Overview
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player)
- Genre
- Release Date
Wii (Wii Shop)
- 25th Feb 2008, 600 points
- 29th Feb 2008, 600 points
- 24th Jun 2008, 600 points
- Controller Support
Reviews
Review Psychosis (Virtual Console / TurboGrafx-16)
This is a side-scrolling shooter played in a world created from the mind of a twisted demon.
The PC Engine/TG-16 is a machine that is famous for its wide and diverse range of shooting titles, but Psychosis (also known as Paranoia in Japan) is one title that you might not be familiar with, despite the fact that it was deemed worthy of a Western...
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Psychosis News
News Japanese Virtual Console list - June 2008 (Super Mario RPG!)
Japan is bound to make every single person in the US, Europe and the rest of the world jealous next month - There's a certain SNES RPG featuring everybody's favourite plumber on the release list, after all... One of the Mega Drive's finest RPGs is also on its way to the land of the rising sun.
The full list is: Famicom: Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa...
News EU VC Releases - 29th February - Super Turrican
Let's get this out of the way first - Sadly, there are no 3D games involving a pink puffball for Europe available this week.
What is available, however, is Factor 5's SNES blaster, Super Turrican. It got rated long ago, in mid-2007, so fans of the series (Which has achieved cult status) were wondering where the heck the game was. Worry no more...
News US VC Releases - 25th February - Kirby 64
American NES fans were no doubt a little jealous at Europe for getting River City Ransom last Friday - But no worries, while you aren't getting RCR on Monday, you'll get something else that's also wanted by many people and isn't out in Europe yet.
Japan got Custom Robo V2 as their latest Nintendo 64 game, so some people thought the rest of the world...
About The Game
This is a side-scrolling shooter played in a world created from the mind of a twisted demon. Your soul has suddenly wandered into that evil world that exists in every person’s heart. The only way out is to blast your way past the grotesque creatures that block your path in five “causes” (stages).
You must face the dangers of this psychedelic world by making full use of three shot types and the satellite option. With power-ups, you can change your shots to a wide-coverage beam, a satellite-generated laser and more. Each shot type can be powered up to three levels. You can also block enemy fire by rotating the satellites to a desired position. How you use these features will be the key to successfully escaping this strange and surreal world.
Comments 9
It's an odd shooter, but it feels very plain and vanilla most of the time. Difficulty is pretty stiff as well. It's good but not great.
I knew some people are driven mad by some virtual console release (Which i wonder why anyway) but a game about madness umm strange .
Love the back story. The music on the demo video up top seems interesting if not repetitive (makes you want to go psycho.) Never the less I've always been a shooter fan since the Turbo showed me how good they were, and for only 600, I could download worse. If this is better than Monster Lair, it's money well spent. I still have to get soldier blade and R-Type though. Blazing Lasers and the Thunder titles were downloaded the day of release for me. Shmups FTW!
Nice little soundtrack going there I totally dissagree with minchimuri with the music quote..
Seems a lot like R-Type (which is on VC already) with the way it scrolls and moves, with a mild touch of Final Mission (not on VC yet) with those acolyte pods around you...
but why not just get R-Type?
Got a bit excited there. I thought this might be a game based on the former WCW Cruiserweight guy, but alas, its another shooter on a overpopulated system, one that is hardly going to instigate a roaring trade in hardware sales. Hmm.
I have this Turbochip for my TG-16. Got it as a used game from a rental place that was selling all it's TurboGrafx rental games a long time ago. It is challenging and colorful with a unique back story (rare for a Shmup). I like that there are a few secrets hidden here and there. In the first level, if you shoot the two black ant looking things that are attacking a pink caterpillar looking thing, then butterflies will fly around you when you get to the boss of the first level. Later, there is a rat by an arrow. He is making the arrow go up and down. If you shoot the rat, the arrow will point to the path you should choose in the next little section (the path that the arrow does not point to has little things in it that blocks the path some and makes it more difficult to navigate). If you don't shoot the rat, you just have to guess.
I've beaten it maybe two or three times. Each time, I had to do it on one life. Die anywhere in the later levels, and the fact that you come back with nothing but your basic peashooter makes it too difficult to continue.
And again, I started/created this game's page on Wikipedia.
^ Nifty piece of trivia, Eltigro! And what makes it even more priceless is that you did it on an original turbopad and turbo grafx. As most people will agree, nothing comes close to having the real thing...even if Nintendo's VC delivers a pretty convenient and functional package.
(Hey Eltigro, I like your userpic by the way...Johnny Turbo put me in high gear!!)
It's a decent shooter, but way down on my list of my favorites. It just doesn't have much variety and the intensity level is a bit lacking for a shooter. Decent, but nothing special.
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