Battle Garegga (Arcade/Raizing/1996 Silver Sword) [720p]

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Battle Garegga (バトルガレッガ Batoru Garegga?) is a vertically scrolling shoot'em up arcade game released by 8ing/Raizing in 1996. In 1999, it was followed by a sequel titled Battle Bakraid. Mathew Wayne, a resident of a small country town, was a mechanical genius whose aptitude and skills were passed down to his sons, Brian and Jason. After gaining leadership of his automobile factory from him, the brothers' skills became renowned throughout the country. Eventually, the Federation approached the brothers with an extremely profitable contract to help produce military vehicles for it. The Wayne brothers accepted the contract, and created weapons without peer. A short time later, the skies turned dark with the Federation's encroaching airfleet, and towns and cities everywhere were ravaged by these armies—including Brian and Jason's home town. To their horror, the Federation was using the weapons and vehicles they themselves had designed to reshape the land to their pitiless will. Taking up planes whose designs had never been submitted to the Federation, the Wayne brothers prepare to destroy the Federation's mad scheme, and dig the graves of their own creations... In addition to the player's main shot, picking up green Option powerups will add up to four support pods to your craft. The formation of these Options can be changed to one of five presets with the C button, and there are additional secret formations that can be accessed by dropping a certain number of powerups before picking up the next. Both shot and options are fired by holding the A button. Upon killing a regular enemy on the ground, a red Small Bomber token will appear. Picking up 40 of these gives the player one Large Bomber token, but the player can use his remaining Small Bombers without a Large Bomber in stock; the duration or strength of the bomb will merely be reduced according to the percentage of a full bomb that was used. Up to five Large Bombers can be in stock at any one time, after which each Small token is worth 100 points. Powerups drop randomly from popcorn enemies, along with Medals. Every time a Medal is collected, the next one that spawns will be worth more, from 100 to 10,000 points; however, if a medal falls off the bottom of the screen, the next one to spawn will be of the lowest value. Medals can also be found upon using a bomb on certain items of scenery. The game features an adjustable difficulty system that will increase difficulty based on the actions of the player. Uncontrolled increase of the game's rank can quickly turn it into a manic shooter. Firing and powering up the main weapon, as well as picking up various items, will increase the difficulty of the game. Losing a life will decrease the difficulty (rank) of the game. The fewer lives a player has when he or she dies, the more rank is decreased, thus, the game rewards a player who doesn't stock up many lives at a time. Players are thus "forced" to keep themselves powered down, conserve shots, and lose lives on purpose in order to keep the last few stages of the game playable, though it is possible to finish the game in one life given an intricate knowledge of the game's rank system and an ultra-prudent playstyle. Unlike in most other scrolling shooter games, where bullets are often brightly colored to distinguish from the background, bullets are realistically colored, making it difficult for players to see them. Exploding enemies and objects also create flying debris, further camouflaging incoming fire. This was ameliorated to some extent in the Type 2 version, which replaces most of the standard bullets with yellow dots. Battle Garegga made in 1996 by Raizing is a one of the first real maniac shooters released for the Arcades (and also ported to Sega Saturn) where difficulty is insanely hard. I played the game using both versions - 2 gameplays are made with no Stage Edit (option to choose stages 2,3,4 or randomly swap them) and all of them except 1 are made with God Mode. While first three stages ain't so insanely hard, the real challenge comes with 4th level where you encounter a barrage of enemy projectiles most of them are very hard to avoid. I remember playing it first time, it took me over 45 minutes to finish it. Difficulty changes according to your actions - if you are fully powered up, without deaths for long time, enemies are faster also tougher to kill and much more aggressive than before (players sometimes force themselves to suicide thus lowering difficulty). The game is great to play because of details and fast paced action but you really need a lot of practice.

Battle Garegga (Arcade/Raizing/1996 Silver Sword) [720p]

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• published: 23 Apr 2014
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Battle Garegga (バトルガレッガ Batoru Garegga?) is a vertically scrolling shoot'em up arcade game released by 8ing/Raizing in 1996. In 1999, it was followed by a sequel titled Battle Bakraid. Mathew Wayne, a resident of a small country town, was a mechanical genius whose aptitude and skills were passed down to his sons, Brian and Jason. After gaining leadership of his automobile factory from him, the brothers' skills became renowned throughout the country. Eventually, the Federation approached the brothers with an extremely profitable contract to help produce military vehicles for it. The Wayne brothers accepted the contract, and created weapons without peer. A short time later, the skies turned dark with the Federation's encroaching airfleet, and towns and cities everywhere were ravaged by these armies—including Brian and Jason's home town. To their horror, the Federation was using the weapons and vehicles they themselves had designed to reshape the land to their pitiless will. Taking up planes whose designs had never been submitted to the Federation, the Wayne brothers prepare to destroy the Federation's mad scheme, and dig the graves of their own creations... In addition to the player's main shot, picking up green Option powerups will add up to four support pods to your craft. The formation of these Options can be changed to one of five presets with the C button, and there are additional secret formations that can be accessed by dropping a certain number of powerups before picking up the next. Both shot and options are fired by holding the A button. Upon killing a regular enemy on the ground, a red Small Bomber token will appear. Picking up 40 of these gives the player one Large Bomber token, but the player can use his remaining Small Bombers without a Large Bomber in stock; the duration or strength of the bomb will merely be reduced according to the percentage of a full bomb that was used. Up to five Large Bombers can be in stock at any one time, after which each Small token is worth 100 points. Powerups drop randomly from popcorn enemies, along with Medals. Every time a Medal is collected, the next one that spawns will be worth more, from 100 to 10,000 points; however, if a medal falls off the bottom of the screen, the next one to spawn will be of the lowest value. Medals can also be found upon using a bomb on certain items of scenery. The game features an adjustable difficulty system that will increase difficulty based on the actions of the player. Uncontrolled increase of the game's rank can quickly turn it into a manic shooter. Firing and powering up the main weapon, as well as picking up various items, will increase the difficulty of the game. Losing a life will decrease the difficulty (rank) of the game. The fewer lives a player has when he or she dies, the more rank is decreased, thus, the game rewards a player who doesn't stock up many lives at a time. Players are thus "forced" to keep themselves powered down, conserve shots, and lose lives on purpose in order to keep the last few stages of the game playable, though it is possible to finish the game in one life given an intricate knowledge of the game's rank system and an ultra-prudent playstyle. Unlike in most other scrolling shooter games, where bullets are often brightly colored to distinguish from the background, bullets are realistically colored, making it difficult for players to see them. Exploding enemies and objects also create flying debris, further camouflaging incoming fire. This was ameliorated to some extent in the Type 2 version, which replaces most of the standard bullets with yellow dots. Battle Garegga made in 1996 by Raizing is a one of the first real maniac shooters released for the Arcades (and also ported to Sega Saturn) where difficulty is insanely hard. I played the game using both versions - 2 gameplays are made with no Stage Edit (option to choose stages 2,3,4 or randomly swap them) and all of them except 1 are made with God Mode. While first three stages ain't so insanely hard, the real challenge comes with 4th level where you encounter a barrage of enemy projectiles most of them are very hard to avoid. I remember playing it first time, it took me over 45 minutes to finish it. Difficulty changes according to your actions - if you are fully powered up, without deaths for long time, enemies are faster also tougher to kill and much more aggressive than before (players sometimes force themselves to suicide thus lowering difficulty). The game is great to play because of details and fast paced action but you really need a lot of practice.