Recent reviews by Collapsar

Extremely promising! The ground combat feels just as good as its contemporary shooters. Upgrading, repairing, and extinguishing the ship is very satisfying. Movement feels absolutely fantastic, and the art is incredible. It's very easy to get immersed in it!

Honestly, the main criticism I have is the best one a game can receive: I wish there was more of it! It seems like they have a very solid foundation and i'm excited to see how it's expanded upon in the final release to avoid "wide as an ocean deep as a puddle" syndrome.

Some of the main things i'm hoping to see are...

More ship combat variety: A wider variety of enemy ships and weapons that require different kinds of maneuvering or tactics to avoid would be fantastic. Also, a few specific enemy attacks seem impractical to dodge such as sniper shots or fighter strafing. But then again, maybe our thrusters just weren't strong enough?

More ground enemy variety: it seems like we encountered most of them in just a few hours of playing the demo, and the ones with creative attacks like radiation flares sadly had little impact on the combat and could usually be ignored. Many had very unique models and modes of movement, but ultimately still just shot the same little projectiles at the player. More mixups to the combat formula would be great, and other enemy factions would be even better, though of course that might not be practical.

More mission type variety: Ferrying heavy objects around and shooting hardpoints both get the job done, but I am quite excited to see more unique or complex objectives. Perhaps even some kind of curated 'campaign' missions or unique raid-like challenges? It really feels like there's a ton they could do with the mission system!

Very good! Wall jumping is a tiny bit frustrating at first, but once it clicks it really feels incredible and opens up the whole game. A wonderful soundtrack too, and an environment that's very interesting to explore. Definitely worth a go if you like metroidvanias or 3D platformers, it's a great introduction to both!

One of those games that'll be bouncing around your head for the rest of your life. Incredibly relevant in the current moment, and seriously pushes the boundary of the medium. Probably my GOTY for 2024, do yourself a favor and let yourself be hooked by it.

One of the best games ever made, period.

Still way too buggy and unstable. Devs are just shoveling in new feature bloat that nobody asked for instead of fixing 5+ year old bugs like your items randomly disappearing (especially in machines like refiners) or not being able to remap the 'delete' key.

It slaps