The Sky has been blacked out into an endless night with the stars constantly shifting and falling.
The Nightmare Knight has awoken and breaks havoc on those who try to sleep through it.
It's up to the starborn Safire and her two magical friends to stand up and put an end to the endless night!

Jump and fight your way up through this vertical platformer through variouss short levels, and challenge yourself to keep up the combo's.

Choose between 3 characters that have varying abilities that gets stronger as long as you keep up a combo streak:
- Safire has a short range fireball, maintain a combo to make her fire stronger and regenerate faster.
- Kalynn uses arrows at a long range, but can resort to her melee weapon when she gets too close. When her combo is up, she regains more firepower as she defeats enemies.
However, her arrows can't damage dark enemies without her combo power.
- Serene can create a bubble shield around her, dealing damage to any enemies nearby, she also deals extra damage to dark enemies.

Controls:

Player 1:
Arrow keys: Move/jump
Z/N: Jump
X/M: Shoot

Player 2: 
ESDF: Move/jump
W/Shift/Tab: Jump
Q/A: Shoot

Enter: Pauze, reset
Defeat enemies in a row to unleash a combo streak, the abilities of the combo depends on the character.

Gameplay inspired by Kid Icarus and Kamiko

Some music tracks inspired by chorus from Rend Collective:
- Title theme: Burn like a Star
- Sky theme: My Lighthouse
- Ending theme: Every Giant Will Fall

Updated 20 hours ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Authorppowersteef
GenrePlatformer, Action
Made withPICO-8
Tags2D, Arcade, Fantasy, Pixel Art, Retro
Average sessionA few minutes
InputsKeyboard, Gamepad (any), Smartphone
AccessibilityTextless
MultiplayerLocal multiplayer
Player count1 - 2
LinksLexaloffle BBS, Community

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Fallen_Star_1_2_3.zip 993 kB

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(+1)

The controls were very good and I enjoyed playing the game in a very exhilarating way!

The Nightmare Knight in the boss battle had good changing action patterns and was very fun to time.

I played it while streaming, but then also enjoyed playing it in the browser on my phone!

Thanks!

I'm glad to hear you've enjoyed it!

(+1)

im so bad at this game

It can be NES hard sometimes, though some characters are harder to play than others, I might balance these out.

what’s the best character to play as?

(+1)

Serene (Bubble Shield Girl) has been a fan favorite as of late.

(+2)

Couldn't help but keep trying until I beat the boss!

(+1)

Let's gooo


Thanks for trying out! :D