Coming off my playthrough of Contra: Hard Corps is the other great run-and-gun game on the Sega Megadrive/Genesis - Gunstar Heroes.
It is one of my favorite games on the system and I like to rebuy it whenever I can 😆. I am almost kidding; I have it on Steam and 3DS. I really like its bright color-palette, as well as its unique art-direction by Tetsuhiko Kikuchi (aka HAN). His style is unique. Nowadays, all anime seems to look alike, but his stuff looks very different from it. If you look at his characters in Guardian Heroes, Mischief Makers, and Radiant Silvergun, you can see the similarity to his work in Gunstar Heroes.
Like Contra: Hard Corps in Japanese, this game is very beatable and forgiving because you get unlimited Continues, at least on Easy: things I appreciate. The controls are a little weird sometimes. When you jump, you have very little horizontal movement, whether you are shooting or not. If you want any kind of significant horizontal movement while jumping, you have to press Jump again to do a dive. You can also get grabbed, and your options are not very clear. You can throw enemies afterwards, but other than mashing, I can not seem to figure out how I do it.
Other than that, this game is a treasure ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). Back when it came out in 1993, I think I may have glanced over an article or an advertisement on this in a magazine, but I never ever considered playing it or buying it. Years later, people would regard this as one of the best games of its generation, but it was certainly not appreciated in its time, unfortunately.
Fortunately, I'm glad this game has gotten the respect it deserves over time, with multiple rereleases and ports. I played this game on a Mega Everdrive X7 (https://krikzz.com/store/home/33-mega-everdrive-v2.html) on a real Sega Genesis Model 1 console. I used an HD Retrovision Genesis/Megadrive cable (https://www.hdretrovision.com/genesis/) to output the video and audio to a Shinybow Component Video Distribution Amplifier (http://www.shinybowusa.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=37_49&products_id=433). It split the signal into two: one went to my Toshiba 14" CRT TV (component video), and the other went to my OSSC (https://www.videogameperfection.com/products/open-source-converter/), which I used to upscale the image 4X to 1280x960p. I sent this signal to my Micomsoft XCapture-1 capture-card (https://solarisjapan.com/products/xcapture-1-usb-3-0-hd-capture-unit) so I could capture footage.
I did play the game on Easy and edited out my deaths for as smooth a viewing experience as possible. I have beaten this game before, so I didn't die as much as I used to. I think I am ready to play this game on a harder difficulty.
Thank you for watching, and have a great day.
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The song in my intro and outro was done by Hyper Potions, and it is called Time Trials. You can check out the full song here: https://youtu.be/mnfNWe-HHsI.
