Soldier Blade
The best 16 bit shooter?Genre: shooter - vertical
Publisher: NEC
Year: 1992
System: TurboGrafx-16
Gameplay Score: 5
Gameplay Notes:
Amazing controls, weapons, health progression, and bomb mechanic. This is shoot em up perfection. Select toggles between fast and slow movement. No messing around with a medium speed. II shoots and I fires a bomb by spending one of your three power-ups which are shown on screen. Health diminishes when hit and powers you down one level. All enemies have fair patterns. Only three weapons with the power levels each.
Level Design Score: 4
Level Design Notes:
Levels are short but jam packed with action. Enemy waves vary between a line of small enemies, a couple of big heavy enemies, those that shoot, etc. Great variety. Also lots of interesting and unique set pieces like a screen filling ship that come past quickly too drop a set of enemies. I wish the game was longer but the Challenge mode is a fun inclusion to add replayability. Also two difficulty levels.
Theme Score: 3
Theme Notes:
Generic sci-fi setting. No story
Art Style Score: 5
Art Style Notes:
Wow. Colorful and energetic but enemies and projectiles are easy to spot. Amazing scrolling effects. Incredible sprites and other artwork.
Audio Score: 4
Audio Notes:
Rocking tunes and pleasant, quiet sound effects.
Overall Score: 91
Review ID: 1496
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