First Impression of Star Trek Prodigy: SuperNova

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream we started playing Star Trek Prodigy: SuperNova, and my first impressions of it is this... it's a great couch co-op game. Clearly for a lot of its puzzles, it took inspiration from the Lego video games in terms of each of the playable characters (Dal and Gwyn) have their own unique abilities. Such as Dal has more ranged abilities and can lift heavy objects, while Gwyn can form a bridge and is more a brawler.. The puzzles are logic based, and if you're playing with someone  it certainly would make things a lot more fun in terms of figuring things out, but other wise you're just swapping between characters as you would in a Lego video game.

The game does a 'fair' job of getting the characters personalities across, but it's really clear that its aimed at people who already have seen the show up through the middle of the first season. It is great that Kate Mulgrew is voicing Janeway in more than just Star Trek Online, but I noticed something weird with the voice over work and audio mixing is a little weird, such as I could hear Dal's voice actor literal breathing into the microphone, or some dialog being mixed to sound quieter than it should've been. I'm going to assume either some audio takes were used because of a rushed development cycle

Which does lead into another, in that for a game that is cross-gen on the Xbox side, saying that its optimized for Xbox Series consoles is a bit of a stretch, because I did notices some actual frame rate issues at times. There was also an instant where the controls were not responding forcing for a reload of a check point, and much like the stuff with the audio, I'm chocking it up to a rushed development cycle.

So why am I saying that? Well too be honest, Star Trek Prodigy: SuperNova is clearly a budget title to some degree, while visually it's not a bad looking game, it is clearly aimed at those who have seen the shown, which is a young audience. and while someone who is 10 may not notices (or care) about the things I noticed, I personally would say nab it when it's on sale, and preferably with another person, because it will make the game play experience more enjoyable.

That said, I'm looking forward to continuing it next Monday! On a side note. Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova isn't listed over on Hover

Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova Achievements

• Restoring the Protostar: You finished Orisi Level 1: Destiny Mountain and returned to the Protostar
• Guess who's back: You rescued Jankom Pog!
• The Clock is Ticking: You finished Orisi Level 2: Caves of the Forgotten.
• A Helping Hand: A crewmember beamed in to help out during combat.
• One for the Crew: You completed a Crew Member Mission.
• Punny Lover: You found half of all Punnies.
• Back online: You finished Orisi Level 3: Heart of Sand and got Protostar systems back online.
• Three Watchers, Two Phasers: You hit 3 enemies with Dal's Dual Phasers simultaneously.
• Up your Arsenal: You unlocked a new weapon.
• Getting Better: You upgraded a weapon.
• I've Got You: You revived your teammate.
• First Contact?: You recovered the An'Wu access card and finished Mirios Level 1: Valley of the Ancients.
• Not Too Long: You rescued Rok-Tahk!
• Rok and Roll: You defeated the Giant Watcher and finished Orisi Level 4: An'Wu Station.

Twitch Clips

• Achievement: A Helping Hand
• What did Janeway do to make people mad? 
• First try... Success!
  

Big thanks to scotchboxvr for the raid following their stream of Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity over at twitch.tv/scotchboxvr! Now that is a game I haven't played in a few years, it's a great game, but it's space combat is awful!

For out raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Magic: The Gathering over on twitch.tv/bestibunni!  

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For tonight's stream we are continuing Dragon Ball FighterZ, looking to finish up the villains story arc, getting Goku to close to level 40 (hopefully) and we might do the 3rd arcade route run as well.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!