If you are ever looking to get an old console and are not sure where to begin, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Playstation 2 is t🦩he easiest bet. The large selection of games from just about any genre in existence makes👍 it a great choice for whatever games you may be into, even shoot em’ ups which had lost a lot of its steam by the 6th generation.
The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sega Genesis, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Nintendo, and especially the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:TurboGrafx-16 were 𝓰all littered with many amazing shoot em’ ups but as the new consoles were released, focus shifted more towards 3D games rather than 2D, the genre began seeing a lot less attention. Luckily, the mighty Playstation 2 still has many great shoot em’ ups with 10 of the best being collected here so they can get some more recognition♒!
10 Mushihime-Sama
Mushihime-Sama or Bug Princess was deve𒁏loped by the legendary shoot em’ up creators at Cave who developed other great🀅 games like Death Smiles and Akai Katana. Mushihime-Sama is a bug-themed shoot em’ up with enemies resembling butterflies, beetles, and other insects and is set in different locations throughout the forest. The game w🎶as later ported over to the Xbox Live Marketplace with enhanced visuals and arranged, novice, and Xbox 360 mode in 2012 as well as later being ported over to Steam. Mushihime-Sama received a sequeꦯl on mobile phones in 2006 called Mushihime-Sama Bug Panic.
9 Silpheed: The Lost Planet
Developed by Treasure and published in North America by Working Designs,🍌 Silpheed: The Lost Planet is a direct sequel to Silpheed. Because it was loca✅lized and published by Working Designs, the game comes with a high-quality, holographic book and cover, similar to their previous releases.
In Silpheed: The Lost Planet, you can equip two weapons at once, each residing on either the left or right of your ship - each correlates with the circle and square buttons and both can be fired simultaneously with the X button. The game is not quite top-down likꦦe other shoot em’ ups but instead, has an angled view slightly behind your ship.
8 Mobile Light Force 2
While the box art may lead you to believe that you are about ♊to play a game bas🎐ed on the Charlie's Angels franchise, Mobile Light Force 2, known as Shikigami no Shiro in Japan, is hea🌼vily st🔯eeped in anime and Japanese culture.
In Mobile Light Force 2, when you hold down the fire button your character slows down and all near-by items are absorbed. The game also focuses heav🌳ily on a risk versus reward system and will grant the player points when enemy bullets are in close proximity to their character.
7 Castle Shikigami 2
Castle Shikigami 2, or Shikigami no Shiro 2 in Japan, is actually the sequel t𝓰o the previous en▨try Moblie Light Force 2, or Shikigami no Shiro 1 - confusing, right? It’s just a small example of how w🌳estern developers were afraid that western audiences would apprecia♐te attractive protagonists with swoopy hair.
Castle Shikigami 2’s gameplay is very similar to the previ💝ous game in the series but added more characters, bringing the total number of playable characters to 7. There are 5 different stages, each consisting of 2 parts with a🎃 boss at the end of each part.
6 Dragon Blaze
Dragon Blaze, developed by Psikoyo, plays out more like a bullet-hell than a typical shoot em’ up. Bullet-hells are defined by their massive amount of bullets on the screen that you must dodge while also trying to take out your enemies. Each character in the game has a standard shot, charged shot, and a bomb, but each c🐎haracter alsoღ rides a dragon which can be dismounted and also used as a weapon. The dragon does an initial piercing attack then acts as a stationary option until it is called back.
5 Espgaluda
Espgaluda, developed by Cave, uses 3D models in a 2D overhead world similar to other games from the develope꧅r. Espgaluda is a spiritual prequel to Esprade and was later followed up by Espgalunda II.
Gameplay should feel familiar to any who have played a Cav🥂e shoot em’ up in the past. You use your normal attack by pressing the fire button and holding down the fire button will send out a more focused straight-ahead attack call the rapier. Like other Cave games, there are many other gimmicks to the gameplay which must be figured out to get the best possible score and do the most damage.
4 Gunbird Special Edition
Psi🔯kyo released 4 different compilations which included 2 gam🍸es from legendary shoot em’ up series including Strikers 1945 I & II and Gunbird I & II. Gunbird Special Edition includes arcade versions of both Gunbird and Gunbird 2.
New features were added including eight differ🍌ent difficulty modes, multiple view options including letterboxed, vertical, full screen, and horizontal, as well as a practice mode for beginners. ♒The Gunbird games started off on arcade but the first one was ported to the Sega Saturn, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 1, Steam, and the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch. Gunbird 2 was ported to the Sega Dreamcast and Android.
3 Raiden III
Raiden is a long-running shoot em’ up series developed by the arcade connoisseurs Taito, with the first game coming out in 1990 and seeing release on multiple platforms on the Atari Jaguar and PC Engine.
Raiden III plays similarly to other games in the series, while also adding new mechanics. The primary weapon has b♏een upgraded to a piercing proton laser and their missiles upgraded to r🥂adar missiles. The flash shot multiplier mechanic was also introduced which rewards players with more points the faster they destroy an enemy once they have appeared.
2 R-Type Final
Developed by IREM and made to be the fin𝕴al game in the series, R-Type Final ta🌞kes place following multiple wars against the main antagonist of the series, Bydo. Though R-Type Final was meant to be the last game re🎀leased in the series, it ꩵwas followed up by R-Type Tactics on the Playstation Portable with a direct sequel cal༺led R-Type Final 2 set to come out this year.
R-Type Final allows you to choose from 101 different ships to use, some of which are altered versions of ships that had appeared in the previous title♊s in the series. New ships are unlocked through a branching system that is accessed in the R Museum, gi🅺ving the game plenty of replayability.
1 Gradius V
Gradius V was developed by Treasure, G.rev, and Konami. Treasure, the developers behind aꦫmazing games like Gunstar Heroes and Ikaruga, is a group of ex-Konami members who left Konami in theﷺ earlyꩵ ‘90s to start their own company. Gradius V marks the first time the two (Konami & Treasure) had w🧔orked together since they split in the early 90s.
Unlike previous entries in the series, in Gradius V when you l🐬ose a life you appear🗹 in the exact same place you had died, where in previous games you’d have to start from the beginning of the level.