Star Guardians

Star Guardians Game Review

We have more than 30 somewhat similar Shooting games in our catalog already. This has apparently not discouraged the developers from sinking their largest budget to date into Star Guardians, which they claim is the first ever third-person shooter style “game”. Time will tell how this effort fares in the community, but it’s probably too niche to become a smash hit.

You get to choose from 3 unique Avatars, and each game round takes place in a new room where your character defeats 3 enemies to win cash prizes. He/she can also pick up keys that open treasure chests, and this awards prizes and special ability Amplifiers that last for 7 rounds. The 3-headed spider-like Queen Boss Bonus Game triggers at random times, and defeating her can award prizes up to 5,000x your stake.

Star Guardians Game Features

You have 3 different regular type enemies of different sizes and values, as well as a bonus round enemy and the Queen Boss. Here’s an overview of how much each type may pay as your chosen Avatar defeats them:

• Soldier (standard enemy) - pays between 0 and 15 x your stake.
• Liquidator (standard enemy) - pays between 0 and 20 x your stake.
• Chief (standard enemy) - pays between 0 and 50 x your stake.
• Larva (bonus round enemy) - pays between 0 and 10 x your stake.
• Queen (bonus round boos) - pays between 50 and 5,000 x your stake.

You can choose to play in Manual mode if you wish, and this means that you get to control your character and move around as you wish. You then fire at will with the mouse buttons, or you can play in the normal automatic mode (which also comes with turbo mode). Then you simply click the “spin” button, and the Avatar takes care of the rest.

At random times, special Amplifiers will be picked up from treasure chests in the main game, and these activate your chosen Avatar’s special ability for the next 7 rounds (rooms). There are 3 main characters to choose from in Star Guardians, and these are as follows:

• Butcher - awards an x2 multiplier to all wins when amplified, and is a massive soldier of age 52. His rank is Commander on Earth, and his motivation is to avenge his best friend. He’s packing a multi-barreled high calibre machine gun, and a rocket launcher is his secondary weapon.
• Skyler - is a native from the Planet Triton, and she wants to prove herself as the best sniper in her world. She’s a small and young lady, aged 25, and she carries a sniper rifle with hand grenades as her secondary weapon of choice. Her special amplified ability is being able to open any treasure chest without a key.
• Keliot - is a mysterious character of unknown origin, but his motivation seems to be saving humanity. His special ability is that defeated enemies always drop cash when he’s amplified (meaning you’re guaranteed above zero wins per enemy). His weapon of choice is to fire kinetic energy from his bare hands, and he also has body armour.

Special Treasure Chests can appear at random times in the main game. Chests that require no key contain a cash prize between 0.1 to 10 x your stake, an Amplifier or a Key. Chests that require a key to unlock award a cash prize between 3 to 100 x your stake, or an Amplifier. Your Avatar can hold only 1 key at any given time.

The Bonus Game triggers at random times from the main game, and you’ll then take on 3 waves of Triton Larva monsters with a special cannon. Wave one is 10 enemies, wave two is 20 and wave three is 30. These enemies drop both cash and rocket ammo, and you’ll need the latter when you face off against the Queen herself.

The Queen monster has 3 heads, and you need to defeat each one to defeat her. You will use the ammo collected from the pre-boss fight to do that, and each head has an armour with a randomly determined strength displayed as an energy bar. The bonus game ends if you run out of ammo before defeating the Queen, but if you manage to take her out a larger payout between 50x and 5,000x is awarded.

The 200 Spins Star Guardians Game Experience

We went with Butcher in our test session.

Review Summary

The game is the first third-person shooter “game” where you can manually move your Avatar around as you see fit. This gets old really quick however, and the automatic mode is much more preferable in our view. Sure, a somewhat immersive alien shoot-up world is certainly different from watching reels spin, but it does get repetitive after a while anyway.

Each room is more or less the same, and the top-up wins you get are basically there to keep you afloat until you trigger the Bonus Boss Fight. The Queen comes with some impressive animations, but it’s a real anti-climax when you don’t defeat her. You get the same feeling when she awards smaller cash prizes (which is most of the time, of course), but total payouts hovering above 5,000x are certainly possible. A certain crowd might enjoy this after the novelty wears off, but most will probably return to regular video games.

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