Hey all, well, it's time for a new SHMUP Master (it's been a bit). This time, I ended up tackling Legendary Wings on the NES. I don't see the game talked about that much on these forums (and it isn't on the high score list... why?) Maybe it's because it isn't a very hard game, and can be quite dull to watch at times. So rather than release the run verbatim, I decided to spice it up a bit by doing an overlay and a whole lot of animated segments to go along with it. For all the dull bonus rounds and "danger" dungeons I did things like this:
Yes, those are MegaMan 2 enemies... The similarities between Legendary Wings and MegaMan 2 I found quite funny. Both games were released the same year and shared a lot of assets, so I decided to capitalize on it. Anyway, this video took around a month to put together and I had quite a bit of fun doing it. I animated a lot of sprites and tried to create some pretty cool action set pieces that revolve around the boss fights in the game (since they are all in essence the same, I had to get creative).
As always, any thoughts or feedback is greatly appreciated!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnGWFrcSbKA&t=1s
