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Harmful Park (1997)

Sky Think Systems

PlayStation · PlayStation 3 · PlayStation Portable

4.00 from 22 ratings

60 members have it in their collection · 24 backlogged · 21 wish listed

How long? · with extras 2h (from 1 logged playthrough)

Harmful Park was only released on the Playstation in Japan by a small company named Sky Think Systems. It's your standard 2D side-scrolling shooter, except set in a bizarre amusement park. As the (relatively lengthy) introduction tells you, an evil scientist has taken over Heartful Park and is using it for nefarious purposes. One of his colleagues aims to stop … Read more
Harmful Park was only released on the Playstation in Japan by a small company named Sky Think Systems. It's your standard 2D side-scrolling shooter, except set in a bizarre amusement park. As the (relatively lengthy) introduction tells you, an evil scientist has taken over Heartful Park and is using it for nefarious purposes. One of his colleagues aims to stop him, but she's old to do it herself. So, she commands her two slacker daughters to save the day, equipping them with some kind of flying motorcycle armed to the teeth with strange weapons. Read less

Details

Developers
Sky Think Systems
Publishers
Skysea Games
Genres
Arcade, Shooter
Themes
Action, Comedy

Release dates

  • Feb 14, 1997 (Full Release) (Japan) PlayStation
  • Feb 22, 2012 (Digital Compatibility Release) (Japan) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable

Rating distribution

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Community All Reviews Statuses

Reset_Tears

Status Reset_Tears Mar 2, 2022

Theme parks sure are dangerous places in the world of video games, aren't they? I guess we just love the idea of a place that's supposed to be fun and safe turning out to be not so fun and safe. Such is the premise of Harmful Park, a horizontal shooter that can easily be compared to Parodius, Keio Flying Squadron, …

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Theme parks sure are dangerous places in the world of video games, aren't they? I guess we just love the idea of a place that's supposed to be fun and safe turning out to be not so fun and safe. Such is the premise of Harmful Park, a horizontal shooter that can easily be compared to Parodius, Keio Flying Squadron, Cotton, etc.

Good news for chumps at shmups like myself... For like the one time in shmup history, the easy mode in this shooter actually is pretty easy! This is nice because while the gameplay is serviceable, the real reason you're here is to see all the strange enemies and the silly things going on in the background. If you don't think you're ever going to play this one, I recommend watching a playthrough on Youtube and enjoy all the silly nonsense this game has to offer. Wonderful pixel art, and great little animations for everything. I could list a bunch of examples of weird things you'll encounter, but no sense spoiling the fun.

Is it one of the greatest shooters of all time? Probably not, since it's so simple and short. I also find the scrolling of this one to be incredibly slow -- which to some degree is understandable (you need enough time to see all the funny things happening), but it's still kind of a drag in replays.

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giopep

Review giopep 4/5 · May 18, 2021

A cute, lovely, fun shooter, with amazing graphics and lots of humour. A bit on the easy side, maybe, even though if you select the hardest difficulty level there's some challenge and if you play it for the score you can find some interesting ideas in how that works. Also, the mini-games and extra modes are quite fun.