Every Super Nintendo Shoot-Em-Up - SNESdrunk

laughter I have a confession to make for many years I unfairly discriminated against most shoot-'em-up games I knew a couple stood out like the gradient series but for the most part I just kind of shrugged my shoulders and said meth they all look exactly the same what's the difference what's the point if you played one you played them all and I've realized over the past few years what a stupid and ignorant point of view that was so to make up for it I'm making this video which is to serve as a quick reference for shoot-'em-ups for the Super Nintendo just to prevent people from having my old shitty attitude towards the genre I won't be going into much detail I just want to show off some footage from each game and say a thing or two about what makes the game either worth playing or avoiding now I understand the Super Nintendo isn't the greatest system for shoot-'em-ups the system Hardware just doesn't lend itself very well to that style of game but the Genesis or Mega Drive and the PC engine have some shooters that put the Super Nintendo to change wherever thus neste still does have some great quality shoot-'em-ups nonetheless and just as an aside I'm going to continue saying shoot him up instead of schmuck shmoop reads better and looks better in print but it's kind of weird to say shmoop Bert she met schmurder sure our Smurfs anyway let's go there are over 30 shoot-'em-up games between the Super Nintendo and Super Famicom so let's check them out alphabetical stuff Acrobat mission is a top-down vertical scroller on the Super Famicom not too bad on the difficulty this game is very average though and that's the best way I can describe it nothing spectacular at all but decent enough arrow fighters is also a top-down scroller you might also recognize the title as being one of the most rare Super Nintendo games in existence so it's price tag is over 300 bucks there's also a co-op mode which is pretty cool it's a pretty good game it's got some solid mechanics good balance I don't think it's worth 300 bucks but it's good enough excellent from Konami is one of the three or four best shoot-'em-ups on the Super Nintendo there's lots of variety with both vertical and horizontal scrolling and three different weapon types to choose from the difficulty is tough but forgiving definitely check this one out bio metal is a decent horizontal scroller with some impressive backgrounds in pixel art but kind of a strange soundtrack yeah six stages with moderate difficulty and good pacing makes it a solid game although this game does have some slowdown problems blaze eon is another horizontal scroller where you're able to freeze enemies use them to shield from enemy fire or they allow you to take their form it's a neat dynamic but overall this game is very slow I don't mean the usual Super Nintendo slow down but I mean the game is just paced very very slowly there's no point in playing this game when you've got much better options d force known as dimensional force in the Super Famicom oh boy this game sucks the graphics and execution are clumsy and just simply outdated the game as a whole feels off-balance and the hit detection is just terrible avoid this one Darius twin is another game that falls flat the game just is paced very slowly there's not a lot going on especially compared to the action and other shoot-'em-ups on the Super Nintendo another recommendation to avoid because Darius 2 for the Genesis is just way way better Digimon is very interesting and his chorus is fundamentally solid vertical shooter but it comes equipped with a graphics editor and a music editor so it's like a shoot-'em-up combined with Mario Paint granted what you're able to do is kind of limited but it's still a cool idea to mess around with it's kind of like Excitebike for the NES but as a shooter but I'd recommend checking this one out firepower mm also known as super Swift is a vertical shooter that's pretty well done it places a little more emphasis on figuring out patterns and having dodge attacks rather than just brute force blow up everything everywhere the game has paced pretty well too this is one of the better games in the genre flying hero who Bureau no daibouken is another vertical shooter for the Super Famicom a great looking game with a cartoon type feel aesthetically it's a bit a change of pace for the genre it's very fast and very satisfying to play Gradius 3 is one of my personal favorites although objectively it's very hit-or-miss I really like the powerup system because it implements a layer of strategy the game looks and sounds great but it has major slowdown issues also the difficulty is brutal one-hit deaths and you start over with nothing but at least there are checkpoints here and there and since we're on Gradius 3 there are 3 pero Deus games up for the Super Famicom of course barodius combines the word parody with the word Gradius and all three games all play almost exactly like Gradius only on crack unfortunately they also come with Gradius as flaws which are bad slowdown and extreme difficulty die and start with nothing even so I'd recommend parodia steshin wot Karen oh I yeah in other words the first per odious game since that has a least amount of trouble this slowdown Imperium is a vertical scorer which is just kind of average the Uruk and backgrounds are pretty nice but the sound is lousy the game implements an experience system for destroying enemies to power up your weapons instead of just collecting them which is a nice idea but overall the game just feels kind of generic buckaroo a scrambled Valkyrie for the Super Famicom man this game is freakin amazing easily one of the best shoot-'em-ups on the system a ton of variety with different pilots and power-ups to choose from and you can alter your ships form a number of ways plus though graphics are excellent and the sound of destroying an enemy is addictive you gotta track this game down it's outstanding Martian adventure cotton 100% is a horizontal scroller for the Super Famicom there's an anime style artwork of some nice-looking bosses it's a perfectly fine game and it's a bit on the easy side though phalanx otherwise known as the game at the old dude playing a banjo on the cover is a horizontal scroller that's unremarkable but solid it's well balanced although it's a bit on the easy side the music here though is excellent and some of the best in the genre pop and twinby is a vertical shooter released only in Europe and Japan it's a bit slower paced but it's well done I like how you're able to control the powerup system up to a certain extent by shooting the bells to make them a certain colour to match what you need it's a good game that's made better with a second player under the art type games super r-type is a beautiful looking game but it has major major slowdown issues maybe the worst of any game on this list also if you die you start all the way back at the beginning of the level no respawning this game is frustrating for all the wrong reasons our type 3 the third Lightning meanwhile is a big step up while the game is still brutally difficult it's just as great-looking as super r-type without the slowdown level design does get pretty creative as well although man it's hard as hell Raiden triad is a vertical shooter on both the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis but both are different versions the Sinestro j'en is more forgiving although overall the game is just average and kind of generic now what stands out compared to some of its peers space Megaforce or super LS is hands down the best shoot-'em-up on the Super Nintendo it's a spectacular looking fast paced game that will kick your ass very addicting perfectly balanced with some creative level design this game is awesome any way you look at it it is the best shoot-'em-up on the Super Nintendo sprague and powered is a horizontal shooter on the super I enjoyed this one it's got a shielding mechanic that allows you to eliminate all projectiles on the screen but you sacrifice some life to do so it's an interesting idea bets implemented well otherwise this game is pretty standard but it's decent enough I kind of like it strike gunner STG is a vertical shooter that's hit or miss I really like the sound it's addicting to blow stuff up but the backgrounds are drab and the game is very easy still you could do much worse super Earths Defence Force is a fast paced no-nonsense horizontal shooter in a kind of average and generic at first glance but it executes the fundamentals really well there's good balance here supernova is actually Darius Force the sequel to Darius twin it's better than that game but not by much this game is hard as hell and it reminds me of super r-type in the worst ways it's frustrating for all the wrong reasons I'd avoid this one Thunder spirits is a port of thunder force 3 for the Genesis but really it's a pale shadow of that game the whole time I'm playing this all I can think of is I'd rather be playing Thunder Force 3 after this game is bad at all it's decent enough it's just I'd recommend checking out Thunder Force 3 instead un squadron is a horizontal shooter that's one of the best on the Super Nintendo there's a ton of customizable elements and different strategies to implement which drives the replay value sky-high and lets you choose a trial and error approach to see what works best for you it's easily one of the three best shoot-'em-ups on the Super Nintendo proof ok we made it my five best shoot-'em-ups on the Super Nintendo and Super Famicom are as follows number 5 is per odious - in wakaru OREA I think I'm pronouncing that right number 4 is excellent number 3 is un squadron number 2 Makarov scrambled Valkyrie number one is space Megaforce and there you have it thanks for watching it really appreciate it I hope this was at least somewhat useful to some of you people that are not as familiar with the shoot-'em-up genre for the Super Nintendo I hope you have a good rest of your day

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Length: 8min 34sec (514 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 18 2014