one sum can be used to describe this game
SEGA MEGA DRIVE + GUNSTAR HEROES = INSTANT WIN
i remember playing this game when i was young and remembered how flipping awesome this game is when i sorted my xbox live after a year of me getting my xbox FML!!! i looked on XBLA and i literally had lost my mind after seeing it for a measly £3.50 i bought and played it.
REVIEW>
MUSIC-
when i played the first level of this game i got that nostalgic feeling and i looked back at my childhood the music really never gets old the boss battle music really fit in with the theme of non stop action which is what i always prefered when i was younger
PLOT-
This game is about a planet called gunstar 9 the gunstar heroes need to stop the uprising of gold silver who is like an unstopable diety who can be revived if he obtains the 4 jewels so the bad guys who are known as the empire who have collected the jewels and are trying to revive him for a unknown reason probably for evil purposes.
Weapons-
Well basically the weapons system is very basic there are four different weapon types such as fire,electricity,chaser and some next orange things im not sure what they are well and what i like that you are able to mix them together and make new combinations which makes every combination unique and a very new weapons at the time of the sega mega drive era kind of like altered beast.
Bosses-
The bosses were really enjoyable when i first played my first playthrough since every boss is unique and fit in well with the music which gave it a retro hype i thought the names of the bosses were original because they were normal colours such as pink,green ,black,orange my favourite was green personally.
Downside-
Sometimes when you play and there are loads of enemies on the screen it lags but its on curtain occasions such as the 5th level with the diagonal boxes it lags like crazy which irrates me i would have expected this on the sega genesis but on a remake its really unexcusable even though you would expect it from a classic.
Another downside of the game is that some of the cominations are literally so weak when fighting a boss a fight can last up to 10 mins which can make it really boring.
This was one of the first games i played when i was younger with other classics like Flicky,Alex Kidd or altered beast there were others that i prefer not really to go into detail with such as pinocchio and some flight simulation games which i cant remember the name at the moment which will probably why i dont remember them since they were so not memorable oh yeah bubsy aws quite awesome aswell
But this game stood out since i always enjoyed playing it despite its repetitivness which in my opinion is acceptable since it was a action game on the sega genesis and their should have been a hidden opition to choose green as a hidden character which to me would have been awesome in the remake which to me was a big disaster!!!!!
