Osman Cannon Dancer Review (PlayStation 5)
Osman Cannon Dancer Review, we play an Action Jump & Run set in a dystopian late 21st century, in which the world is under the control of a single federal government. One day, a new threat known as “Abdullah the Slaver” – an evil sorceress who wants to take control of the world – appears, causing widespread terror and panic. This fear incites the abandonment of all economic activity and corruption in the government, which now undermines the foundations of society itself. Judicial Affairs Director, Jack Layzon, fears the worst and summons a lone assassin.
Osman Cannon Dancer Review Pros:
- Classics graphics.
- 103.7MB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Two games in one – Osman and Canon Dancer.
- Controller settings – can rebind controls, auto grab ledges, and vibration.
- Graphics settings – display (4:3 DAR/perfect/perfect 1X/fullscreen), scale filter (soft/crispy/none), and wallpaper art including brightness and saturation sliders.
- CRT shader – mask type, mask intensity, scanline intensity, sharpness, curvature, trini curve, corner round, and CRT gamma.
- Enhancements – double jump, Invincible jump, Invincible slide, Invincible attack, and auto-attack.
- Cheats – Invincible, time freeze, unlimited fatal attacks, unlimited HP, and full power.
- Canon dancer and Osman both have two modes – standard and challenge.
- Osman gives a very basic tutorial opening screen.
- Challenge mode is the default original way to play except you can have two enhancements.
- The standard mode supports rewind/save states/cheats/enhancements.
- Side scroller beat-em up gameplay.
- Classic arcade presentation.
- Big boss encounters.
- Brilliant Chiptune soundtrack.
- Crazy enemy types.
- Some of the best over-the-top animations flips, and dives I’ve not seen the likes of since I mixed Strider and shrooms together on one lonely Sunday.
- Continue (after a game over) right where you died.
- Difficult.
- Fatal attacks can be earned and they deal huge damage when you fly a kick around the screen.
- Cool little things like how you almost create clones of yourself repeating your actions.
- Over-the-top explosions just like Super Contra.
- Collect power-ups and health.
- Healthbar system.
- Simple controls.
- Canon Dancer in-game cutscenes are u touched complete with the original Japanese text.
- You can quit a game and return to the game select screen.
- Climb the platforms.
- Breakable objects.
- Excellent nostalgia trip.
Osman Cannon Dancer Review Cons:
- You can only earn trophies in the challenge mode.
- No manuals or tutorials outside of the basic one in Osman.
- You don’t get any history on the games and the versions selected.
- No way to save at all in the challenge get mode.
- Difficult.
- Same game Options for graphics as all the others.
- Wallpaper choices are slim.
Related Post: Kana Quest Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)
Osman Cannon Dancer:
Developer: Mitchell Corporation
Publisher: ININ
Store Links –
PlayStation
-
8/10
-
8/10
-
8/10
-
7/10
-
8/10
Summary
Never heard of the game before but I knew I wanted to try it, the screenshots alone had me wanted to play this arcade action piece. What the pictures don’t do is show just how over-the-top and mental all the gameplay is. Instantly you feel like you are in the 90s playing an arcade game with its banging soundtrack and Contra-style explosions. The gameplay itself is tight and messy, messy in that you pull off acrobatic death kicks and Ryu uppercuts. It’s difficult mind, really difficult but it’s so worth pushing through as it adds in new ways of platforming and fighting later on and the man just plays it to see the absolutely insane-looking bosses. Osman Cannon Dancer is a real retro treat.