Death Skid Marksの製作者の一人が作ったゲーム

惑星Xに住むドクターレオポルドは、ある日、爆弾のセリーンから「太陽系でライブを行いたい」という声が頭の中に聞こえたので、望みを叶えるためにクローンを作り、ロケットを飛ばすことで彼女のライブツアーを開始することにした！

プレイヤーはクローンとなり、ツアー用の船を選び、セリーンのツアーを邪魔するわからず屋どもを退けながら最終目標である地球まで行かなくてはならない。（ただし途中の惑星でセリーンを爆破しても構わない）

操作はWASDで移動（設定で変更可能）、左クリックで射撃、右クリックでシールドが使える。船にはそれぞれ4つの砲台が付いており、対応するクルーがいると、攻撃が出来るようになる、また、砲台はある程度までしか向くことができないのでDSMの様に同時に全員が同方向に攻撃出来るわけではないので注意が必要。

似たようなクルーを4人そろえる事でスキルボーナスが付いたり、ドクターレオポルドの実験体を倒すことでスペシャルショップに行くことが出来たりする。

オススメ

(2020/1/17追記)

自分が画面内しか動けないのに対して敵は画面外から襲ってくる、押し出しても一切ダメージが無いなど理不尽な点が目立つ。

例えば、船体の左下部分が損傷が激しいから画面左下に潜んでいよう...と思っていると画面外からレーザーブレードが！→ゲームオーバーなんてこともある。

また、アップデートによりただでさえ難しいマップに特殊な敵が追加されさらに難しくなった。

難しいのが悪いとは言わないがDeath Skid Marksのような柔軟性を求めてると微妙なもどかしさを感じる。

ただこのデザインは唯一無二だとは思う

（2023/7/19追記）
21日に発売停止するから買うなら今のうち

※後半に攻略情報の記載アリマス

Dr.Leopoldの為に、核爆弾歌姫Celineの太陽系ツアーを行え！
宇宙船やクルーを強化しつつ、太陽系の果てから地球を目指せ！
ツアーの道中は、警察含め様々なヤツラが邪魔をする！敵を蹴散らし進め！
そんなストーリーのゲームです。
深いストーリーは無い為、ノリで買っても大丈夫！



ローグライクなシューティング。
シューティングパートで敵を撃破しながら資金と弾薬を収集、
その後の管理パートで武装、船員、宇宙船を管理、
管理パート後には次ルートを4つの中から選択可能で
ルート次第でお店に入れたり、シューティングパートの環境が変化します。
星間中間地点で中ボス戦、惑星でボス戦という流れの繰り返し。

ボス戦後の惑星でCelineを爆破し、
ゲームを途中で終える事で新しい船がアンロックされます。

そのまま進めてツアーを進めるか、
強力な船を手に入れ、新しい船でツアーを仕切り直すか、
惑星毎に選択を迫られます。



・爽快な破壊感
ドカドカノリの良い音楽と分りやすい爆発、ゴア演出。
思い通りの展開で、一方的に敵軍を蹂躙出来た時の爽快感はたまらないです。

・自身の成長を感じられるゲーム性
強い選択、強い動き、敵の安全な対処法、資金の稼ぎ方…
最初は理不尽な運ゲーと感じられますが、
知識を学べば学ぶほど程、先に進める様になります。
運要素を限りなく減らし、思い通りに進めていく感覚が楽しい。

・賑やかなアートワーク
好き嫌いは分かれますが、バタ臭いアートワークは賑やかで素敵。
パロディも沢山あるみたいですが、
自分はDeath Skid Markとパックマンぐらいしか分からなかった…。



・1ゲームに掛かる時間が長過ぎる
普通に遊んでもクリアまでに1ゲーム何時間も掛かります。
途中でやられた時の脱力具合は、あまりにも大きい…。

・物語の変化の無さ
独特なクルーを色々使えるのに、外見以外の特徴はほぼ無し。
単純に性能値のみの存在。
獣人だから近接攻撃が強いだとか、
ロボットだから射撃攻撃が強いなども無く。
FTLのようにルート選択毎のランダムイベントも無いし、
プレイ毎の物語の変化がほぼ無いのが残念でした。

・理不尽と思える敵の攻撃がある。
攻撃しながら画面外から敵が登場し、
どうしても被弾してしまうような場面は、
理不尽さが感じられ煩わしいものでした。

・中ボス戦をスルーしてしまう事がある。
中ボス戦手前のルート選択肢に、
中ボスマスを飛び越えるものしか出ない事があります。
こうなると中ボス戦後の貴重な特別強化機会が無くなり、
難易度がぐっと上がる事に。
運要素を排除するパターンが大切なゲームとはいえ…
手前の選択肢はあってもいいのでは？



プレイ感覚の変化が面白かったゲームでした。
プレイ経験が浅いうちは理不尽過ぎる！運ゲー！無理ゲー！と感じましたが、
知識を得れば得る程、徐々に先に進める様になるのが楽しかったです。
惑星に到達する毎にCelineを爆破、
仕切り直しする事は煩わしいように感じますが、
それが経験を得る事と、小休止を得る事に丁度良い具合で
むしろそれが中々良いバランスに感じました。
最後に地球を攻略出来た時の達成感は筆舌に尽くしがたい。
初見で一発クリアは相当な難易度とは思いますが、
ゲームが上手くない自分でも、知識と工夫でクリア出来た楽しいゲームでした。

欲を言うならクルー毎の背景解説文や、
各クルーを選ぶ事で発生する特別イベントなどがあれば…
リプレイ性も上がるのに…
この点はクルー採用時の一文や一枚絵の変化があった、
death skid marksの時よりさらに酷くなっています。
この点を何故おろそかにしてしまうのか…。

なにはともあれ、忍耐力が少しあるローグライク好きな人にはオススメです。
気軽に一発クリア出来るようなゲームが好き！って人には厳しいかも…
持続的に攻撃を当てる場面が多い為、マウスとキーボードでのプレイ推奨です。



攻略情報が少なく諦める人が多そうなので
参考になりそうな事を簡易TIPとしてガイドに記載しました。
少しでもクリアまで到達出来る人が増えれば幸いです。
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1768952191

特定の中ボスだけ極端に強すぎる(脳みそだけになって回復してくる敵)
小さい敵に攻撃が当てにくい、そこそこ固い上に倒しても見返りが少ない
敵だけ画面外に移動できる
敵だけエネルギーも弾数も方向も関係なく攻撃できる
視界が悪いステージでも敵は普通に行動する

難易度が高いと言うより理不尽に感じる点が多く不快でした

横スクロールのオンボロ宇宙船STG
メタルマッスルみたいな味のあるドット絵で見てて飽きず、宇宙船も強化していくと愛着がわく

宇宙船には前後上下に最大４つの銃座があり搭乗員がいれば機能するが、いずれも射界は狭く、撃てそうて撃てないことが多い。だが敵も同じで、序盤のザコ敵は一方向にしか攻撃できないのが多いので死角を取れば一方的に攻撃できる。敵と衝突してもダメージは受けない（敵がチェーンとかつけてなければ）

避けれない弾はシールドでガードできるが、エネルギーを消費する。武器もエネルギー消費型と弾薬消費型があり、高燃費なEN兵器ばかりだと息切れするし、実弾系オンリーだと弾切れしたら何もできないので注意。

戦闘が終わる度に１度だけクルーのスキルを使える（エンジニアの修理はお金の節約になる）
その後選ぶ行き先によってリクルートで新しい仲間を雇ったり、ウェポンショップで武器を買ったりできる。

基本オススメだけど、難易度は高め……
しかもセーブ中断があるだけで、撃破されるとやり直しなので結構しんどい
自分はリタイア

Target Audience: Very patient roguelite players

Summary:
This is a tough one, and if the option was available, I would be putting a thumbs to the side right now. There's some interesting elements with the 4 regions of your ship and having to play to your currents ship's problems and how to put your ship in the best chance to succeed. When the game starts to rev up its engines and you're barely surviving by the skin of your teeth, you can get some really fun moments and it makes the game seem worth it. The problem is simple: it takes way too long to get there, and it can feel really cheap when something goes wrong in this game in particular thanks to the screen and battlefield construction. But it's the slow progression with a lack of variety in the early hours that makes the game a hard drag in the early going, and what will scare people off the game despite some good elements.

Here's the thing, it's the inconsistency of some of the mechanics working together here that ends up giving the game an uneasy feeling from the get go, as having these moments where you could be playing perfectly, but an enemy come off screen and annihilate you ends up making you wonder what you could have done to stop it. How the game forces you to stop a run with blowing up your ship even if it's going well, just so that you've got another ship to make things SLIGHTLY more interesting in the early game. Certain players are going to enjoy the game if they have a high tolerance for frustration, but after run 8 in a row where I don't have any bullets cause the game hasn't given me weapon choices for the past 4 spots, and it just so happens to be the locations where the boss can actually get damaged, I'm just unable to continue on.

It's a game that I'd keep an eye on at least, because fixes and balance changes to the early game with more content will help the more unique aspects shine through and really make it worth your time and money, but I just can't at the moment. There's just too many flaws that drag the core strengths down.


Video Review: https://youtu.be/TAfjqtgOQ8c

Lists:
Positives:

• The 4 regions of the ship and the unique firing cones is great, and can lead to some interesting gameplay and some good challenge.
  
• You can feel great bullying enemies into the right location with your ship.
  
• Enemies do have some force behind them and can be fun to deal with.
  
• Shield mechanic being directional adds some good complexity to gameplay.
  
• Good balance between bullet/energy weapons and their strengths and weaknesses.
  
• Love the bomb clothing system and really gives the game some uniqueness that it was desperately craving.
  
• Good characters recognizable from popular media and the art style brings out the personality traits well.
  
• Music is reasonable and complements the action nicely.

Negatives:

• The early game is a slog and doesn't ever get better thanks to the way the levels are designed. Even skilled players can't make it go faster, and considering how often you'll do it, it's a bit troubling.
  
• Early game variety needed a big boost beyond the ships. Unlockables for new enemy/weapon types of level 1 type enemies would have gone a long way.
  
• Yes, roguelites have elements where a bad series of luck can get you killed. It felt way too out of my hands in this game at times, almost like the game was purposefully screwing me over luck wise. It's too high in this case.
  
• Mechanics have anti-synergy at times that can really work against the overall gameplay. Things like the Medic going against the whole concept of DNA points....speaking of which.....
  
• Game doesn't teach you some truly vital information (like how to get DNA points) unless by sheer dumb luck at times. Wanted to flip a table when I found out how to get them.
  
• But even beyond that, the amount of times that a specific character was killed over the actual ship is pretty rare. There's a balance issue here in my opinion.
  
• Game does not like OBS hooked directly to it. Crashes when alt-tabs.
  
• Sound design is hit and miss design wise, differences for bullets hit the enemy and bullets flying in from off screen in terms of being able to hear.

I have to start this (overall) positive review with salt, because I think this game is a minor redesign away from something great. It's good, but nothing good in the game comes without being sullied by the bad.

The great:
*The gameplay builds up to an intense form of bliss. It's most everything good about FTL mixed with Galaga and Bomber Crew, in a creature-feature late night sci-fi dressing.
*The music is energetic and really well done.
*The story is hilarious, and the art matches it.
*There's a great variety of ships, guns, and such with generous damage state graphics. They're mostly the domain of the baddies, but see below.

The Bad:
It's got three features that should never go together: it's brutally hard, it's got permadeath, and its beginning is super dull. Compare it to early Rogue-likes like Nethack, and you see the flaw - every start in that game is either different or quickly becomes that way, whereas that's not true here. So you put 30 minutes of drudgery in to get between 5 and 30 minutes of fun. One mistake can end a run of otherwise perfect play, as can some between-mission RNG, and that means you get nothing new to play with. 3.4% of buyers ever win the game, and far more might have finished, except that your run will almost always voluntarily end at one of the planets along the path to unlock a ship (one of the few unlocks). You have to start with the same boring weapons. You get new ships that don't really feel that different for the most part. And you explore all this without much help, either online or through information in game.

In sum, most of the great features are locked behind the bad ones, but it's easily worth $5 considering the fun you'll have figuring out whether I'm right. A DLC alleviating these would be an instant buy from me.

Both Death Skid Marks and Fission Superstar X used to have price tags. DSK is now free and FSX isn't sold on Steam anymore. I wouldn't go searching for a key. This was a poorly balanced and estranged follow up to an already random-difficulty mess of a game.

If you happen to get a key from a random bundle, it's a slog to finish; you're at the whim of random numbers no matter how good your strategy. Just turn the computer off, roll some dice and smack yourself in the face every time you don't roll a 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OgaEsD9Z8g
Fission Superstar X is a space rogue-lite with some rpg elements.

You will have to carefully manage your spaceship and it's crew members during this improbable and insane space mission from Planet X to Earth.

Of course the management part is not as deep as in a game like Faster Than Light but it will still recquire some strategy if you want to advance correctly.
Every run is different, with randomly generated levels.

While your in your spaceship you must keep an eye on your crew members health so they don't die during the missions as well as your spaceship armor, ammunitions and energy.

Between every missions you can recruit new crew members or upgrade skills of your current members.
As expected you can also upgrade your spaceship so it can become a ridiculous powerfull slaughterhouse.
All these upgrades are possible by spending the cash earned from defeated ennemies or bosses.

The game graphics are pretty good, offering nice looking 2d sprites.
Artstyle is really fun, quite unique with some pretty insane looking ennemies and bosses.
To accompany your runs the game deliver some sweet music for your ears.
The OST produced by Mathieu Gamache fits the universe and gameplay really well.

There's one problem with the game, it is quite hard tbh and can become frustrating during the first few hours.

It's perma-death, meaning that you'll lose everything each time you will die.
However you can gain DNA points to put yourself at an advantage for your next run, if you progress far enough you can also unlock new ships that you will keep forever.

Being a rogue lite with randomly generated levels, the game offers great replay value.
It's really fun to play, easy to learn but hard to master the gameplay mechanics.
To become successful you will have to learn ennemy and bosses patterns, find their weakpoints but mostly destroy everything that stand in your way !


Overall Fission Superstar X is a pretty good game, a bit too hard imo but still absolutely recommanded.
Oh and there's space cows in the game (Earthworm Jim fans will apreciate lol).

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This is so close to being a good game.. but it falls short.

Each run takes way too long to get to even the first boss. You start off severely handicapped and have to rely on luck to get anywhere close to a fun experience. Most weapons run on energy with regenerates, but then some weapons run on "ammo" which is not plentiful so if you want to upgrade you risk just.. running out of ammo in the middle of a fight. So much fun.

You can have a great run for 30 minutes then an enemy comes out of nowhere and destroys you which feels like the devs just wasted your time. And most importantly, for some reason 2 out of 3 visits to the somewhat rare weapons shop has only weapons that are worse than the default gun.. what??

Simmilar to Death Skid Marks. Somewhere better somewhere not but this game is good. I'd like to spend some time in it.
Good soundtrack. No rokin guitars this time but I think it does not matter much in this setting.
To sum up: if you played Death skid Marks and you liked it there is much for you in this game.
If not then check death skid marks out or walk away.
Good luck!