About This Game The year is 21XX. A mysterious alien force, known only as "Purple Erosion", has taken over the Moon! From the captured lunar base, alien UFOs begin their invasion of Earth! Using your advanced space fighter, you must repel the alien invasion, beat them back through space, and finally recapture the Moon to end the alien menace once and for all! Enjoy a superb arcade shoot 'em up with this new classic from Qute. ESCHATOS combines modern features and graphics with classic gameplay to create a game with timeless appeal and massive fun factor.Key Features:Multiple game modes and enjoyable difficulty settings for all levels of player skill. Choose from Original, Advanced, or Time Attack modes.Intuitive and fun scoring system with a high skill ceiling! Scramble to wipe out the enemy waves as quickly as possible in Original mode, manage risk and reward in the challenging Advanced mode, and outrun the time limit in Time Attack mode. High score chasers are welcome!Multiple weapons add strategic depth. The Front Shot is powerful, but has a limited firing angle. The Wide Shot can hit many enemies, but has short range. Finally, the Shield can inflict heavy damage and deflect bullets - but at perilously close range! Utilize all of them to get the best results, and don't let the enemies get away!The dynamic camera system creates a sense of exhilarating speed as you explore 5 beautiful stages, including temple ruins, Earth's orbit, and the alien moon base.Encounter massive bosses. Battle screen-filling UFOs and other strange enemies! Check out the top players on the online leaderboards, or share your best run with a friend using the downloadable replay system!Turn up the volume and enjoy a phenomenal retro-synth soundtrack composed by Yousuke Yasui!Steam achievements are supported. 1075eedd30 Title: ESCHATOSGenre: ActionDeveloper:QutePublisher:DegicaRelease Date: 18 Sep, 2015 ESCHATOS Download] [pack] Eschatos (meaning "Ultimate" in Greek) is a very polished shmup, with simple, yet addictive gameplay, rad music and three game modes to try, with online leaderboards. Multiple difficulty settings make this game suitable for newcomers and veterans alike. Your mission is rather clear. Fly towards the moon, where an alien source resides and terminate the threat before it eradicates our planet. Your ship is equipped with two weapons, a low velocity spread gun and a higher velocity forward laser. In the thick of the battle you will find your ship's shield extra useful too, as it absorbs most of the enemy projectiles, at the cost of energy and can also be used to ram small fliers. Very cool game, although it doesn't have that Crimzon Clover feel, it does shine on its own. Thumbs up!. [FIRST IMPRESSIONS]I'll get software issues out of the way first - Degica seem to have done a good job with the PC port here, there are all of the screen resolution and graphics options you would expect from a PC title, keyboard and controller support is available, and it is running smoothly on my PC with no issues so far (however keep in mind my PC is pretty powerful, I cannot speak for those with weaker machnes).Now onto the game itself? I have been waiting a while to be able to get a chance to play this game, and so far in my first couple of trial runs it has not disappointed one bit. Eschatos is a spiritual successor to the Wonderswan STG Judgment Silversword and as such is a vertically-scrolling wave-based shooter, with a hectic pace and lots of cool boss fights. There is a long-range straight shot for dealing with more powerful enemies, and a short-range spread shot for dealing with the waves of weaker enemies (popcorn, "zakos" or whatever else you would like to call them) which will swarm at you from all directions. The game is fairly high in its bullet count however the game goes lengths to not feel like a "generic" bullet hell title that you may see from other developers.All of this is backed up by a sharp presentation with hectic perspective changes and a stunning retro-inspired soundtrack by one of my personal favourite videogame OST composers - Yousuke Yasui.So overall I would recommend this title based on my experiences thus far.. A really solid traditional vertical STG from Qute with an incredible soundtrack by Yousuke Yasui. Includes "Original" and "Advanced" modes with multiple difficulties for both. Definitely worth picking up. Wonder pack includes JUDGEMENT SILVERSWORD, which is also neat as heck so go for it. For those that may be unaware, Qute's ESCHATOS is the spiritual successor to Judgement Silversword and Cardinal Sins. Those familiar with the predecessors will find many aspects of this game more than a little recognizable. Sadly, gone are all the judges and sins. The story line of ESCHATOS can be summed up in about two sentences: Aliens have invaded the earth and captured the moon! It is your mission to save the Earth! It's about the depth of story one might expect from a shoot 'em up. One might say it's even preferable to have a bare bones story. After all, if you're playing a shmup do you really want to see things like dialogue and cut scenes? Having said all of this, I would have liked to see them build a little bit more on the judges that they introduced in the previous games. It would have been more unique than an alien invasion. While the judges themselves may be things of the past, it isn't entirely fair to say that they're gone.Many of the enemies in ESCHATOS are recreations of the ones in Judgement Silversword. Not only are they similar in appearance, some of them even have the same attack patterns. When a mirror shield showed up I didn't recognize it, but as soon as it started firing I knew exactly what it was. I was prepared to fight it too, as the ship in this game works almost exactly the same as it did in the earlier games. It has a straight shot, a spread shot, and a shield. The main differences are the shield being far more useful and the spread shot having significantly less reach. It's also no longer possible to combine the straight and spread shots through rapid button tapping.The game has three modes of play: original, advanced, and time attack. Original is a very traditional mode that features screen clearing blue bombs that can be picked up without penalty. Time attack is what it sounds like, you try to clear the game as fast as possible. Advanced is a little more complicated than normal. Your ship starts off very weak and can be strengthened via pickups. The power ups will raise your attack power, lower your shield power, and increase your score multiplier. There are two screen clearing bombs in this mode, but picking up either does the exact opposite of a power up. A blue bomb will simply destroy everything on the screen, but a gold one will transform bullets into purple shards. The shards can be picked up for points or transformed into temporary damaging orbitals by activating the shield. It was a little tricky for me to figure it out without any instructions but it's a lot of fun once you get used to it. Original and advanced have the following difficulty options: easy, normal, hard, hardest, and endless. Whether you're completely new to the genre, or an arcade veteran, there will be something here for you.There has been a major update in graphics since the days of the Wonderswan. This is easily one of the most cinematic games I've ever played. The stages flow into each other so effectively that it almost feels like watching a movie about a lone ship taking down an alien invasion. Unlike many games there aren't really breaks between stages, the whole game is continuous. It is handled very well, however there were a few perspective changes that I initially found to be very confusing. After playing a few times I got the hang of it, but I can imagine some players finding it frustrating. In addition to the perspective changes, there is one bullet type I had trouble with at first. I didn't find the semi-transparent green homing ribbons to be as visible as they probably should be considering their danger level. Much like the perspective changes I was able to get used to them eventually, but I believe the developers handled these projectiles better in Judgement Silversword. Aside from the visuals, it would be remiss of me not to mention the audio. The soundtrack is so outstanding I've found myself listening to a few of the tracks on repeat.When I first started playing ESCHATOS I wasn't so sure about it. As cool as the cinematic game play was, the perspective shifts in several stages really had me questioning the style. After putting some time into it, it has really grown on me a lot. The scoring system is based around killing every enemy in a wave to increase your multiplier. I found it to be straightforward, challenging, and a whole lot of fun. It's a shame that this game doesn't seem to be very popular. It's a very solid shoot 'em up. M-Kai and Qute have done a great job here. I'd certainly recommend it to fans of shooting games.Like the review? Follow my curator page to see my thoughts on other games.. [FIRST IMPRESSIONS]I'll get software issues out of the way first - Degica seem to have done a good job with the PC port here, there are all of the screen resolution and graphics options you would expect from a PC title, keyboard and controller support is available, and it is running smoothly on my PC with no issues so far (however keep in mind my PC is pretty powerful, I cannot speak for those with weaker machnes).Now onto the game itself? I have been waiting a while to be able to get a chance to play this game, and so far in my first couple of trial runs it has not disappointed one bit. Eschatos is a spiritual successor to the Wonderswan STG Judgment Silversword and as such is a vertically-scrolling wave-based shooter, with a hectic pace and lots of cool boss fights. There is a long-range straight shot for dealing with more powerful enemies, and a short-range spread shot for dealing with the waves of weaker enemies (popcorn, "zakos" or whatever else you would like to call them) which will swarm at you from all directions. The game is fairly high in its bullet count however the game goes lengths to not feel like a "generic" bullet hell title that you may see from other developers.All of this is backed up by a sharp presentation with hectic perspective changes and a stunning retro-inspired soundtrack by one of my personal favourite videogame OST composers - Yousuke Yasui.So overall I would recommend this title based on my experiences thus far.. Bought it because of the soundtrack. No regrets.
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