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Star Overdrive Review: A fun Janky Scifi Adventure
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What is Star Overdrive?
Star Overdrive is a fast-paced open world scifi adventure out now on Steam, Epic Games, PlayStation, Xbox, and the Nintendo Switch.
Bios finds himself stranded on the planet Cebete as he searches for his beloved Nous. Armed with only his Keytar and handy hoverboard, Bios must race across the strange planet to find her and bring her back. But the journey won’t be easy. The world is full of strange beasts he needs to fight off and strange machines he needs to activate. Can he find the right upgrades to conquer the terrain, save the girl, and get back home? Will he learn what really happened here?
Gameplay
Star Overdrive is an openworld adventure game with a hoverboard gimmick. The hoverboard can be upgraded, tuned, and customized to fit a players style. Players can do tricks, do jumps, and go through special gates to gain boosts. If you aren’t moving fast across the map, you aren’t doing it right.
There is a crafting mechanic baked into this game. Players will collect materials along their adventure to craft different upgrades for their board, or to change the aesthetic. The farming can feel like a grind, but it is worth the trouble, especially if you like to consistently change your boards style. The board will wear with use, and having a fresh coat of paint and polish will make it perform better.
Combat in this game is simple. Players use the keytar to chain normal and heavy attacks, and can earn new powers along the adventure. Players can mostly look forward to exploring the vast world, searching for new styles, upgrades, lore, and some cool tracks to listen to.
Review
I really like Star Overdrive, but not as much as I thought I would. While I do love the flavor, the gameplay, and the concept, I found it a bit lacking. I am aware that there were some limitations baked into the game so that it can perform for the switch, and it definitely feels like a switch game.
One issue I have with the game is how empty the world feels after a while. Everything in this game looks cool, but once you start exploring the world, there isn’t much more to see. Some of it has to do with how they need to make room for the hoverboard riding mechanics, and the other has to do with maintaining the performance. It made me not really want to explore the world, and instead, I tried to finish the story as soon as possible.
The story itself is fine. I liked collecting the small tidbits and piecing together the events of the catastrophe. All the voice logs, journals, and the story itself was fun to collect. I think it is the only reason I kept playing.
The gameplay is fun, until the gimmick wears off. Combat is simple, but it makes the game the casual RPG I’ll occasionally pull out. Riding the hoverboard is so much fun. once I figured out the mechanics, got a few upgrades, I was sold. I wouldn’t say it has revolutionary movement mechanics, but they are good enough to keep players engaged. Zooming through the desert doing tricks, landing sweet jumps, and listening to good music made this game hard to put down.
One thing I did not like about the hoverboard was the upgrade system. I like that the upgrades felt meaningful, and I like that there was unlockable customization, but I don’t like the crafting system. The crafting system is simple, and it produces visible upgrades to the board, but it makes upgrading the board a grind. You have to constantly be farming materials and gambling on the part you get in return. It doesn’t take away too much time from the game, but I would have preferred to find the parts as random loot.
Combat was fine, but it gets better once you unlock a few powers. There were abilities that did feel broken, but it was a fun little loop that kept me engaged.
Despite its flaws, the game is a solid open world adventure with a solid story and a cool gimmick that is worth trying once. Whether or not you value exploration and deep combat may be the deal breaker, but I enjoyed it for the casual fun it is on my Steam Deck.
You can pick up Star Overdrive on Steam, Epic Games, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.
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Star Overdrive se ha lanzado hoy en PC, PlayStation 5 y Xbox Series
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Another qualified #SteamNextFest Recommendation for #StarOverdrive. It's got incredible art direction and some really hype gameplay moments, especially around the sand boarding sections. Its melee combat is pretty bad though. That's a relatively small part of the game, but enough to be disruptive to me, maybe you have a different tolerance.
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🚀 "Star Overdrive" si distingue per la sua visione audace e ambiziosa, un vero supernova di emozioni! #StarOverdrive #Recensione
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Star Overdrive se lanzará en PS5, Xbox Series X|S y PC el 19 de junio: https://www.dekazeta.net/star-overdrive-se-lanzara-en-ps5-xbox-series-xs-y-pc-el-19-de-junio/
Star Overdrive llegará a PC, PlayStation 5 y Xbox Series S|X en junio de 2025
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🚀 Star Overdrive – A Retro Shmup with Modern Flair
Star Overdrive delivers classic arcade vibes with tight gameplay and flashy effects. A short, sweet ride for shmup fans on the go.
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#NintendoSwitch Review Video: #StarOverdrive - A stylish hoverboard-riding adventure with some promise, but that also struggles in key areas #IndieGames
Nintendo Switch gets Star Overdrive, an open world action adventure game, and here's a new trailer. #StarOverdrive https://gamesense.co/game/star-overdrive/news/discuss/star-overdrive-launch-traileropen-world-action-adventure-game-debuts-on-nintendo-switch/
Las notas de Star Overdrive en las reviews de la prensa: https://www.dekazeta.net/star-overdrive-reviews-notas/
Star Overdrive ya está disponible en Nintendo Switch
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Star Overdrive - Nintendo Switch
Juego open world con estética retrofuturista en un mundo alienígena el cual navegamos con nuestro hoverboard.
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