The public announcement system inside of space stations works like a champ, though. The cut scenes’ acting registers well, but some of the in-game voice actors - especially the lady doing air traffic control for the Terran trade stations - are struggling with with their script reading. And some of the voice acting needs to hook itself up to a heart monitor to see if there’s any life left in it. The trashy, beach-read storyline - while a noble effort - is anything but a page-turner, and often smacks of summer writing workshops. Instead, it’s platter after platter of a five-item menu. And on that same token, 30 systems would’ve felt much more fully-realized and wholesome you could’ve gone home satisfied.
This game could’ve expanded to 3,000 systems and accomplished nothing more than its initial public offering. Exploring over 300 systems looks good on paper, but the nominal variety between them all turns the universe into a bland soup of tired expectations.
And those fun-sounding conventions wear down quickly. Aside from a few fun conventions introduced early on, there’s rarely any sense of awe or discovery at what you come across. The final frontier has been burned, pillaged, and rebuilt overtop of itself so many times that it’s all instantly familiar. Sci-fi themes can easily (and often do) fall in love with their own bloated sense of “imagination,” while ironically relying on stereotypes manufactured on a sci-fi assembly line.
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A handshake affirming the expected gameplay niceties of a space simulator (trading, technology trees, and joystick-lovin’ space combat) but perhaps squeezing a little too hard on the keep-it-simple principles.
But the promise of this becoming the next Freelancer is gripped in a handshake from developers Ascaron. There’s relatively little space out there in outer space, which only serves to shrink any grasp at the immensity of the DarkStar galaxy. Was killed and gifted the DarkStar One to Kayron.Solemn trumpet fanfare streams into the DarkStar One universe a universe brightly colored and lavishly detailed - saturated, in fact - with solar systems crowded with reams of inhabited planets, floating landfills of debris, and asteroids, asteroids, asteroids. Characters Kayron Jarvis - Pilot of the DarkStar One Eona - Mysterious woman that joins Kayron as a co-poilot Robert - Friend of Kayron's father Kayron's Father - Creator of the DarkStar One. Different perks and penalties can be accrued by spending time pirating or killing pirates, running cargo or smuggling goods, and various other tasks. While DarkStar One's story is linear, the player can choose to ignore the story at any point to trade, pirate, or run missions. Each race has unique ships, weapons, space stations, and battle tactics. The story takes players through 300 solar systems, encountering six races: the Terran, the Mortok, the Raptor, the Oc'to, the Arrack, and the Thul. The player alter the DarkStar One through the course of the game by finding artifacts, and choosing which areas of the ship they want to upgrade. The RPG side of the game is centered on the player's spaceship (the DarkStar One).
Overview Darkstar One is a spaceflight combat and trading game with RPG elements.
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