TWINKLE STAR SPRITES

RECOMMENDED. It's a more about reacting and timing than having to be any good at puzzles. F* it - THE BEST PUZZLE GAME FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HATE PUZZLES. The only puzzle part is trying to shoot things so that their explosions combo i.e. touch and THAT'S IT. It has a lot of Japanese flavor and their goofy VA style, so that's to be expected. Why Five stars? This is the only puzzle game I could imagine coming back to and replaying multiple times every time. For comparison, I would never touch a Match-4 such as Puzzle Bobble - too boring, diligent and slow. Besides the DotEmu issues, the content itself is very much fun, to the point I don't really care if it technically impaired. The characters are pretty original (a lot of groups, one "chara" is composed of three guys, LOL) and music is particularly good synth stuff. Tinker & Linker's and Memory's theme particularly great. The graphics were pretty insanely high-res for 1996, though that's what you could do with dedicated boards and arcade hardware back then. The difficulty ramps up during the last two stages, the first being somewhat beatable with godlike reflexes and the latter being the usual SNK boss that drains all the quarters from your pocket. You don't really win it, it just sometimes decides die and let you win. The levels are randomly generated and the AI is very random, so even the CPU matches stay fresh. This goes so far that once enemy killed itself in 3 seconds. Once. There are some issues, though. Luckily, very recently, SNK has been replacing these DotEmu ports with much better ones. Ain't gonna lie, this DotEmu one probably runs worse than the original ROM on MAME. Here's some I noticed: Sounds disappear randomly The game has slowdowns, often coupled with input drops The inputs are delayed by something like 0.2 to 0.3 seconds, making it mandatory to plan your inputs. Poor optimization, runs badly even on decent systems Etc.

A blast from the past, pure Neo Geo gem. So much fun with an good arcade stick ! Shoot everything that incoming, shoot on ennemy's items (ghosts) to throwing 'em back to his butt, shoot, shoot again to get combos, use bombs to escape on dangerous time ! There's a story mode & free character mode.(7 levels each) Lovely early 90's Magical Girl manga feels, great music and best part of this, THE VERSUS, cos you get this game to challenge your skills and kick some flying butts.

Just don't try it. Never. Trust me.

awful choppy framerate. play the rom in a real emulator