Heavy Barrel is a top down shooter, similar to Ikari Warriors.
The arcade original has a rotary joystick, the joystick itself does movement while twisting the stick rotates the guy on screen 360 degrees (but really it’s 8 angles).
The version I played is on Switch has an alternate control scheme consisting of ZR and ZL to rotate the guy, and it works.
The angles are necessary as the game shifts from moving up the screen to sections requiring movement from left to right and vice versa. Has a free scrolling feeling to it.
Heavy Barrel itself is a really difficult game, the best players I saw online have item management down to an art, they’ve memorised what weapons are in each chest, when to use bombs or stick to shooting as well as when it is best to build the “secret weapon” Heavy Barrel.
The upgrades include a spread shot, a fire blast and grenade upgrades that explode on impact instead of bouncing with a timer. Heavy Barrel has incredible range, firing frequency and renders you basically invincible.
You need each of these because in typical Data East fashion, if you’re not thinning out the enemy numbers you’ll easily be overwhelmed with foes, doesn’t matter if you keep on dropping credits into the game. If you’re that overwhelmed it’s a waste of money as you’ll die immediately once the invincibility frames drop.
I’d be curious to see if I could do it with better equipment management but eh I’ll see. I’d like to pull more games from the list and I don’t believe beating every single one is an attainable goal for me. Heavy Barrel is repetitive after a point of time and has Data East style difficulty.
The arcade original has a rotary joystick, the joystick itself does movement while twisting the stick rotates the guy on screen 360 degrees (but really it’s 8 angles).
The version I played is on Switch has an alternate control scheme consisting of ZR and ZL to rotate the guy, and it works.
The angles are necessary as the game shifts from moving up the screen to sections requiring movement from left to right and vice versa. Has a free scrolling feeling to it.
Heavy Barrel itself is a really difficult game, the best players I saw online have item management down to an art, they’ve memorised what weapons are in each chest, when to use bombs or stick to shooting as well as when it is best to build the “secret weapon” Heavy Barrel.
The upgrades include a spread shot, a fire blast and grenade upgrades that explode on impact instead of bouncing with a timer. Heavy Barrel has incredible range, firing frequency and renders you basically invincible.
You need each of these because in typical Data East fashion, if you’re not thinning out the enemy numbers you’ll easily be overwhelmed with foes, doesn’t matter if you keep on dropping credits into the game. If you’re that overwhelmed it’s a waste of money as you’ll die immediately once the invincibility frames drop.
I’d be curious to see if I could do it with better equipment management but eh I’ll see. I’d like to pull more games from the list and I don’t believe beating every single one is an attainable goal for me. Heavy Barrel is repetitive after a point of time and has Data East style difficulty.