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Battle Traverse is a great horizontal Doujin SHMUP developed by Naut Mark, released in 2015. It is reminiscent to late 90s golden-era Arcade shooters and earlier Cave offerings like Progear. The game takes place in the year 2038, where a group of rebel forces called Luciana have taken over a secret island in the Pacific Ocean. According to reconnaissance info, they have secretly been producing weapons of mass destruction on an artificial island for nearly fifteen years and are getting ready to make a global assault. Playing as one of three members of the counter-assault UN Special Forces, TDJ (Tenable Defensive Justice), players will blast their way through five stages of nicely animated enemies, great music and funky bullet patterns that border on bullet-hell (nothing too insane comparatively speaking to Touhou, Ikaruga and the like, but tough enough). Each character has different shots and statistics and the game also supports two-player co-op and unlocakble difficulties, etc. If this was released in arcades back in the day, I could see myself surrendering quite a few quarters trying to beat it.

This is a very simple demonstration of the game illustrating the main mechanics: shooting, lock-on, bombs, bullet cancel, etc. There are a few videos of pro-level gameplay, but the game is relatively obscure as a whole. This video is 60FPS, so watch in HD if applicable for best results. Enjoy.

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