Review of Space Explorer Deluxe
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Space Explorer Deluxe Review
By icuurd12b42 on
07 April 2008
Pros: Lots of ship, very adictive
Cons: Too many ships on screen, too adictive. First 5 minutes are boring. Some anoyances make you upset
Great Game!!
The game starts very slow but it rapidly gets to a very fast pace. Average game lasts about 20 minutes... the first 5 minutest are boring especially if you are starting a new game right after finishing another.
But, the way it's designed, you want to go back again and again until you have seen all the ships and figured the best way to see them all... that is stay alive long enough figuring the right upgrade at the right levels to get the most bang for the bucks.
OK... The top anoyances of this game are
1) Pausing is suicide as you need to click continue with the mouse then your ship catapults throught the enemy ships to get to the mouse in the middle of the screen... Instant kill.
2) Getting hit or respawning does not disable the ship collision with bullet/ships long enough; little grace period to get to a safe place while respawning... Apparent near the end and when pausing.
3)The shield is a little anoying. It's nice to see the repultion effect at work but darn you can barely move without a bullet getting through and the fast bullets usually do get through
4)The particle effects scare you into colliding with real bullets. Turing them off is a wise move if you are the nervous type. You should not have red particle, but if by design you meant to scare us, well done.
5)It's starts too slow and hard to aim in the first 3 levels. Upgrade you ship movements to 50% ASAP to survive.
6)The last level is not beatable but I found a cool bug to exploit there. (NOT TELLING)
7)Large ships should ALWAYS pay off when destroyed. I started to ignore them a lot now as there is little benefit to risk attacking them in the last levels.
But there are a lot of good things in the game too. Those 7 items are not really a big issue as most of them are part of the game play and you do get used to them.


Erik Leppen
said 592 days ago
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Thanks for the review :)
About 6): every level is beatable, but I'm curious about the bug you seem to have found (you can send me a message).
About 7) Large ships in later levels pay off by giving lots of points. Not killing them means a lower score. Remember that money gets less important in later levels and score becomes more important.