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A controller is highly recommended for Blazing Star.
Please note that at least one gamepad and a keyboard are required for local co-op.
Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
A controller is highly recommended for Blazing Star.
Please note that at least one gamepad and a keyboard are required for local co-op.
Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
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Posted on: July 2, 2022
sadnehs
Verified ownerGames: 227 Reviews: 10
Runs fine
No issues running it and no speed issues like others are saying. Don't know what the controls are thought I cant find an auto / rapid fire key
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Posted on: November 9, 2024
SavageKirito
Verified ownerGames: 28 Reviews: 2
We need a remaster or Blazing Star 2
We need a remaster or Blazing Star 2
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Posted on: May 20, 2020
wilkan
Verified ownerGames: 509 Reviews: 155
Feels Rushed, Badly Designed Bullet Hell
RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE HORIZONTAL SHOOT-EM-UPS. It seems they tried to improve on Pulstar, though managed to lose a ton charm in process. I rank this bellow Pulstar and the very good Ironclad, because the stages are now cheap kind of tough i.e. tons of bullets your ship cannot really dodge / block all of and the bosses take insane amounts of beating before they go down. Stage 6 boss "fight" is terrible as 75 % you just have to avoid insane amounts of bullets and basically have to wait for the actual boss fight to start before you can start doing damage. Sure, you have infinite lives and will jump right back to the fight even if you die constantly, though it's not fun if you are forced to do it. A big part of these games and gameplay in general is learning how to do things well and without dying. Here, you don't have skill, you have luck. The movement handles very weirdly and not very suitable for a bullet hell this one. Also, touching the walls or structures instantly kills you. More characters i.e. weapon schemes, more bullets and resume-upon-death with much less satisfying stage and boss battle design is far from an across-the-board improvement. I would say it is worse, though the death-resume probably makes a big difference in coop gameplay. It still does not have any universe-building character for the players to care about and even the ending paragraph is a terrible Engrish plot-dump. Overall, this game could have been so much better with some better design. E.g. the characters never do anything. I had zero running speed issues (GOG-3, Windows 10 x64 build 10240). This is of the same Neo Geo 25 Year Anniversary release as the Pulstar and Ironclad ones, so there are same bugs (e.g. the menu crashing the game when you try to load and the menu showing wrong keymapping) and also the Neo Geo and game roms for the authentic emulation goodness. It does have the save state feature, though it is not needed when you can just instantly respawn after dying.
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