Strike Suit Zero

1. This is apparently the shitty old version of the game and not the director's cut. Fuck me I guess for supporting the devs earlier on before that was an option. Why is this even on the store still? Just to dupe someone who doesn't realize the director's cut exists? Scummy.

2. The game is fine. Not good, not bad, just okay. Definitely the arcade-y part of space sims. I got almost half way through the game and was bored. There's this drawn out story about colonists and Earth fighting each other, but the bottom line is that in two hours I fought like 3 kinds of ships and they all looked like the ones on my team. It desperately needs aliens or something to spice up the early game.

The strike suit being a power up means that mecha fans will be disappointed you have to fly around in a pretty normal space ship most of the time, and the space sim fans will be annoyed that the mecha transformation is grossly overpowered.

I ain't buying this game again just to see if the director's cut fixes any of these issues.

4/5 Complete blast.

Classic

hilariously terrible

Game is rather frustrating as no 3D hud, so hard to tell whats happening.

good

I would honestly love a version of this game that never had the Strike Suit. It was like Star Fox 64 mixed with X-Wing. The Strike Suit part I didn't like though. I think the Suit is too strong not to use so I never really tried handicapping myself while playing. Though I think fondly of this game at $20 I don't think I'd recommend it. Dev's what have you been up to? I searched and didn't see any future projects.

Very cool game that gives me Rogue Squadron or Ace Combat vibes! Its selling points are:

*A level-based structure with a strong narrative where you have large-scale fights against fleets, capital ships and bases as a pilot taking on various objectives with their allies. It's quite the breath of fresh air as it seems like every other space flight games wants to do open-world nowadays, and while that's nice, sometimes you just want pure concentrated dog-fighting action and bombastic scripted scenarios!

*A great power fantasy as you pilot a jet that can transform into a badass Gundam/Jehuty-esque mech. It's very fun to get skilled at switching between the two forms to best suit the situation: close in quickly with the jet's thrusters, switch to the mech to fast-turn and then unload a barrage of missiles in Itano Circus style to obliterate an entire capital ship and its escorts. Way more involved combat than your typical jet dogfights where you just circle around constantly!

*High replayability with a scoring/medal system, special bonus objectives that unlock new upgrades and ships, multiple difficulty levels, and even a bonus arcade version of the game called Strike Suit Infinity!

*Really cool vibes and music that reminds me of stuff like Homeworld, Ghost in the Shell, Zone of the Enders, Gundam and more!

If I were to have any complaints about the game, it would be that getting the controls all configured can be a bit of a pain: had to go through a lot of remapping and even then, I wasn't able to figure out how to invert Y properly so I just got used to it. Also the unlocks you get from bonus objectives seem a bit superfluous, especially the other jets because they don't have the strike suit to go with it: what's the point of that? I guess you can treat it as a bonus difficulty mode.