Vasara is an arcade scroll shooter game released by Visco in 2000. All six stages. The motif is the Battle of Sekigahara and the Jin of Osaka, but all the cavalry has been replaced with air bikes, and battleships and tanks have appeared, creating a worldview that could be described as the sci-fi Warring States period.
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the final level was not made for human beings
Played through the Vasara Collection on Switch.
Really fun and challenging shootemup, though the design tends to funnel you into a very aggressive, melee-heavy approach as the only option, as the bullet hell is almost impossible to negotiate without it. The visual design is a little plain, the steampunk samurai vibe sort of warrants that, even still, not totally my thing. I loved how brutal it was, even with infinite continues, it forces you to complete the last stage without a continue, which I thought was an excellent way of balancing difficulty gated progression and flexibility, and really made that final victory sweet. I'm a little burnt out on it after beating it with the absolute lowest difficulty, might return to it after a while when I have more experience with the genre.
Really fun and challenging shootemup, though the design tends to funnel you into a very aggressive, melee-heavy approach as the only option, as the bullet hell is almost impossible to negotiate without it. The visual design is a little plain, the steampunk samurai vibe sort of warrants that, even still, not totally my thing. I loved how brutal it was, even with infinite continues, it forces you to complete the last stage without a continue, which I thought was an excellent way of balancing difficulty gated progression and flexibility, and really made that final victory sweet. I'm a little burnt out on it after beating it with the absolute lowest difficulty, might return to it after a while when I have more experience with the genre.
bullet hell with a cool melee attack gimmick but it's one of the uglier entries in the genre and just not as fun or engrossing as other genre entries. It doesn't ease you into the difficulty very well at all and was definitely made for genre purists.