As Captain Kayto Shields, embark on a galactic voyage of heroism and survival. With his home world destroyed and his nation conquered, the inexperienced Captain Shields, and his newly minted vessel, the Sunrider, are left as the only hope against a galactic evil intent on subjugating all sentient li...
As Captain Kayto Shields, embark on a galactic voyage of heroism and survival. With his home world destroyed and his nation conquered, the inexperienced Captain Shields, and his newly minted vessel, the Sunrider, are left as the only hope against a galactic evil intent on subjugating all sentient life. Together with his loyal First Officer, he undertakes to find allies across the stars to retake his home planet and restore peace to the galaxy.
Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius is the second installment in the Sunrider trilogy, which includes all of the content of First Arrival. Save the galaxy in this epic adventure through the stars!
Your homeworld conquered, your mission is to gather a team of pilots for your mecha squadron. Build your relationship with your allies by interacting with them between battles. Find out your squadmates’ back stories and help shape their destinies.
Manage a squadron of mechs and your own assault carrier. Victory on battle depends on proper allocation of funds between researching new technologies, purchasing better weapons, and balancing limited funds between mechs to suit your play style.
Command your forces in turn-based tactical missions. Properly manage each mechs’ strengths and weaknesses to maximize your offensive capabilities and minimize casualties. Each mech has a suite of unique weapons and equipment which gives every pilot a unique battlefield role.
Travel through the galaxy on missions and fight the enemy throughout the stars. Explore a deep world with a history spanning thousands of years.
High technical graphics show off extreme detail and stylish mecha action.
The story of Sunrider features the greatest elements of space opera huge space armada battles, political intrigue, moral decisions, and romance. Experience the vast scale of Sunrider!
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Of course, the second work of Love In Space would have problems. Great, mostly perfect turn-based strategy has bugs because of the old RenPy, also balance is not perfect. But do I mind it replaying game many times? What is much more important for visual novel is the narrative (and some CGs ofc). Here is something Sunrider hit me right in my heart, it's not just about cute waifus, it's a huge space opera that made me laugh and cry. Also the Liberation Day has higher quality in everything, but it's really important to play the Mask of Arcadius first, so just try it, it's free and maybe you would be next to join our great community.
This is the best free game I have played bar none: nice story, engaging gameplay (if you like this type) and wonderful art. But the default combat difficulty should have been ensign instead of captain.
To me, It's the best sci-fi space visual novel series I've ever read. (Besides Stein's gate.) Also the strategic battles are a blast. I have all three of the Sunrider series but not from GOG. The best part is the one-liners the girls say in battle. Especially Asaga's "Fly my children!" The series is full of memorable characters and the entire series is full of plot twists. Mask of Arcadius and Liberation Day are the only two that carry the main story though.
When a game's trailer shows nothing but the sexuality of its characters, you must suspect that it has nothing to offer. Indeed, its gameplay is brutally difficult and so lackluster that a tier-1 difficulty level allows you to skip it altogether. There is nothing awesome about CSS Sunrider.
The story is a catastrophe. It serves only to diminish the player's victory by painting it as a canonical defeat. This is story is a ripoff of thousands of other works. The red-loving People's Alliance for Common Treatment is derived from Communism. The Alliance is the ultranationalist republican. Have you noticed how CSS Sunrider resembles Space Battleship Yamato?
The literary value of the story is extremely low. This story starts with genocide on the protagonist's planet. The same thing happens in the universally acclaimed video game Homeworld. But while Homeworld took this plotline and made a masterpiece out of it, this game forgot its poignance. Instead, to add poignance to the story, they added a planet called Ongess, the story of which suffers from the poorest penmanship. To wit, Fontana is ordered to *destroy* Sunrider on Ongess. Instead, his mission was to launch a raid on Ongess's fuel supply. To that end, he *bypassed* Sunrider after a brief skirmish.
All text in this game needs copyediting. For example, what's Bianca? (I suspect it is the old name of the Liberty mech unit.) As another example, when Asaga comes aboard, she asks "Am I going to be groped by that mean lady?" To which Ava angrily replies, "L-Lady?" It seems a Bushism has happened here. She must have said "G-Groped!?" or "M-Mean!?"
