Review killerstar 3/5 · Feb 28, 2021
My girlfriend and I had some frustration at the difficult bosses, but it was fun for the most part. A lot of learning the ropes, memorising attack patterns, coming up with strategies. However, all that good will quickly evaporated at what feels like the final boss, which is incredibly cheap and unfair.
A big problem in this game is that …
My girlfriend and I had some frustration at the difficult bosses, but it was fun for the most part. A lot of learning the ropes, memorising attack patterns, coming up with strategies. However, all that good will quickly evaporated at what feels like the final boss, which is incredibly cheap and unfair.
A big problem in this game is that enemies are randomly placed and due to how you attack, sometimes there can be some impossible situations. Essentially, enemies in places that are next to impossible to kill. The devs know this and baked in some tricks to ameliorate this issue. Enemy movements and attack cycles are cleverly designed to make these situations very unlikely. And if it happens, some enemies just go away after some time, so if you can survive the bullet hell, eventually you win.
But that all goes away in this boss, which has an ability that makes the stage smaller... much smaller. If there are more than a couple of enemies at the time, then they cannot move as much. That, combined with occasional glitches that can put still-shotting enemies outside the traversable screen and the teleport ability of the boss themselves, leads to too many cases of unfair insta-kills.
And to make things worse, this particular boss has a lengthy unskippable dialogue scene between phases (how on earth a game in 2021 still has this is beyond me)
It's absolutely no fun being forced to endure the same dialogue over and over again just to be killed by some cheap trick.
After many frustrating tries, I'm not sure if we are going to pick this up further; especially after seeing the glow in my girlfriend's eyes after trying a couple of levels of Overcooked 2.