Daisenpu / Twin Hawk (Arcade) - Full Run 1-ALL Clear 1,033,660 Pts
18Full run of Daisenpuu (大旋風), also known as Twin Hawk, the 7th arcade shmup developed by Toaplan.
Stage Listing:
00:00 - Intro / Start
04:56 - 1st Boss
09:28 - 2nd Boss
13:01 - 3rd Boss
19:36 - Final Boss
22:22 - Loop 2 Start
Daisenpu is perhaps Toaplan's most obscure game, and also one of the most generic that they've created. It's a fairly bare bones military themed vertical shooter with nothing but ground (and sea) based enemies. It's vaguely similar to Tiger-Heli in how the enemies behave with their fixed interval firing patterns and simply movement.
There are only 4 levels (going by when the music changes) with no distinct level transition between one to the next kind of similar to what was done in Tatsujin. In the early levels you mainly face off against a endless supply of tanks and other desert based vehicles while the later stages add boats and massive ships to the mix.
The main gimmick, at least the feature that differentiates Daisenpu the most from other run of the mill shooters, is the ability to summon a squadron of planes to assist you using the "bomb" button. These planes will stick around and help you destroy things as long as they don't take damage. You can also forced them to dive bomb the enemy by hitting the bomb button again at a later time.
Finally, you also get a true bullet canceling, destructive bomb you can use if you quickly double tap the bomb button, and in this case the squadron won't show up at all. Describing all this in words makes it seem more complicated than it really is.
Dying once again brings you back to the previous checkpoint and while some areas require a certain level of memorization to recover, it is not very complicated, and your bombs and squadron help quite a bit in your quest to getting back to full power. The challenge level overall is very fair, perhaps harder than some of the earlier games like Hishouzame but not reaching the level of Tatsujin of KyuKyoKu Tiger.
And that's pretty much it for Daisenpu, it's a competent shooter but not a great one, however I do recommend giving it a try.