Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony

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Originally Posted by Mzo

What is with all this "first steam purchase" shit. Niggas hate PC games up in here.

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Hah, perhaps, but I'm sure that for some their PC's weren't meant to really play anything past emulation. At least, that's all my notebook from '06 is still kicking it for.

That said, I really really love this game. But I can't play it on the laptop at home, because when I bought this for school, it came with a lame integrated graphics card, which doesn't even support shaders 2.0, which is what this game requires. But at least I have a nice 16:10 monitor at work. The game is gorgeous and really fun.

No one's really mentioned how rich the music is either, I love it. There's some things in the game I feel are winks to olden shooters. The game's art style and font when picking up coins and gears reminds me a bit of Progear no Arashi (at least, the grittiness of it) and the Laser for the first ship looks like they borrowed some artistic pointers from Dodonpachi's laser. All awesome.

Q: How the hell do you even use the bomber ship? Charge ship is ballin', mind you.

Bomber ship is Dan-tier. If it isn't meant to be a joke ship, it needs some serious buffing. The idea is to detonate all of your onscreen bullets but it just doesn't work because the bullets don't pass through enemies, which means that you'll hit a larger enemy with one or two exploding bullets, at most.

It would make a lot more sense if the bullets were waaaaaay slower or stuck to things or something. Even holding down the explode button only barely does any damage to the bigger dudes. Don't get it.

Oh, hey! 50% off on Steam today, chaps!

Get steampunkin'!

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Originally Posted by Compass

$0.99 Xmas sale or bust.

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$5. Buy it or admit you place no value on quality. Not only is it worth every penny, this is an indie developer who deserves your money by making a shooter every bit as good as anything Cave has done in the last couple years. It's kind of nice to mow down loads of enemies without needing a PhD ins Shooterology.

James

I'm having a lot of fun with this game. I like the mini-challenges, especially the ones that also teach out how to maximize your score in certain levels.

This game rules.

XBLA please.