Sunset Riders (SNES) Playthrough
344A playthrough of Konami's 1993 run-and-gun shooter for the Super Nintendo, Sunset Riders.
This video shows two loops through the game as Cormano. The first is played on hard, and the second loop, beginning at 27:03, is a "very hard" mode that can't be selected from the option screen. There are no further loops after this: upon completing this loop, the game ends and resets to the Konami logo.
I didn't realize there was a secret, harder loop when I made my previous Sunset Riders video, so I made this one to give a more complete picture of the game's content.
In Sunset Riders, you play as one of four bounty hunters on a crusade to take down a line-up of six wanted criminals who have been terrorizing folks living on the edge of the nineteenth century American frontier. It's a port of the popular 1991 arcade game that mixed elements of Contra's shooter/platforming action with the the spaghetti western theming of the "Bury My Shell At Wounded Knee" stage from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (https://youtu.be/JnBjDrJufHg).
Sunset Riders has always occupied a special place in my gaming memories. I remember being ten years old playing this endlessly at the Navy Exchange's game room while my parents were in the store doing their shopping. I quickly fell in love with it, and I got quite good at it over the course of those weekly play sessions.
A year or so later, I was absolutely ecstatic when I read that it was coming out on the SNES. We never did find it to buy at a store, unfortunately, but when our local Hollywood Video got a copy, you'd best believe I rented it over and over again.
In true Konami fashion, the quality of the SNES version is outstanding, right about on par with Turtles in Time. The controls are spot on, the graphics are extremely faithful, the soundtrack has been improved, most of the conversations are still fully voiced, and the game even retains the arcade version's animated intro sequence. A few details have lost in the transition (Cormano no longer puts on the whip guy's hat), a few things have been censored (like the animations of people being burned to death), and some of the stages have been simplified and shortened, but for an eight megabit cartridge, the SNES version of Sunset Riders is a remarkably accurate recreation of the coin-op original, and it mops the floor with the Genesis game.
If you're a fan of the genre, Sunset Riders is an easy recommendation. It's a polished, action-packed blast-a-thon with a whole lot of personality, and it's easily my favorite run-and-gunner on the Super Nintendo.
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