Air Zonk for TurboGrafx-16

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Air Zonk

Bonk...ers

Genre: shooter - horizontal

Publisher: TTI

Year: 1992

System: TurboGrafx-16

Gameplay Score: 4

Gameplay Notes:

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

Level Design Score: 4

Level Design Notes:

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

Theme Score: 5

Theme Notes:

Utterly bonkers. Distinct and memorable across the board.

Art Style Score: 5

Art Style Notes:

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

Audio Score: 4

Audio Notes:

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.

Overall Score: 83

Review ID: 1427