Naxat Summer Carnival Games Appreciate Thread

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:15 pm

Starting this thread off with a poll. Pretty likely Recca will come out on top, but we'll see. Do try to play the ones you haven't before making a final choice, if you can.

Drboom is hosting a Winter Carnival at the end of the month in Chicago, with Recca and Alzadick competitions. This got me excited since I love score attack games, and I tried Alzadick for the first time in Magic Engine a few days ago. Not a whole lot of strategy info on the net about that title compared to Recca; some of the scoring bonuses are still hiding from me I bet.

Is Recca clearly the best of the lot? It's certainly the most technically impressive with all the timing and sprite tricks used. But Nexzr and Alzadick both seem like very cool takes on Hudson's Soldier series. Spriggan leans more towards Compile's style (they were involved after all) and I didn't get into it much.

Share your stories and a few tips?

ccovell · Post by **ccovell** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:46 am

Recca is certainly amazing, but not the most fun to actually play... that goes to Spriggan, because it's essentially Aleste, part 2 on the PCE (the first being Gunhed, of course.)

Nexzr is a very close second.

Post by **Ghegs** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:24 am

Yyeww, Spriggan. I find that the most boring of the bunch. Suffers so heavily from Compileitus.

I've played Recca the most by far so my vote goes for that. As far as Score Attack modes go, anyway. I think Nexzr's normal mode might be better than Recca's though, even if it is heavily dependant on memorizing. I did manage to clear Nexzr when I was playing it actively.

But man, the hours I spent doing Recca's Score Attack...good times.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:29 am

i used to love recca but after i got a superplay for it i kinda lost interest.. its just too broken

i guess its still kinda fun to throw on occationally just to marvel at what an incredible feat it is to push the FC to such an extent, there really is nothing like it for the console.

Post by **spadgy** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:58 pm

Are these decent enough on MAME? Having never owned any of them, thanks to their rarity, I've never played any, so I'm in no position to vote. But being a big fan of score attack and caravan modes I'm gagging to try them at some point...

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:00 pm

These weren't arcade games, Recca is for Famicom, all the others are PC Engine.

Post by **spadgy** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:04 pm

Sorry! I knew they weren’t arcade releases. I meant ‘emulation’; not MAME. I’m simply a bloody idiot.

Fudoh · Post by **Fudoh** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:12 pm

PC Engine emulation is pretty good, but you need to find the CD ISOs somewhere on net and while I use MAME myself and have roms for other systems as well (e.g. Famicom Recca) I always considered downloading CD ISOs a different level of piracy....

kozo · Post by **kozo** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:16 pm

I actually have Nexzr and Recca running on the Wii.

dmauro · Post by **dmauro** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:12 pm

I was playing Recca on my Astro City yesterday

I've still never gotten around to trying out the others though, so no vote.

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:56 pm

spadgy wrote:Sorry! I knew they weren’t arcade releases. I meant ‘emulation’; not MAME. I’m simply a bloody idiot.

PCE emulation isn't hard, but it does have a few more steps than "drop ROMs in MAME." If you're serious about trying these games, I wouldn't mind PMing you all the details.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:17 am

Recca. Obvious reasons.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:57 am

I fart on recca

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:32 pm

I guess I'm not too suprised that Alzadick is comming out in last, but it's still a fantastic game. It plays butter smooth and the reward enemies you get for killing regular enemies very fast (the series of triangles) are a pretty cool idea. That alone certainly makes you play very aggressive and forces you to use the shot angles to take out series of enemies, so the strategy is kind of a step up from traditional Soldier titles.
But Recca has to be my favorite. It's crazy and fun at the same time.
Sven666 - what superplay? Got to start looking for that...

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:43 pm

That reminds me, I was supposed to give you some scoring hints wasn't I.

Post by **Ghegs** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:20 pm

drboom wrote:Sven666 - what superplay? Got to start looking for that...

There's a superplay VHS of Recca and its different modes (including Zanki) out there. I own one and I've transferred the contents to digital form to preserve it.

Hydeux · Post by **Hydeux** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:05 pm

have a guess for my vote !

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:15 pm

FIL wrote:That reminds me, I was supposed to give you some scoring hints wasn't I.

Yup.

I'd love to see where you are getting that extra ~30K in points.

croikle · Post by **croikle** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:36 am

I found a 536465 point Score Attack video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3TU4gbpMxw . That should be good enough reference for us mortals, I think. It's too bad he doesn't have a Time Attack vid, though.

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:03 am

Just ridiculous. I knew I had to be charging shot more...

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