Game:

Sol-Feace (1990)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 28:22

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Whenever I read "Sol-Feace", I need to think of the AVGN episode about the Sega CD where he says "Sol-Feace? More like, Sol... Feces!".

As James said in his episode, this is a competent shooter. Good graphics, stage and boss design is fine, good music. It's not a top tier shmup because it's not refined enough in my opinion in terms of weapon loadouts, boss mechanics and stage design. You can also aim your upper and lower weapon platforms at an angle and equip different weapons in these slots depending on what part of your ship touches the upgrade. Interesting system and the angle of your weapon can be useful in many places.

Overall, it's a good package though. I read that this was an easy game, but I found several parts quite difficult. If you die, you might as well reset the game because you get overwhelmed over and over and weapon upgrades are not that common. Especially with the Jupiter boss, your pea shooter will not do much.

There is also "mania" difficulty and I just could not be bothered to find strategies for that. It's unfair and overwhelming. For example in stage two, normal difficulty has one piston before the boss that tries to crush you. Mania has three and I found it frustratingly difficult to time this encounter. And it gets harder from there, see Jupiter boss. I read that there is also a very hard mode that you can enable with a button combination like a cheat code. I noped out of this experience and did not try that one.

00:00 - Start
00:23 - Story Intro
03:58 - Title Screen
04:10 - Anime Intro
05:53 - Stage 1 (Cilius)
09:09 - Stage 2 (Cilius Moon Weapons Factory)
12:21 - Stage 3 (Artificial Sun)
14:29 - Stage 4 (Cruise Ship "Microcosm P-1")
17:43 - Stage 5 (A Station on Pluto)
20:13 - Stage 6 (Moon Amalthea - Jupiter V)
23:19 - Stage 7 (Erf)
26:26 - Ending
26:46 - Credits

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