Asura The Striker released in some countries yesterday on 23rd of april 2025,
and others today on 24th of april 2025 is a railshooter resembling
games like Space Harrier and Night Striker in particular.
Like Night Striker and Outrun you have the option after every defeated
stage to select which branching route you want to take, each route is different
which adds alot of replay value and also can decrease or increase
the challenge by a considerable amount depending on which route you take.
Since this game is new and i don't have that much playtime yet
with it, i can't comment on all the differences between all the routes.
The game features a energy shot (rapid fire)
a shining knuckle (melee high damage dealing attack)
and ligtning overdrive (which slows down time)
and a generous amounts of shields which you can get with score
and as a stage clear reward.
My normal difficulty 1cc was decent but i got hit alot, sometimes it's hard
to judge the distance to know when projectiles are about to hit you
and visibility on some stages could've been done better but than again,
i'm still new to the game i'd have to play it more to judge it properly.
The later stages will require more routing, because eventhough you can get
alot of shields, you can also very quickly lose them all if youre not careful
on any given stage!
Overall i had alot of fun playing this game, it runs really smoothly but
frames are tied to refresh rate so you have to lock it at 60, anything higher
makes it unplayable.
The game doesn't have ingame graphic settings at all, its really barebones
when it comes to that, you can just change resolutions, window,borderless,fullscreen.
But the performance is really solid, it does use Unity.
If you like railshooters than i highly recommend Asura The Striker!
Played on PC(steam)