Muhammad Azrul • now that you mentioned it it does sound like she's singing while she watch you fight her hords of personal army in a hopes that you fail so she could enjoy watching you turn into space dust
I'm just glad after all that the 'Return to base' doesn't include having to land the craft Top Gun style! Fun arcade shooter, but the final boss was a real tone shift, her theme was errily unsettling, I think her massive baseship is a great background setting. There's also a 'borg' like look about her. Saying that i think cosmic slime was pretty mundane for a boss, although the consistency in the villain designs gives the threat a uniformed look.
Not only that. The arcade where I played this had a sound issue at this stage. The sound constantly became glitched but that thing kept on singing. That made it even more creepy
*WARNING MAJOR ENEMY IS APPROACHING* "Okay, what design will the boss be now?" *LUNAR WALKER* "Oh, a spider tank walker based on the lunar lander! That's a nea-" *Dude literally walks in from the side.* "... Okay. Bit literal, but that is what the boss title said."
Visually it's not the best even for the early years of the Neo Geo but music and gameplay are top notch. The system may be known more for the fighting games and Metal Slug but has given great contributions to the shmup genre.
They do good work. OSTs for those games are absolute fire. Can't get the first boss theme of Battle Garegga out of my head sometimes. (edit) Damn the last boss is just slower Dodonpachi music huh?
Man, does the final boss's theme give you guys major Battle Garegga vibes...? That one certain part in the theme sounds....suspiciously similar to Erupter.
The creepiness and horror factors that the 80s and 90s had blow out everything we have today. Valkyrie (and all of the bosses from this game for that matter), Lavos, Gigyas; there are only a few beasts that compare to them that are from this day of age. You’re probably asking “why?”, well the answer is pretty simple: Ambiguity (get ready for a planet-load of irony). These guys had no definitive backstory or personality. All we knew is that they wanted to take over or destroy the world but it was never explained why. The closest comparison I can think of is Void Termina from Kirby.
