Horde Survival Inspired Arcade Action Roguelike!! | Let's Try Cosmic Mirage 

33:16 You got "increase duration" of the shield, which is different from the upgrade that gives you a charge (not that that upgrade system works particularly well).

really should give you at least 1 use of the active ability each planet and choosing it as an upgrade both enhances it and gives you 2 or 3 uses.

I almost bought this til I saw that some "upgrades" are just 1 time use. I'm glad I watched this first. Thanks!

The design of the level upgrades is questionable.

this is a cute little game! i do think the single ability use on level up isnt *too* bad for an arcadey game where you can get extra xp off projectiles. it feels reasonably balanced against spending a level on a single hp. and yeah, i think the extra bullets and piercing and some cooldowns are clearly better choices, but that feels more akin to an sts campfire upgrade kind of thing - if you *can* save your consumable resources (abilities/hp) then you can get more lasting power early, and once you get all the permanent powerups its easier to justify spending levels on hp/abilities that said, no extras for the whole game, even on a new planet, feels like a bit much to me? and also its one of those things where i feel like if the game was harder then the consumables would feel more valuable. the fact that you tore through the whole thing with minimal trouble probably made the shield (and hp) a lot less appealing great video overall! thanks!

The parallax effect looks so wrong to me. The layer of the smallest looking stars shouldn't move faster than larger ones, that are presumably closer. Though, neither should move all that mutch, unless the game flies around in a circle.

The game looks fun but seems far to easy for a game with only 1 difficulty setting. I'd suggest a hard mode that doubles all enemy spawns, enemy fire rate and hazards while also nerfing exp per crystal by half. You never seemed to be pressured for survival except maybe a little during the final boss, even being able to farm crystals from enemy shots for most of the game. Still for 2 dollar it is really good value. As it is it's a great entry level shmup and I think it could gain a lot of replay value with some minor tweaks.

They should just copy Gradius about ammo and shields. Seems a bit bittersweet to get it from experience upgrade.

I remember playing a scifi plane-y sidescroller like this on the Apple IIGS in the 80s (even though the name of the game escapes me, I think it was an Apple II game -- it was on a 5.25" floppy, anyway) and I have to say, I'm not sure this game is an improvement over that game from the 80s, to be honest.

What a shame, the game looks so promising.

It doesn't look bad, but it seems to me not very diverse at the moment.

Oh, this «system» mechanics is pretty bad. You have little charges to use it, you have no sense to upgrade it if there are no charges, and even more: because all upgrades stay between levels, you don't want to change it to another - non-upgraded - system. The game looks nice, but this balance decision is very weird.