StarStruck is a very endearing and quite well executed attempt at the tried-and-true space theming expected for the upcoming Space Gauntlet. I'd like to start with this level's drawbacks. There's a noticeable lack of execution in most of the designs, particularly towards the beginning, but the midsection has similar issues. The beginning has lots of very blurry, highly scaled rocks which look quite muddy and unnatural in contrast to the sharp, angular block designs, which are themselves pretty basic and don't mesh particularly well with the rest of the part due to their shape and the odd lack of parallaxing in the depth layers of this part. Making the shapes of the structures feel more natural here as well as incorporating some more movement into the foreground and background layers would have helped flesh the part out significantly.

The first half of the drop suffers a similar issue minus the parallaxing, where the angular, floating black structures with yellow/blue outlines stick out quite aggressively as nothing else in the part ties in with them thematically. Floating in place with no movement and nothing tangible attaching them to the screen borders makes them feel less like gameplay objects and more like air decoration, which is quite jarring considering the spikes that serve this purpose are simply a series of copy-pasted blue glowy outlines which are either hardly visible or have far too little variation to offer up much visually. With all of that said, I adore the effect work in this level, and much of the overall colour design is genuinely fantastic. Small touches like the yellow/blue fade effect on the outline blocks in the first part and the pulsing screen borders in the first half reminiscent of the aurora borealis feel almost ethereal, and fit in with the space theme really nicely while also looking the part. I especially love the second half of the drop, as the asteroids and bright, flashing rainbow effects make me feel like I'm zooming through an asteroid cloud at high speeds, which is a nice match to the climax of the song. Despite this creator's clear lack of experience, the things they have managed to do with StarStruck give me a lot of hope that they'll make something fantastic in the future, with enough practice. I would recommend this for Star Rate.