So, I went and found a rather promising action-packed indie game, made by Strange Matter, consisting of, I think so far, PrototypeTheta, taking place in its own galaxy, and its home planet to two playable characters, Alpha, the latest creation from the antagonistic organization, Grey Imperium, and Cassie, a salamander-like alien with her right arm somehow lost in a dangerous infliction from her past and replaced with a cybernetic arm that turns into a multi-purpose, weaponized tool of her liking.
...I'll be honest, the details of its story are, so far, scarce, but, the overall goal seems to be clear; trek through numerous stages with Alpha and Cassie, tear through numerous robotic legions of Grey Imperium, find and collect numerous weapon mods, along with secrets, avoid many hazards and overcome challenges and obstacles, and, what else, fight numerous bosses to get to the goal.
Though each character does have their own perspectives, along with their strengths and weaknesses, they'll no doubt travel through much of the same stages, but they'll have to go to their own stages at particular points in the story, example being, they have their own intro stages.
Did I forget mention this before? The stages in Starbuster are going to be huge, perhaps even more than Freedom Planet 2's stages, and whatever 2D Sonic game that held the longest/largest map yet. Should the game get launched(hopefully sometime soon), let's hope the mappers can handle doing its maps.
The inspirations of the game's development are surely from Mega Man Zero, Sonic Advance, the novel series, The Culture, and, moreover Freedom Planet 1 and 2.
The game's got a demo, and it's available for anyone to play and try the game. I'll leave a link for it here for anyone to give it a try -
https://strange-matter.itch.io/starbusterI have to say, the pixel art is GORGEOUS!
There's a Twitter/X account about the game, and, so far, the deliverance of sneak peeks are amazing, and neat to watch. Here's its link if anyone wants to go give a talk -
https://x.com/Starbuster_GameThere's a few preview clips, too. I have about one featuring Cassie grinding and fighting against a massive robot as a boss fight to a stage. If you pay attention to the video's bottom-left corner, there's a distance indicator showing how far Cassie's grinding to, well... you know what and where, exactly.
Here -
https://x.com/Starbuster_Game/status/1665010449417658370#mDrop on by to chat. I hope we hear some details in the story soon enough.
And another featuring a clip collection, including those that have new stages made so far. Video link is here -
https://x.com/Starbuster_Game/status/1984666209283887118#mI must say, with each few new stages seen in more clips, makes the anticipation to play the game all the more thrilling! Even their pixel art scenery's getting more gorgeous every time.
Hope the game gets ported to consoles soon, once its launched on PC.
And, I also hope we get some story insights from Strange Matter... really.
Give the demo a try, and see how well you could go along with others.
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