The life and Sol?
That’s not to say Sol Cresta feels exactly like a shooter from that time.
With each new element you dock, the flexibility and ability of your weapons system is greatly increased.
That is only the beginning, though.
The same can be said of yet another way to take advantage of the docking system.
With your ships separated, you might arrange them into various formations, rather than choose to reconnect them.
Adopting one of six formations gives you a brief window immensely powered up.
All of those systems are tied together by two core in-game resources.
However, with so many systems at your disposal, it often feels a little inelegant.
Looked at one way, Sol Cresta’s intersecting systems provide a generous capacity for different play styles.
you might pick what works for you, and ignore the rest.
Elsewhere, the display options seem well intended but misplaced.
Visually, Sol Cresta will likely be divisive.
Sol Cresta may not be perfect, but it is absolutely fun, atypical and thrilling.
A Cave-like would, frankly, have been disappointing.
Instead, we’ve got something hard to pin down.
At times it feels like Sol Cresta has rather too much going on.
But that is infinitely better than having too little going on.
