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Played this again recently for the first time in over a decade. I thought I would go back and give it another shot. I remember the game being so incredibly hard that you just had to bomb constantly. Thought maybe I just sucked back then and could do decent now. Started off all right, then a few stages in shit got intense. Maybe I still just suck, I don't know.
Here's my gripe with Ghost Pilots:
It could be an awesome game, but they made it way too hard. Your ship is so damn slow, and shit just flies across the screen from every direction. You will be dodging bullets and a swarm of planes will come behind you, or from the side, and there's nothing you can do.
Sometime bullets come so fast, especially from bosses, that you can't dodge in time, even if you hugging the back of the screen. I feel like the speed ups do absolutely nothing.
So what could be an awesome game, turns in to a bomb fest, and 50-75 deaths later you complete the game. I said fuck it, I'm just going to beat it by pushing quarters. There's no way in hell this game could be 1CC'd, or even beat on a dollar.
It's like the Ninja Combat of the Neo Geo SHMUP world. So what could have been a great game, and one solid shooter on the Neo, is just not fun do to being developed in order to munch $25.00 from you.
I tried to like this game, but I never see myself returning to Ghost Pilots in this life-time. The only redeeming factor was you get liquored up in the end.
If they just made you a little bit faster, and put a warning when shit was coming from behind, and the sides, I think this game would have been MUCH better.
Here's my gripe with Ghost Pilots:
It could be an awesome game, but they made it way too hard. Your ship is so damn slow, and shit just flies across the screen from every direction. You will be dodging bullets and a swarm of planes will come behind you, or from the side, and there's nothing you can do.
Sometime bullets come so fast, especially from bosses, that you can't dodge in time, even if you hugging the back of the screen. I feel like the speed ups do absolutely nothing.
So what could be an awesome game, turns in to a bomb fest, and 50-75 deaths later you complete the game. I said fuck it, I'm just going to beat it by pushing quarters. There's no way in hell this game could be 1CC'd, or even beat on a dollar.
It's like the Ninja Combat of the Neo Geo SHMUP world. So what could have been a great game, and one solid shooter on the Neo, is just not fun do to being developed in order to munch $25.00 from you.
I tried to like this game, but I never see myself returning to Ghost Pilots in this life-time. The only redeeming factor was you get liquored up in the end.
If they just made you a little bit faster, and put a warning when shit was coming from behind, and the sides, I think this game would have been MUCH better.
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