評論

• gamedeal user

  Dec 26, 2021

  I read the webcomic that this is based a long time ago and had completely forgotten that the author was releasing a visual novel based on the comic. I recently stumbled across artwork by HamletMachine and it all came back to me. Super glad that I did because I love the author's artwork. If you are intending on playing this, I highly suggest that you read the webcomic prior to playing because it would be better to get to know the characters before you dive into this story, though I guess it's not absolutely necessary, to an extent. Not to mention that the webcomic is INSANELY good. I love how a majority of the characters from the webcomic are present in this game and I love the new characters, Helios and Selene as well. I've managed to play all routes and get the true ending scene and I'm thoroughly satisfied with the diversity of 'endings'. Didn't expect some of them, especially not when it ended up being the MC and two others. The music really fits the setting and story and I really like how the original characters don't diverge too much from their webcomic selves. Though it's not as long as a typical visual novel, it's a satisfying length and manages to tell the story in that time. And once again, I adore HamletMachine's art style, it's fantastic! Definitely recommend this!
• gamedeal user

  Jul 9, 2022

  I played it..... Does that make me gay?
• gamedeal user

  Oct 22, 2022

  Love it. So much gay, all the gay. Will play again. I missed these soft, sweet bois.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 26, 2022

  -Definitely check out the Starfighter webcomic before playing!!! I tried playing it without reading through the comic, and it was fine, but felt fast-paced and I didn't get a good enough feel of the characters to be super invested. After doing Abel's route, I decided to read through the comic, and it exceeded my expectations. The comic gives the world a lot of depth and connection to nearly all the characters you interact with or see. I plan on redoing Abel's route again to get a better feel for it with a new understanding of him and the world. -Cons (glitches) As of writing this review, I've only done 2 routes, and I already really like it. However, some downsides include odd glitches where I can't select anything on the side menu-bar, where only the fast-forward function will respond to my clicks. It can get annoying when I want to save before making any more decisions, but it will sporadically work again after some more dialogue. The other downside is also a possible glitch where the character images and their facial expressions will completely disappear for a second before being replaced with the next set image. That is, a character can be frowning at me, have their face disappear for a second, then have a more neutral expression. It's not a huge deal, but it looks kind of freaky at times. -Pros (art, world & side-characters, replayability) The plot is a little short, but still sweet, and I'm excited to play through the rest of the route. Even having just done 2 routes so far, I can tell the replayability is very good; they feel very different from each other, even though similar things will occur between the routes (obviously). gay soldiers in space against unfathomably powerful aliens and screwing on the way, would be gay again 1000/10
• gamedeal user

  Apr 8, 2023

  Short Review:

  – One main storyline, which was mysterious and fun – Sex felt sudden and forced into story – Lack of depth to characters and relationships – Not enough save slots – Skipping text is slow – Beautiful art, lots of it NSFW – Overall, I was disappointed but would rec it if you mostly just want something steamy and nice to look at

  Full Review:

  I read the entire comic, so I was excited to play this, but I ended up being disappointed. There were still some enjoyable things though, and other may like it more, depending on what you’re looking for. What I Disliked: This could’ve been a great opportunity to flesh out the world a bit more or let readers get to know some of the characters a bit more, but it did neither of those things. In fact, Cain and Abel often seemed out of character. That would’ve been fine if this had just had good developed storylines for each character route on its own as a kind of alternate world, but it didn’t do that either. It had one main storyline, and then sex scenes with different characters that were sudden and forced into the story and most of the time just felt weird. Pretty much all of them except for Selene’s amounted to you barely knowing the character but them deciding to thank you for your help with sex. Sometimes the ending I got didn’t even make sense, like on my first game when I was going for Selene and, out of nowhere, Helios was being told to take off his pants by Commander Hayden, despite me not going along with his requests. Another thing is, if I hadn’t read the comic, I think I would’ve been super confused about the whole premise with the navigators and the fighters, and I don’t think I would’ve cared much about most of the characters if I hadn’t already known them. Unfortunately I also had a lot of technical complaints and issues. The skip feature still takes a while to skip since the game has a lot of panning and zooming during scenes. And there aren’t a lot of save slots, so I ended up having to start over a lot or go back pretty far to try different answers, which meant a lot of skipping. The game also kept crashing or doing this thing where it wouldn’t let me click the menu, and I’d have to close it. Thankfully it at least has an auto save. And I swear sometimes the gallery would show me 1 empty slot left for a character’s route, but then I’d find 2 more that went under their section, so I’m not even sure how many CGs I’m missing still. What I Liked: The main storyline was fun. It was a bit creepy and mysterious. Selene’s good ending was enjoyable with the most developed relationship of all the routes (also Selene himself was just great) and feels like it could almost fit into the comic as a sort of side thing that happened that we just never knew about. The art was wonderful. Much of it is NSFW. There’s also a gallery to see CGs again after you unlock them. And there are a lot of CGs, for endings and just scattered throughout. Everything Else: I have mixed feelings about the complexity of the choices and routes. It’s cool that everything isn’t a clear-cut orderly process with certain choices that clearly branch or obvious “correct” answers. A lot of things change depending on your choices, and much of it is interconnected. But that also makes it really hard to find all the CGs and endings, and I never found a guide that explained how to get them all. (Maybe one is out there by now.) It took me about 5.2 hours to get almost all the CGs. Full price is $19.99. I got it on sale for $9.99. Overall: Relationships and character routes lacked depth too much, especially for the price, for me to give it a thumbs up. But not a bad main story, the artwork was beautiful, and you may love it if you mostly just want to see some NSFW art. *Review can also be found on my blog (link in profile).*

  Accessibility:

  (May not include everything) – No TTS or screen reader option for visually impaired players. It worked with NVDA, but only with much difficulty, and menus are not navigable. I would not recommend trying to play this with a screen reader.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 22, 2023

  For the content you get and the price, I cannot recommend this game in any capacity. It feels like an actual chore trying to play between choices being incredibly unclear, a lot of backstory/context apparently being in the web comic, and the forcefulness of sexual interactions. The writing is also rather incoherent as if you were reading amateur RP text over Discord with little to no description of character actions, which creates this horrible fast pace feel and confusion. The general story has a ton of potential but I literally cannot stand playing long enough to see how it unfolds fully. If all you care about is NSFW scenes and nice art, then you'd probably enjoy it; otherwise, you can find way better fairly easy. In short: - stupidly unclear choices that lead to game overs and unintended routes - you can find a puddle outside with way more depth than the relationships in this game - writing is mediocre, grossly fast paced, and empty feeling - weirdly forced and sudden sex scene options - random crashes and skipping text takes forever - if you're just horny and like the art, at least wait for a sale
• gamedeal user

  Jun 15, 2023

  Starfighter: Eclipse is a Boys' Love visual novel game set in the same universe as Starfighter comics of the same orientation. Because of that, it's highly advisable to first read the comics, as most of the characters in the game have made their appearance there. The comics are short and completely free on the web, from them, you can also decide if you like this particular setting, and if yes, you are safe to go with the game. We play as Helios (code name, everyone has one), a fighter, who is newly assigned to an Alliance starship Kepler. As he barely connects with his navigator, Selene, they are tasked with exploring an alien derelict ship. A simple recon mission turns bad when a member of another team gets hurt by a short circuit. Everyone pulls off from the derelict to the safety of the Kepler, but before long weird things begin to happen on the ship. Could one of them be a saboteur? Well, that's what Helios has to find out. It's a standard visual novel game with many choices and five romantic/just-for-sex pursuable characters (Cain, Abel, Deimos, Selene, Hayden). The game spans a horizon of four days, so there is no time for usual courting and dating, and most of the time the boys go quickly down to business… if you get my point. ^_^ Only true everlasting happy end can be achieved with Selene as Cain and Abel are the main heroes from the comics and a pair that no one can separate. So even if you end up with one of them (or both) it's only for a brief moment, so enjoy it. ^_^ The story was quite interesting and enjoyable, also it was nice to revisit the Starfighter universe. The game could have been a little bit longer as you can be quickly done with it (there is a skip), but to say the truth getting on Deimos's route was pretty painful. I liked the monochrome graphics with slight hues of other (mainly light blue) colors, in this, the game stays true to the comics. Also even if the graphics are slightly different from that in the comics it's still rather great and most of the CGs are exceptional and very erotic. The music is normal, nothing extra, but the opening and ending themes are pretty awesome and I have enjoyed listening to them very much. There is no voice-acting, but I don't take it as a problem. My only complaint goes to the lack of save slots because, for the number of choices present in the game, it’s just not enough… Also more often than I would like the menu interface stopped working - I couldn't get into the save/load menu, to settings, to the main menu. The only way to make it work again was to restart the game. But even with these little flaws I can recommend it to any lover of BL visual novels, you won't be disappointed. Also, there are no hard fetish practices or non-consensual sex and the mood is overall rather sweet.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 21, 2021

  Okay so I bought this on recommendation of my girlfriend who read the comics and played the game and hoooo boy I was not disappointed, I've played it through once so far, got a game over, then an ending with Selene, It's genuinely fun and I was theorising the entire way through. It's a yaoi game no doubt, there's penises to prove it, but it's still got really good plot and is enjoyable. If it wasn't midnight already I'd be doing my second playthrough right now!!
• gamedeal user

  Apr 24, 2021

  I play this novel 2-3 times in 2017. It's a wonderful thing. — a short story that has been well worked — unexpected twists — charming Sci-Fi atmosphere — replayability — lots of interesting characters — atmospheric qualitative OST ♡ Thank you to the authors for giving me a lot of pleasant emotions ( ´ ∀ `)ノ～ ♡ ♡ ♡
• gamedeal user

  May 3, 2021

  Tip - READ THE WEBCOMIC FIRST. This is still ok without that, but it adds a LOT. You can find it and the walkthroughs with a quick Google search. Overall - I liked it, but it's quite stark and not terribly sentimental or romantic. Though neither is the webcomic it comes from. And really - how warm and fluffy can you realistically be when it's a story about horny lonely soldier bros out in space who all know they could die any second because they're on the losing side of a war? Pros: + Lots of good quality CGs + Decent plot with twists + Lots of choices + Chance to (sort of) romance sad little Deimos. 💔 Cons: - Would've been way more worth the $20 if it was longer and there was voice acting.