Hellishly hard; dense webs of bullets rapidly accelerate towards you in an unholy union of bullet-hell and Raiden-style shmup design. The colorful prerendered graphics and squeaky voice clips only rub it in. I respect it, but it's not for me. Very pretty, though.
Everything tells me this game should be better than the original. It has better stages and graphics, better music and a better cast in my opinion, but the issue is that this game is much, much more difficult than the first one, so I can never really decide which of the two I prefer.
It's still a pretty good game but the second half is pretty annoying which how crazy it gets and how easy it is to die.
Also kind sucks no port of this game besides the dreamcast version has Morrigan.
It's still a pretty good game but the second half is pretty annoying which how crazy it gets and how easy it is to die.
Also kind sucks no port of this game besides the dreamcast version has Morrigan.
Só consegui zerar na dificuldade baby :c
Extra points for the Dreamcast version having Morrigan
This is the RuPaul's Drag Race™ Season 6, Episode 5 "Snatch Game" of STG's.
I felt just about the same with Gunbird 2 as I did with Gunbird 1 so I will keep this one short.
Awesome level designs and very fun characters to play overall. I honestly really loved the multiple endings in both games and thought they were funny. I will say however this game was WHOOPING my butt as there is a huge difficulty spike from the 1st game onto the sequel. With that being said that really isn't an issue as that really comes down to my skill level which is pretty low with shumps so I never let difficulty effect my rating in the end since I still overly enjoy these games.
Overall I really enjoyed both games :) great time!
Awesome level designs and very fun characters to play overall. I honestly really loved the multiple endings in both games and thought they were funny. I will say however this game was WHOOPING my butt as there is a huge difficulty spike from the 1st game onto the sequel. With that being said that really isn't an issue as that really comes down to my skill level which is pretty low with shumps so I never let difficulty effect my rating in the end since I still overly enjoy these games.
Overall I really enjoyed both games :) great time!
My fave shmup so far.
It's hard for me to rightly look at the Shoot'em Up genre with a proper lens as I simply consider myself an outsider to it. That being said, Gunbird 2 has always fantasized me in a way that most other SHMUPs don't. The style of it looks charming, the game is very colorful, there are a multitude of characters to chose from, and it was one of the few arcade machines at this local Burger King joint I used to go to.
Going to play Gunbird 2 for nostalgic reasons; I was really surprised how beginner friendly this game can be. Like don't get me wrong, it has challenging issues, but the initial start of the game wasn't nearly as off putting as some other shmups out there. Gunbird 2 has a tendency to shift between it's first few stages giving players a chance to become more familiar with it's levels. The way that you lose power ups is gradual as it's not all at once, and the enemy attacks do have some predictable patterns once you get use to them. All in all, Gunbird 2 is at least friendly in the beginning, which makes for the last 2 levels spike in difficulty really exasperating.
Honestly, I think that's just the main problem with Gunbird 2 here. No matter how much you pay attention it can always feel like a bomb didn't go off fast enough or an attack came out way too fast. And really this is only noticeable near the end of the game, at Gunbird 2's last two levels that things feel unfair. Why there is suddenly a laser that can instantly come out, or the way certain enemies and attack patterns start attacking from the sides really feels more jarring than challenging. No enemies are introduced before hand that are like this, and the game sort requires you know when a boss is just going to fire a laser with little warning. It just makes getting to the end point, only to game over feel awful, or simply dying in these last few levels a hellish nightmare of survival that feels like there is no way out.
Still, I feel Gunbird 2 offers more to it's audience than the average SHMUP. Not to knock other SHMUPS, but the fact this game has a team attack mode with it's own unique story for each pairing is just super neat. The difficulty levels range through 9 different ones that honestly feel like a proper work up to each level. Boss and enemy designs are fairly neat and stick out on the maps without distracting the player or the bullets that you have to dodge. The backgrounds are all different and unique on each stage, and the music is very poppy. Gunbird 2 is just ascetically pleasing to look at, and deceptively friendly at first that I can't help to not recommend to others simply because it's inviting.
Going to play Gunbird 2 for nostalgic reasons; I was really surprised how beginner friendly this game can be. Like don't get me wrong, it has challenging issues, but the initial start of the game wasn't nearly as off putting as some other shmups out there. Gunbird 2 has a tendency to shift between it's first few stages giving players a chance to become more familiar with it's levels. The way that you lose power ups is gradual as it's not all at once, and the enemy attacks do have some predictable patterns once you get use to them. All in all, Gunbird 2 is at least friendly in the beginning, which makes for the last 2 levels spike in difficulty really exasperating.
Honestly, I think that's just the main problem with Gunbird 2 here. No matter how much you pay attention it can always feel like a bomb didn't go off fast enough or an attack came out way too fast. And really this is only noticeable near the end of the game, at Gunbird 2's last two levels that things feel unfair. Why there is suddenly a laser that can instantly come out, or the way certain enemies and attack patterns start attacking from the sides really feels more jarring than challenging. No enemies are introduced before hand that are like this, and the game sort requires you know when a boss is just going to fire a laser with little warning. It just makes getting to the end point, only to game over feel awful, or simply dying in these last few levels a hellish nightmare of survival that feels like there is no way out.
Still, I feel Gunbird 2 offers more to it's audience than the average SHMUP. Not to knock other SHMUPS, but the fact this game has a team attack mode with it's own unique story for each pairing is just super neat. The difficulty levels range through 9 different ones that honestly feel like a proper work up to each level. Boss and enemy designs are fairly neat and stick out on the maps without distracting the player or the bullets that you have to dodge. The backgrounds are all different and unique on each stage, and the music is very poppy. Gunbird 2 is just ascetically pleasing to look at, and deceptively friendly at first that I can't help to not recommend to others simply because it's inviting.
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A gameplay é bem simples ou seja não tem muito como errar, gostei muito dos cenários e como sempre principalmente dos bosses.
A música é meio bosta, mas como todo jogo da Psikyo o visual é INSANO.
A gameplay é bem simples ou seja não tem muito como errar, gostei muito dos cenários e como sempre principalmente dos bosses.
A música é meio bosta, mas como todo jogo da Psikyo o visual é INSANO.
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More GunBird action! If you loved the original, this is much of the same and loads more, cannot recommend enough.
Good fun, absolutely brutal occasionally, even on the base difficulty.
the good is that it's an all-around improvement on 1 - very cool-looking pre-rendered bosses, good overall improvements to the depth - usual shmup sequel steps. the bad is that this game leans full-on into the bullet hell style that the original microscopically dipped its toe into, but it still has firepower and an overall gamefeel that's tailored for classic shmup antics. Also a bit too hard imo, and not in ways that make me really wanna sink my teeth in and practice.