Sector Six is a side-scrolling, sci-fi shooter with silhouette aesthetic, procedural loot, extensive customization, and story missions.
Another generic indie game. Bad artwork hiding behind an unappealing "style," boring gameplay, and overall terrible design. Not worth playing, even for free.
The ship's controls are floaty and unsatisfying.
The enemy firing patterns are simple and boring.
The enemies have no reaction when you're firing at them.
The music is generic as hell and totally forgettable.
The game's tutorial is long and boring, and the meat of the game isn't well designed enough to be worth slogging through the tutorial to get to.
Basically, this game is like 90% of the other crap that comes from indie developers. The developer thinks he has a clever idea here, in this case "an RPG shoot 'em up! Wow!", but he fails to realize that that doesn't matter when his whole game is boring and badly designed. The game sounds good on paper, but is terrible and empty in execution.
Four points for effort, though. It's obvious the creator tried on this one. Too bad he lost the script when it comes to making a game that's actually worth playing.
I think it's a really solid game, and for being in alpha, there's soooo much playability to it! I love the art direction as well, and featured this game in an article I've written here:
Just as described, an elegant and innovative shooter/RPG hybrid.
Though still in Alpha, this is a cool game (and runs cool for those concerned about GPU heat). And it comes in an amazingly small package.
Though not a fan of shooters in general, I had a lot of fun with this one due the RPG elements. It makes for a much more interesting game than just a straight shooter.
On the shooter-side of things, the mechanics are fairly simple but there is variety in both the types of enemies and the tactics you can use based on tech skill choices.
Including tech resets was a nice touch, as was allowing the laser to be on repeat-fire by holding down the left-mouse button (saves the poor button from wearing out).
Sector Six is a deceptively deep game, don't be fooled by its minimalistic art style. The game has a wide array of abilities, modular difficulty modifiers you can toggle that change the experience but reward you. And very deep shipbuilding mechanics. The graphical style while minimalistic has great particle effects and a large variety of enemies with different attacks and patterns.
Mission structure is free form, You choose where to fight and what regions to try to free. Freed regions give you certain bonuses, such as free parts or shops you can visit. It's a great side scrolling shoot em up and definitely worth the price.
You can find my full review here.
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Even though the backgrounds are drawn nicely, ships look good and AI at least tries to be 'complex' this game overall just feels SLOW, very and very SLOW. Every mission you do almost the same again and again: you shoot an enemy, you advance, WOW something happens(for five seconds) and then you rinse and repeat.
Slow game, medium design(mostly because symmetry is getting old) and below average gameplay - mainly because ship types are not much different, most of the times you will just be grinding and trying to get something good with savescumming.
This game is amazing. some bugs such as being able to overtake the ammunitions carrier and get near unlimited kills because it doesn't count the movement if the ammunition carrier is off the screen (at least in version 0.3.5)
The Art style, music, gameplay, everything is just brilliant and of course I want more.
More music, diversified worlds, interesting enemies, effective weapons, and all kept unchanged graphic concept.
This is just my personal dreams, but the game is going to be really cool.
By the way, this game is already so refined that you can put it on Steam green light.
While I don't normally like the side scroller shooter ship games, this really takes the cake. I love the customization, the music, and how everything meshes together so nicely. I am definitely interested in seeing this grow!
great
This game is special. It combines spaceships, RPG-esque elements, and essentially a mix-n-match ship builder. Plus the graphical style is a certain kind of simplistic, yet detailed, style, that I have seen before, and have ALWAYS loved. Honestly, a great game, despite not even having any real story missions you can play just yet! It's just like 'what why is this so addicting oh my gosh I can't believe how enjoyable this is WOW" and I feel that pretty much sums it up, so yeah.