The Gunstar family are the protectors of the planet Gunstar 9. After many years of peace, vicious dictator Colonel Red kidnapped the Gunstar twins’ older brother and used mind control to make him his slave.
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Really amazing to see such piece of history.
A game that works as a DLC for this bundle:
The SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics.
Which is basically a legal emulation bundle.
This game is originally from 1993. Very old.
And: I'm happy to see it included on Steam.
I have two main positives to say about that:
The first cool positive: The ROM is included.
Which is fantastic for the fans of emulation.
We can boot it up for example in RetroArch.
Or pretty much any other software for emu.
I can't stress enough: How awesome that is.
An actual ROM legally obtainable on Steam.
It's perfect, but let's get to the 2nd positive:
Steam Workshop is supported and It's dope.
Who would've guessed we'll get retro mods.
It's a lovely addition to the retro experience.
A really cheap way to obtain ROM's legally.
I gotta give this release my positive review.
Conheci o jogo pelo Cartuchito. Não me arrependi
И ты тоже Sega!?! :-(
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~<火枪英雄>世嘉MD 官方ROM~
这游戏很卡通，敌人也像卡通片里的角色。
游戏就是一路突突突，因为创意工坊有个无敌Mod~直接冲冲冲其实很爽~
哪怕是快30年的老游戏！玩起来依旧很不错~
剧情：
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开场：
群星家族是群星9号行星的保护者。他们的人追着独裁者瑞德上校
群星家族：我们必须阻止他！
瑞德上校：你的旅程到此结束！
群星家族：他在哪里？那个光点！太晚了！
古代遗迹的少女黄：不…地球…在一个人的力量下…
开局，在博士和黄这里，选择武器类型、属性。
然后4个地区有帝国军，于是冲冲冲消灭4个Boss！获得对应的神秘宝石！
当4颗神秘宝石获取到之后···
结果当主角不在的时候帝国军过来掳走了黄！
这时候屏幕上显示Boss瑞德上校的话语！哈哈哈，如果你还想黄生还，带着全部宝石来找我···当然前提是你能活着找到我！
接下来继续冲冲冲，朝着瑞德上校那冲！
当瑞德上校手下小红大叔用枪指着黄，主角把四颗报宝石给了瑞德上校。
瑞德上校带着宝石离开了，之后古代遗迹的小人立马救下黄，还把小红给吓跑了···
回到博士着，博士看了全程，并搞了个小而快的太空船，随时可以发射到太空中的扭曲的太空站。
主角在太空中的突突突···面对瑞德上校的手下们，一共4个，又要重新面对敌人···
瑞德上校在太空站的指挥中心监控室里看着···就像打游戏似的···
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2735363800
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然后手下一个个出去对付主角了~最后主角杀到了指挥中心···
瑞德上校本打算用四颗宝石的力量解决主角···
结果Boom···瑞德上校被炸晕了···
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2735365716
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宝石慢慢移动到了指挥中心隔壁的房间，激活了毁灭者金银！
主角大战毁灭者金银，最后毁灭者飞到太空···
瑞德上校:我们唤醒了可怕的毁灭者…
主角：没有武器我们怎么办…
格林：很抱歉给你们大家带来了麻烦。以帝国之名，我要为这些事情做出补偿，这是对你们所有人的亏欠。
主角：不格林，回来！
~~Boom~~
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2735367266
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这款横版动作射击游戏当年可是在MD平台上与《魂斗罗铁血兵团》齐名，虽然可选角色不如魂斗罗丰富，但是加入了更多的动作元素，创新的引入了近战攻击和投技，在当时不仅仅是让玩家眼前一亮，更是大呼过瘾。
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Excellent sidescrolling action - frantic and fluid with tight controls and a tight soundtrack. One of the best Sega Mega Drive games I have played. Highly recommended!
Gunstar Heroes is up to 2 players awesome shoot-em-up. It was developed by Treasure as second-part company for Sega. Treasure was made up of ex-Konami developers who didn't want to make just another sequel to popular franchises, much to gamers sadness, I bet. Best shooter 1993. All in a mere 8 Megabit power.
There also was a superior port on 3DS. Mostly just 3D and some extra modes.
The game that you have here is nothing more than emulation of Sega Genesis version.
Now, technical part about Sega's emulation here:
The Sega Classic games that you purchase on Steam count as DLCs for "Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Classics" game that should appear in your library.
It has Bedroom HUB which is the one with many features yet lags for many and Simply Launcher which lacks Workshop and Online but at least it works just fine for everybody.
However, Simple Launcher has it's fair share of glitches as well. It can crash. And it does the second time you go to main menu, so always quit after saving there so it doesn't crash when you want to save next time!
Emulation itself, mostly sound, isn't that good but it does it's job. Also, yes, emulator supports quick saves.
As alternative, you can use external emulator to run games that you purchased. Sega kindly placed in all games that you purchased in "uncompressed ROMs" folder that program itself doesn't use, just change file extension to ".bin" or so. The file for this one being "Gunstar Heroes U.bin".
I also demand you to read digital manual of this game first. You can find it here on store page or go to "manuals" folder of game root and open "07 GH_PC_MG_EFIGS_US_v6.pdf".
Has online (in Bedroom HUB only) and local multiplayer.
1993. While some gamers on SNES have been playing the ever slow Contra 3 and PC masterrace was busy with the gimmicky weak title that is Wolfenstein 3D, the Genesis players had a real deal. And that real deal was Gunstar Heroes.
A game that was designed to give a stagnant 2D Shoot-em-up genre a good kick as well as becoming a new role model for the genre. And push Sega Genesis to the maximum. Colorful world. Empirial soldiers coming after you from all the sides. Cartoonish awesome bosses of various wacky areas. Explosions everywhere! Scrolls!! And all without a single slowdown, aside from a stack of boxes in level 5 being too complex for blast processor to handle, apparently. Sounds is bombastic. And so is music. Oh yea, and cool ehcoing out of world voice samples.
It goes even further and makes use of Blast Processing during boss battles as developers go crazy and build bosses out of multiple sprites. 7-Force boss. It's a transforming robot that is made out of individual metal blocks that have pre-made frames for rotations. Crazy.
There is even special effect that is used during Captain Orange boss fight on the wings of a helicopter. They have combined a vertical row scrolling with horizontal row scrolling. If those two are used slightly then they give effect tof a swaying. And they also made background sway in different direction from the helicopter so it really feels impressive.
But hey, it's not all only about explosive presentation. Treasure has also brought some new things into the shoot-em-up genres. It's not hard as nails. You don't instantly die from the damage. You have a numerical Vitality and many hits do around 10-20 damage. Your starting Vitality slowly increases with each stage, at least with the first 4 stages that you can choose to do in any order. So people who find other shoot-em-ups to be too hard are welcome to play this game. But more hardcore audience shouldn't worry as the game includes harder difficulty choices. Also, continues are endless.
There are 4 weapons in the game that you can pick up occasionally from the flying supply bots, some dropping health instead. The game has an interesting weapon system. You can keep only 2 weapons at the same time and can switch between them. But not only that, you can combine those two weapons which can change them drastically. For example, flamethrower and green-chasing-triangles combination will give you a flame that you can control with your movement keys. As you can figure out, there are 10 combinations in total to try out.
Protip: To get the supply bot to drop additional powerups you have to melee it. Jump kick or throw somebody at them. Check out all the additional health!
At the start of a game you also pick between fixed or moving shot. Fixed means that movement keys only aim when you are shooting. Moving shot means that you will both move and aim while shooting. Yep, unlike other games you can't switch these modes around during gameplay. Puts some emphasis on multiplayer as two players can pick their own mode.
Oh yes, and it's not all only about shooting. Treasure have also included some fancy melee moves. There is kick-slide move that is easy to figure out. There is more normal slide move that you do like special move: back-down, forward+attack. There are also jump attack that actually depend on whether you picked fixed or moving shot character. And there is a throw move, just press attack while close to enemy. It's actually best used on human bosses that have strange temporary invincibility mechanic after getting knocked by some amount of damage, the throwing does real damage.
Oh yea, and you can block by pressing and holding attack+jump after which you stay in place like a dummy and take less damage. Seems useless.
And yep, as you see the core gameplay is awesome and Treasure follows it up with inspired levels. For example, Black's dice maze. A simple board game where each square is a separate boss encounter or item room and you get a dice to throw. I actually hated it until I figured each boss out and beat it, now I love it. And in one level you get to chase the flying fortress as it takes off. And there is a level where the game switches to horizontal shmup genre. Good thing it's not too hard. And the last level? A boss rush. But it's not some lame repeat of the bosses like in Mega Man, it's a marathon where each boss comes out with a new toy to get their revenge on you.
Yea, actually the game puts some more emphasis on the bosses than just normal stages that are filled with soldiers that have all the various little animations. I have noticed that some of the best Genesis shoot-em-up are like one big boss rush with occasional break. In Gunstar Heroes it's more of 50 on 50. Not that I mind.
And options. There are usual sound test and key config. But most importantly, there is difficulty setting that is pretty damn good. Changing it to higher difficulty will increase the hitpoints of enemies and aggresiveness. Some weapons nerfed. And they indeed make for a more challenging game, increasing difficulty in some more ways. For example, on Normal you have to beat only 5 forms of 7 Force. On Expert? All 7.
And of course there is 2 player cooperative multiplayer. There is no collision and no friendly fire so go crazy. It's actually one of the best 2 player shoot-em-ups around due to how accessable it is in difficulty while being so bombastic.
The health system also works interestingly in this mode. When one of the players dies he can continue the game which takes away half of the health from the surviving player.
And you can throw each other, actually. It's surprsingly highly damaging on bosses, almost overpowered.
Overall, this game was the first that pushed the system to the maximum while being the most fun around. There were many other system-pushing action games in the later years, however most of them were either gimmicky or too hard. Gunstar is the one that gets it the best.
Это больше похоже на Contra Hard Corps ,но чуток в другом стиле,и говорить то особо не о чем,боссы так же хороши,экшен присутствует конечно,правда игра легче чем Contra,и всё же хорошо,игра понравилась,саундтрэки подобраны хорошо,и с сюжетом не прогадали,он здесь получше многих других сеговских игр,и даже концовка эпичная.
世嘉这次活动确实给力，收藏了一堆 世嘉的好游戏，好评！
Since its release 20 years ago, this game has never left the #1 spot in my Top 10 favorite games. It is the best game ever created. This is not an opinion, this is empirical fact. The only thing the steam version could have used was online co-op, but this in no way detracts from the majesty of this title. It is apt that a company named 'Treasure' would create the most brilliant gem in all of gaming.
Treasure made some really awesome games back in the day, didn't they? It's pretty good for a Mega Drive game, suffice to say.
My playtime with Gunstar Heroes has mostly been with the GamersGate (DRM-free) version. So my Steam stats don't reflect my actual experience with Gunstar Heroes.
5/5 Stars.
PROS:
+Gunstar Heroes plays like Contra on meth!
+Non-linear stage selection, a'la Mega Man.
+Modest hardware requirements.
+Gamepad support (360, Logitech, and generic).
+Two player co-op.
+The PC version of Sega's old line-up features save slots and filters for smoother graphics.
+Save slots from other versions of SGMDS/SGCS (Gamersgate, DotEmu, or Amazon Game Downloads) carries over to Steam's version. I tried it and it works.
CONS:
-4th gen (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive era) graphics -only if you're a graphics snob.
-No online multiplayer...yet.
Para los fans de Metal Slug, vos recomendo este. Es pura acción y adrenalina de inicio al fin! Se juega mejor a 2!
Довольно легкая игра. Эту веселушку покупали не стлоль часто, как другие игры на сеге, но она не потерялась на фоне экшенов. Советовать не буду.
ma questo gioco è fantastico O_O un INNOVATISSIMO "vai avanti e spara spara" uguale a Megaman ! cosa molto bella è il COSTANTE TREMOLIO della telecamera,durante il gioco. fatevi un funghetto,poi giocate a questo , ??? , profit !
