Customer Reviews

Truxton

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Ever heard of a company called Toaplan? If yes, then you'll know that those fellows knew how to make a good game, games inundated with fun for all and- Okay, I'll be honest with you, Toaplan had a sick sense of humor when it came to shoot em' ups. Most of the shooters they made were inundated with charm to the point where if you're a child of the 1980's and had fond memories of the early 90's you'll instantly fall in love with the game, but Toaplan knew just how to make a game like Truxton hard. One was their use of checkpoints and two, their use of REGRESSIVE checkpoints. I think they're the only company I've seen where they'll make a game where every time you start over at a checkpoint and get killed in the first few seconds, you GO BACK a checkpoint! I'm not making this up!

Yet despite this, I really can't help but tell you all about this game, it's one of the the most unintentionally cutest and simultaneously challenging shooter you'll play on the Genesis (second only to maybe Fantasy Zone) and the difficulty is balanced somewhat by the large bounty of lives you get.

Some of the weapons are quite fun like the title weapon being a large stream of blue, electric BOOGIE LIGHTNING, plus a green, fast firing, ultra powered laser blaster and the average red as a rose Vulcan shot which actually upgrades to probably the best weapon in the game (like in every other vertical scrolling shooter) seeing how it provides the only shield in the game for you once upgraded, but it only protects you from kamikazes which is a Godsend in this game because you get SWAMPED with suicidal aliens.

The music is just... charming, really. I don't know how else to describe it, it just sounds fun. If anything the boss themes kind of sound like goofy versions of American Gladiators or something you'd hear while someone's lifting heavy weights.

The graphics and backgrounds are quite impressive too. But I have to say that the biggest nit-pick I have with this game is typical of most vertical scrolling Toaplan shooters, that being that the end level bosses are all COWARDS! They never fight you one-on-one save for the last boss Dogurava, everyone else is accompanied by ground forces and kamikazes, most of which will have more chances of killing you rather than the bosses.

But with most vertical scrolling Toaplan shooters, I gotta recommend this game. It's one of many single player shooter, but it's also one of many awesome games.