Gunforce on SNES is a laughably bad arcade port. It's a really, really poor run n' gun, far worse than you'd typically expect from the genre. The controls are sluggish, the animation is super sloppy at times, and the screen scrolls way too slow and ends up with like an autoscrolling feel to it because you're constantly on the edge of the screen. This is an issue because it always ends up putting you too close to newly spawned enemies who make quick work of you, and it doesn't help that if you're within a certain distance of them you actually can't shoot them. At least the death sound is really funny, but it starts to get grating as you progress. Probably the best thing about this is that it's less than 30 minutes long, honestly.

This port was released the same year as Contra III. Nine months later, even. I checked who developed it to see what the fuck went wrong, and it turns out it was Bits Studios. You know what else they made?

Reviewed on Feb 17, 2023


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