Star Force
Saw this on Game Center CX and thought it looked great, so I picked it up at my local retro store and spent two days playing it. I enjoyed every minute of it, however, I still have yet to beat it.
I often wonder how much better my childhood would have been if I had picked out Silver Surfer from the clearance bin instead of the awful NES Wolverine game.
Your basic side scrolling shooter, with an excellent death animation and continue screen.
Section Z
A two button shooter that moves quickly. B button shoots to your left, A button to the right, no simultaneous, which makes for some interesting rhythms late in the game.
A Space Shooter for 2 bucks!
Having played this more now, the game makes a weak first impression. It really gets going in the later stages though and makes for some fun shmup action. It is by no means a bullet hell, though there are some enemy attacks that approach such. The megaman analogy is even more apt now, because I have several different special weapons that I gained from bosses, and I must equip and use them appropriately.
I have not posted much lately because I have been playing a lot of popular games from the past such as Zelda on SNES and Ninja Gaiden series on NES. But I did recently start playing this.
Platypus is a strange shooter on PSP. There is a not a whole lot to set it apart from other shooters except for its very interesting style. It looks like faux claymation. Sort of like the old Clayfighters games. So far it is fun, but not as great as a Gradius or LifeForce.
And speaking of Life Force, I finally got the Life Force collection for PSP. It is an import game and it took me a couple of seconds to figure out how to insert a virtual coin for the earlier games, but once I did it was just like the grand old days of NES all over again, but now with 100% more Japanese.
That list made me remember how much I was in love with Retro Game Challenge at the beginning of the year.
You get to play several NES style games, and to make it more interesting you are challenged by a mischievous floating head to complete different tasks in the games like get to the 3rd level without using a power up or complete a race in x amount of time etc. There is a strange puzzle game, a galaga clone, a classic rpg, a rally racer, a top down shooter like Xevious but in outer space and the sequels to some of those games. After you have completed the challenge set, you may play any of these games in free play.
You are given game magazines with cheat codes and strategies as well as nicely illustrated game manuals for each game. You can access these on screen at any time after they are unlocked.
If you grew up playing NES in its initial release and you read Nintendo Power every month, this is an attempt at replicating that experience and for me the nostalgia and fun factors were equally high.
I got a shooter for the wii yesterday. Castle of Shikigami III is a bullet hell type shooter, similar to Ikaruga but not nearly as innovative. It is not too challenging but still pretty fun. It has a slight bit of story for each character and there are several to choose from. Each character has a different type of attack so it does make it interesting and fun enough to replay a few times.
Just for insanity sake I got both of my wii controllers and held them together, trying to play two player simultaneous. It was extremely fun but hard. This game was only $10 new at Gamestop.
