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#60 Lords of Thunder (Turbografx CD Version)

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It's my favorite shmup! I LOVE the idea of the shmup genre...but I find myself bouncing off basically every game. For example, IMO there's usually too big of a punishment for getting hit, for my taste. Or not being allowed to touch walls, eww.

But here you have a pretty big health bar!!! And you get to choose what order you play the levels, so you don't have to keep re-playing level 1, to practice level 2! Genius fundamental design choices in this game.

Furthermore, the levels are *spectacular*, you're going into and out of ruins, caves, castles, buildings, the sky, volcanoes, waterfalls, everything. And the gameplay feels surprisingly different in each level too.

And the music is SIIIIICK metal, like nonstop wailing metal guitar solos.

There's some good strategic depth thanks to the Shop system, which you visit in between levels, too. Also you have a sick melee attack.

BEST LEVEL: Cielom, a level with mountains, and floating castles, at sunset. It's the most intense level, enemies stream in from all sides of the screen; AND, there are these homing fireballs that turn on a dime, so you have to play while kiting them!!!