Cleared on March 4th, 2023 (SEGA Genesis Challenge: 3/160)
A few things to note is that I've only played the Genesis version and not played the CD version. From my understanding, the only real difference are the OST which sounds incredible and animated cutscenes with voice acting.
The gameplay remains relatively the same, just shoot against enemies and collect weapons along the way. It's pretty standard as far as shooters go, but I think what I really like about the game is the OST which is really good even in the Genesis. I especially vibe with Mission 5 music.
The game itself is generous enough to give a checkpoint so if you were to just get a game over, you just start a level all over instead of from the very beginning of the game unlike other Genesis games like Wings of Wor or Contra Hard Corps. In other words, you have unlimited continues.
The reason I used save cheesing, anyway, is because of the boss of Mission 6... I know that some game's can be hard, but not to the point of being unbearable or unmanageable. But the boss not only goes on for awhile, but the attacks feel almost impossible to avoid, and just feels like a difficulty spike from what you've fought before. The minute is started firing homing piss lasers at me, I just gave up and moved on to another game, but then I came back with save states.
Once I got to the final level, I was expecting a fight for my life because if that earlier fight was supposed to be the penultimate boss, who knows what's ahead... and it's the easiest boss fight in the entire game. Just stay in the right place, shoot em up, and you're done... that's it. I had a fun time up until the penultimate boss and the music was great, so to see it fall this flat on its face at the end is unfortunate. Oh yeah, and the final boss didn't even have the courteousy to have its own boss theme, it just used the same one that Boss 3 had, lol. My theory is that they were planning for it to be exclusive to the final boss, but they knew it was going to suck, so they needed to stick it on a much cooler boss as well.
A few things to note is that I've only played the Genesis version and not played the CD version. From my understanding, the only real difference are the OST which sounds incredible and animated cutscenes with voice acting.
The gameplay remains relatively the same, just shoot against enemies and collect weapons along the way. It's pretty standard as far as shooters go, but I think what I really like about the game is the OST which is really good even in the Genesis. I especially vibe with Mission 5 music.
The game itself is generous enough to give a checkpoint so if you were to just get a game over, you just start a level all over instead of from the very beginning of the game unlike other Genesis games like Wings of Wor or Contra Hard Corps. In other words, you have unlimited continues.
The reason I used save cheesing, anyway, is because of the boss of Mission 6... I know that some game's can be hard, but not to the point of being unbearable or unmanageable. But the boss not only goes on for awhile, but the attacks feel almost impossible to avoid, and just feels like a difficulty spike from what you've fought before. The minute is started firing homing piss lasers at me, I just gave up and moved on to another game, but then I came back with save states.
Once I got to the final level, I was expecting a fight for my life because if that earlier fight was supposed to be the penultimate boss, who knows what's ahead... and it's the easiest boss fight in the entire game. Just stay in the right place, shoot em up, and you're done... that's it. I had a fun time up until the penultimate boss and the music was great, so to see it fall this flat on its face at the end is unfortunate. Oh yeah, and the final boss didn't even have the courteousy to have its own boss theme, it just used the same one that Boss 3 had, lol. My theory is that they were planning for it to be exclusive to the final boss, but they knew it was going to suck, so they needed to stick it on a much cooler boss as well.