Gunstar Super Heroes
Main game
3.37 average rating based on 65 ratings
- Developers
- Treasure
- Publishers
- Sega
- Series
- Gunstar Heroes
- Platforms
- Game Boy Advance
- Genres
- Arcade, Platform, Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction
Release Dates
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Gunstar Super Heroes
This review is for the Game Boy Advance version
Another shoot ‘em up game on the GBA. It’s good and very similar to Astro Boy: Omega Factor, a game made by the same company treasure. Honestly I would’ve rated this game higher but it’s just too hard on hard mode. Maybe I’m just struggling to learn this games strats and aren’t good enough but trying to get the hard mode true ending is absolutely insane IMO. Part of me appreciates the added bonus to completing games on hard mode and getting the real ending but sometimes I don’t like the story being gatekeeper by extreme difficulty. Good game nonetheless especially on normal mode, and can be beat in a day easily.
Fine handheld game but don’t expect a true great sequel
This review is for the Game Boy Advance version
This GBA sequel to Gunstar Heroes (review) checks some of the same boxes as that oustanding predecessor. It’s got the fast-paced and explosive action, some of the same flashy style and varied encounter design ideas, and so on.
It should be a recipe for greater success, but it straight-up rehashes a whole lot of the exact same level and encounter ideas from the first game while feeling like a step back in several ways.
Unsurprisingly for a GBA game, the sound and visuals are not quite as good, and that was a key part of why the first game felt so amazing. This kind of action feels a bit cramped at the system’s tiny screen size. Mechanically, the first game’s cool main gimmick of mixing weapons is totally gone, and melee options felt generally worse to me.
What it does add is a few little levels that mix up the gameplay, sadly usually for the worse. One early one for example has you roaming around a rotating level collecting baby chickens (?) to take back to the entrance, as monsters lunge at you and send the chickens back to their starting place. It’s really annoying, awkward, and out …
This GBA sequel to Gunstar Heroes (review) checks some of the same boxes as that oustanding predecessor. It’s got the fast-paced and explosive action, some of the same flashy style and varied encounter design ideas, and so on.
It should be a recipe for greater success, but it straight-up rehashes a whole lot of the exact same level and encounter ideas from the first game while feeling like a step back in several ways.
Unsurprisingly for a GBA game, the sound and visuals are not quite as good, and that was a key part of why the first game felt so amazing. This kind of action feels a bit cramped at the system’s tiny screen size. Mechanically, the first game’s cool main gimmick of mixing weapons is totally gone, and melee options felt generally worse to me.
What it does add is a few little levels that mix up the gameplay, sadly usually for the worse. One early one for example has you roaming around a rotating level collecting baby chickens (?) to take back to the entrance, as monsters lunge at you and send the chickens back to their starting place. It’s really annoying, awkward, and out of place. The original game had some different little sections too, but I definitely enjoyed those more on average.
But when it’s doing Gunstar Heroes stuff, it’s still fun, even if it feels like a weakened echo of the game that came before. It almost feels more like an odd remake/reboot or a tribute to the first game, which is okay but a bit disappointing—I feel I would have been better off just replaying that. I would not call this essential, but it’s reasonably impressive for the GBA. Just go for the much better Treasure GBA game Astro Boy: Omega Factor before picking this up, or some of their more well-known titles.
Jos nimeen lisätään Super, sen on pakko olla parempi?
Advance Guardian Heroesin jälkeen Treasure teki toisenkin jatko-osan klassikkopelilleen. Gunstar Super Heroes (tai Gunstar Future Heroes meille eteenpäin katsoville eurooppalaisille) tarjoaa samankaltaisen kokemuksen kuin alkuperäinenkin Gunstar Heroes: todella toiminnantäytteisen run 'n' gun -pläjäyksen, joka pitää nähdä ymmärtääkseen menon hulluuden. Itseasiassa Gunstar Super Heroes on niin lähellä alkuperäistä kenttien ja bossien puolesta, että se muistuttaa melkein remakea.
Mikä sitten on muttunut? Ensimmäisen pelin hauska aseiden yhdistelymekaniikka on harmillisesti pois, ja tilalla ovat ennaltamäärätyt aseet, näiden tuhoa kylvävät erikoisiskut sekä liikkumisen ja tähtäämisen saumattomampi vuorottelu. Tätä myötä pelin pelattavuus on entistä sulavampaa, mutta aseyhdistelmien karsinta on tylsähkö veto. Myös tarinalla on nyt isompi osuus, joskaan kummoista kerrottavaa ei pelillä ole. Käsikonsolipelinä myös co-op on pudonnut matkasta.
Pelin grafiikat ovat todella vakuuttavat alustan huomioon ottaen, ja toiminnan määrä ruudulla on huikea. Audiopuoli ja musiikit tukevat toimintaa hyvin, vaikkei soundtrackiltä oikein kappaleita erotukaan. Vaikeusastekin tarjoaa sopivasti haastetta (ja vaikeusvaihtoehtoja). Kenttäsuunnittelu on pääosin hyvää, mutta muutama hölmö tai heikko osiokin on päätynyt mukaan.
Gunstar Super Heroes on todella hyvä toimintapeli. Sillä oli isot saappaat täytettävänä, ja mielestäni se täyttää ne hyvin. Harmillisesti Treasure on vaipunut hiljaiseloon, joten tuskin näemme olisiko kolmannella Gunstarilla isoin kengänkoko.
KyuuKyuu's review of Gunstar Super Heroes
The sequel I never knew existed for one of my favorite games. And I wish it stayed that way. Two long frustrating hours of repetative boss fights, obnoxious RNG and poor writing. I could've been playing Dracula X but instead I chose this.