Recent reviews by Saddistic Commuter

This game is disappointingly, and unsurprisingly simple. It may be an arcade game, but it is shallow and has very repetitive gameplay... with no engaging mechanic to speak of that you can actually control, let alone predict. The power-ups are underwhelming at best, controls are limited to left and right mouse buttons for turning and that's all you get, but they are klunky as hell which the obstacles/asteroids are going to hit your puny and weak ship repeatedly and inevitably. Don't even consider going back where you came from because the way this thing is coded, there's going to be rocks all over the place you just were and if you get yourself blown up with one ship, you're likely going to get yourself killed within the next 5 seconds. No respawn invicibility here.

It's an excercise in frustration if you're buying this game because of the nudity and sexual content(which are MIA) tags... you're not gonna find those in EVIL STAR.

This garbage is clearly intended to cash in on the new steam policies with as little effort put into it as possible. I'm getting this refunded right away.

This is a painful review to make because on the one hand, the game's story is really interesting and somewhat engaging like a typical Visual Novel would but without having to resort to overused tropes and makes it clear that it has it's own identity from the get go.

But on the other hand, there's no following story because the dev team ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up hard and tried to be a fully functional studio like Telltale Games is by comparison and produce several titles following after this. The sad truth is, there was no form of planning or meetings being held consistently. The studio filed bankruptcy some time after this title was released. The management was abyssmal, to say the least...


Onto the game, it has a very good soundtrack, one I still enjoy hearing to this day, the art style is nice to look at even if bleak at times for dramatic effect (well used and impactful I might add) and the dialogue is quite mature, despite being very one sided for a pretty good chunk of it, it doesn't feel draggingly long like in other games and is actually well written enough if you are into untraditional VNs. The included encyclopedia like feature is however not useful for most of the story aside from it's introduction. It is wasted effort and could have been made much more relevant if they bothered with it a little more than to just add an entry every now and then for plot purposes, which is to it's detriment. The amount of work put into the encyclopedic portion of the game is respectable but ultimately laughable if you take out the important bits that relates to the plot which, again, were used to introduce the player to its function/presence.

"Should you play this game in my opinion?" is the last question left to be answered; as of right now, no.
The end is a cliff hanger into the next volume that will never come. If, by some miracle, this gets a reboot/revival by the original creator and owner of the copyright and is actively working on developing the sequel, then I will revise my judgement of this first game and give it a recommendation, but unless things start moving again for the development of just chapter 2, stay away from this and save some money for an actually finished game.