Comments on: Making ‘em Like They Used To: Star Guard

By: Jayt

Jayt — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:07:37 +0000

the term PC has been associated with windows for yonks

By: nullwert

nullwert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:37:47 +0000

@George: Damn, who am I going to hit with my damn keyboard now..?!? (Thanks for spelling out the readme though… ;)

By: George Rohac

George Rohac — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:27 +0000

@nullwet Press K on the title screen to reconfigure the controls. The developer even recommends that you use a gamepad. Classy.

By: nullwert

nullwert — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:13:49 +0000

Next developer using “Z” as non-configurable key for an essential action gets clubbed to death with my German QWERTZ layout keyboard!!!

By: Hodge

Hodge — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:02:10 +0000

I thought it was brilliant for the first seven levels then the ridiculous difficulty spike on level eight soured it for me. Eventually gave up at the wizard fight (and glad I did, because from reading other comments I see I was less than halfway through it … and the first half was so horrible there’s no way I’m sitting through the rest of it).

A shame, so many great ideas are introduced early on, only to be abandoned in favour of random insta-death nonsense at the end.

Still, on the whole it’s mightily impressive. I eagerly await their (his? her?) next offering.

By: Rane2k

Rane2k — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:38:44 +0000

Nice little game, reminded me a lot of Megaman 1-3

At some point in level 4 or 5 i realised that you could just hold the fire button. Didn´t let go of it for the rest of the game, except when those exploding spiders came. :-)

37 death in the last level, most of them to the first boss phase.

By: Dracko

Dracko — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:11:17 +0000

Only if you’re playing wuss mode for wusses!

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:56:20 +0000

Also: you don’t really seem to need a savegame; press 1-9 from the title to levelskip.

I like how this is properly pixellated—e.g. projectiles on diagonals staircase their way towards you. It’s annoyingly rare in modern “lo-fi” games.

Can’t make a dent in this damn boss, though.

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:31:48 +0000

Dang. Didn’t even see the crystal (path) on level 7, and I’d got it on all previous ones.

I like the way the cheap death makes this a sort-of platform wargame—a stream of brave young men dying to clear the way for their brethren.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:18:13 +0000

The “PC” version should be called “Windows” – Macs are PCs
The “Mac” version should be called “Other”. It’s just a HTML file with flash! That’s multi-platform!

By: Bret

Bret — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:04:22 +0000

To be fair, the last phase is beatable by spamming respawns.

By: Grandstone

Grandstone — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:54:17 +0000

You can actually shoot and destroy the missiles he shoots at you. Also, there are two more phases of the boss after that.