Ok let’s get that second part of the review name out of the way first. I point out the sound design not because it’s necessarily bad, but it appears to be at least partially stolen. Well I can’t pinpoint the source of everything exactly, but the Mario 1 coin effect and the Smash 64 Mario/Luigi victory theme are stolen. I’m willing to give the game the benefit of the doubt that the rest wasn’t stolen, as it doesn’t harm the game in any way (aside from the stolen smash song just not fitting with the game). The only other things to note about the sound is that sometimes a song will continue longer than it should, and songs have a period of silence in between the end and second start instead of looping seamlesslyNow let’s get to everything else. The graphics themselves may not be anything to write home about, but the enemy designs and ship designs are well done. The gameplay is pretty generic for the most part, basically being a blend of games like Galaga and games like Touhou. However, generic as it may be, it is still fun. It does try to be creative at points though, so far I’ve seen this in an asteroid segment. The controls work very well, and aside from the aforementioned sound issues there are no bugs. I’d also like to applaud the inclusion of an achievement system that isn’t locked to Game Center. This game would get 3.5 stars, but since that isn’t an option and I’m feeling generous I’ll give it 4. The sound issues and the fact that the game could very easily be written off as essentially just another Galaga clone keep me from rating it higher

Very challenging game - fun and even addictive. Excellent graphics and endless variety of enemies. The campaign mode gets very challenging as you advance, but unfortunately, it becomes impossible to advance towards the higher levels unless you either spend money on the game to upgrade your ship’s power, or unless you literally have hundreds to thousands of hours to spend time playing a video game – which no successful business owner does! Lol. Might be a good game for certain millennials who have lots of time to spend playing games. One more comment – the live battles against other players is a great concept, but they ruin this feature by making the battles entirely lopsided, and also by having you mostly play against computers instead of playing real people. So you often wind up getting paired against “people” (mostly computers) who have a ship many times stronger than yours - and they can clear the levels much faster than you or use tricks (called “talents”) to spontaneously destroy your ship and kill you. Therefore, you have almost no chance of winning a significant percentage of those games. It would be like playing chess against your opponent without a queen - or playing a physical sport against an opponent with no arms or legs. A battle, or test of skill, should provide both opponents with the same tools - or at least similar ones. Pretty dumb concept.

The gam is fun with some really good mechanics and great visuals, but like most these days, it heavily favors those that are willing to spend piles of cash. I honestly believe all the “pvp” type stuff is just bots, so beat the computer, if you can. As far as the game play, be ready to drop giant wads of cash, or play for multiple months religiously to gain enough traction to make reasonable progress. For example, I have unlocked most ships and upgraded all of them as far as I am able and don’t do enough damage to pass the second level of the birthday event. Seems like the devs tried to do some type of balance between free to play and pay to play, but lost their way and just went for the money. If I could offer any advise to the devs, cut the difficulty by 1/4 and cut the resource requirements by 2/3 at least. Make a game that we want to spend money on because we love to play it, not that we have to.Update: I just got done losing multiple pvp matches against opponents that are FAR beyond my ability to compete with. Also, I’ve been attempting to play this birthday event and even it is an overly difficult absolute joke. On birthday events, the players are supposed to be able to celebrate with the devs. On this event, the difficulty curve is so high and the rewards so poor, that even after a week of solid play, I will not be able to get a single item from it.Get it together devs. The only thing holding this game back is you.

I’m honestly just about done with this game. I’ve had SO many issues trying to log into an account, only to get logged out and logged into my Facebook account when I was trying to play on my Apple account. When I got the game about a month ago, I realized I had already played from my Facebook account a long time ago. I’ve had issues with Facebook login in the past with other games, so I decided to leave the Facebook in the past and used my Apple account. Well about a week ago it started trying to log me into my Facebook account. I’m level 40 on my Apple account, the one I actually play on. And only 26 on the Facebook one, which I DO NOT WANT THAT ACCOUNT AT ALL. I ended up logging into the Facebook account, and when I logged out, all of my entire Apple progress was GONE. Level 40 is gone, along with all of my upgrades and ships. It didn’t give me the option to save anything, it just completely wiped my account. This has happened once before where I started over. This time, I’m not starting over. I’m going to delete the app, and forget about it. I don’t understand why all of my progress was wiped clean, and I don’t understand why it kept trying to log me in and out. When I finally get back to the Apple account, I have my ships, but I start from level 1!! I played this game a lot when I was having anxiety, really good distraction and the game itself is a 10/10 or 5 stars. But I can’t rate this any higher than a 2 star because of how terrible my experience has been just trying to play on one account.