отличный Шутэмап

A good, solid shmup with the additional mechanics of free movement on an extended map and being able to flip the direction of travel. This mechanic enables both standard shmup gauntlets and situations where you're surrounded and have to defend yourself from both sides. Having a minimap showing where enemies are also adds a level of strategy, especially for defense missions.

The graphics are quite good for a shmup, being slightly 3D, and it also has a pretty good music track. The controls are responsive, and controller compatibility means you can play with full analog input, which is great for weaving between enemy bullets.

My only complaint would probably be the existence of escort/protection missions. It's hard enough to defend yourself in shmups that also having to defend an ally in some missions is quite a pain.

Ancient game by now but still worth a buy even if it was released in 2013. It is a solid good shooter game that can be picked up any time and played as-is. It delivers frantic action where your skill and ability to manage crowds is put to test and in my opinion this has not aged a day.

Few know about this game but it is worth checking out on sales.

Syder Arcade starts promisingly with its unique Defender-style gameplay and detailed visuals. Yet, it's marred by countless bugs and frustrating quirks. From stages refusing to end to erratic enemy behavior, it's a mess. Some controllers don't even work properly. Despite occasional glimpses of creativity, it's overshadowed by its flaws. There's potential here, but it's buried under a heap of issues and ends up with a meeh...

OVERVIEW: Syder arcade by Studio Evil is, as alluded by developers, inspired by titles like Amiga Commodore Project X. This was a game I was passionate about because of its graphics, sound effects and innovative gameplay where you needed to calculate ship momentum when deciding how to dodge incoming shots or meteors. On that era probably the most appealing horizontal shoot em up I played


Pros
-» Gameplay: you have an array of ships to choose from, some stronger in armor, others on speed or firepower
-» Soundtrack and sound effects: they have a great techno vibe from Project X which for me is a bonus
-» Graphics: space backgrounds are beautiful, investing on fidelity instead of cartoon style
-» Replayability: Good. For instance you have a highscore system (world and friend list based)
-» Difficulty: friendlier than Project X but still hard on beginners
Cons
-» No 2 player option, I can only wish we will have a Syder Arcade 2 with it

SUMMARY: Not a love letter to Project X but a pretty nice pickup line.
7.5/10 gaming scale


Disclosure: After clearing the main campaign and, as I comeback for new sessions or new updates arise by developers, I intend to keep revising this review

one of the best SHMUP ever

I want to recommend this little game to shump players... BUT it was a very short one, only a few number of Campaign mission, with some extra 3 survival map, however, there's an ok amount of achievements as well as the ship selection...although only a few of them

But... it's totally fine if you get it on a sale, there's Bug for the achievements, like the survival one, game won't ends when you beat it, and your achievements won't pop up

I really like the feeling of having a space fleet with you to clean the map, and you can fight enemy's space ship as well

*But Be Warned... this game had some game breaking bug, at least for the Survivor mode, where you can't finish the game due to some bug, also "Pure" difficulty are ...near impossible to beat

the game itself is fine
the issue is that there is a bug that soft locks you in the last stage.

Very short but fun side scroller schmup. There are only 6 levels and, in total, you can beat the entire game in under 45 minutes. I highly recommend the game on sale.

I was enjoying this, for what it is, a side-scrolling shmup with a bit of a short campaign, where the player's ship doesn't either move fast enough or spam enough upgraded firepower to trivialize the enemies, requiring a bit of forethought in movement. Until I started encountering visual glitches that required starting the level over.

Twice in a row, I had a visual glitch where the camera would not follow my ship, but remained stuck at the beginning of the level, while I could fly my ship around, take damage, and even destroy enemies that blinked out of existence on the radar map. Of course, it wasn't practical to complete the whole level like this. The third time, I was able to start the level normally, and play it normally, without the glitch resurfacing, and there's no indication that I did anything differently to fix the problem.

Then on what looks to be the last level of the campaign, it's been roughly 50/50 whether the terrain displays. Which is a bit of a problem, as flying into this invisible terrain destroys the player's ship. Your mileage may very, it could just be a very specific combination of my card and drivers and graphical settings in the game. But I'm not sufficiently invested, here, to try and isolate the problem. I've got other games to play where things like this haven't happened (so far).

Verdict - Five and a half invisible stars out of ten. Wait for a sale, maybe try it out, and see if you're good with the movement speed and free of graphical glitches. But for me, it falls short of a recommendation.