Sinistron for TurboGrafx-16

Review #7069

Sinistron

R-Type with a bird beak

TG-16 1991 IGS Shooter Shooter › Horizontal
Sinistron screenshot for TG-16
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
3 / 5

Gameplay

Blatant R-Type clone.
Options hang out above and below your ship but don't do much since enemies swarm to you and therefore come at you from the front.
Only three weapons and none are very interesting. Only minor upgrades too.
No rapid fire.

3 / 5

Level Design

Long stretches of nothing. Short bursts of something.
Very slow progression.
Boring boss fights.

2 / 5

Theme

Piss poor presentation. There's no cutscenes. No story, no fanfare at the end of a level. Nothing at the start of a level. They're not even a menu on the title screen.
Otherwise it's your typical space shooter.

4 / 5

Art Style

Easily the best feature of the game. Lovely artwork and sprites. The backgrounds have animation and character to them. However, your ship looks like a storks beak. Is this big long yellow thing attached to the end of a normal looking spaceship. Hideous

3 / 5

Audio

At first the music doesn't seem too bad but it loops every 10 seconds so it gets old super fast.

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