Blast Wind

does anybody else like this game?
its got a great atmosphere to it.
GORN.
what a fucking badass villain.
like big brother from 1984.
tough mother fucker.
game has sub par visuals for a saturn game ... its more like a genesis game.
music is really good technosoft though.
just a fun game all around.
technosoft are a breed of their own.
like treasure.
they had a vision, that much was clear, an atmosphere they were trying to achieve over and throughout all their games.
i applaud them for that.
r.i.p.

Is it anything like hyper Duel? Cause that's a great title.

Hi, i find Blast Wind is a good Shooter not excellent but good the music is terrible but is not comparable with Hyper Duel.Graphic is Ok.

Lars

Bad Boy said:

Hi, i find Blast Wind is a good Shooter not excellent but good the music is terrible

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You're fuckin' insane lars, one of the best things about Blast Wind is the music.

The first few times I played BW I was a bit underwhelmed, as I had expected something better coming from TS. It was really easy, too, easier than Thunder Force III. The more I played it, though, and the higher the difficulty, really made me appreciate it.

I can't recall the last time it literally took me months for me to really like a game.

And hey, gotta' love those trademark TechnoSoft morals at the end of their games...love the music during the credits.

Blast Wind is SOLID SOLID FUN.

BLAST WIND


Blast Wind, like Hyper Duel, is a hard to find and VERY pricey son of a
gun. It is a vertical shmup. This game is an oddity in the sense that
back in 2002 or so, it used to run for about 30 dollars. These days
it's not uncommon to see copies topping out at around 95 bucks. I
guess the scarity of this game finally caught up.

I read a lot of critism on Blast Wind in the past. But there was
always a minority who really enjoyed this game. Even though I knew it
was going to cost me some odd 70, 80 dollars, I wanted this game badly
nonetheless.

The game opens with a very distinctive intro, you can tell TechnoSoft
was going for a different atmosphere. It almost felt like Gun
Frontier's odd-ball atmosphere. Pictures of barren wastelands and a
couple nude back body shots... very distinct in style.

You have 2 guns and a bomb. One gun fires ahead and the other fires
forward and backward homing style. You also have a helper.

Stage 1 - Iron Skyscraper
Boss - Strat Guard


Stage 2 - City of Night
Boss - Gamma Ray


Stage 3 - Atlantiss
Boss - Sodom


Stage 4 - Earth Breaker
Boss - Ostragle


Stage 5 - Dimension Cave
Boss - Drad


Final - Gorn LastBattle
Boss - Gorn himself

The stages are nice, especially Dimension Cave with its wicked flowing
lava and sharp red hues all over your TV screen. Last stage is
impressive too as you fly over a countryscape as horses scurry beneath
you. Plenty of towers to blow up and collect goodies from.

Blast Wind employs a unique system where you can decide which path to
take. In each stage, you can go left or right by deciding to press a
switch, or not. The result -- different enemy patterns and a different
end boss. Pretty good stuff. You definitely want to see (and conquer)
all the cool bosses in this game.

The last boss starts out as a huge ship, but then goes into a 2nd
animalistic form. I won't spoil it for you but let's just say it's
pretty damn cool.

Overall I enjoyed Blast Wind. Worth the 80 bucks it goes for? I
dunno, but hey if you got the means and are a fan of the genre -- why
not. It's a fun, mindless shooter. It comes with TechnoSoft's
traditional ace presentational style and possesses some decent tunes.

IMO not as good as Hyper Duel, but still good.

Blast wind ?....is this only available on pcb & saturn ?...

Didn't see any on ebay.

It's sort of difficult to find. Not hard. But, not easy.

Kid Aphex said:

It's sort of difficult to find. Not hard. But, not easy.

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Yeah, so many shooters, so little money.