What this story has to do with the rest of the game is beyond me, as I haven't seen any cinema displays to speak of that have advanced the story at all. At the same time, another birdman made an appearance, but this creature was completely evil. Xi-Tiger kills the girl and escapes, and is followed closely by Epsilon. He takes a girl hostage and threatens Epsilon, who at that point takes over the boy's body, which he transforms into a powerful birdman. Incredibly, he senses the presence of Epsilon in one of the boys there. In order to do this, he leads an attack on an A-Human lab where kidnapped children with super powers had been taken. Xi-Tiger, of course, wants to stay in control, so he plots to open the rip himself and assassinate Epsilon.
As it turns out, the attacks against A-Earth become more brutal under Xi-Tiger's control, and the members of Scarlet have decided they want Epsilon back in command. They are led by the evil Xi-Tiger, who had apparently usurped control of the group from its former leader Epsilon-Eagle, who was imprisoned by A-Human in some kind of rip in the space-time continuum. The members of Scarlet have special parasitic abilities that allow them to control other creatures and machinery. A planet called A-Earth is apparently under siege from a terrorist group called Scarlet, who were created by people called A-Human. The story of Alien Soldier is presented in a somewhat detailed writeup (in fairly hilarious Japlish, although this was mostly fixed for the PAL release) that runs during the opening. Unlike most run-n-guns, which featured a boss fight at the end of each level, Alien Soldier is almost nothing but boss fights! There'll be more on this later. It did make it to Europe, but Sega of America declined to release it in the U.S. One of Treasure's only MD games that never made it to the U.S.
There were a few other Treasure-created MD games too, but those in particular were a few of the standouts. Light Crusader was an interesting isometric-perspective RPG that was similar to Landstalker. Dynamite Headdy is a fantastic platformer, with a lot more depth and playability than most similar games released for the MD. Gunstar Heroes, Treasure's first game as Treasure, is considered by many to be the epitomy of run-n-gun games, surpassing even the mighty Contra. Treasure's releases for the Mega Drive have been, almost without exception, incredible.
0 kommentar(er)
