Cool, a forefather to Guardian Legend makes it to the west! Sounds like fun, and I hope the MSX Aleste games can make it too one day.

Thanks for the rundown! I really wish M2 put out another Aleste/Compile collection. Thankfully, Egg Console releases have been thoughtfully developed archives. Gonna pick this up very soon. Keep up the great work, Chef!

This is one I've never really explored. I've played a few of the more high profile MSX shmups like the Gradius games, Parodius, Salamander, or Space Manbow, but never this one. It definitely looks difficult, based on the really fast enemy movement and bullet speeds. I can see where some of the Zanac/Aleste DNA comes from.

To each thier own. I still think Rouge Flight is worth some love on this awesome channel, but this is nice too I guess?

Definitely an obscure title. Thank you for taking a look at this!

Great video..👍❤️

Congratulations!!!

Skull Fang on Saturn was ripped to shreds in the press at the time of release. Possibly one of the worst shooters on the system. I don't think time has been kind to this game and it looks very poor. Im going to give this a miss.

Chef gets it right yet again.👀👍

Cant find it on steam. Whats the actual name? Skull fang brings no results as does saturn tribute boosted. I found it, doesnt show up when search for it on a staem deck for some reason. Probably language related

Great review 👍❤️

I have Skull Fang for the Saturn, great shoot 'em up. It's awesome that it's re-released for current consoles.

This looks pretty fun. I wonder though, if the lag is on the level of Cotton 2 (which was 11 frames and made it unplayable) or if it's on the level of Gunbird/Gunbird 2 (which was six frames, but still playable.) Thank you for the solid review!

Congratulations on 10 years! Keep up the good work and here’s to another 10!!

Congrats on 10 years!!🎉 Keep'm coming.

Happy 10th Birthday Shoot'em Up Saturday! That's a huge achievement, Chef!

TATE option?

Congrats !!! 🎉 👏

Congratulations and thank you for ten great years, Chef! Here's to 10 more!

10 years is some amazing consistency. Well done! Appreciate your content

Congratulations on 10 years Chef Fitaurus. I don't always agree with your views on some of the earlier, possibly more simplistic shooting games, but I've probably got a few years on you and I always check your videos regardless.

Congrats on 10 years of reviewing shmups. Here's hoping to another 10 years. I started loving shmups during the 16bit era, mainly from the SNES and Turbografx 16. My 3 favorite shmups of all time are Einhander, R Type Delta, and Raiden II, all on the PS1

Happy 10th!

Congratulations!! Wow!! It’s been 10 years. Shoot em ups are one of my favorite genres. I always look forward to your videos. Thank you!

Great work…keep going ❤❤❤

Congrats on 10 years!

Congrats on 10 years, Chef! Always fun to see your name in leaderboards during launch weeks of new releases.

The era that Einhander came out, we thought it was the send off for shooters as we called them back then. With channels like yours that brought attention to the genre, people like me were reminded about how well most had held up and we went back to check out everything we missed. I was great on Genesis, Neo Geo and SNES, but only knew of the big hits from the Turbografx and PC Engine. There are some really great ones on that system that never got a stateside release.

Shmups are a healthy genre… thanks in part to you!!!! Thank you so much for your truly impressive consistency and for your great reviews. The whole community is grateful for you

I love the raiden reference in enter the gungeon

Congratulations on 10 years! I hope you have many, many more!

Congratulations on your 10th anniversary Chef. And what a great start to your channel, as EINHANDER is easily the best shmup ever created, & my all time favorite.👍

I love when achievements hit you with a little bit extra dopamine like that.

Im not sure what to make of this. Doesnt look great. Also the 3d model of the red ship is so screwed up, I just need to roast it.("nice model" *toot-toot*) it has this weird flat blocky shape under the cockpit and between the 2 things sticking out towards the front that looks real bad, like they had to connect it all together somehow but didnt finish modeling that part because no one would see it during gameplay. But then someone else decided to make cutscenes where the ships flips around and...oh no. xD Or maybe its the weird way the cockpit sits on top of the rest of the craft.... I get that they tried to go for a more vic viper-esque ship design(why) but the ships in gradius are somewhat aerodynamically shaped, they dont have a giant block hanging under them like this raiden ship. And its an especially shitty fit for raiden imo as they always had fairly "realistic" jet designs before....Id be curious to see the credits...cant seem to find em online...I would love to know if the ship designs or modeling have been done by someone new. The blue ship is less noticeably bad from the little you see it in 3d in this video. Edit: looking at it more and more....it looks like some kind of transformers jet that had to sacrifice sensible aerodynamic proportions to be able to transform. Edit2: what the... If you look at the loading screens the ship on those looks a LOT flatter. Like it should. It does seem that the modeller screwed up then.

Heck yeah, Im so glad this is good cause I, like you had my doubts at first. Of course me loving the Raiden series my whole life, I was gonna pick this one up regardless 🤣You should review Rogue Flight, as Im loving that one bigtime lol

I didn't see this one coming !!! Raiden.... 🤔 "Moulin Rouge" ??!! Mon Dieu, what the hell... !! I know that Japanese love using French names but.... weird here !!!

Looks like a fun game for $9.99 but definitely not $29.99.

I'd rather play Redacted.

720p with N64 era textures. Stylistically was that their intention!?

I really like twin stick shooters but this looks awful, graphics are muddy and hard to see ships/bullets, framerate looks poor and generic gameplay with super grindy progression. For the price there are significantly better games in the genre for cheaper.

Great review. I haven't got this on Steam yet, since I was hoping for a Switch release. Good to hear it is coming soon. Keep up the good work!

I see. So I am not the only one who thinks Candy Rangers is fun. Yeah it really is the most fun demo I have played on NEXT.

Rainchaser is really good and looks awesome. But none of the other Shmups in this Next Fest has really impressed me. But the On Rails shooter Rogue Flight is awesome and you should look it up!

Varyznex is my favourite shooter from the Nextfest, The dev, Zakichi is a legend and has made some of my favourite shooters. Kaikan being a standout. Give it a go, you won't be disappointed.

Candy Rangers looks cool as i'm a big fan of rail shooters. Crystal Breakers also looks decent

As a 50 yr old child of the 80's, I'll add a little context. This game was actually quite innovative for its time. It was released in the same year as Gradius and Green Beret, Konami were on a roll that would extend to inc Jail Break, Jackal and Iron Horse. Let's not forget that Tiger Heli and 1942 were released a yr prior to its release, so this was quite the jump for vert stg games. You can carry/shoot 2 weapons at the same time (one per hand) and juggle both with a shield by pressing both buttons, and there was something unique with the weapon that looks like grenades that you literally juggle. I accept that it might only be for people of its time and likely has very little appeal for new players, but it's earned its place in stg history.

But you haven't done a review of bosconian please review it. Chef fitarus.

Sadly, I didn't get time to mess with this one when I visited Galloping Ghost Arcade earlier this year. I was happy to see if got announced for Arcade Archives. Good to have it available more widely. Thanks for the review!

Unexpected turn they took with this Bosconian sequel! Instead of multi directional like the first, it looks like a pretty standard vertically scrolling one with a Bosconian flavour…

Love your reviews. Keep it going. As for this game, it doesn’t seem to force you using other weapon types, right? I love arcade archives. There are a couple of them on sale for the next few days, like Darius and Darius 2 and some other great ones.