My copy of Border Down from NCSX finally arrived yesterday! It is a great testament to side-scrolling shooting design and madness and the setup is different from any other game I have played.
I like the idea of being able to choose from 3 seperate paths, or "borders" as they are called, at the start of the game. Each of these paths is different in difficulty, but is a double edged sword since the amount of ships you start with is inversely proportional to the difficulty of the path selected.
The paths are: "Green" which is the longest and gives you 3 ships, "Yellow" which is medium with 2 ships, and finally "Red" which is the easiest path with only 1 ship. Each time you die on the "Green" or "Yellow" paths you drop down to the next lowest path with your remaining ship(s.)
On top of that, this game is 100% NAOMI like Ikaruga and is probably one of the best side-scroll shooters since Thunderforce V and Einhander! 🙂
Is this the last shooter on the Dreamcast; what do you all think?
I like the idea of being able to choose from 3 seperate paths, or "borders" as they are called, at the start of the game. Each of these paths is different in difficulty, but is a double edged sword since the amount of ships you start with is inversely proportional to the difficulty of the path selected.
The paths are: "Green" which is the longest and gives you 3 ships, "Yellow" which is medium with 2 ships, and finally "Red" which is the easiest path with only 1 ship. Each time you die on the "Green" or "Yellow" paths you drop down to the next lowest path with your remaining ship(s.)
On top of that, this game is 100% NAOMI like Ikaruga and is probably one of the best side-scroll shooters since Thunderforce V and Einhander! 🙂
Is this the last shooter on the Dreamcast; what do you all think?
