Today I'll be reviewing Sidearms Special. On this disc are two modes, the original (basically the Hucard of the original sidearms), and a new Before Christ mode (Have no idea why they call it that, but hey that's the creator's choice...)
Before Christ mode has alot of differences from the original, alot of tweaks have been made to make the game more balanced and tolerable than the original. And to those who have played the original on Hucard or the arcade, the difficulty was just unfair and brutal!
The differences include: The Yashichi (windmill) icon commonly seen in dozens of Capcom titles creates option pods, thus replacing the Alpha Type mech. Weapon change is replaced by an R-Type style laser charge gauge. Power Up icons don't have to be shot to death, they change automatically. There is also a new weapons arsenal. And boss battles are brutally challenging as on some you can only damage them with charged lasers!
In this video, I'm playing the game all the way up to stage 8 and get my ass handed to me by the boss.
Hi guys, I'm PCE Kokujin (Kokujin is Japanese for "black foreigner"), if you hang out at the PC Engine FX forums, I go by the name "Ninja Spirit", named after one of my top favorite games for the system as ninja sidescrollers are just one of my favorite genres.
VIDEO: Ninja Spirit completed on PC Engine mode with no deaths, made by myself. Yup, I fall down that pit of ninjas unscathed!
One more interesting fact, I'm the first person on the face of the planet to put a video clip of Dracula X: Rondo of Blood on YouTube.
Anywho, I'll be taking over this space in the midst of other blogs showing the goodness of the PC Engine system aka the "Turbografx 16". Such a great system, just bad marketing, and also didn't even get a chance thanks to Nintendo of America's "X number of games a year" rule and anti-competitive third party license hoarding.
I'm trying to get some pictures of my collection, as since the last time I made pictures a few months ago more games have rolled in.