Gunbird 2 Dreamcast
This section requires.Through gameplay cutscenes (and endings) it appears that the zany, uproarious (and at times rather adult) humor is considerably increased since the original Gunbird. The game has numerous similarities to the series, including the final boss in the game, a cartoon elephant playing a trumpet.Gameplay There are seven stages in each game loop (two loops total). The first three stages are randomly chosen from possible four. At 2nd loop, enemies fire denser bullet patterns moving at faster speeds. Stage 2-1 takes place at the only stage not available in 1st loop, instead of the 1-1 counterpart.
May 02, 2014 Gunbird 2 was ported to home consoles, thankfully with XS having nothing to do with them. Capcom published the Dreamcast port of Gunbird 2, adding in Morrigan as an exclusive character that does not appear in any other version. In addition to a tate (“Arcade”) mode, there are two “Original” modes that will either keep the view static.
After completing 1st loop with only one player, player can choose one of two choices for a wish with magic potion, with unique ending for each choice. If 1st loop is completed with two players, a combination-specific ending is played.This is the first Psikyo shooter to feature medal-chaining: picking up 2000 point medals (when they flash) repeatedly results in a slight point increase and a coin chain, recorded separately from the score. This was later featured in and.Characters. In-game screenshot. Great magician Marion: The young English witch from Gunbird returns, with Pom-Pom returning as well. Lonely vampire Alucard: The son of (hence the backward spelling). Also a vampire, and capable of great inhuman powers.
Although he is good in comparison to his father, he still craves human blood. Military robot Valpiro: The same robot as Valnus in the original Gunbird. He may have sinister plans for the potion if he obtains it, depending on which ending you receive. Flying excellence Tavia: A cute, bespectacled, preteen girl with a jetpack on her back. She is the niece of Ash (who cameos in some of her co-op endings) from the original Gunbird. Emotional and cries easily. When paired with Alucard, she falls in love with him.
Brown fat body Hei-Cobb: A short, fat, turban-sporting man of Arabic descent. He rides a flying carpet.
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During his cutscenes he is sometimes proud, and sometimes ashamed, of his figure. Aine: A one-eyed samurai from series. Whereas it is not clear in the Sengoku Ace game that he is unclosetedly homosexual (like Tetsu in Gunbird), such subtlety is thrown out the window in Gunbird 2, especially during the ending scene with Aine and another cooperative player, in which he takes his partner to bed with him (in his co-op ending with Marion, he does this to a Pom-Pom turned human, while in the ending with Tavia, he does so to Ash). In arcade machine, Aine is selectable if arcade board settings allow Aine to be selected.: A from the series.
On the Dreamcast version, pressing up or down on the random character select allows the player to choose between Aine and Morrigan. The Queen Pirates trio: The enemy in Gunbird 2, their design based on the / villains.
The Elephant God: The end boss and an obvious parody of Satochan, the mascot of Sato Pharmaceuticals, a Japanese pharmaceutical company. This is appropriate, given that the protagonists in the game are all searching for a cure to their individual weakness, and Satochan is a icon in Japan.Multilingual support The arcade game supports both English and Japanese languages, chosen via arcade board dip switch settings. The language setting is Japanese if dip switches are set to Japanese, English otherwise.Dreamcast version New fighters in the, released in 2000, include Morrigan and Aine (an unlocked character). Other new features include Internet ranking, gallery, and voices during intermission.PlayStation 2 version.
. WW: 2016Mode(s), two-playerUprightPsikyo SH2SoundBDisplay, 224 x 320 pixels (vertical), 5120 colorsGunbird 2 ( ガンバード2) is a 2D developed by and published by as a sequel to the original. It was originally released in Japanese in 1998, and was later ported to the in 2000 and released worldwide. An version was released in Korean in 2014, it came out worldwide on both Android and in 2016. The arcade game was also included in for the. A version was released on Nintendo Switch in June 2018. A screenshot of Tavia battling the Queen Pirates in the USA stageThere are seven stages in each game loop (two loops total).
The first three stages are randomly chosen from possible four. At the second loop, enemies fire denser bullet patterns moving at faster speeds. Stage 2-1 takes place at the only stage not available in 1st loop, instead of the 1-1 counterpart. After completing the first loop with only one player, player can choose one of two choices for a wish with magic potion, with unique ending for each choice. If 1st loop is completed with two players, a combination-specific ending is played.This was the first shooter to feature medal-chaining: picking up 2000 point medals (when they flash) repeatedly results in a slight point increase and a coin chain, recorded separately from the score.
This was later featured in.The arcade game supports both English and Japanese languages, chosen via arcade board dip switch settings. The language setting is Japanese if dip switches are set to Japanese, English otherwise.Two exclusive playable characters in the port of Gunbird 2, released in 2000, includes from the series and Aine from the series. Other new features include Internet ranking, gallery, and voices during intermission. Plot Seven warriors are challenged to head on a quest to find three powerful elements of Sun, Moon and Stars.
Whoever brings the elements to the Potion God will be rewarded the legendary Almighty Potion and all its magical powers. Reception Jeff Lundrigan reviewed the Dreamcast version of the game for, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that 'If you want a ridiculously high level of pure twitch-response challenge, look no further. If you don't, well, move along.' Gunbird 2 received mostly positive reviews. The Dreamcast version received scores of 8.5/10 from both Gaming Target and Planet Dreamcast, while graded it a B.
It also scored an 80% from French Consoles + while the three reviewers from Dreamcast Magazine each gave it a 7/10. 's Anthony Chau gave it an 8.4/10, stating: 'I hope that most of you that decide to get Gunbird 2 are those that know the excitement of weaving between enemy fire, appreciate 2D artistry, and respect classic gameplay that never gets old.
If that's you, you'll definitely be satisfied.' 's Steven Garrett, however, was much more critical of the game, rating it only a 5.8/10 and opining that 'if a good 16-bit shooter is what you're looking for, you could do a lot better elsewhere.' Legacy Gunbird Special Edition. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
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