Star Sonata 2

“The game features really lacklustre 2d visuals (does the developer not know 3d graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?).”

“Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3d graphics cards to play 2d games.”

“Dated graphics it's not going to win any awards for visuals, but what it lacks in graphics, it makes up for in gameplay depth.”

“Developers announce sweeping changes seemingly randomly that nullify dozens if not hundreds of hours of grinding with absolutely zero forethought as to how it will affect the player base and content.”

“If you want to PvP against the few people that willingly engage in it, you've got some grinding to do, and you better hope you get lucky as a large portion of your power is going to come from mods, which are random rolls using an in-game currency to give you a random bonus effect, some of which are very powerful and others are completely useless.”

“You will constantly be running into players that have been playing with 10 years of accumulation of wealth and resources, with advantages from past bugs (duplication and autofarming bugs specifically) that were never properly purged, and an unwillingness for people to pursue content with you as anything other than a carry, making your experience in getting loot and progressing yet again unpleasant.”

“I had a lot of confusion about the beginning missions, quickly got overwhelmed and then realized I can go anywhere I want in my first 20 minutes of gameplay and got even more overwhelmed, and that was the end.”

“Not good... too many systems, too many quests, no global trade market/auction, no one-click auto quest path, not a good party system, too many useless skills, drone system making the game and the mine ship useless too. Overall, the game score from 1 to 10 is 3.”

“After you are on a team, the standard leveling pattern is sol/brigands missions, paxius missions, vulcan, colored empires (located off of prism), mira, and jungle (in lycium).”

“Either servers are down, or the game is buggy, because it doesn't let me link my Steam account, and I can't connect.”

“The only real struggle I've faced is some UI annoyances, where item menus can be a little buggy at times.”

“Fighters for a carrier class are hard to access early on.”

“On pricing and value for gamers, this isn't really free as the game is infested with mobile app store-like microtransactions.”

“Now dev work is messy, often taking many iterations to reach a workable state, all the while you're paying to play in that hectic and unpredictable environment, and because the game has made a hard turn into microtransactions, you're unlikely to receive any sort of compensation when the dev team arbitrarily changes major game elements, as that's something they expect you to pay for.”

“The music was very silly.”

“I would personally like to see a few more things from it, like some more variety in the bullet/laser/etc visuals and sounds/music.”

“Since late 2018, the game has been in a downward spiral of awful content and negative performance. Overpowered items were released, players reported them as too strong but were told by admins it was fine. Players spent hours, days, and weeks perfecting setups around those items, only for them to be nerfed on the whim of the game owner, causing huge setbacks for players. Recently, a major feature on combat bots for the gunner class was stopped, making them the same as any other class.”

“The game suffers from major performance issues, with optimization badly neglected since 2018, causing frequent lag and crashes especially during combat.”

“Updates often introduce poorly optimized content, leading to frame rate drops and longer load times that severely impact gameplay experience.”