I want to rate this higher but when I really think about what I played I can't honestly say that this was a good experience.
Graphics are poor, background tiles have textures that don't match, could've had more color and detail, most bosses are an image that moves around the screen usually in a circle.
Stage 5 boss actually has the masking layer accidentally left in it's animation for a frame, somehow the artist was that bad they actually left in the bg layer of the sprite, I've not even seen that in the worst games and this is an official retail game people paid money for.
the weapons are extremely unbalanced, unpolished, and unsinspired.
there are only 6 levels, level 5 is an empty nearly blank void with an airship that flies by and then it's over in about 1 minute, most levels are short.
I would have given this 3/5 but there is a laser sound effect in this game that is unreasonably loud and sounds really off-putting, I find myself having to mute the game sometimes, the final boss makes this sound effect constantly, I'm not exaggerating, it's a 5 minute onslaught of the worst sound effect I may have ever heard in a game and I've never not had the game muted during the final fight, usually I just turn the game off at stage 6 though.
Still the game is fun in a mindless "turn your brain off" kind of way, I sometimes put this on just to relax and enjoy the great music.
Yeah this terrible game has one of the best Megadrive osts, and I would give the game a lower rating if not for that. There's something strange about this game I can't explain that keeps me coming back to it, I know I shouldn't like it, I know there are far better shooting games, but I just slightly like it for some reason even with the flaws it has.
Don't play this game, listen to the soundtrack, but don't play it
Graphics are poor, background tiles have textures that don't match, could've had more color and detail, most bosses are an image that moves around the screen usually in a circle.
Stage 5 boss actually has the masking layer accidentally left in it's animation for a frame, somehow the artist was that bad they actually left in the bg layer of the sprite, I've not even seen that in the worst games and this is an official retail game people paid money for.
the weapons are extremely unbalanced, unpolished, and unsinspired.
there are only 6 levels, level 5 is an empty nearly blank void with an airship that flies by and then it's over in about 1 minute, most levels are short.
I would have given this 3/5 but there is a laser sound effect in this game that is unreasonably loud and sounds really off-putting, I find myself having to mute the game sometimes, the final boss makes this sound effect constantly, I'm not exaggerating, it's a 5 minute onslaught of the worst sound effect I may have ever heard in a game and I've never not had the game muted during the final fight, usually I just turn the game off at stage 6 though.
Still the game is fun in a mindless "turn your brain off" kind of way, I sometimes put this on just to relax and enjoy the great music.
Yeah this terrible game has one of the best Megadrive osts, and I would give the game a lower rating if not for that. There's something strange about this game I can't explain that keeps me coming back to it, I know I shouldn't like it, I know there are far better shooting games, but I just slightly like it for some reason even with the flaws it has.
Don't play this game, listen to the soundtrack, but don't play it