Playing this on a crt is incredible. That first stage is the most beautiful shit, even on my fucked up tv rescued from dad’s garage where the color green bleeds off the sides of the sceen but fuckitweball.

For seven stages, you ride an earthly dragon on-rails: alone against an army, you’ll challenge a rival, destroy the enemy base, and part away with sorrow.

It’s like shadow of the colossus but at the arcade and with a gun. The gameplay is very simple, you can only blast away, lock on enemies, and steer the dragon went facing front. At the stage 5 boss, monotony set in: “it’s awkward switching view and losing your movement”, “how do I dodge all that”, but the stages following kept me invested. This ps2 version allows infinite continues and ditching lives so it’s probably the top way to play the original. Those top speed flight sections are stellar, and the final boss was properly imposing.

Oh and the music is fuckin awesome