Out Zone

Toaplan is pretty well known for difficult yet incredibly fun arcade games. Particularly shoot 'em ups. Out Zone is no exception save it is a run-n-gun. Even then, it has a lot of Toaplan's shooter DNA in it. I was blown away in just my first couple games of Out Zone. I enjoy games like Commando, Ikari Warriors, Gun.Smoke and Shock Troopers. Out Zone is right up there with these games. With the exception of Shock Troopers, I think I like Out Zone more. The game mechanics of Out Zone are you have a gun and limited screen clearing bombs. The gun can receive upgrades in both type and power. The two most common being a machine gun and forward facing spread shot. However, there are additional super upgrades such as a squadron of drones, a shield, and a flame thrower type weapon. My favorite was the super ball which spins around your character delivering devastating damage. There's also speed increasing pick ups too. To keep the player moving, their character has an energy meter that slowly ticks down. This can be replenished by collecting E pick ups through out the level. And the player is going to have to get a few of these to make it to the end of level boss with enough time to defeat it. Afterward, the player's energy bar is refilled for the next level. The levels themselves feel pretty short. Though, that could because I was having such a blast playing as well as almost speed running through them. As once I was in the zone, I felt nearly unstoppable. The game also feels pretty generous with extends, but being a Toaplan game, the game features check points instead of respawns. Which I don't know if that is such a bad thing as if often sends the player back to a place to re-arm a little bit. Though, it still can take a little while to recover to getting back to fully powered up. The end of level bosses didn't feel as difficult to me as the Toaplan shooters I've played. To be sure, they're no cakewalk and made all the more difficult if you don't have many upgrades. Which it can be your energy meter that proves more difficult than the boss itself if you aren't aggressive. It's rare that I like a game, even arcade games, so quickly. Yet, I really had a lot of fun with my limited play time with Out Zone. When I think Taoplan, I think Truxton. Which is fun, but it's also not very high on my list of favorite shmups. I think Out Zone is likely to be my favorite Taoplan game ever. And at this point, I've played a fair amount of their catalog.

this is a really fun game

A masterpiece, and a lesson of good game design. It belongs to the toaplan big 3(along batsugun and dogyum). An hybrid of shmup and top-down perspective (like commando), but deeply is more a shmup. The game has a energy bar that is always reducing (like wonderboy) and forces you to go forward and pickup energy items to recover therefore the action gets frenetic. You have a button for bomb and another for shot . You have a few types of shoot but mostly of the times you will use a triple shot forward and a single shot that you can aim at any direction. in modern games single shot is controlled by twinstick or in worst case scenario holding the button for fixed shoot (like shook troopers). this games uses a type of control that should be obsolete where you move the joystick in the direction you want to fire and shoot (like commando) , but the level design is so good because you will use in tight corridors (instead of big open areas) and part of the fun of the game is struggling with those controls. It shouldn´t work, but it works and above all is fun. The bullet patterns are simple but fun. the graphics are good reminding a cyberpunk world with beautiful pixel art where enemyes big and mettalic.The enemy variety is great, with different behavihors. The music is great. Now about the port, it started bad, but now they updated and fix most of the problems. Sound emulation is still not perfect (but ok), no input lag. And there are a ton of acessibility options that fix some problems/imperfections that the original had. You have a autofire option, you can choose the size of the hitbox (original game had a large hitbox), etc. The price is good. And while bitwave does not reach the level of m2 of bells % whistles, when it comes to the basics, and what it is important comes very close (except in the sound emulation) and considering the price i think i could not ask for more. Buy it to support the company so they can port other games.

gooood!!!!

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Old school classic, good i you are into such things

Who makes the best ShootEmUps? Toaplan -> Cave