Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Review: Devil Engine - A Brutal Yet Rewarding Tribute To The Likes Of Thunder Force And R-Type

The devil is in the detail.

Long before 'bullet hell' shooters became the flavour of the month, Technosoft's Thunder Force series took an almost perverse delight in humiliating players who foolishly believed they had the skills to beat even the toughest shmup challenge. Titles like Thunder Force III, IV and V were the pinnacle of 2D shooting excellence, but their high difficulty level arguably put off just as many players as it attracted, if not more. Still, these are shooters cut from a different cloth; they don't spoon feed you and instead task the player with upping their game to the point where simply surviving feels like a triumph.

Devil Engine may not bear the famous Thunder Force name, but it has certainly been inspired by the dormant shooter series (as well as others, such as SNK's cult classic Last Resort and the seminal R-Type). You take your highly experimental spacecraft and pilot it through six increasingly taxing levels, facing off against waves of enemies as well as bosses of both the 'mid' and 'end of level' variety.

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