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Oh dear... So, earlier this evening, as I was finishing work, I thought I'd put P47 on for 5 minutes just to get a quick taster.
So, I'm standing there, because I literally had the intention of just playing a few minutes before I go to the gym, and 20 minutes later I've 1CC'd the game on normal.
It's very easy on the default setting, and very short. Probably a huge indication as to why Jaleco never bothered releasing it back in the day.
So - plus points:
Graphics are very nice for what would have been a very early MD game. The parallax is some of the best I've seen on the system. Nice, large boss sprites.
Music is pretty good. Nothing memorable, but it does the job.
Decent enough variety in the enemies for such a short game.
It plays fine, and it's lack of challenge means it could turn into a good "play-for-score" shmup.
Minus points:
Too easy, and way too short.
Disappointed there's no shot sound. No sampled speech either (which is really neither here nor there I guess).
The shot power-up goes off screen very quickly - all the other weapon icons tend to linger around.
No high-score board - at least not one I've seen so far.
Did I mention it's ridiculously easy?
Still, it's a nice enough addition to the MD library as a curio, but hardcore shmups fans will want to look elsewhere unless they're MD collectors and don't care what it plays like.
Now, stroll on Earthion...
So, I'm standing there, because I literally had the intention of just playing a few minutes before I go to the gym, and 20 minutes later I've 1CC'd the game on normal.
It's very easy on the default setting, and very short. Probably a huge indication as to why Jaleco never bothered releasing it back in the day.
So - plus points:
Graphics are very nice for what would have been a very early MD game. The parallax is some of the best I've seen on the system. Nice, large boss sprites.
Music is pretty good. Nothing memorable, but it does the job.
Decent enough variety in the enemies for such a short game.
It plays fine, and it's lack of challenge means it could turn into a good "play-for-score" shmup.
Minus points:
Too easy, and way too short.
Disappointed there's no shot sound. No sampled speech either (which is really neither here nor there I guess).
The shot power-up goes off screen very quickly - all the other weapon icons tend to linger around.
No high-score board - at least not one I've seen so far.
Did I mention it's ridiculously easy?
Still, it's a nice enough addition to the MD library as a curio, but hardcore shmups fans will want to look elsewhere unless they're MD collectors and don't care what it plays like.
Now, stroll on Earthion...
