Разработчик: Flump Studios
Описание
Horizon Shift is an explosive wave based, single screen shooter, with a ton of new ideas and platformer elements.
Do what it takes to protect your horizon from the ever encroaching enemy attack!
Use the unique risk reward multiplier system to maximise power-ups, build your bomb and destroy EVERYTHING!
Horizon Shift also features an amazing pulse pounding soundtrack produced by Jason Heine of Heine House Entertainment.
These original compositions are a fusion of House, Electronica and Chiptune.
Features
- 7 different game modes and a ton of options to customise your experience
- A unique risk reward multiplier system
- Pulse pounding soundtrack produced by Jason Heine
- Epic boss battles and bonus rounds
- An original blend of classic arcade shooter and platforming
Поддерживаемые языки: english, portuguese - brazil
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7/8
- Processor: 1.8 Ghz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB Intel Graphic
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- OS *: Windows 7/8
- Processor: Dual Core processor of 2.4GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 200 series
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
I am 32 years old.
My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old.
When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing.
Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side.
With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of you. In fact, I may have played this game for only a day or two. That being said, after doing so, I had a new joy and hope for life. I managed to leave behind the pain and suffering that had been thrust upon me. I could experience the joy and happiness of other people. I relaxed for 5 ♥♥♥♥ minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.
After realizing this, I turned off the game and went back to work. My hand hurt a lot, but I was motivated. I stopped feeling so sorry for myself and became the father I needed to be at that moment, not the weak boy I was behaving like.
Today, I am close friends with the mother of my children. We don't fight, argue, or say hurtful things to each other. We are parents and friends.
Now I have 3 children. My third child is, wait, ALSO 4 YEARS OLD. The woman I am with was going through a very similar situation at the time of my separation, and we just unexpectedly stumbled into each other's lives. We have been dating for a year and are very happy together.
Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today. This silly little game helped me realize that.
Thank you.
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Not a big fan of mixing genre types mid-game (you suddenly need to play a break-out game for extra bonus points) but it's pretty good apart from that.
If you like retro arcade shooters buy it, it's cheap and fun.
But be warned, the game is unfair, not difficult, UNFAIR!
There are 4 types of enemies:
- Green - the default shoot'em up kind
- Red - sticks to your horizon and you have to dodge
- Blue - Destroy your horizon
- Swarm - insta kill you if they reach your horizon
The problem is, once a red or blue enemy reaches the horizon (50% of the enemy types) you have 3 ways to clear your mistake
1- die...
2 - clear the wave (reach next stage)
3 - use a bomb
OK I can use a bomb! But you have to fill a bar to get 1 and if you die you lost your bomb or the current progress... So your only way to counter those enemies isn't reliable. The game got nearly impossible on wave 25/26, and when you finally reach wave 27 you'll probably have 1 life without upgrades or a bomb under your sleeve.
If there was a way to shoot to the sides or a more spread weapon this problem would not exist.
Oh, and jumping the spikes during a whole level with the "mirror " upgrade is extremely boring, sometimes I just suicide one of the ships...
I want to call this game a timekilling bullet hell platformer with symmetry added to make it not only harder, but cooler as well. This game is exactly what I expected; You move left and right and shoot enemies before they destroy the platform you can move on, all the while avoiding whatever bullets or enemies may be in your path.
... There really isn't much else to say. I nabbed it on sale for 85% off (a wicked sweet deal) so I feel it's worth the price I personally paid, but I don't think it's worth much more than that.
Edit: This is a labor-of-love for the developer, and it shows. They are very active and interested in community input - this cannot be valued highly enough.
With that being said, unfortunately I don't see the magic that everyone else sees with Horizon Shift. I have tried several times to get into it, and all I can see is a subpar arcade shooter. While the axis-flipping mechanic is not new, the game does bring some interesting platforming mechanics into play complete with enemies being able to destroy the line creating jumpable gaps. On the negative side, the visuals are nothing special. I played with a keyboard and also a controller, and both felt decidedly awkward for what is a simple game although I only tried one of several configurations for the controller.
Pros:
+Its cheap
+It can run on a toaster
Cons:
-While there are some interesting platforming elements that are new, it wasn't enough to keep me interested.
-Artwork is bland.
-Music is generic.
Perhaps I did not get far enough to see something great, but I doubt it. I was hoping for something completely addictive (like many reviews boast - even friends of mine), but that was not the case for me.
With a distinctive Namco feel, Horizon Shift is one of the most accomplished arcade games since Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+. You can think in Space Invaders Extreme going to bed with Donkey Kong
Horizon Shift is one of the most brilliant single screen shmups ever created, that it’s heavily influenced by Taito contemporary classics like Space Invaders Extreme. But it also succeeds on putting a lot of masterful new design ideas on the table, trying to break the player’s preconceptions regarding the genre in disruptive and fully original ways.
Its main gimmick, the possibility of switching between two differentiated action spaces that sometimes get mixed with bullets crossing the horizon line, it’s on a par in its ingenuity with Ikaruga and its polarity design. And the double jump button becomes a joyful mechanic that adds a rare sense of accomplishment, while the player is dodging bullets, destroying ships and trying to jump over moving spikes and other obstacles invading the horizon line. This wise sum of design elements make of Horizon Shift a rara avis, in his combination of shooting and plattforming elements in a cohesive way. You can think in Space Invaders going to bed with Donkey Kong.
But where Horizon Shift truly shines is in its scoring system, that highly rewards the risks taken by the player. And as life itself, an error can give you a better opportunity for improvement and to scoring high. In Horizon Shift, every single mistake, every ship that invades or destroy a fragment of your horizon, it will increase your scoring multiplier. So the best strategy to scoring high is play in a schizophrenic and bipolar way, missing enemies intentionally, let them invading you horizon, an then use this mistakes to destroy the rest of ships with a higher score bonus. But as life itself, a sum of errors can become your perdition. With every single mistake, the scoring opportunities are higher, but it’s much harder to dodge and jump between bullets and the invading enemies or broken parts in your horizon. Horizon Shift laughs in the face of all the traditional and conservative STG’s players that will try to destroy every single ship, forcing them to radically change his misconceptions regarding the genre. Horizon Shift it’s a Dogma 95 shmup directed by Lars Von Trier.
And do you remember the Charles Mingus jazz song “Oh Lord, don’t let them drop that Atomic Bomb on me”? Since the time of the first Raiden, the STG’s players have been trained in not to use the bomb in shooting games if they want to score high. Horizon Shift, like Battle Garegga before it, laughs one more time in the face of this conservative players. In Horizon Shift the bomb not only destroy all enemies and rebuilds your horizon line. Also serves to bank your chain score. So if you don’t drop the atomic bomb on them, Oh Lord!, you will lose all your hard earned multiplier points. Horizon Shift forces you to create a right strategy, using the bomb in the most hard parts, and ensuring that you can survey the next waves until the bomb meter is fully recharged.
All of these mechanics and its perfect tuned score system are accompanied by a brilliant level design. The game never becomes boring, and it has a design philosophy inspired by Nintendo classics. With new elements, obstacles, enemies and patterns that appears at a slow but constant pace. The new obstacles always appears in individual levels that serves as tutorial. It explodes every single mechanic in a lot of creative ways and original situations. And the difficulty curve is sublime in its balance.
With a lot of brilliant design ideas and absorbing visuals that resembles Tetsuya Mizoguchi, Namco or Taito contemporary creations, Horizon Shift has become with Pacman Championship Edition DX+ one of my favorite arcade experiences in Steam.
( The writer of this review is not an English native. So you should expect occasional grammar errors. I apologize in advance. )
Um jogo fantástico, extremamente difícil, mais difícil que super meat boy e mais fácil do que o dark world do mesmo jogo;
É um hell bullet, com um conceito novo; a tela tem dois lados para defender, a nave pula entre outras coisas.
O desenvolvedor é atencioso e responde pessoalmente suas dúvidas, aconselho fortemente a compra.
Som fantástico!
After just 5 minutes, I already love this very fresh feeling shmup. Cool graphics, great tunes & sound effects, precise controls and a surprising degree of depth in gameplay and scoring. The game actually rewards you for taking risks, so you can either play it safe or live dangerously and rack up high scores.
Very, very solid!
I can not convey how vicious this game is.
It is stressful,
it is mean,
it is unforgiving...
it is unrelenting.
Hell,you get a badge for surviving the first screen....
and well,you should.
I would seriously marry a girl who I could rock this game...
as I can not.
Pick it up...now.
If this was in the arcade, it would be eating your quarters.
Super addictive, original game design, tons of different game modes, overall a great little game. Very polished and hard to put down, $5 very well spent! I'll be looking out for future releases from Flump Studios, can't wait to see what they come up with next.
This game is just awesome! It introduces some very fun and addictive shooter elements . It's simple to play but very challenging as well. The controls are great and it has a lot of cool modes with a very cool soundtrack too. I highly recommend checking this game out if you're a fan of the genre!
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Flump Studios |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 19.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 92% положительных (13) |