STAR-BOX: RPG Adventures in Space

Ok so this game is quirky, it is fun, and it is definitely different. It is an A-RPG at it's core, with a story, albeit short at the moment. I do recommend you give this game a shot, if you had fun with other ARPG's, even Binding of Isaac fans could really get into this, altough it has more in terms of items, and managing things. I guess I will do the standard Pros and Cons for people here. . . Pros: 1: Game has fun old-school style graphics (I enjoy at least, not everyone's cup of tea I understand though) 2: You control a starship and crew, with mechs to help you in battle if you choose 3: Action-RPG that rewards skill, as opposed to just rewarding grinding as many turned based RPG's do (This is not turned based obviously being an ARPG 4: Many upgrades for yourself, and upgrades for your mechs 5: You can board enemy ships, to take them as your own, or buy a better ship if you want instead 6: You can choose to play as a fighter or a commander, either going in and leveling while...

So this game could be a lost gem in the retro gaming world but due to shitty programming it's not. The game is actually really fun, you travel around space, beat some aliens and other opponents, completing various missions, buy new spaceships ect. ect. it could be a very fun game if there was no darkside. The darkside of the game is that the programming is really bad and here is why: - The mouse programming ( which is absolutly not needed in this game) keeps the game crashing over and over again. Till you Figured out that keeping the mous on the middle of the screen solves the problem. - THe resolution options of the game dont work properly. If you change the resolution the screen gets of center so you cant see things like health or shield - Sometimes for no reason you cant board spacestations or planets. The game keeps you on your ship and you can try it over and over again with no chance to broad anything - Sometimes the game gets stuck in a loop of spaceshipfights. That actually ha...

I don't like giving out bad reviews but after playing this for a couple of minutes I felt I should give my honest opinion. A basic RPG maker game gone wrong. Most RPG maker games are not good and this is no exception. It crashes frequently, the UI is beyond horrible. The music and sound are atrocious, thankfully there is an option to turn off the music. Sometimes it even works. However the annoying beeps that happen whenever you move over a selection in the menu apparently can't be turned off and since, for some unknown reason the game is always on top getting to the volume mixer to turn off the sound was a hassle. All that being said, the concept of the game is a solid one and if it was re-released in a proper programming language with a good UI and better sounds/music (Or at least the option to turn them off). I would be happy to purchase it again and play it through.

Has potential, but the developer needs more experience. that or RPG maker is having issues i did not know about. while i admire the developers attempt, they should probably attempt to polish and streamline the game. Many things are unacounted for, and the games interfaces are extremely clunky. Good Start, but it really needs to be better. I would suggest holding off for a bit longer until the dev gets around to improving his games performance/ interface and quality in general.

Is this a good game? Don't know. Crashes during the tutorial.

In the tutorial you are posed with the opportunity to capture a ship. The opposing mechs and captain are significantly stronger than you and you will die quickly. What a tutorial. I will probably play this game more but damn dude have a heart, you almost broke my interest in continuing to play.

I hate giving bad reviews, especially since the concept itself is interesting for this game, and there seems to be a lot of content that I just haven't gotten to yet. However, in my very brief time playing, the game has already crashed twice. The look of the game is tacky and appears incomplete, and the game plays very slowly. Even on a high performance machine, I experienced frame drops and the aforementioned crashes; even when the game isn't lagging, it still feels like I'm struggling to execute the controls I want because of the awkward mechanics. I quickly lose desire to play because of how awkward it is to even try. There are some good ideas I see, but those same ideas are better explored in other games I think. Not recommended, unless the developers patch it up and smooth out the rough edges pretty soon.

After several CTD string errors, how my screen isn't centered when playing around with resolution and how the controls with the mouse give up randomly, I'd say this game isn't ready to be played without frustration. Concept is interesting but overall lack of integrity to gameplay breaks any hope you may have for it right now. There is plenty else to be said but these are the really serious ones that this game needs fixing.

Buggy and unfinished. Never been updated

Having recently given up on Fortune's Tavern as a hopeless game i tried this one. I wondered long if this one works better and if i should buy it... though i see they both share the same kind of combat engine. Surely this one will work better right? No. It's terrible. And i have come to the conclusion that this game engine just isn't cut for fun action oriented gameplay. Sure you can get this to work somewhat but the fun part is just missing. Combat on ships is something that i can imagine some people love despite(or because) the sluggish way the characters move giving you a stuttering Archon -like linearity to combat. Fortune's Tavern dejavuu is very strong here. The biggest sin i think this game engine brings to the table is that it overshadows the story. You are spendng so much time on being annoyed by it that you just dont even care about the story. Yes i understand, some people like it. But i just can't as there really are WORKING action games such as Secret of Magia that does...