The four stars are for the X360 port, which fixes the stupid infinite lives bug. Completely bonkers, barely plays like a traditional shmup past stage 3. Giant toy robot bosses feel more like boxing matches. God tier obnoxious eurodance trash soundtrack somehow still isn't loud enough to drown out the porn moans from the playable characters when a bullet flies too close. Final boss yells BOMBA a few dozen times in a row and literally (as in, literally literally) fills the entire screen with bullets, and that's not even near the top half of hardest things in this game. Will cause a lifetime phobia of snakes with lasers, in case you didn't have one before.

Only that madman Shinobu Yagawa could have created something like this - it flopped extremely hard and along with Muchi Muchi Pork! (another weird, if slightly less demented game) it probably cost him his career, but I get the feeling that he simply saw the writing on the wall for the genre and decided to go out with a bang.

Reviewed on Jun 27, 2021


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