Sega Ages Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar
From the legendary game developers at Technosoft! Battle against the Vios forces and fly as RYNEX in this side-scrolling shmup that enthralled the world with its innovative ideas, beautiful pixel graphics, and…
Sega Ages Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar is an arcade developed by M2, released 20 September 2018 on Nintendo Switch.
What Sega Ages Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar is
Sega Ages Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar is an arcade game developed by M2 and released in 2018. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
From the legendary game developers at Technosoft! Battle against the Vios forces and fly as RYNEX in this side-scrolling shmup that enthralled the world with its innovative ideas, beautiful pixel graphics, and a rocking soundtrack. After beating the game, unlock “STYX” Mode and jump in the cockpit of the distinguished Fire Leo-03 “STYX” from Thunder Force III. Take the STYX’s full arsenal from the previous game in this mode, but will this older model be able to survive?
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Sega Ages Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 60% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Sega Ages Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar launched on 20 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
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