A classic 2D shooter that artfully mixes side-scrolling and forced perspective gameplay. Play as a mighty fighter from the hit Robotech series as you battle to save planet Earth from total destruction. Auto cannon fire lights up the skies in this epic intergalactic war with the Zentradi legions. The best defense that Earth has is the Veritech Valkyrie, a fast-changing fighter that moves through the air with the grace of a dancer and packs the punch of an armored division!
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Gameplay: Good
Story: Great, I loved Macross as a Kid. lol
Controls: Good
Graphics: Good for its time
Length: Great
Note: Played on RG35XX Retro handheld console. lol
Story: Great, I loved Macross as a Kid. lol
Controls: Good
Graphics: Good for its time
Length: Great
Note: Played on RG35XX Retro handheld console. lol
A boring GBA shmup with RPG elements where your score is used to enchance your transformer ship.
It's not good. Provides a lot of replayability through locking a lot of pilots behind what I guess is game clears with various other characters/difficulty levels, but the game is slow and samey. I could barely finish it one time, let alone 5 or so times to unlock other characters (which I guess aren't even that different)
While playing on Standard difficulty I never got below 10 lives. It's as if the devs realized that the difficulty is a little out there thanks to your ship having the biggest hit box known to man, so they decided to shower you with extra lives.
If you want to play this, heed my advice: Power stat is not Power. Do not pick a character with highest Power, as she also has the lowest Strength which leads to hilarious results where on the first level you barely scratch enemies. Strength is Power. Power is... I think it's how many rockets you can use before running out of ammo?
There's no real sense of speed to it all, and even if the game tries to mix itself up via Contra 3-like topdown stages, they aren't better. Ok if you want to see numbers go up and are very into shmups and need to play a new one, otherwise it's a game equivalent of a headache.
It's not good. Provides a lot of replayability through locking a lot of pilots behind what I guess is game clears with various other characters/difficulty levels, but the game is slow and samey. I could barely finish it one time, let alone 5 or so times to unlock other characters (which I guess aren't even that different)
While playing on Standard difficulty I never got below 10 lives. It's as if the devs realized that the difficulty is a little out there thanks to your ship having the biggest hit box known to man, so they decided to shower you with extra lives.
If you want to play this, heed my advice: Power stat is not Power. Do not pick a character with highest Power, as she also has the lowest Strength which leads to hilarious results where on the first level you barely scratch enemies. Strength is Power. Power is... I think it's how many rockets you can use before running out of ammo?
There's no real sense of speed to it all, and even if the game tries to mix itself up via Contra 3-like topdown stages, they aren't better. Ok if you want to see numbers go up and are very into shmups and need to play a new one, otherwise it's a game equivalent of a headache.
I'd played through this in the HD edition on switch and look to revisit that version at a later date but thought I'd give the GBA version a try. I had a much easier time with this version and I can only credit so much of that to being familiar with the game already. I think it might actually work better on a smaller screen where it's easier to take all the visual information in at once. It's not a particularly good game but sometimes you just want something to kill time with and it manages that job just fine.
It was unfair, dumb, hard. It was fun tho