Blazing Star
Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo Geo home game system. It is the sequel to the acclaimed Neo Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo Geo ROM at 346 Mb, the game makes extensive use of pseudo-3D prerendered sprites, brief anime and CGI cutscenes (mostly during the intro sequence), and frequent Engrish voice samples and captions. While Blazing Star was superior in many respects to previous shooter games, some fans compare it unfavorably with Pulstar on the basis that Blazing Star was overly easy and there are those that prefer the simpler 2D sprite look over the prerendered sprites that came to dominate many of the more recent shoot-em-ups.
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DeveloperYumekobo
PublisherSNK, D4 Enterprise, Inc
ReleasedJanuary 19, 1998
StatusReleased
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About This Game
Before the game begins, the planets Remuria and Mutras had already been at war so long that weapons development crossed into Organic Weapon Production fused with alien technology. The result was Brawshella — a sentient weapon that subjugated all animal life on both worlds and assimilated most of humanity within a week.
Assimilation brought no peace. The absorbed population kept fighting each other out of old habit, purpose erased. Six former fighter pilots eventually broke free of Brawshella's control, reclaimed their identities and memories, and chose rebellion over obedience — mounting a final campaign to destroy the machine and reclaim their devastated worlds.