The standard for vertically scrolling shooters, Star Soldier is the original game that spawned all of the titles in the long-running Soldier series. Go inside a floating space station inhabited by a giant computer known as Starbrain. Your mission: to stop Starbrain's galactic invasion by piloting Caesar, a new, compact space fighter through 16 deadly stages.
Collect power capsules to increase three different attributes of your ship: firepower, movement speed and defensive shields. Blast wave after wave of approaching enemies or use the innovative Trap Zone feature to fly beneath a land mass and avoid incoming fire. Conquer each stage to make your way to the final confrontation with Starbrain.
Mon, 30 Jul 2007 by Damien McFerran
1. Jonno
30 Jun 2007, 07:33 GMT
The first of the star soldier series, looks... hard. Lol
2. deggs
05 Jul 2007, 06:28 GMT
I had this game... I loved it. It was hard but it was fun. However, it's nothing near the awesomeness that is the tg16 star soldier games (which were absolutely stellar). I remember buying it for $15 back in the day for the nes so I don't know how good a deal it would be buy it for 500 points...
Still, it's a fun game and it is great to see the origins of this amazing series. Still, the top down shmups weren't that great until the 16 bit era (salamander/life force excepted)...
If you want a solid top down view shmup, wait for Life Force/Salamander. Now that game was one of the best for the nes...
3. sami
24 Jul 2007, 20:47 GMT
its good but no way near better than axelay.
4. Adamant
31 Jul 2007, 03:16 GMT
It is indeed a good game, the timing of it's release was just way off, with all it's superior sequels already being out (okay, Final Soldier isn't out outside of Japan, but that's the only place it was released anyway).
I agree that Life Force is far superior, but Star Soldier is still solid, and does not deserve such a low score.
5. hollywood
31 Jul 2007, 06:20 GMT
You think that Star Soldier was tough, take a shot at manuevering through all sixteen stages of Xevious for the NES. That's what I call "pain".
6. Jonno
02 Aug 2007, 05:38 GMT
Ah, once again, a game whose sales were massively depleted due to bad timing; tisk, tisk. Still, it is good enough.
7. deggs
07 Sep 2007, 17:38 GMT
hmm,
this game isn't that bad. it's just that there's better similar games around. 2 stars might be a little harsh but it is pretty much an atari/c64 style game with not that much to it (and it is fairly tough. as a kid it took me years to get anywhere in this game. still, i played it over and over and over...)
8. deggs
07 Sep 2007, 17:40 GMT
another cool thing about this one was the ability to duck under the action. too bad that wasn't around in life force
9. StarSoldier1
20 Dec 2007, 03:45 GMT
The game had some good features but the execution wasn't the best.
10. learn japanese ds
15 Jan 2008, 05:34 GMT
Man the VC is so saturated with this style of game. If I was a publisher and I had a whack of shooter left to release I would be bummed out.
11. GameGod3008
23 Mar 2008, 14:45 GMT
I've played the other Star Soldier games on a friend's Wii and they were great. When will they release this in Europe?
12. slangman
20 May 2008, 11:05 GMT
GameGod who knows. There might be a chance of it coming to europe if it was released for the NES here.
13. Bensei
22 Jun 2008, 14:57 GMT
Maybe we'll get it in some kind of American hanabi together with SMRPG and Earthbound?
14. Ricardo91
23 Jul 2008, 05:09 GMT
I think this game, along with Mega Man of course, is a good contender to the "Worst NES boxart" award. lol.
15. Corbie
25 Oct 2008, 05:04 GMT
Very hard and just not very good level designs. The firepower could have used some work as well. Mediocre start to a fantastic shooter series.
16. Mickeymac
03 Jan 2009, 08:52 GMT
Yeah, I just did not like this game.
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