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Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer

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What is it? It's a PSN download game which has you piloting a ship shotting aliens, vehicles, and of course, bosses.

The closest most famous game similar to it would be R-Type. It's a left to right shooter with power ups and different weapon systems.

Well, that's enough description. Does anyone else have it? What do people think of it?

I personally enjoy it. They just recently patched in a "Beginner" difficulty on top of their "Very Easy" difficulty level. This means anyone who can dodge half the bullets should be able to get a good feel of the gameplay without being overly punished. The difficulty gets, much, much harder than this though, don't expect it to be a cakewalk on the harder levels.

I really enjoyed the story too. It's quite a mind trip to try and get your head around the whole thing.

It's also plain fun. Blasting things, using strategic power ups, finding weakpoints and navigating through enemies/obstacles/enemy shots is just great fun.

Please discuss.
2009-02-22 16:22:00

Author:
Elbee23
Posts: 1280


yeah I have it but didn't make it past the first level and at the time didn't know about the difficulty settings...never picked it up again but was kinda fun when i wasn't getting my butt handed to me.2009-02-22 16:32:00

Author:
OverWork
Posts: 873


You should try the new beginners mode then. The patch is only about 2mb but I managed to finish the story mode 1st time on beginner, while on very easy I'm lucky to get to the second world. :blush:2009-02-22 16:40:00

Author:
Elbee23
Posts: 1280


yeah sounds like that's what I need to do because I couldn't get to the second world at all and was like wow the game is awesome but far to hard.2009-02-22 16:52:00

Author:
OverWork
Posts: 873


Soldner-X was pretty neat. Nice to see a new, fully-2D shmup released outside of Japan. It's challenging, yes, but definitely not the hardest shmup I've played.

*hint hint* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradius_III)
2009-02-23 07:38:00

Author:
UCHU
Posts: 73


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