Review: Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha (Nintendo Switch)
Bring the arcade home by blasting through these shooters vertically in the popular ‘TATE’ mode for the ultimate shoot-’em-up experience.
Pros:
- Combination of retro and modern graphics.
- 617mb download size.
- English and Japanese voice options.
- Six games- Strikers 1945, Strikers 1945 2, Strikers 1945 3, Sol Divide, Dragon Blaze and Zero Gunner 2.
- Supports screen rotation including tate (portrait) mode.
- Text-original or new style.
- Can rebind controls.
- Change controller orientation to match the screen rotation.
- CRT effect filter–On/off.
- All seeings are independent of each game.
- Shmup gameplay.
- Excellent piece of history.
- Bullet hell elements.
- Nice variety of the genre.
- Difficult.
- A handful of difficulties for each game.
- Arcade presentation.
Cons:
- No touchscreen support.
- No leaderboard support.
- Difficult.
- The slight learning curve in terms of new players learning the mechanics.
