Interstellar Sentinel (Ver. 2.4.0) - Heroic 1CC (2.4B)
4A horizontal 16:9 STG made in Shmup Creator, featuring HD art, lots of weapons and music by Chris Huelsbeck.
Even on Heroic (3 starting lives + extra score), the game isn't that much of a challenge if you're just going for a survival clear and ignoring the scoring, to which I say: don't do that, pigeons/chickens or whatever eternal novices/noobs are called nowadays, it changes on a monthly basis at this point.
Just don't flail around like absolute buffons, learn the patterns and find openings in them, I managed to clear it blind half a year ago live on Twitch with terrible scoring, you have no excuses.
The main scoring comes from the Monster Trophies, collecting one increases the multiplier value and dying makes you lose all of them up until that point.
Yeah, the scoring boils down to having to no miss the game for the big scores and doing the pacifist challenges, because those jack up your score a lot when you're at max multiplier and have all of the trophies up until that point, it's massive.
The run went completely down the drain in Stage 7 when it came to scoring, 3B is definitely possible, but I need to play better for that, because the game's difficulty was increased for that stage in particular a fair bit since when I played 2.1 version of the game.
Sequel has already started development, but it's still super early before it becomes a reality.
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Buy the game here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2426610/Interstellar_Sentinel/
Buy the soundtrack here to support Huelsbeck's creations:
https://chrishuelsbeck.bandcamp.com/album/interstellar-sentinel-soundtrack