Space Adventure Cobra - The Awakening

I love it! I'm a huge fan of all things Cobra and I was totally not expecting this game until I stumbled across the trailer. I tried the demo and loved it then bought the game as soon as saw it was released. I love how they use the show as cut scenes and implement elements from the show as game mechanics. Clearly the people who worked on this were fans of the show as well! The legendary Psycho Gun especially feels great! It's a 4 in 1 gun with slight aim assist while normal shooting, a wider charge blast, manually targeted psycho chain blasts, and a screen clearing ultra blast. The Smash Bros. style dash/dodging is great too. Jumping, dodging, and ledge clinging feels speedy and tight. I've seen some valid complaints on here but they don't bother me too much. Here are some tips to counter some of the minor game-play issues and maximize your enjoyment: - The controls feel can feel a little swimmy at times, especially when trying to aim straight up or straight down. Cobra will tend to run to the side and shoot diagonally instead. I have this same problem in a lot of twinstick sidescrollers. Just use the static aiming (right bumper on default controls) to counter it when you want to aim up or down. You can even just tap it for a quick up or down shot. - Avoid using melee while running. There's a long animation that will have you eating bullets as you punch, so be sure to stop quickly before punching or use the jump kick instead, which are both instant. - I'm half way through and I still haven't memorized all the moves. Some require multiple buttons at the same time, luckily those are written out on the screen so you don't have to remember them anyway. Just glance over when you want to use them. - Level design allows for multiple play-styles and playthroughs. You can take your time to clear all the enemies, solve puzzles, and explore every nook and cranny for power-ups (some crannies you'll need to come back to access later). Or you can speed run every level by running/dodging past the enemies in many cases. It sort of becomes a jump and dash Celeste-style platformer at that point, which is fun. Level scoring is time based not score/kill based so you might want to do your exploring/collecting on the first playthrough, then speed run the second for score like I plan to. Overall a super fun game that is very faithful to one of my favorite anime shows!

i do not recommend this game it has no save points until you kill the boss when you exit the game you have to start right back at the start of the level no saves or manual save

First things first. If you like sci-fi, or anime, or both, and haven't watched the 31 episodes of Space Adventure Cobra (aka "Space Cobra" in Japan) anime from 1982 (preferably in Japanese language & English subtitles since no good full English dub is available), then do yourself a big favor and watch it. It's a neat mix of the original versions of Star Wars, Blade Runner, and James Bond with little to no restrictions, and the timeless art style and animations still holds up today, with incredibly memorable music and sound effects. This game is quite the golden gem for long time Cobra fans who also are long time gamers (it covers the first 12 episodes of the 1982 anime). And for gamers who like classic 2D shooters, it's a well made double A game with great action, fun and rewarding exploring, and pretty challenging, but fun platform jumping. Also, some crazy facts. This game is the first Cobra game ever for PC outside of Japan. This game came out in 2025. And the latest Cobra game before this one, came out in 1996 for PS1 (and it sucked bad). However. As a long time gamer, and big Cobra fan (I go by the name "MrAuthentic" on YouTube), I was unfortunately not satisfied with the default sound effects and music in this game. so I decided to commission a Mod Project for this game to improve it further gameplay wise, and authenticity wise, by injecting both the original sound effects, and the music from the 1982 anime, to the game (all injected sounds have been well cleaned up by me, and the mods themselves were done by a very talented Unity engine modder). There are also mods for fixing some visual bugs, removing the 60fps framerate cap, and also mods that add new gameplay features, and improving the replay value, and the overall gameplay experience.

If you like the 1980s Space Adventure Cobra anime and an action game that plays exactly like Metroid Dread sounds cool to you (don't get the wrong idea from this comparison it's NOT a metroidvania it's strictly an action-platformer) this is an easy recommend, I find it comparable to Robocop: Rogue City in terms of fun and passion for the source material despite a low budget. The Psychogun's directable firing mechanic is pretty snappy and never gets tiresome or gimmicky, once you get the hang of everything the combat flows pretty smoothly and boils down to a matter of figuring out the best order to deal with targets. The one annoying thing is that the low health warning comes in the form of Cobra saying "I don't feel so good." which I got so tired of hearing that I'd honestly rather have constant beeping at low health or something. There's French, English and JP voiceovers. I've listened to the English and played mostly in JP, the performances were all good. I can't assess the quality of the French voices as I didn't touch those. I would not recommend this to a non-fan of the Cobra series or at least not if you didn't intend to watch the show afterwards, as even though it just retells the anime storyline 1:1 there are some inconsistencies that result from oversights and the fact that they had no cutscene budget and just recycled clips from the anime, like for example in one instance a character who wasn't in a stage appeared out of nowhere for a few seconds because they had to use a clip from the show where they're present. If you hadn't seen the show you might also find that it ends on an inconclusive point because it only adapts the show's first 12 (out of 31) episodes.

Tout dépendra de votre amour pour la série et de votre nostalgie et de la façon dont celle ci va opérer sur vous en jouant à ce jeu. Pour ma part la nostalgie à fait mouche et j'ai eu de la sympathie pour ce jeu quand j'ai lancé la démo ... puis j'ai lancé le jeu final et la première mission m'a franchement fait apprécié ... mais et c'est un gros MAIS, la mission 1-2 ou l'on perds nos capacités de base dont celle nous permettant de diriger le tir laser, fait que cette mission devient imbuvable ... clairement la plus difficile du jeu ... je me suis acharné pour la passé et j'ai bien cru que j'allais abandonner ... puis finalement en persistant ... les autres missions sont bien plus jouable et mieux calibré en difficulté. Maintenant tout n'est pas parfait ... il y a une sorte d'imput lag, on ne peut pas annuler l'animation des coups au corps à corps, le stick droit n'est pas utilisé pour diriger les tirs (c'est le stick gauche avec lequel on se déplace ... mais en maintenant Lb on peut viser sans bouger), j'ai eu un mal fou à acquérir mentalement la disposition des touches ... mais avec l'habitude on s'y fait et finalement j'apprécie plutôt bien le level design et game design du jeu qui en l"état est un bon jeu de plateforme action. Artistiquement hormis deux trois loupé, le jeu à une bonne tête, un graphisme 2D HD honnête avec parfois quelques fulgurances, l'habillage du jeu nous fait revivre la série animé dans ses grands moments avec carrément des extraits en guise de cinématique, on a la musique japonaise, les dialogues et voix française et c'est un régale de ce côté la ! C'est même parfait ! Un jeu Cobra qui nous fait revivre à travers un jeu de plateforme action la série animé ! Et franchement je trouve que cela fonctionne bien une fois passé l'horrible niveau 1-2 et après quelques heures, on fini par bien maitriser le jeu. Si comme moi vous aimez Cobra, que vous êtes sensible à la nostalgie, que vous aimez de surcroit les jeux de plateforme action, ce titre pourra clairement vous plaire.

J'AAAAADDDOOOORRRRE après j'avoue que je suis peu objectif ; la nostalgie , étant Fan depuis 1986 du dessin animé (et oui suis vieux ...! ) que je ne manquais jamais le soir après l'école ( j'étais au CP)...Bref malgrés mon âge avancé je peux dire que niveau graphisme , gameplay , tout colle à l'histoire bref il est plus que correct !! Les gens de ma génération ,ceux qui ont aimé le dessin animé ne pourrons que l'apprécier +++, aprés pour les autres surtout la génération Z étant donné que vous avez eu tout vite, en quantité , trop de triple AAA et que tout est jetable je pense que vous le trouverais moyen...Mais ceux de ma génération et les fans seront plus que satisfait..!

enfin une aventure et un jeux sur le manga cobra merci

Great fun game and worth playing.

super jeu ça nous ramène dans les années 70 très belle direction artistique et le gameplay est simple et efficace avec les voix françaises au top