Gourd<p>One-credit cleared Star Parodier for PC Engine SuperCD, which is a lot less impressive than it sounds because Star Parodier is one of the easiest commercially released SHMUPs I've ever seen on a console of that age? Beat it with <strong>29</strong> lives in reserve. Didn't lose any lives at all until the final level, and I'm not <em>that</em> good at SHMUPs. It's <em>wild</em>. Doesn't make it a bad game, and I'm curious how it plays on higher difficulties but it's so offbeat for the era.</p><p>The game is very... "we can have a Parodius at home". It doesn't pull off quite the level of maniac energy as the Parodius games do, but it's got some fun stuff, with the highlight being a boss fight at the end of Stage 6 against a Bomberman in a Bomberman level where you have to move to dodge bombs following Bomberman rules.</p><p>The playable characters (a ship from Star Soldier, Bomberman, and a PC Engine) have some weapons that are truly wild; Bomberman's blue shot is a spread bomb shot where each shot explodes in all four directions and it just chews through the entire game by itself. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/sVYIv4-Ob9Q" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Soundtrack</a> rules, by the way. :ac_glee: </p><p><a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/PCEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PCEngine</span></a> <a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/Hudson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hudson</span></a> <a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/StarSoldier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarSoldier</span></a> <a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/StarParodier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarParodier</span></a></p>