Cosmic Star Heroine
Alyssa L'Salle was one of the top secret agents at the Agency of Peace & Intelligence on the Planet Araenu. But when she uncovers a horrible conspiracy, she has to go rogue in order to save the day! Can Alyssa save the galaxy when everyone (and everything) is out to stop her! Features: The best of classic and modern RPGs! Brisk pacing that respects your time! Save anywhere! No separate battle screen! Battles take place directly in the areas that you explore! 2D visual style straight from the height of gaming's 16-bit era! Animated cutscenes reminiscent of the Sega CD & Turbo Duo era! Soundtrack by HyperDuck SoundWorks (Dust: An Elysian Tail, Precipice of Darkness 4)! Over 100 minutes of music! Multi-character combo techniques! Innovative turn-based combat system that focuses on flow & strategy! Your own spaceship! Recruit new agents to help your home base grow!
Steam User 16
Hello Friends,
Today I will review the game Cosmic Star Heroine. This game is made by the same game developers who made Breath of Death VIII and Cthulhu Saves the World. This game is a sci fi role playing game with cyberpunk asthetics. There are several worlds you can explore with different characters you can hire and get into your party. Not all the characters are human either. There are also secret bosses, secret levels, and many different moves you can explore. There are also many side quest areas. Anyways, here are the PROS and CONS list:
PROS:
- A sci fi rpg adventure.
- Control of a spaceship.
- Can visit multiple planets with different environments.
- Ability to change skill loadout.
- Allows player to hire party members for different powers and run things on the spaceship.
- Secret bosses from other games made by zeboyd games.
- Many side quests to do.
- You can fight enemies again using the VR battle menu.
- Secret dungeons.
- Works with controllers. I used a logitech F310.
- Works on windows 11 OS.
CONS:
- You can miss items recruitable people in certain areas.
- Some places you cannot go back to or go back to your ship once you reach them, such as a certain factory part, or a alien ship.
Do I recommend this game? Yes, if your a fan of both classic RPG's and sci fi games, then I really recommend this game. The fact the main hero is female has no bearing on the game. The best part is exploring different worlds and finding members to hire for your party and ship.
Steam User 6
Cosmic Star Heroine is a 16-bit JRPG that leans heavily on the well-known titles of the 90's. It features an innovative battle system and mechanics.
What I liked
Style, sci-fi setting and art. All combined it comes across as a coherent package.
The music and soundtrack. It's different to most games.
The battle mechanics. Fights take place directly on the map - i.e. like Chrono Trigger. It's fun to set up the big damage moves, using skills of various characters and often times taking multiple turns to do so.
There is no obvious 'best party' or 'best character build', though of course some abilities are more OP and usable than others.
Backtracking is kept to a minimum. Almost non-existant if you were to skip the side quests and just focus on the main story.
You can change your party on the spot,
What's just OK
The story and dialogue serves it's purpose. I liked that it's kept concise and moves everything forward, but don't expect the greatest story.
Towards the end of the game you've gathered quite the party, of which you can choose 3 to accompany you. The developers made sure to provide a backstory for each character, but still some characters didn't do a whole lot for me.
What could be improved upon
I wished the game provided a bit more information during fights. On active buffs and debuffs, how long they'll last, what the projected damage output is et cetera.
Battles will drag on in the later game, as enemies increase in HP (and there are a lot of battles in this game!). There is a lot of rinse and repeat during most non-boss fights. This may be less of an issue on lower difficulties, but I have not tried this.
I guess this is in keeping with the 16-bit classics, but I would've appreciated something like a quest log. Most party members mention a side quest after recruiting them, but only vaguely, and the player has to remember them.
There is a bug where the game freezes if using a certain attack in a certain fight. Easy to overcome by not using that attack, but be sure to manually save regularly. There is no AutoSave in this game!
In conclusion: this game proved plenty fun, even for a novice on 16-bit RPG's like me. I would encourage anyone to at least try to play on Heroine difficulty. I switched from Normal to Heroine pretty early, as I felt the fights became too easy.
Playtime: I 100%'ed the game in about 31 hours. Had to replay the first few chapters from a fresh save to re-trigger a certain event, as the Steam achievement was not recorded the first time apparently.
Steam User 5
Pros:
Combat system is fun.
Pixel graphics are great!
Music is amazing!
Story is pretty good.
humour is good.
World and environments are cool and well designed.
a fair bit of side content.
Cool Super bosses.
Short (May be a con for some)
It's cheap.
Interesting characters.
Cons:
Combat gets a little stale after about 10 hours.
Final boss was cool but a disappointing fight (IMO)
I kinda feel like some of the normal enemies just had too much HP, it just made the battles longer then they needed to be.
music can be a little repetitive at times.
I think that's about it, overall it's a solid game and I'm hoping for a sequel! :)
8/10
Steam User 6
I picked this game up as part of a bundle on Fanatical (keys website) and I wasn't expecting much but the reviews were good and I'd always wanted to try and get into JRPGs since I'd never really played them.
As someone who has almost no experience with the genre this felt like a great start for me :) I had a ton of fun playing from start to finish. I loved the characters and world, the mechanics were very enjoyable, and the MUSIC! The soundtrack is amazing!
I'm really glad I got a chance to play this and I'll be looking for more games like this in the future :)
Steam User 5
Wonderful game, perfect length with no padding and fillers. Great battle system, nice art and music. Must buy on sale if you like JRPGs.
Steam User 3
Excel Saga meets Chrono Trigger. It has some rough edges, but it packs all the stuff you'd expect from a 16/32-bit RPG and a lot of good ideas into a tight little package.
Steam User 4
Love this game. One of the best aspects is that creators made it so you wouldnt waste too much time going where your not suppose to go. Very little backtracking. Everything was laid out well and at no moment i was frustrated. However, there were a few challenging moments as well. Now please give us a PT 2.