{"id":18626,"date":"2019-01-07T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18626"},"modified":"2018-12-24T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T16:21:17","slug":"stardust-galaxy-warriors-stellar-climax-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/07\/stardust-galaxy-warriors-stellar-climax-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax (what a cool title) is a horizontally scrolling classic styled 2-D shooter for up to four players.\u00a0 Choose a flying mech and a gun and shoot anything that moves and avoid projectiles.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all there is to it, really.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

There are four modes of play.\u00a0 The main campaign is pretty much the story mode, and features a bit of dialogue before each area from some 2-D anime characters, but since you don\u2019t see them in the actual game often, they don\u2019t really have much impact.\u00a0 In each mode you start off by picking your mech and their weapon.\u00a0 These include different guns that have various styles of firepower.\u00a0 Then you just play a traditional 2-D shooter.\u00a0 Get hit too many times and your shields will deplete and you\u2019ll explode.\u00a0 When that happens, you\u2019ll have to start that area over again.<\/p>\n

The controls for this shooter are a little unconventional, but they work well once you learn them.\u00a0 The L and R buttons turn on your rapid fire guns and missiles, and you press them again to turn them off.\u00a0 This was weird at first but it makes sense to do that since you always want to be firing.\u00a0 The X button activates a shield that can bounce back bullets for a second or two, and the Y button makes you swing a sword to defeat nearby enemies.\u00a0 I only wish that I would\u2019ve been able to pull up a short tutorial before playing, but once I figured out everything, it was all good.<\/p>\n

In the story mode, between levels you can choose an upgrade.\u00a0 These include higher defense and attack power, the ability to pull power-ups toward you, faster shield regeneration, and much more.\u00a0 And at the end of each world you can buy more in a shop.\u00a0 The other three modes in the game include two different arcade modes, with and without selectable upgrades.\u00a0 And a challenge mode where you can play special stages.\u00a0 They even had a holiday themed level around Christmastime!<\/p>\n

Aside from the lack of instructions, the only other problems I had with the game were that it gets pretty difficult, even on the easy setting.\u00a0 And sometimes it\u2019s hard to know what is and isn\u2019t in the background, especially when it comes to asteroids.\u00a0 But other than that, this is still a fun simple little arcade styled shooter with fun gameplay and rockin\u2019 music (wish this game had a sound test).<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You shoot spaceships and robots that explode, and that\u2019s pretty much it.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may get frustrated at the high challenge level, but luckily they can get another player to help them.\u00a0 And the whole family can enjoy the game together since it\u2019s a multiplayer game for up to four players!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax (what a cool title) is a horizontally scrolling classic styled 2-D shooter for up to four players.\u00a0 Choose a flying mech and a gun and shoot anything that moves and avoid projectiles.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all there is to it, really.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on most current consoles and PC, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18628,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions\/18628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}