Grind Stormer for Genesis
Review #4237
Grind Stormer
Overhead Gradius
Gameplay
3 or 4 different weapons. All are powerful. No peashooters here.
Always have Gradius-style options. In fact, you can play the game with a Gradius-style powerup system or the simpler way where certain enemies drop a powerup.
Powerups are clearly labeled with a full word "missile", "search"
Ridiculous difficulty. The first boss is impossible without the "search" weapon.
No need to tap the fire button, thank you.
Level Design
Some nice enemy wave designs but man do they move fast and take a lot of hits.
Enemies linger near the middle-to-bottom of the screen making it tought to get underneath to hit them.
No horizontal scrolling
Pretty standard stuff tbh
Theme
Generic. No idea what the setting is. It's a shooter
Art Style
LOVE the sprites, especially the chunky fighter plane-style sprite of your character.
Colorful sprites and backgrounds with a bit of parallax.
The backgrounds again look nice but aren't distracting like the Thunder Force games.
Audio
Music is ok but is so quiet you can't hear it over the sound effects.
And those sounds! Wow are they obnoxious. Your normal shot is so grating that I tried using it sparingly. And the continuous high-pitch screetch of the best weapon in the game is unbearable. I finally just muted the game.
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