Steam Heart's is a 2D sci-fi vertically scrolling shoot-em-up with erotic content. The game takes place in the far future, on an alien planet dominated by seven elf-like or catgirl princesses that have fallen under the spell of a unique virus that has driven them mad and threatens to destroy the planet if all the rulers declare all-out war. Only Blondia Varady (nicknamed "Blow") and his sister Fallandia have been spared from the disease and must pilot their fighter ships in order to penetrate deep into the domain of each princess, destroy their war machines, and administer the antidote. Fortunately for Blow, the antidote has been synthesized into his reproductive organ, so that means there is only one way to inoculate the girls.... The player controls the fighter ship through vertically scrolling stages, trying to destroy every ship that crosses its path and reach the end boss. The ship has a primary weapon that can be constantly upgraded by collecting power-ups, and a secondary slot for all sorts of collectible weapons that can be picked up in mid-air. The game features 2P-cooperative gameplay and cutscenes made of still images that explain the plot and depict the protagonist's encounters with each princess.
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It's your typical vertical scrolling schmup and it works and it's got some challenge here and there but it's got some problems. For one thing there's only like two weapons which is the vulcan and laser. Though there are two items you can get like these two homing machines or some extra missiles to your shot. You also got your life bar and you actually get a lot and you can even get a limtied time shield. I'm surprised how many games have life bars for shooters.
The level design itself is nothing too special and even the presentation is kind of basic but maybe I'm just not good at noticing good graphics. IDK it just didn't impress me. I do like how it tells you the song name at the beginning of each stage. The music is nice but I don't really remember any of it. But at least it's nice to listen to.
I'm not sure if anyone else feels the same way but I feel like too much of this game is just having the same small bullets be put all over the screen like the bosses have it and a lot of the enemies have it and some of the bigger enemies have it. It just feels repetitive. There's also this dash move, at first I thought it was like Gaiares or Thunder Force IV where it controls your speed but no it's just a small dash you can do and its nice. For some reason when playing it made me wonder how a TAS would do this game with using that dash. Would love to see that.
ALRIGHT LETS CUT TO THE CHASE. Yep this game got some questionable cutscenes. Woweeee. So there's a lot of chatting, there's even chatting in the stages. But these cutscenes. Now I don't know Japanese so if anyone knows what's going on please correct me but I swear some non consent happens in these cutscenes. But this game honestly sucks as a eroge game. Like it already didn't make me feel comfortable but they decided to not animate any of them and give about 3-4 images per cutscene and it feels like it takes forever like even if you sped them up it still just keeps going. I don't like it. Also they show titty once after the first boss. I'm convinced they did that hoping you would play to end for more only to learn that's the only time they ever shown full titty. I didn't even know that stuff was allowed on the console.
But yeah overall it's decent, it's playable. It can be tough but it wasn't anything that impressed me personally. Maybe play it but idk there's probably a lot better on the console...why did I play this again? I already forgot. Oh right the anime designs, god I wrote that in the beginning and have already forgot.