Earth Defense Force on SNES is a port of a horizontal arcade shooter. Before each stage you choose one of 8 weapons to use and there is a levelling system dependant on how many enemies you take down.
A key feature is changing the use of your small companion ships with the later levels gained give the addition of shadowing your ship and a broken homing option. Once you max your levels you can get more shields above the highest default option of 3.
With only 3 continues you’ll need to prioritise your strategy so you can gun down as many enemies as possible. Some weapons are great for early game without many good upgrade options and some weapons without much use at all until upgrades come available.
The game looks pretty good for an early release SNES title, it uses some minor Mode 7 effects in the background to convey movement between levels. I love the little mobile suit enemies but they joined far too late into the game. The story is near invisible apart from the opening sequence, again this is where reading instruction manual scans can be of great benefit. I thought for the inclusion of the SNES online package you really can’t complain. I’m curious to check out more of Jaleco’s offerings.
A key feature is changing the use of your small companion ships with the later levels gained give the addition of shadowing your ship and a broken homing option. Once you max your levels you can get more shields above the highest default option of 3.
With only 3 continues you’ll need to prioritise your strategy so you can gun down as many enemies as possible. Some weapons are great for early game without many good upgrade options and some weapons without much use at all until upgrades come available.
The game looks pretty good for an early release SNES title, it uses some minor Mode 7 effects in the background to convey movement between levels. I love the little mobile suit enemies but they joined far too late into the game. The story is near invisible apart from the opening sequence, again this is where reading instruction manual scans can be of great benefit. I thought for the inclusion of the SNES online package you really can’t complain. I’m curious to check out more of Jaleco’s offerings.