I had a lot of hope that this one would be better than the first game. I don't think the first game was bad but it was close. (Edit: This opinion has changed after this review was made). You might be wondering, first game? Yeah this is actually a sequel to a japan only game called Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman. For some reason they skipped it here and brought the sequel instead. Is it any better then the first one? Not really.
Thankfully the map system of the previous game was ditched to be a linear focused game. You can shoot in multiple directions and can even charge. The controls still aren't great but they're much better then last time. At least your speed is much better, it was horrible in the first game.
That said though this game is sloppy. There's level design that's not only repetitive but very uninteresting. The game has some questionable moments that make you wonder how much playtesting was done on this game and sometimes this game just wants to waste your time with slow auto scrollers or doing the same thing the game already made you do in that level.
But that's all nothing compared to the shmup sections. These are horrible. It really says a lot about these when it felt more optimal to not bother shooting enemies. These honestly might be some of the worst I've seen from the genre. It's got slow movement, stuff you just can't destroy, awful collision detection, no power ups, and you only have one life. Yeah this goes for the whole game, if you die once back to the beginning of the level with you.
The bosses are so inconsistent in quality that it baffles me. Some of them can be a little challenging but then there are some that just have such easy safespots that again I ask was this even playtested. The final boss is so anticlimatic and worse of all when I beat it, it just kept going and I was so confused. It only died once it went further to the right like what, I don't get this at all...
So even with all that said, what makes it not bad? Well I guess the foundation of the gameplay isn't too awful. If I could have read the dialogue which btw goes way too fast, it probably has an OK story. Always like when these kind of games have throwaway stories it's just I like the effort regardless. When it's not being bad it can be decent I guess, you can do worse.
The game looks alright, it's not good in my opinion but hey it could be worse. I like the designs of the characters once again though I swear the professor guy reminds me of someone but now I forgot, damnit. The music is not enjoyable to me personally, I think some of it sounds bad personally. The voices are neat though but nothing special.
You know writing this down, it's probably shocking to people I even gave it a 5/10. It's like barely better than the first game but it's problems are different to the previous game, it's so weird. It's such a shame because I wanna like it like I do the Rockman series but I just don't. There is still another PC Engine game but I'm not having too much hope for it. If it gets higher than a 5/10, I will be very surprised.
Thankfully the map system of the previous game was ditched to be a linear focused game. You can shoot in multiple directions and can even charge. The controls still aren't great but they're much better then last time. At least your speed is much better, it was horrible in the first game.
That said though this game is sloppy. There's level design that's not only repetitive but very uninteresting. The game has some questionable moments that make you wonder how much playtesting was done on this game and sometimes this game just wants to waste your time with slow auto scrollers or doing the same thing the game already made you do in that level.
But that's all nothing compared to the shmup sections. These are horrible. It really says a lot about these when it felt more optimal to not bother shooting enemies. These honestly might be some of the worst I've seen from the genre. It's got slow movement, stuff you just can't destroy, awful collision detection, no power ups, and you only have one life. Yeah this goes for the whole game, if you die once back to the beginning of the level with you.
The bosses are so inconsistent in quality that it baffles me. Some of them can be a little challenging but then there are some that just have such easy safespots that again I ask was this even playtested. The final boss is so anticlimatic and worse of all when I beat it, it just kept going and I was so confused. It only died once it went further to the right like what, I don't get this at all...
So even with all that said, what makes it not bad? Well I guess the foundation of the gameplay isn't too awful. If I could have read the dialogue which btw goes way too fast, it probably has an OK story. Always like when these kind of games have throwaway stories it's just I like the effort regardless. When it's not being bad it can be decent I guess, you can do worse.
The game looks alright, it's not good in my opinion but hey it could be worse. I like the designs of the characters once again though I swear the professor guy reminds me of someone but now I forgot, damnit. The music is not enjoyable to me personally, I think some of it sounds bad personally. The voices are neat though but nothing special.
You know writing this down, it's probably shocking to people I even gave it a 5/10. It's like barely better than the first game but it's problems are different to the previous game, it's so weird. It's such a shame because I wanna like it like I do the Rockman series but I just don't. There is still another PC Engine game but I'm not having too much hope for it. If it gets higher than a 5/10, I will be very surprised.