SHMUPS!

METAL BLACK

PROJECT GUN FRONTIER 2

OK...so it wasn't the Earth running out of oil, or some war over water, that caused modern civilization to crumble.



A COMPROMISE CALLED PEACE

Here is your ship. Even though its development suffered a permanent freeze, apparently the government didn't destroy any existing Black Flies.


DOWN TO EARTH

The stages are named (which was done in G-Darius again). Fairly early in the stage, this sod hides under the aircraft carrier and lobs missiles at you.

The boss surfaces from a pile of junk and is quite a pushover. Witness the Newalone beam duelling (guess who won).

FOLLOWING WIND

Some fairly dizzying 3-D effects as you lock on to enemy targets and fire Macross/Bangaioh-style missiles at them.

CRY FOR THE MOON (and reach for the secret too soon)

Shine oon, you crazy diamond (guitar riff)...midway through the stage, these ocean sunfishes (Mola mola) fire a few minor Newalone beams at you.

This boss hatches out of a moon-shaped egg. Quite an interesting fellow, really. This is a cool attack: he launches these little spheres which serve to reflect a beam he fires towards you; in the meantime, the little worm (who looks suspiciously like Driosawm from Darius II) picks up Newalone.

DREAMLAND(don't ask)

Wrecks of Gerald O'Neill's artificial planets (a real Taito motif) in the background before you run into a junk heap in space. Things get quite busy quite fast.

The scarab beetle bugger rolls a bullet- (and beam-) firing ball of junk up and down the pile of junk, and soon the big guy here helps too.

BONUS STAGE #2

Very very nice graphics. This bonus stage is much tougher than the first one.

And so...move along.

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