Well, well, well, I once again decided to post another review of one of my favorite games. I don't exactly know why I talk so formally, as if you read my other post, for it would be very rare if you did. Anyway to the review.
Tyrian is a retro space-ship shooter layout similar to that of Raiden. However, Raiden has got nothing on this little piece of gold. If I had to say the main difference between Tyrian and every other space adventure released in the 80's and 90's it would be that you can buy and upgrade ships different from your starting one. I didn't want to start off by saying that, because I am afraid that so many people will simply view Tyrian as Raiden with money, causing them to ignore the rest of my review. Tyrian is by no means "just another shooter" this space adventure takes the gamer on an ironic, silly, yet dark story based in a future dystopian society. The only reason I could think of for not liking this plot, is that it disillusions you with the shitty one dimensional stories that todays games spew forth.
Ok, so you don't want to read about why you go level to level killing odd shaped flying things; that is completely understandable. You should still buy the game though. For even if you take the story element out of the games it can still stand quite tall. For starters you don't randomly get power ups in the middle of the level, like every other game in the genre. Instead you can choose you're own weapons, so you don't have to go searching for that one you love. The game also integrates a health and shield bar. I haven't seen many other games like it where, you can survive more then one hit. Tyrian also allows you to buy better power cores, rear weapons, shields, and side-kicks.
When it comes to the game play itself, I have not yet met someone disappointed by the difficulty or annoyed by any repetition. The levels have everything the genre needs to be successful, big explosions, huge bosses, lots of enemies, flashing lights, and of course unreasonably large firepower from a tiny ship.
Say you're the type of person that doesn't even want to bother with all that number business. Say your one of the strange people I don't like that actually enjoys randomly looking for those weapon upgrades in the middle of the level; constantly avoiding fire while trying to get the purple floating blob so you can fire lasers instead of missiles. Sure I may not like you or understand you, but the game does, for they integrated these characteristics into an "arcade mode".
Finally I will say that the games campaign goes on forever (at least for the type of game it is), each one a unique level so that you're never left bored. Even after that there is lots of unlockable content. You can even fly a carrot ship which fires bananas and hot dogs. However, I don't want to give away to much, also I'm getting tired.
The downsides are mostly ones that apply to the whole genre, such as insainly hard levels out of the blue. The most common genre problem is when the screen gets so crowed with you own lasers and crap so you cant see what to dodge. The main things I would say are wrong with Tryian, is that, once you upgrade your guns to a certain point even the bosses are laughably easy; also some of the weapons and upgrades they give you are ether useless, or very similar to other items.
Sure the game is old and there isn't much variation in the game-play, this is mostly due to the time. But for when it was made, and for what it costs (nothing), Tyrian gets a great score in my book.
9/10
If you want it just google "Tyrian download" it should be somewhere on there. *Yawn*
Bed.
Tyrian is a retro space-ship shooter layout similar to that of Raiden. However, Raiden has got nothing on this little piece of gold. If I had to say the main difference between Tyrian and every other space adventure released in the 80's and 90's it would be that you can buy and upgrade ships different from your starting one. I didn't want to start off by saying that, because I am afraid that so many people will simply view Tyrian as Raiden with money, causing them to ignore the rest of my review. Tyrian is by no means "just another shooter" this space adventure takes the gamer on an ironic, silly, yet dark story based in a future dystopian society. The only reason I could think of for not liking this plot, is that it disillusions you with the shitty one dimensional stories that todays games spew forth.
Ok, so you don't want to read about why you go level to level killing odd shaped flying things; that is completely understandable. You should still buy the game though. For even if you take the story element out of the games it can still stand quite tall. For starters you don't randomly get power ups in the middle of the level, like every other game in the genre. Instead you can choose you're own weapons, so you don't have to go searching for that one you love. The game also integrates a health and shield bar. I haven't seen many other games like it where, you can survive more then one hit. Tyrian also allows you to buy better power cores, rear weapons, shields, and side-kicks.
When it comes to the game play itself, I have not yet met someone disappointed by the difficulty or annoyed by any repetition. The levels have everything the genre needs to be successful, big explosions, huge bosses, lots of enemies, flashing lights, and of course unreasonably large firepower from a tiny ship.
Say you're the type of person that doesn't even want to bother with all that number business. Say your one of the strange people I don't like that actually enjoys randomly looking for those weapon upgrades in the middle of the level; constantly avoiding fire while trying to get the purple floating blob so you can fire lasers instead of missiles. Sure I may not like you or understand you, but the game does, for they integrated these characteristics into an "arcade mode".
Finally I will say that the games campaign goes on forever (at least for the type of game it is), each one a unique level so that you're never left bored. Even after that there is lots of unlockable content. You can even fly a carrot ship which fires bananas and hot dogs. However, I don't want to give away to much, also I'm getting tired.
The downsides are mostly ones that apply to the whole genre, such as insainly hard levels out of the blue. The most common genre problem is when the screen gets so crowed with you own lasers and crap so you cant see what to dodge. The main things I would say are wrong with Tryian, is that, once you upgrade your guns to a certain point even the bosses are laughably easy; also some of the weapons and upgrades they give you are ether useless, or very similar to other items.
Sure the game is old and there isn't much variation in the game-play, this is mostly due to the time. But for when it was made, and for what it costs (nothing), Tyrian gets a great score in my book.
9/10
If you want it just google "Tyrian download" it should be somewhere on there. *Yawn*
Bed.