This was the first of two reviews I did on Livestream yesterday, nearly a week from the time it was supposed to be released.

In the twenty-four hours since that stream went live, both this game and Krog Wars went live on Steam, and now I can do an official review. I've spent a few minutes with the Steam version, and I've found this one somewhat improved from the version we used on the Stream.

They corrected exactly one bug, that being the one where the Game Over screen requires that you shut down the game and restart it before you can play again. This had the expected side effect of correcting the High Score saves, which isn't a bad thing. So, they get that much credit.

For those of you who have played Hovering Heli Death, this game will look somewhat familiar-- That's because it is. It's a direct asset swap with the other game, including the project name in the title bar in Windowed Mode. The game itself is horribly optimized, with Fastest graphics being almost unplayably fast, and the Best setting being almost the opposite.

A video record of the stream in its entirety can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_CCsNv9NUM

Again, this game's pre-release review has been shifted to the "General Discussions" forum, which is NOT visible if you don't already own the game. This IS a form of censorship, and I have zero issues calling it out.

Fortunately, the consumer can look at regular reviews prior to buying the game, so I paid out money again so that you can have the warning you deserve. This particular game should not have been made, and although they did fix one issue, it's a far cry from producing a good game.

EDIT: TOTALLY AVOID THIS GAME

THIS COMPANY IS A BUNCH OF SCAMMER, MY NVIDIA DETECT THE GAME AS HOVERINGHELIDEATH.EXE

THE GAME IS A TOTAL RESKIN OF THEIR OTHER ♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME NAMED HOVERING HELI DEATH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnGFrY9V0Fs

I have no wonder why this company is named Digital Homicide now because I just want to kill myself.

Digital Homicide is a company that can't develop at all, they think they are great and such because they knows the base of Unity when the truth is they are just a bunch of amateursish noobs.

Seriously? This game could've been the work of a 10 years old kid without any skills that downloaded Gamemaker on his grandmother's PC.

CONS;
-2 types of attack (Missles? and Rockets?) which cause the same amount of damages
-5 types of enemies: (None of them actually attack, bullets appears out of nowhere)
-Repetitive, The enemies at the beginnning are the same as 10 minutes in game without any challenges.
-Extremly bland
-Loading screen/Gameover screen = Black screen restarting the same stage over and over (I looked the gamefiles and there's only 1 ♥♥♥♥ing level)
-SFX aren't sync with animations
-Bad models
-No unique features AT ALL, basic shoot em up.
-Is there even an end to the first level? 4 minutes in it I got sick of shooting the same bland enemies over and over, they don't even attack!

The ONLY way you can die in this game = collide into an enemy model OR get shot by those random blue bullets the game spawns

PROS:
-Runs at 120+fps on my 970
-Easy to quit

Note: The devs probably ripped the models off Google and their intro animation is a generic template

Stop spamming steam with your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ games DH.

In 2002 ikaruga was released on the dreamcast in japan.
In 2016 Digital Homicide Studios releases Starship: Nova Strike on steam

It's funny how ikaruga was innovating the fix vertical shooter genre and 14 years later Starship: Nova Strike just insult it.

0/10 Verdict: unaceptable

Ps: Avoid this steambage.

An Excerpt from my Review:
"No variation, no power ups, just @#%$E#%#$ NOTHING. What you see in the 51 second intro is literally the ENTIRE piece of #@## game. Captivate you for hours? ♥♥♥♥♥, #^#*&^ please. I have seen mold spores more captivating than this pathetic excuse for a video game. The mold was more @#$%$ entertaining than this game too. And what is this $%&! about a Colony being saved from destruction? You never SEE any of this $#@& which makes including it deceptive to the consumer and showing you, the developer, to be completely and utterly dishonest and obviously willing to engage in shady business practices with the, I can only assume, obvious intention of duping your customers.
An endless and uninventive single-leveled slog with zero variation or diversity, Starship Novastrike is an obvious attempt at a cash-grab offering nothing in return. My advice? Avoid this game like the %^#$!@ plague on steroids."

See my full review here:
https://youtu.be/XjyGChTvUjY

Also, Digital Homicide is attempting to re-skin and re-release this game on Steam via Greenlight as "Hovering Heli Death"
Pay close attention here:
https://youtu.be/t__HuQYLglQ

Where to Begin.

Well my first reaction is featured here: https://youtu.be/Uqd1avAS7YE Albeit it heavily edited. (Dont worry though, I kept the burps in)

But those of you not wanting to hear my nasally voice :

1)First and foremost I feel like this was falsely advertised, I not once encountered asteroids or enemy ships

2) This game is ugly, the lighting, the atmospher is non existent and even the space ship looks more like a shuttle at best.

3) This game performs like utter s*** I tested on both a windows 8 laptop and a windows 8 virtual machine, both had access to dual core intels with 8GB of ram and a competent graphics card, (note that this 2d abysmal space shooter shouldnt require more than at best 2GB) It ran poorly at all times.

4) The screen is limited to X number of bullets. This means that if you hold the mouse button you will blast too many bullets and the furthest ones just disappear.

5) The blue enemy bullets dont seem to make it accross the screen, the go from right to left and make it maybe 20% of the way before vanishing.

6) The red enemy bullets make it approx 80% of the way, this means that in most cases I could avoid damage by simply positioning the ship at the furthest position left.

7) Your first run starts you with 3 lives + your starting life (total of 4) but any run additional starts you with just 2 for some reason.

8) There is a highscore board with no highcores and seemingly no way to post your score.

9) If you die, it goes all the way back to the beginning, and i have to sit through your digital homicide splash screen each time.

10) When you die, the screen goes black and you have an explosion animation - You guys cant even script it so the ship itself exploads, it has to load up a cutscene to represent the ship exploading.

11) You respawn exactly where you died meaning the enemies can land some cheap shots.

12) Your stupid F***ing Unity pregame screen. Sid Alpha has pointed this out on all of his reviews of your games, and noted your overall laziness with it. This is a new low however as IT SAYS HOVERING HELIDEATH IS THE TITLE

13) Lets talk about titles. The store front calls it Starship Alpha strike, the unity pregame menu calls it hovering helideath and the titlescreen calls is NOTHING Are you guys really This lazy?

14) The controls are very stiff and static. Meaning that there is no acceleration, you push WASD to move at a steady speed in the given direction.

15) You're charging money for this.

16) Your Lasers arent lasers, theyre some generic 'fairy dust' effect you got from the unity store.

17) Speaking of lasers, they dont fire from the correct position if you are moving upward they fire from the bottom of your ship, if you are moving downward they fire from the top. When your engine adds the laser object it doesnt take into account ship movement which is below amateurish

18) Speaking of lasers - Do you know what makes these types of games fun? Power ups!
It is such a common mechanic to have stacking power ups - Faster firing rates, Spread shots, Wave Shots, Back lasers, Arching lasers, Homing missiles, Multi blasts, charge shots, Freezing shot... Of course this game has nothing to it so my guess is that power ups wouldnt add that much


19) its only 1 f***ing level - Call this a runner if you want, to me that just shows how pretentious and slimey you are capable of being. It's not under developed, its a runner! Give me a break. The sad thing is that Newgrounds and Kong feature hundreds of similar games that are better in every regard. FOR FREE


....Unbelievable...

god awful DH spam game

Terrible

This "game" is worse than free unity engine tutorial games.

Like my Krog Wars review,I'm going to avoid insulting Digital Homicide directly as I'm not here to review a company in general and I condemn harassment.

Here's the stream that I did live with Kage where we covered the itch.io versions of Starship: Nova Strike and Krog Wars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_CCsNv9NUM

Me and Kage believe tht Digital Homicide watched our stream so we were expecting that they were to improve on some of the issues we covered in both of these games before their release. When I covered Krog Wars, I learnt that they had not made any sort of improvement. However, Starship is a slightly different story.

If you've read Kage's review of this, you know that they fixed 2 issues in this game that we covered in the stream. The first issue was the fact that once you hit the game over screen, you hd to restart the game as you were stuck on that screen. The second issue was that the high score board at the beginning also didn't work as a result of the game needing a restart. Now here's something that I was surprised that Kage missed in the Steam version. When they fixed these issues, a few new issues came up. Even though they've fixed the issue to make the high scores appear (which they didn't in the itch.io version), they messed up the coding to stop adding on from ur previous high score. In other words, whatever score you got on the previous round, it keeps that score for the next match as yur starting score. In the itch.io version you had 3 lives. In the Steam version, you still technically have 3 lives but it's actually 2. Basically when I fired up the Steam version of the game, I was faced with a black screen for maybe 5 seconds and it said tht I died and I lost a life and this happened each time the game launched up. Some of the missiles also randomly dissappeared in the middle of the screen. In addition to all of this, I experienced alot of lag when I was shooting missiles, making the game drop to 30 and sometimes even 20 fps.

This game is a waste of money and that's the only thing I can call it. For the deal of 47p it's a waste of money. For 1p, it will be a waste of money. Only consider picking this up if it's free and then consider to change your mind.

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