Starlaxis Supernova Edition

Starlaxis Supernova Edition: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Starlaxis is a combination of Tetris and a game of chess set in space (I think is the best analogy that I can come up with). I enjoy the layout of the game, 2/3 of the screen is setup like Tetris and 1/3 of a horizontal map which shows you where your vessel is as well as your enemies and other obstacles like asteroids. This game will get your brain going, let me tell you! Letters, numbers and arrow cubes will drop (you will be able to rotate numbers from 1 to 4 for example) and you will have to get combinations to move your craft up/down or right/left, get armour and shoot your enemies as fast as you can. Also, your enemies will constantly be moving so you have to be attentive in that regards. What I really like about this game is the fact that you really have to plan your moves (in advance, like a chess game) to be able to beat your foes as fast as possible. If you actually managed to get an “A” ranking at the end of each...

I wanted to like this game. I wanted to wait and reserve judgement until I played a bit more of it, but I find that I really don't want to play anymore for one reason alone. Too much loading time. I'll run though a mildly accurate account of loading time. These are the game events that occur and an estimated execution time. Game Launch to main menu = 30 seconds. Load game to play mode = 30 seconds. Play game length = 240 seconds (four minutes, but this widely varies). Game death and automatic restart loading time = 30 seconds. Game victory loading time = 30 seconds. Special pause time (Game pauses when you use your special move.) = 10 seconds. Boss appearance pause time = 10 seconds. So lets say you just want to play one quick four minute game. In your quest for your four minute game you will have to wait for loading screens and pause events for an approximate total of 2 minutes. Which means that one third of your total time in this game you will spend looking at loading screens...

RNG in boss fights? No thanks. Restart upon restart even if you do perfect runs and beat the opposition but still fail due to reason X. This one is for people who like their games soft and squishy until difficulty suddenly spikes unfairly and it is expected to grind until you succeed. Looks good but execution is poor. Only worth it for genre enthusiasts or on heavy discount.

I know that I'm going to play this a lot. Only quirk are the loading screens... wtf is going on? I'm on ssd and the loading is anoying... FPS is great though, which is needed for those fast puzzle games! Feb 15 update... Load times are vastly better, so much so all complaints noted in other reviews should be rendered obsolete.

I think it's a good game, the art and music is very entertaining and the gameplay is well done. You have to think about your moves and plan your piece drops so you can have commands ready when you want them. It's a nice blend of strategy and puzzle.

it's not a bad game. A mix of fast strategy and decisions, puzzle and luck. Visuals can become annoying when scoring a keycombo or killing (it feels childish, but thats just my opinion). A nice story so far, but as usual, your enemy has always an advantage.....always. Game hangs sometimes for a little moment (especially level loading or the extra visual comment by certain actions). After a while, i get tired of it, because of the continuous disadvantages and my ships who don't do that much as the enemy. But it is fun while it lasted. Btw, played with sound off, and my own music on :-)

Starlaxis Supernova Edition is an older game from 2015. It's a venerable 10 years old at the time of this review. At first glance this looks like a Tetris ripoff mobile app, and it certainly has mobile app qualities, but the puzzle is a little deeper. In fact this is a game where you play through two puzzles at the same time. The Tetris game blocks that you complete turn into "moves" and actions you can take with your fighter along the bottom of the screen as you must move and attack with it, based on the blocks you free in the first puzzle. Novel idea! Is it great? Nope... we're on PC, and while this may have done amazingly well on the iPhones it seems to have been designed for... this is no Counter-Strike. There is, however, a ridiculous amount of window dressing for what's ultimately a mobile app kind of game. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of...

The idea of combining Tetris with the strategy genre is creative, however, the execution is very unimaginative. The visual and acoustic parts of the game is plain, the game play is very tendious, and the story is forgettable (although I have not finished it yet). Moreover, it crashes.

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