Reviews by newalone4

Skull Fang review

Skull Fang (Vapor Trail Gaiden) is one of those games that's really hard to recommend because it has an equal balance of good and bad game design and presentation value. It's got everything a shooter needs and everything a shooter doesn't…

newalone4 · July 1, 2008

Reader Saturn HG exclusive

Steam-Heart's review

I'll admit I have pretty low taste in games sometimes especially shooters, but that's mostly due to the fact that the shoot em' up genre is sort of like Black Metal music: it always delivers whatever you're seeking and when a shooter…

newalone4 · June 30, 2008

Reader SNES HG exclusive

Acrobat Mission review

Of all the shoot em’ ups on home consoles that have never seen a US release I was surprised to find out that the Super Nintendo had ported 95% of all the Shmups made for the system; the only games that never made their way to the states…

newalone4 · June 30, 2008

Reader SNES HG exclusive

BlaZeon: The Bio-Cyborg Challenge review

BlaZeon is one of the many SNES shooter titles that went unnoticed by the majority of the general public and after spending a lot of time with old school shmups I have to say that I agree with most that the experience of bog standard…

newalone4 · June 30, 2008

Reader TurboGrafx-16 HG exclusive

Sinistron review

R-Type clones were really prevalent back in the late eighties and early nineties; it seemed that every company save for Taito wanted to make their own horizontal scrolling space shoot em' up inundated with unique strategic fighting, aliens…

newalone4 · June 30, 2008

Reader Saturn HG exclusive

Metal Black review

Shoot em Ups have had a bad rep for a long time mostly because a lot of them seem rather similar to each other with a good majority of them taking place in space and involving silvery-white space-fighters depending entirely on power-ups to…

newalone4 · June 30, 2008