Funny story, I went to play a random Turbo/PCE game on my backlog here and turns out "Gunhed" is just the Japanese version of this which strips away the original movie licensing. So that was hilarious.
I hate to play the bad guy here, but I feel almost like I've been lied to about this game, because the pacing is absolutely abominable. The first two-thirds are so easy I could probably beat the stages with my toes on another controller, all while still practicing my Super R-Type pro difficulty 1CC with another gamepad in my hands. By the time I started getting drowsy Blazing Lazers decided to hit me with a low blow from behind in the form of an absurdly long bubble stage that suddenly wanted to bring in checkpoint respawns, and all 50,000 of my bombs were getting use finally. This all capped off with a finale that dared to bitchslap me with a boss rush, and mood whiplash from an attempt at seduction with a final boss woman who can shoot lasers at me. The titular Blazing Lazers maybe?! I assume she was in the movie.
Looking again at the release date I can get why people were impressed by it visually, but man, as a shmup I think it reeks. Having such a toothless difficulty for a long time only for it to suddenly put it's dentures in five days later is the worst way to do it I feel. I could try a replay to reaccess it, but by the end of it all I was sick of looking at it and that's a death sentence for any shmup to me. I ain't going back to 1CC this anytime soon I'm afraid, not enough slowdown like Super R-Type.
Seriously, I can't tell you how severely my brain was rattled when I thought I was playing a middling/below average PC Engine shmup called "Gunhed" only to find out it was actually the acclaimed "Blazing Lazers". Like shit, do I have bad opinions or is everyone else wrong? Maybe both....
I hate to play the bad guy here, but I feel almost like I've been lied to about this game, because the pacing is absolutely abominable. The first two-thirds are so easy I could probably beat the stages with my toes on another controller, all while still practicing my Super R-Type pro difficulty 1CC with another gamepad in my hands. By the time I started getting drowsy Blazing Lazers decided to hit me with a low blow from behind in the form of an absurdly long bubble stage that suddenly wanted to bring in checkpoint respawns, and all 50,000 of my bombs were getting use finally. This all capped off with a finale that dared to bitchslap me with a boss rush, and mood whiplash from an attempt at seduction with a final boss woman who can shoot lasers at me. The titular Blazing Lazers maybe?! I assume she was in the movie.
Looking again at the release date I can get why people were impressed by it visually, but man, as a shmup I think it reeks. Having such a toothless difficulty for a long time only for it to suddenly put it's dentures in five days later is the worst way to do it I feel. I could try a replay to reaccess it, but by the end of it all I was sick of looking at it and that's a death sentence for any shmup to me. I ain't going back to 1CC this anytime soon I'm afraid, not enough slowdown like Super R-Type.
Seriously, I can't tell you how severely my brain was rattled when I thought I was playing a middling/below average PC Engine shmup called "Gunhed" only to find out it was actually the acclaimed "Blazing Lazers". Like shit, do I have bad opinions or is everyone else wrong? Maybe both....
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@Angel_Arle I knew next to nothing about the movie itself, but it apparently takes place next decade so I better watch it and get caught up on the future that is to come.
Angel_Arle
2 months ago