Game:

Alien Attack (1979)

Duration: 1:24:36

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0:00:00 Title Screen
0:00:05 Weapon Select
0:01:18 Stage Select
0:01:27 Stage 1 *
0:01:45 Stage 2 *
0:02:03 Stage 3 *
0:02:39 Stage 4
0:03:16 Stage 5
0:03:44 Stage 6
0:04:24 Stage 7 *
0:05:30 Stage 8 *
0:06:23 Stage 9
0:08:34 Stage 10 *
0:10:09 Stage 11
0:11:09 Stage 12
0:13:36 Stage 13
0:14:35 Stage 14
0:15:47 Stage 15
0:16:58 Stage 16
0:18:29 Stage 17 - Boss 1
0:20:38 Stage 18 *
0:21:06 Stage 19
0:21:56 Stage 20 *
0:22:48 Stage 21
0:23:44 Stage 22 *
0:24:52 Stage 23 *
0:25:37 Stage 24
0:27:14 Stage 25
0:29:07 Stage 26 *
0:30:15 Stage 27 *
0:31:17 Stage 28 *
0:32:11 Stage 29 *
0:33:03 Stage 30
0:34:42 Stage 31
0:36:08 Stage 32
0:37:14 Stage 33
0:39:17 Stage 34 - Boss 2
0:41:26 Stage 35 *
0:42:08 Stage 36
0:42:57 Stage 37
0:45:18 Stage 38
0:47:17 Stage 39
0:48:04 Stage 40
0:49:22 Stage 41
0:51:56 Stage 42
0:53:31 Stage 43
0:55:24 Stage 44
0:56:59 Stage 45
0:59:33 Stage 46
1:01:47 Stage 47
1:03:42 Stage 48
1:06:54 Stage 49
1:10:47 Stage 50
1:14:12 Stage 51 - Boss 3
1:21:32 Ending
1:23:44 Extra

EDF! EDF! EDF!

Touhou Dead Line is definitely inspired by Earth Defense Force. You play as Nitori and Keine defending against an alien attack. The enemies you will encounter are much like the ones encountered in EDF. Players are given a variety of weapons. Using two weapons and several stun grenades, the players must stop the advancing aliens from breaching the defense line. You lose if you both die from enemy attacks or an enemy breaches the defense line. Only ants can break through the defense line luckily as everything else just wants to put a hilariously large hole in your face.

Let me get this out of the way first. I love this game to death. It doesn't have good effects, graphics, sound balance and a lot of other things but it's just plain fun. It may look like mindless killing but like EDF, a lot goes into weapon choice and how to attack your enemies which makes the game have a surprising amount of depth. It's a good example in my eyes saying how it's not the graphics that makes a game but as long as it's fun and enjoyable.

Anyways, I played through the game with Zenasuma. This was basically Zena's first time playing the game. Due to some controller issues, Zena was Nitori and I was Keine. Also due to the same controller issues, Zena was unable to move diagonally. Eventually we switched up controllers about halfway through the game that solved his diagonal movement problem.

Even though only one player must survive to complete the stage, we decided (or more like I decided) that we both must survive or we'll have to replay the stage.

We played the first set of stages choosing different weapons each time just to show you guys some of the weapon variety (even though we didn't show off the flamethrower and some other guns). After awhile we had to start using weapons that served us better as the attack formations start getting a little more tricky to handle.

Why did we use the AS-22RR and Goliath SSS most of the time? The AS-22RR has the largest magazine size of the weapons I had which gives good suppression to stop enemies from attacking. Downside of having such a large magazine is that there is no manual reload button. That's why sometimes we were emptying our bullets at no enemy so we could get a fresh magazine for the next wave. The Goliath SSS had relatively high damage, high reload rate and AoE damage compared to the rest of the weapons we had unlocked making it a good all around utility attack against both large hordes and stronger enemies.

(Leave a comment if you want to know the exact stats for specific weapons.)

Apparently my save file is also missing around 5 weapons but I didn't go back and unlock them. I believe INPOSSIBLE difficulty assumes you have everything unlocked already which is why no weapons drop after a stage.
You may have also noticed that "IMPOSSIBLE" is spelled wrong. It's spelled "INPOSSIBLE" in game so I left it like that. INPOSSIBLE difficulty is the 5th and hardest difficulty in the game and requires two players to complete. If someone finishes it with one player, I don't know what to say. I went through most of Inferno difficulty solo. Finished all but 3-5 stages solo.

Total playtime ~ 3 hours

Would have done live commentary but playing while talking is sorta hard when you need to focus on dodging so much. Maybe post commentary if I have time and can convince Zena.

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