Shmup levels in non-shmup games

[drunkninja24]

Surprised nobody has mentioned the Gummi Ship stages from Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2. Though they're rail shooter instead of tradition shmup style.

[MyGameCompany]

The old side-scrolling Duke Nukem games for DOS were sorta shmup-ish when you found a vehicle, hopped in, and started flying it.

[Gespenst]

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=S4PXL69O1ek

[Aquas]

UltraSeven on the Super Famicom has a few similar bonus shooting stages, and one "for real" shooting stage where you take down a "boss"'s parts.

They are horizontal and break up the action from the VS. fighting decently.

[Drum]

Props to the guy who mentioned Xain'D SleenA! Xain!!!!!!!!
Wario Land: Shake has them, sort of a callback to the scrolling stages in Mario Land.
Shadow of the Beast has a shmup section - it is pretty dreadful.
Kid Icarus' final stage was a scrolling shooter.
Wizball has scrolling shooter bonus stages.
There is one in Wizkid: The Story of Wizball 2 that is sort of a throwback to the bonus stages of the first game. Also, the final 'boss fight' is an Asteroids clone. Love this game so much.
Super Empire Strikes back has a couple of horizontal scrolling segments - once when Luke is racing on a speeder bike towards his snow speeder, and again inside his snow speeder just after a free-roaming 3D section where you have to topple walkers.
Cybernator had at least one too.

[J-Manic]

There's a pretty dope shmup stage in Jade Empire (XBox). I really enjoyed it.

[tearsofash]

Surprised nobody's mentioned No More Heroes 2 and its Bizarre Jelly 5 cute-em-up thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmFuqNmk1aM

[Skyline]

Most of the second area, and a few other interspersed levels in The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Genesis) were horizontal shmuppy in nature.

The second area (Two-Face's "flying over Gotham" stage) is pretty ridiculous if you're underpowered. You just keep slamming into bullets.

Captain America and The Avengers (Arcade/Genesis) had quite a few shmuppy bits in it as well.

[cj iwakura]

Should this go here? I've been pretty fond of this element in games as of late.


The Red Star



Obscure PS2 beat'em'up with bullet hell/laser fight bosses. Pretty fun, especially since it's a budget title.

NIER



Action RPG for the PS360 from the lunatics that brought you Drakengard. Amazing music, similarly epic boss fights.

Any others you can think of?


Guess mini games can get a mention too.

Digital Devil Saga, No More Heroes 2: shmup mini games

[Ghegs]

Merged cj iwakura's post into an already existing thread.

There's also a very similar thread here, but let's keep just one thread on this topic going.

[Nick420]

The red star actually has a full shmup stage (you have to destroy a giant tank)

And Beautiful Katamari has a great shmup stage you play when you clear the game. Its katamari mixed with Vert Shmup and is highly awesome!! Well done namco!!