Air Zonk for TurboGrafx-16

Review #7001

Air Zonk

Bonk...ers

TG-16 1992 TTI Shooter Shooter › Horizontal
Air Zonk screenshot for TG-16
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
4 / 5

Gameplay

Tons of weapons and familiars who follow you and fire automatically. If you power up you can combine with your familiar for some truly bizarre combos, like a Robo Cat that fires the word BOW as a vertical projectile.
Movement is fast and speed can be adjusted by pressing select.
The screen scrolls a tiny bit up and down.
Your weapons feel like they fill the screen because they have a slight homing aspect to them. It makes the game fairly easy making this an accessible shooter.
Despite the good aspects this is a fairly straightforward shooter experience

4 / 5

Level Design

Lovely design for enemy waves and interesting events.
The levels don't require much dexterity tho.
There difficulty levels.

5 / 5

Theme

Utterly bonkers. Distinct and memorable across the board.

5 / 5

Art Style

Wow. Impressive sprites and effects. Extensive use of parallax scrolling.
Enormous boss sprites.
A tiny bit of slowdown.

4 / 5

Audio

Awesome music! I was bopping along to all of them. They're kind of a mix between 8-bit NES Capcom Disney music and Legend of the Mystical Ninja. They might be an acquired taste for some.

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