Friday, July 27, 2012

Blazing Star for IOS and Android

Unexpectedly enough, we had just stumbled upon another Neo Geo game on the IOS and Android. How is this an emulation sort of thing when there are smartphone shmup controls for this game and having to keep on mashing the shot button is like, urgh? Well, it may be because the gameplay is based on Pulstar which is an Ex-R-Type game with Blazing Star being somewhat different or something while retaining the Pulstar gameplay. You can compare this to R-Type Leo as they have co-op play and it's the same for R-Type Dimensions for XBLA.
The graphics in Blazing Star and Pulstar are spectacular and amazing and some stages have true 60FPS FMV sequences as if the graphics are like 3D on 2D sort of thing on Neo Geo, similar to playing shmup games with 3D graphics on 32-Bit era and above. Strangely enough, Blazing Star is NOT the only Neo Geo game on IOS and Android but it is a surprise to see games like this on these mobile platforms. The only thing missing is that it needs the Neo Geo Station and Virtual Console releases.