Download

Download

released on Jun 22, 1990

Download

released on Jun 22, 1990

Horizontal shoot 'em up for the PC Engine. The player, as cyber-diver Syd, must fly his hoverbike through the future city of Kabukicho to rescue his partner Deva from the corrupt police. Download is a horizontal shoot 'em up set in a dystopian cyberpunk future in which the main character, Syd, is haunted by memories of his friend Ohala falling to a cybernetic menace. Meanwhile, he receives a call from his contact/partner Deva and must rush to her rescue when she is abducted by the Kabukicho police force. The game's story is depicted in a series of animated vignettes before each stage, similar to Ninja Gaiden. Beginning with the mean streets of Kabukicho, Syd will eventually jack into the internet and fights in a similar manner through cyberspace.


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Solid horizontal shoot em up. Start each stage choosing between a main weapon that fires in front of you before becoming a fast shooting spread shot and one that shoots slower stronger penetrating beams that branch out in front, above, and below you and a secondary weapon that can be homing missiles, a device that absorbs shorts and hits enemies before exploding, or a shield that can take 15 hits and shift to defend each side of your flying motorcycle. Powerups to increase your weapon strength, refill health, or refill secondary ammo are readily available. The stages and enemies look ok for the system but the story scenes between stages are the high point of the artwork, though the dialogue is in Japanese and no translation patch seems to be available.

Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1561516799983624192

There's a OVA based on this game where some dude's getting mind raped by watching porn mixed with nazis shouting sieg heil and, that's like totally me when i'm sleep deprived at 6 AM reading about ustachan war crimes while listening to Beatmania music.

Fun horizontal shooter with some great latter stage graphics. I wish there was an English translation. Or, you know, I was fluent in Japanese.