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Thunder Force IV (1992)

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The fourth installation of Thunder Force IV took the game to a far higher level than its predecessors and immediately became the best mega drive shooter of the 16-bit era. Music and graphics are taken to the highest level by taking full advantage of the megadrive's capabilities. This game is a no miss made on Nintendo Switch thanks to M2's excellent porting of the SEGA AGES series of games.

The game is more difficult than its predecessors and requires the player to make very few mistakes as certain areas are only surmountable with certain weapons. To make the game easier, it is necessary to memorize the parts of the game where shields are spawned as well as to know very well what weapons to use and in what situation.

A small curiosity: depending on which difficulty you go to select changes the behavior and attacks of enemies and bosses, the type of enemies that appear and the final music of the credits

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Thunder Force IV,known in North America as Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar, is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Technosoft for the Mega Drive in 1992. It is the fourth installment in Technosoft's Thunder Force series, and the third and final one created for the Mega Drive. It was developed by the team at Technosoft that ported Devil's Crush to the Mega Drive rather than the team that developed the previous Thunder Force games. Like its predecessors, it is a horizontally scrolling shooter, but it also features extensive vertical scrolling with large playing fields.

The game was considered by journalists as one of the best shooters on the Mega Drive when it was launched. Critics especially praised the game's graphics, including the vertical and parallax scrolling for illustrating the immense environments. Some believed that underneath the graphical sheen, the gameplay was relatively average however. Thunder Force IV was rereleased on the Sega Saturn in 1996 and the Nintendo Switch in 2018.

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