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STAR WARS™ Starfighter™

Not Rogue Squadron but still a good time

Game's really fun. Controls are solid and flying the fighters feels nice. There are 2 major issues, though. The first is the extreme amount of screen shake whenever you get hit that can render the game unplayable in the later missions. This problem stems from the increased framerate of the game. It can be mitigated by reducing the framerate to about 30fps using a 3rd party program like RivaTuner Statistics Server. The other major issue is how ridiculously difficult and unforgiving the the later missions are, specifically the last one. I played the entire game through on Normal difficulty and enemies become dead-on accurate and deal tons of damage that can lead to you dying if you don't already have the enemies' locations in your head and even then it only works when the enemies are in set locations (something that doesn't apply to space combat). This is only made worse by the lack of checkpoints in missions. If you die in a mission, no matter how far into it you are, you have to start from the beginning and do everything all over again. It can get really frustrating, but I personally only really had this problem in the literal last mission of the game (having died once at the literal end of the mission; not fun). Aside from that, the game is really fun for most of it and I would recommend it if you want something like Rogue Squadron.

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