Guardian Force

Guardian Force

released on Aug 06, 1998

Guardian Force

released on Aug 06, 1998

A tank themed shoot-'em-up game released for the Sega Saturn in 1998. It was later brought to arcade hardware.


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Cool concept, the controls take some time getting used to but once you do it's satisfying. Unfortunately there's an unpolished feeling that permeates the experience, for one the stages are sleep-inducing with a lot of dead time, the difficulty curve for them barely move I feel like and when you die it's usually because you got shotgunned out of nowhere. That fact is contrasted with the bosses, although they are the highlight they are very overtuned compared to the stages that precede them, cranking up the difficulty to the max which creates an annoying whiplash. Past the second stage, a lot of their attacks have Psikyo-like shotgun patterns, nothing wrong with that initially except there's a confounding lack of audio cues for those (and a lot of patterns in general), it's very hard to avoid them through visual cues alone as you're already busy dodging the other slower patterns so you end up getting surprise blasted by the very fast bullets a lot of the time which is frustrating.

It's definitely a fun game and one I'd consider a hidden gem, too bad it's marred by the annoying aspects I mentioned.