This one brought a real breath of fresh air into a spaceship-dominated genre. The creepiest and therefore best bosses are the pike and the rag doll in my opinion. In fact, the doll is in itself creepier than the fish. But the pike wins in terms of creepiness because of its size, erratic movements and, of course, the music.
3:51 I gotta imagine Pike would drive anyone nuts if you dont have much patience. It dangerously closes you into a corner for extended periods of time and you gotta rotate all the way around it just to get back to its weak point.
Total headcannon, but my story on the Forgotten Doll boss is that she was once a little girl's cherished toy, and enjoyed a life of games, picnics, tea parties and bedtime snuggles, that little girl loved her and the doll loved her back. But children being children, eventually the girl lost interest in the doll and discarded her into a river, where she eventually ended up in the sewer. Now abandoned and alone in the darkness, rotting in cold, stinking filth with only loss, betrayal and hatred to keep her company, that doll lies in wait for a victim to take it's pain out on. You can hear that sadness in the music...
Okay, what the cheese with that ending. There was literally no indication that this was a sword and sorcery fantasy game, then in the final cutscene "Wait, the Bee was actually a knight, and he kills an evil wizard to get a potion for his wife?" But there was modern stuff in it. Like robots and the Pepsi can and who would build a cyborg clam? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!
+crinosG This game has a story in the same way that fighting games have stories. Yes, they're there, but... yeah. What you see is what you get. Just embrace the insanity.
The reason is that the devs are weaboos, essentially. The game is German yet has a Japanese title screen and faux-anime art style. And most Japanese shumps have the same schtick of having a backstory very loosely related to the gameplay.
crinosG i need met the story of the game,i have fear of bees,but i dont want to kill them,they are important,but the game leave me with a lot of doubts
Its actually kinda sad to me that this doll was thrown away and treated like garbage for an unexplained reason and it really isnt it's fault for looking scary in the end. But still this is just my opinion on that boss
How can a mole be smaller than a mantis. Why can the doll vomit and shoot lasers. Why do you all of a sudden fight robots. Why does a can of pepsi have a face. Why is the heart mutant a thing. Why does the ending indicate that this was a fantasy game. Why is there a giant hornet but also a small one. What the f**k is the final boss "music" THIS GAME MAKES NO SENSE
Wow, talk about some serious WTF factor...and I love it...dat rat boss! At least the designers of this game gave us something new in the side scrolling shooter department. I'd have liked to see a full sized human enemy as the last boss tho, that bee was a bit anticlimactic. Nice gameplay btw.
It would have been easy to make more "normal" stages, especially with some of the assets in the last level such as the Giant Wasp and the Bat. The Wasp could have been in a tree-tops level and the Bat could have been in a cave or cavern level. I think the people who made this game just put a game together with whatever sprites they all ready had at their disposal.
I got a boss run suggestion for you: Gynoug. It's got some really disturbing bosses that look amazing. Eerily enough, the boss known as Orrpus bears an uncanny resemblance to the Heart Mutant from this video.
How do you even explain this to somebody. "You play as a dude that turned into a bee, and you fight dangerous foes such as the maggots from inside a dead rat's carcass and an amalgamation of two human heads, miscelaneous offal and one arm."
BETTER ENDING As the young bee watch as the queen wasp take her final Breath he spoke "this is what you get murdering" he says as he look at her "you murder my mother...and brother and sister" he yelled with anger as he staires at the wasp queen. "You act...as if you better"the queen wasp painfully said "you killed other before who had nothing to do with your hives death"she smiled with blood dripping from her mouth "we murder but..... you...are...a... monster"she said with her final Breath as she die (I hope this tarn out well)
"the strongest assault" *littlery bugs AND A PEPSI CAN* I never understood the logic, why did he went all thou this as *bee* again? I mean, as Human you litterly could just stap on those..."bugs" ffs. I mean, for real, if the magician *himself* would have had him transformed into a bee, understandable, but that he did it *himself* ? WHY??
bee irl: NUU DONT EAT ME THE WORLD NEEDS ME i NEED TO POLLINATE FLOWERS PLSSSS the mantis irl: ._. bro im just hungry the queen bee is just gunna lay more eggs bee irl: oh
Pike boss is the creepiest IMO due to his ginormous size (takes up the entire damn screen) and the fact that the battle takes place in dark underwater depths.
The drugs in Frankfurt must be really great. This Frankfurt-based studio, whose Japanese name, depending on the kanji, means either silkworm (蚕子) or oceanic trench (海溝), is now defunct but made one heck of a horizontal shoot 'em up while obviously on a wild acid trip.
Whoa, you're doing Amiga games too? 8D You have no idea how much I love that system ^^ Perhaps you could do the bosses from Yo! Joe, it's a really awesome game, and the bosses got pretty challenging as it progressed ^^ Also, still think you should totally do a Bucky O'Hare (NES) boss run ^^
