Status scoopings Dec 11, 2024
Preliminary: This has everything I look for in a shmup: frequent power-ups, reasonable difficulty, good music, ability to shoot away most enemy projectiles etc. However, it feels quite innocuous. And the NES Look is quite meh at this point in my chronology project.
Welp, the first Area is cleared. I had fun. Not sure about all 8 levels tho. And …
Preliminary: This has everything I look for in a shmup: frequent power-ups, reasonable difficulty, good music, ability to shoot away most enemy projectiles etc. However, it feels quite innocuous. And the NES Look is quite meh at this point in my chronology project.
Welp, the first Area is cleared. I had fun. Not sure about all 8 levels tho. And I am playing the original Japanese version so I can't understand this Shop text lol. But at least the Shop music is great :-p
Yea it's unfortunate cuz the gameplay is great. Definitely the best NES shmup that I recall rn, and among the better shmups. But with a blah Look and only okay Sound, and me being quite tired of the shmup formula, I stopped near the end of Area 2. Part of me wants to give it a 3 star because of its good qualities. But I didn't play it very long, and the Look really is borderline bad. Maybe that's just 91 SNES era me talking, and not fair since this game technically came out 1990. I dunno. I suppose I'm just moving on.
Well, you know what. No. Honorary 3 star. Because I want to remember it as one of the more worthwhile shmups to return to.