better than most flash games content wise I can't really recommend it for any price above zero.
Pulstar, with its intriguing choice of colors and the promise of a fast paced shoot em up, has so much wasted potential. The game is basic, almost barebone, which is fine for me and many others. However, it suffers from two major issues: horrible contrast and jerky movement controls. The game starts out easy but soon becomes overwhelming with continuous waves of enemies. Pulstar's replayability stems from the single and multiplayer world ranking that it offers. In the advanced wave stages, it becomes unnecessarily difficult to identify enemy elements due to the overdone graphics saturation. Additionally, you won't be able to adjust the jerky movements which makes advancing in this game more of a matter of luck than skill. Finally, the multiplayer option is limited to local co-op with no online functionality. The developers have decided to keep the game as is which is truly a shame.
+Great concept
+Beautiful graphics
+Local Co-op
+World Ranking
-Barebone game
-High color saturation/no contrast
-No online multiplayer
-Jerky movement controls
I can't imagine why anyone would give this a positive review. Reminder, this games costs $4.99!! The content is the very definition of bare bones minimum. It was quite obviously programmed with the intent to make a quick buck. Twin stick shooters are one of my favorite genres and this is just done lazily and without imagination. It deserves to be on a smartphone app store for $0.99 and nothing more. Take a $5 bill and wipe your butt with it. No different than buying this game.
[h1]Pulstar est un jeu de tir, de défense difficile, très difficile[/h1]
Les points forts de Pulstar, ce sont sa réalisation, son design et sa musique. Le gros point négatif, c’est sa difficulté, bien que, pour certains, c’est un de ses points forts aussi.
Vous êtes au commande d’un étoile (au lieu d’un vaisseau spatial) et vous devez résister à l’attaque d’une multitude de parasites (au lieu d’ennemis). Il vous faut être absolument un pro du clavier ou de la manette (ce qui est plus conseillé) pour tenir plus de 3 minutes face à tous ces assauts.
Heureusement pour vous, il y a aussi des bonus à récupérer ici ou là. Ce n’est pas simple mais ne vous en privez pas, ça vous aidera à tenir quelques minutes de plus.
[url=www.graal.fr/2015/06/22/test-pulstar-la-version-pour-steam/]Pour découvrir toutes mes impressions sur Pulstar.[/url]
Eh, it's alright. I mean, it feels like a class project, or a cheap phone game. It's alright, but... I dunno, there's tons better on Steam. It's pretty bottom level rock basic, with nothing to distinguish it from its many competitors.
Super jeux =)
I played this game on a Steam Roulette Roll.
No real progression
The same enamies over and over
Hard to see the directional mouse cursor to shoot
It's basiclly a high score flash game. not to be rude to flash developers or anything, as I've seen some great flash games.. this is just not one of them.
Most of the gameplay is just dull.
Id pay to remove it from my library
Super game!
Fiyatına göre alınmaması gereken bir oyun.Tarayıcıdan oynadığınız flash oyunlardan en ufak bir farkı yok açıkçası.Siz bir yıldızsınız ve önünüze gelen yaratıkları vurarak alt ediyorsunuz.Zaman geçirmek için iyi olsada bu tarz flash oyunları yeterince eskiden oynadık.Kesinlikle almanızı önermem
O jogo é só ok, divertido, mas é um tanto raso, mesmo para sua faixa de preço. Som bom, gráficos deixam a desejar.
The game is just ok, fub, but bit shallow, even for it's price tag. Nice sound, graphics falls short
Good twin stick shooter to kill some time, but has very few features to be a descent experience on PC.
An addictive little shooter where the difficulty increases exponentially. Try surviving more than a few minutes. One of those games that you can pass the controller around with a group of friends to see who can last the longest.
A game with momentum in a genre where you need to stop and turn on a dime, a special weapon that wipes out no enemies but does massively distort the screen, and no rebindables so good luck if you were used to RMB unleashing your superbomb of death.
Good looking, easy to play, twin-stick shooter - i love to play it
Wish some collectables drop out...
Pulstar is a colorful top down shoot'em'up. I found myself enjoying this game for it's interesting design and immense challenge. Containing only 3 types of enemies, I thought this game was easy, that was before I made it past the 3 minute mark. Playing for the high score and my spot on the leaderboard, I got all the way to 119th before getting burnt out due to the game's difficulty and RNG mechanics.
~Mechanics~
The games mechanics goes everywhere from RNG enemy spawning, RNG powerup spawning, RNG score multiplier spawing to acceleration in movement. When you first open up the game it reminds you of a normal top down shoot'em'up. The first thing you find odd is the movement, that is because there is acceleration on the player model itself, making it nearly impossible to stop when you let go of the keys. But the acceleration is a constant and is very easy to learn after about 15-20 minutes of practicing. The points system works by adding 1 point per kill to your unit destroyed reward counter that adds to your total every kill you achieve. It's a bit difficult to explain in text, but essentially the first kill you get +1 to your total points, the second kill you get +2 points, so on and so forth. The points increment also resets when you get hit and lose a life, so if you got a kill worth 45 points and got hit, your next kill would be worth 1 point to your total. Every now and then an enemy will drop a +10 kill worth token which increases the points per kill by 10. Much rarer is the life saving CLEAR SCREEN token, which when you pick up, kills everything on screen, visible and offscreen, this process adds to your total per enemy killed, so if you get 50 kills you will get the kill worth value up 50 and get the amount of points relative to the kills as if you got them one at a time. The one power up you get to control when to use is the time slow device, this device has saved my life multiple times and has allowed me to bob and weave through enemies to get the screen clearing token. The one thing I found the game was missing is a crosshair, I kept losing track of my tiny mouse pointer that blended with the background at times.
~Gameplay~
Playing this game for points, different strategies in movement and shooting produce different results providing a mixture of gameplay routes. I found sitting in the center and shooting in circles to work exceptionally well. After that I found moving and doing that worked better than remaining to sit in the center. The fact that every game ever played has lasted under 12 minutes (highscore) shows the pure difficulty of this game. My longest game was about 6 minutes long. The difficulty of this game is highly welcoming for high score seekers and fans of the Genre alike.
~Story~
When entering the game for the first time you are introduced to the shortest stories for a game I have seen so far. What is there in the story is basic background to why you are playing this game lore wise as well as the funniest opeining line ever by referencing starwars in a family guy style manner. I wish there was a story mode, but I am content with what there is.
~Replay Value~
I found myself wanting to come back to this game for the prospect of being #1 on the leaderboards. Other than that, I would most likely not come back to play this game. This game does not have replay value for non competitive people. If you don't want to try and be the very best, like no one ever was, this game is not for you.
~~~SCORING~~~
Mechanics - 9/10
Gameplay - 7/10
Story - 4/10
Replay Value - 5/10
Price to Playtime Ratio: 5/10 (3 hours / $5)
~~~~~OVERALL SCORE~~~~~
~~60/100~~
ПИДЕЦ ТУТ ОЧИВКИ, ПРОСТО ПОСМОРИТЕ!!
Очень бюджетный и очень стандартный твин-стик шутер.
too difficult to control
简单暴力没内涵。。。。。。
Pulstar is a VERY basic twin-stick shooter with not a single original idea within it...
Skill progression seems a bid random - sometimes games get harder quickly, other games take much longer!?
The "pulse" you get from time-to-time obscures the screen long enough to kill you and enemies appearing from the edges can effectively 'kill you at random' which gets boring quite quickly.
Oh - and the noise the green enemies make is probably THE most annoying soundeffect ever - pass the headache pills please!
A very enjoyable 2 stick shooter. Fun to play and looks great.
360度好きな方向に動き好きな方向に弾を出せる自機を使ったSTG。
四角形のフィールドで生き残りながらひたすらスコアを稼ぐことが目的となっています。
見た目や雰囲気は綺麗で好みなのですが、面白くはありませんでした。というのも、敵は3種類しか存在せず攻撃パターンもそれぞれ1種類のみ、時間の経過とともに敵の数が増えるだけで非常に単調なのです。
high replay valueを謳っていますが、パターン構築などの楽しみもありませんしすぐに飽きてしまう人が多いと思います。
ローカルで協力プレイができるようですがそちらは試していません。
Entertaining and Challenging.
This game is your average dual stick shooter. The difficulty progression has a pretty steep curve, so when you restart it is not boring. I have had a few 20 min game bursts, which is about all I can do, but i havent had it long at all.
For 4.99 i would NOT get it. If it is ever under $2 again, which im sure it will be, I recommend it. If its ever under $1 dollar then i DEFINATELY recommend it.
The Sprites are good
The Sounds are good
The background is OK
8/10
A thoroughly underwhelming twin-stick shooter. If you've played 3 minutes of it, you've seen everything it has to offer.
단순하지만 할만한 게임
Note: I got Pulstar in a cheap bundle.
I can only play this game for a few minutes at a time as I tend to get a sore trigger finger lol! It's an intense, fast-paced arcade game, extremely simple to play but you'll need fast reactions to last more than a couple of minutes!
It's beautiful, I love the light effects.
A dead simple, but very fun twin stick shooter. I highly recommend it!
This is a twin-stick shooter where you blast intergalactic parasites and-Oh why do I even bother? Let's skip ahead to why I gave this game a thumbs-down.
Typically in an arcade game you can be awarded a 1up for passing certain scores. Let's say the first 1up is for 50,000 points, the second is at 200,000, and the rest are every 500,000 thereafter.
This doesn't apply to Pulstar. I got my first 1up at 2,137 points, the second at 13,854, and didn't receive anymore even after crossing 1,418,255 points.
In my next game, I got my first 1up at 22,478 points, the second at 24,890, and 1-2 every few seconds from about 4:01 to 4:30.
The following game? I got my first 1up at 486,977 points, and..didn't receive anymore lives for the rest of that attempt.
But guess what? It doesn't really matter. Getting a high-score in this game practically requires that you don't die, so all those extra lives are just trolling. Congrats! You bought yourself an extra second of survival. When you die you lose your kill-streak, and that's a massive multiplier that simply disappears into the ether. Screen-clearing bombs are several times more useful, but they rarely make an appearance. Power-ups stay on-screen indefinitely, so it's in your best interest to save those bombs for when they're really necessary (after the 4 minute mark).
Visually, this game is a mess. It's easy to lose track of things in most twin-stick shooters, let alone one with shifting brightness levels. There's a slowdown ability for when things get too hectic, but it messes with the screen really badly. Surrounding the playfield is a mess of clouds, they hide where enemies appear from. This is information I probably could use to avoid getting blind-sided for the 177th time.
Pulstar is supposed to appeal to the hardcore with its singular focus and extremely difficult achievements, but there's not enough there to justify giving it any serious time. Getting the best run feels more like something that will happen when the planets align, not when my skill reaches a certain level. On average I spend the first four minutes of every game preparing for everything going to hell at 4:01. Afterwards I stumble semi-blindly into a series of brick walls for a minute or two. This isn't fun, this is just me trying to prove that I'm actually putting in effort. I don't want to be that guy who doesn't like a game because he "doesn't get it". But man, this isn't worth the headache.
Graphics 11/10
Intense gameplay 11/10
Arcade oldschool look 11/10
Kinda reminds me of Waves, but less hard and not so boring in the long.
The perfect time waster if you don't wanna end up doing bad stuff instead of gaming..
4,99€.. Wow, I'd serioulsy pay atleast 20€ for this.
《是男人就活30秒》威力加强版。
Please add resolution support for 1024x600.
Otherwise, great game!
Albeit functional, Pulstar is a rather unremarkable twin-stick shooter.
While graphically fine, it is hard to distinguish between the multiple power-ups since every single object is a glowing orb. This aside, enemy bullets are a bright, contrasting red and are easily distinguishable. Also, the fact that there is only one ‘stage’ is disappointing.
All in all, I find myself struggling to come up with more to say, as the game is pretty barebones. Even for it's low price, it is hard to recommend considering the whole experience is very shallow.
Pulstar: a generic bullet hell twin stick shooter that offers very little.
There just isn’t much to this game. One level, one upgrade, one special, three enemies, one 'ship', one gun, one boring repetitive experience. Your main obstacle in this game are the graphics, when they really start throwing enemies at you it becomes a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of explosions, bullets and enemies that blend together, and every time you're damaged it blurs and obscures the screen which makes it very difficult to avoid taking more damage. The best thing in this game by far is the Scottish narrator, which there is far too little of. There are a million better games that make this game completely redundant, here is one that's a million times better and it's free: http://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000
It's a dud. Avoid.
Sadly one of the rather weak twin stick arena shoot em ups. This game obviously has been developed for analog input, rendering digital keyboard gameplay clunky and hard to control. Most of the enemies look like card board cutouts, seeing the playable ship rendered in a good quality this is a major letdown for me. Music is really good but the game gets repetetive really fast. There are way more intereisting shmups and arena twin stick shooters out on steam, this feels a bit cheap, very sadly because I wanted to like it.
Particulièrement laid, les sprites ont un graphisme amateur et l'ensemble ne laisse aucun souvenir. Coté gameplay ce jeu est sans intérêt: aucune nouveauté, un recopiage de ce que a déjà été fait mille fois. Seul le son sauve la partie: bien synchronisé, c'est le seul point qui donne envie d'y un peu, disons une minute...
A real nice little challenging shooter. Basic Controls and Decent tranquil art work make this one a good little time killer.Check it out !!
Fun, Arcade Style Game To Waste Some Time.
Шикарная игра, геймплей, эффекты, звук, музыка, класс! Наверное это один из шедевров в инди экшенах. Вот еще игра Osmos заслуживает такого же внимнаия. Что-то в них есть схожее)
poop
An absolutely beautiful game. Simple controls once you get them with a controller, tried keyboard but just too hard that way on my laptop. The effects add a nice finish. One of the best bits in an odd way, each game is very quick as its just manic, but its really quick to get back in and keep going. Only played for 30min so far but so many goes at it, I jsut wanted to keep going. :-)
I like the game, but it uses the background to make the game more difficult. Sometimes you'll run into enemies because they are hard to see thanks to the background, and worse yet, that's how the developers wanted the game.
It also gets hard at 4:00 minutes into the game and this is a game best played in small, short, gaming sessions.
I play it about 15 minutes at a time.
I still like the game, but suggest getting it bundled or at least 50% off if you find a coupon.
Pulstar is similar to twin-stick shooters like Geometry Wars, Ultratron, Waves and others. While it does not revolutionize twin-stick shooters, it is a very good entry into the genre. If you enjoy twin-stick shooters, you will probably enjoy this one as well.
Up Front:
Pros:
* Nice, fluid graphics
* Short rounds that you can pick up and put down
* Good controls (at least with a controller)
Cons:
* Sound (specifically background music) could be a bit more varied.
Nice to Haves:
* More enemy types
* Online Multiplayer
--- Full Review ---
You might notice that at the time I am writing this review, I do not have many hours into the game. That is because a single round of the game lasts only a few minutes. There are not multiple levels, various environments, or a ton of depth. What the game lacks in length, it makes up for in no nonsense twin-stick shooter gameplay.
Graphics: Visuals are very fluid, and the game has a nice ambience. The visuals are not over complicated, and that is a good thing for a shooter like this. Between trying to dodge various enemies and scoring as many points as possible, there is not a huge need for overdone graphics. In addition, the HUD is simple and does not distract. In Geometry Wars, the point value of an enemy appeared above the enemy after you killed it. That is not the case with this game. Your running score is kept at the top right, out of the way.
A note that might matter to some. The game seems to be locked at a 16:9 aspect ratio. Available resolutions are 1280 x 720, 1536 x 864, and 1920 x 1080 in both windowed and full screen modes.
Gameplay: With no long story or epic battles, the gameplay comes from the challenge. This game challenges you to improve your skills and pits you against other Pulstar players via leaderboards. This is evident in the achievements. Almost half the achievements are gained by doing better than others or the developers (either in single player or multiplayer). A controller definitely makes the experience better. The controls are simple: the left stick moves, and the right stick shoots. If you need to use a special item, the trigger button is there for you.
There are three basic enemies. It would have been nice to have a few more enemy types, but the enemy types the game does have are different enough that this is not such a huge deal.
The time dilation mechanic is an interesting one, and is similar to the one in Waves. You hit the button, and time slows down so you can more easily maneuver around enemies and take them out.
Sound: The soundtrack is simple and is not something to write home about, but it gets the job done. The background music is very strong, but the sound effects are very light and almost fragile sounding.
Multiplayer: I did not try the multiplayer, but something that might make it more appealing is online multiplayer. This is not a dealbreaker though.
