Legends of the Universe - Cosmic Bounty

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Legends of the Universe - Cosmic Bounty is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. It's an extremely badly made ripoff of Metroid (copyright Nintendo, 1986). To date, it's unclear whether Nintendo have taken any legal action against the "developer" to preserve their intellectual property rights. It's a very buggy (to the point of being unplayable) 2D retro pixel side scrolling "Metroidvania" platformer slapped together with GameMaker Studio, so the developer chose pretty much every way one could fail at game development and ran into them headfirst (again). It gets worse. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall...

I enjoyed this game much better than the first. Graphics are a little more detailed and objectives and upgrades are shown on the map, (tip- if the objective isn't showing up on the map pause the game and you can view all maps that way). You can rebind controls to your liking. There's slightly less backtracking this time around too. There's even a short little shmup level as well. It's great to see the dev improving upon the first game. Having said that, there's still a few things that need to be addressed... There's still a lot of rooms that are quite large and empty, so condensing and/or shortening them would make for a better experience. Music is still terrible and far too loud but thankfully you can lower or turn it off. It would be cool if running would be auto enabled and if you want to walk you could hold down a button instead of the other way around. The sound effect of running sounds really harsh, like he's running on a constant bed of water. Controller bindings don't save whe...

Short entertaining Metroidvania. It starts slow for the first 15 - 20 minutes or so, but it gets good after that. Fun platforming, classic Metroidvania exploration, decent story, good upgrades. My first run-through was under 4 hours, and I'm not an amazing gamer - so you may be able to run through it much faster. I have several thoughts in the "Cons" category, but they are mostly minor. The good far outweighs the bad here. The map is too helpful but also confusing (see below), there are not that many enemies. Enemies introduced in the first section never reappear, which is odd. Some power-ups are only used immediately after getting them and then almost never again. And other power ups are used so much you wonder why they aren't default. Some of the barriers that are unlocked by power-ups are way too similar looking so you think you can open it with what you have, but you can't, and the animation doesn't really help to show why. (IE - if a beam can't open the door, it shouldn...

not bad for it being $00.50 lol its like a open world 2d side scroller. kinda like a cheap metroid. if you have 50 cents left in your steam wallet after purchasing those holiday sales, why not just blow it on this game. ide recommend it to players who are tired of the same old gameplays and need a break for awhile.

I really enjoyed this game. For the price, it's quite a good deal. It feels a lot like Super Metroid, with hints about where to go next, as in Metroid Fusion. It has a lot of back-tracking, which could put some people off; it helps to take notes to remember just which power-ups you will need to access certain areas to reduce backtracking until you have the right ones. There are a few minor bugs, but they are all easy to get around: The keyboard remapping screen is confusing until you realize it swaps Shoot with Run, and Bombs with Rockets. The Pause menu uses the standard jump, shoot, run, and map buttons, not digits as shown. When the game starts up, it remembers (but ignores) your saved Video and Audio settings, so you have to re-visit those option menus each time you start the game. One in-game bug is if you have a key and pause or reload, the key is gone. No worries; you can just go back and acquire the key again. Another is that sometimes while walking through a door, the arrow k...

I was originally going to write a negative review, because I really enjoyed the last game in this series, and was hoping this one would follow suit. It sort of did, but I ran into a game-breaking bug, where I had to perma-quit. I asked the dev for help and they were basically like, "I pretty much can't fix this because the software I used to make it doesn't work on my new computer" - oh. Great. But then, several months went by and suddenly, there's an update. They fixed it. I tried it and it works now. Rejoice! On to the game itself. It's simple, graphically, musically, and in game play, but it's inexpensive, kind of catchy, and fun to play. Feels like playing an old MS-DOS or C64 game. It makes very efficient use of the elements employed. There's a fair amount of world-building and story behind it, or at least it feels like there is. I would call it Good Value.

Legends of the Universe - Cosmic Bounty is a side-scrolling, shooting adventure through a space station with some of the most basic environments using the ugliest color palette I've ever seen. That is the major, glaring flaw about the game. There are a lot of poor design choices, but there is still simple fun and enjoyment here. Before buying, ask yourself if you can take a light MetroidVania with basic enemies, basic bosses, basic secrets, long empty corridors and lots of backtracking that you can finish and 100% in under 4 hours? It's a poor recommendation, but you can do a lot worse for the low price. If it was a bad game, I would have given up at twenty minutes in. Compared to its contemporaries of the genre, it's easier, more forgiving with less hazards, enemies and annoyances. You play as a blue clad, helmeted character with a white face plate and yellow cape in charge of other blue soldiers. Well that is until you crash land and you're forced chase after a bounty alone and on f...

Nice metroidvania in 8 bit style, a jump back in the nes era

Playable. The music was pretty silly. I needed something more in the production department to be able to get immersed.