Game:

Axelay (1992)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 39:15

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It's been 30 years since I played this - time to revisit it! Axelay is a technical marvel on the Super Nintendo. The graphics and music are amazing. By the way, the tilted pseudo 3D view is not Mode 7. The game alternates between overhead and horizontal scrolling during its six stages. You unlock more and more weapon systems after each stage and you can customize your loadout.

This is where I am not a fan of this game. The weapons SUCK. They are all awful. If you get hit, you lose the current weapon for the entire stage or until you die. The problem is that most of the time, one weapon is much preferred in the current situation over the others. If you lose it, you are likely dead. There are no weapon upgrades and you can't restore a weapon once you lost it until you die or finish the stage. None of the weapons has any punch and you have to evade many enemies instead of blowing them up because you just don't have the proper firepower.

Still, Axelay is a decent shooter that everyone should check out, but the gameplay is very, very mediocre in my opinion.

00:00 - Start
00:17 - Intro
01:58 - Stage 1
06:12 - Stage 2
12:05 - Stage 3
16:44 - Stage 4
22:44 - Stage 5
26:58 - Stage 6
36:06 - Ending

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