Gungage (PS1) Review - Style Over Substance
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2019
- Konami's Gungage isn't a great third person shooter but its world and characters have a ton of potential. Ultimately, it fails to meet that. But man, it has a ton of style.
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Man you're totally right about the aesthetics being awesome both visuals and audio. Definitely adding the soundtrack to my music rotations.
If you play it long enough, you found that Steyr is the most well-realized in term of the control. Her control, speed and jump were top-notch with ease of control and being a lightweight. She has the best mobility, she could even dash forward by tapping the direction twice, can duck and you didn't even scratch the surface of her weapons. Laser is actually more useful than you realized. It helps her to pick up items w/o touching it, can detect bullshit enemies placement (even though she got a radar like Dee.) Mirror, aside from being a defense barrier, can even reflect laser bullets and Nova is just screen nuke.
Steyr is probably my favorite cause she is so mobile. All of her dashes are really fun to work with.
Though given the game's length, there definitetly wasn't the time to fully apperciate her character on a single playthrough.
I've considered trying hard mode though.
@@OneControllerPort Hard Mode unlock the final flower in the final stage. If you gather 100 flower, you will have infinite super weapon cheat though they will dock your score by the end the playthrough though.
the characters from this game are so cool, all of them deserves to be better known and to have more fan art.
It is really stylish! I'd also recommend looking into a game called Industrial Spy: Operation Espionage. The characters in that game are a bit more normal, but I think they have a similar aura.
@@OneControllerPort Thanks i know this game, but I don't found a Dreamcast emulator and a ISO for playing this game and Zombie Revenge, i have a Dreamcast, but the price of this two game and rarity, make is games hard to found legally
@@Alexcobra861 DM me on twitter and I can help you out with the former.
I will say, as much as I love its style, the gameplay leaves something to be desired. Thankfully there is an online guide.
@@OneControllerPort i don't have Twitter and Facebook.
@@Alexcobra861 Discord? I'm not sure if YT has a private DM
The reason why there isn't any English in the instructions is because sometimes with some PAL European games, they were distributed into two sub-markets - Northern European releases would have packaging/manuals in English and various Scandinavian languages, whilst mainland European releases would have the packaging/manuals in all the other languages (Spanish, German, French, Italian, etc.). The games inside were exactly the same, regardless of the language of the packaging/manual. Sounds like your version is the latter release.
Holy shit, that texture wrapping!!! 3:10
It should've just played like Doom.
PlayStation games definitely do some weird stuff with their textures lol. I think I've gotten used to it and I barely notice it nowadays.
I think there are some emulator plug-ins that attempt to reduce this though, which is neat.
Nice fair review, I didn't play this until this year, it's definitely not perfect and takes some getting used to and I didn't mind the slow turning much, however I didn't have that high of expectations that it would play smoothly to begin with, the game is at its worst when platforming is introduced, I died a ton there.
I still really like it, it's a nice 90s time capsule of a game and I thought the way characters were unlocked was unexpected and kind of cool, being so short makes it easy to go back to and there's a bit of extra content with the hidden collectible that unlocks some minor extras, still this definitely would have been a rental game back in the day, not something people held onto because of how short it is.
I only appreciate it more now because I don't always have free time to play full games. Style over substance is accurate and in this case I'm ok with it.
Thanks for watching!
Yeah, I think we feel pretty similarly about it. I definitely feel you on the time aspect. Even 10-20 hours in a game feels like an investment these days.
I'm all for short games, but I think where I start to criticize it is if it feels like the game concept or world feel underutilized because of the length. If the characters had unique stages, I think I'd feel a lot more comfortable with the length.
But yeah, over a weekend and for a $5-$10 rental fee, it probably was pretty good! Even today I think it's worth checking out if someone likes the look/feel of the world.
NOTE:Turning is NOT hard. You need to combine L1 and R1 with that slow rotation of left and right and you can do basicly everything you want. Controls are good.Also each 4 character has some weaknesses like dee and kard dashing hard or jumping slow(bit having big fire power)
Thanks! I've been thinking about replaying the game on hard. I'll keep that in mind.
@@OneControllerPort Welcome ☺
One of my favorite things about this game: The announcer.
*EXTRA ENERGY*
*LIFE RECOVERY*
*LIFE INCREASE*
*AUTO CHARGED*
*SPECIAL BULLET*
And my favorite...
*GOT ONE*
lol It's great. I think it's the voice actor for Richter Belmont who did all the narrator/announcer voices in the game.
i actually enjoyed this one but i do wish it had duel analog support but its still plays pretty well with a d-pad. either way it was a good review and i like your style
I enjoyed it a lot too! Thanks for compliments. Hoping to get back on the review train in the new year
Looks dope! Thanks
I know this is old but do you still have te game? with the manual? can you take photos of it?
Hey! I don't even want to look on the date of this video lol.
As for the manual, I think I have the PAL version. I'll need to double check, but I don't think there's a lot of material in it beyond just text.
Anything in particular you want or are you looking for a full scan?
@@OneControllerPort OMG, Thanks for answering my question; I honestly did not expect such a quick reply. I'm looking for full scan of the game manual because I am gathering as much information as possible about all aspects of the game and any additional content or features included in the game. I appreciate your assistance.
@@Hiroysuscosas Sounds good! Since it's PAL it's really thick with multiple languages for the same content. Would just English be fine for now?
@@OneControllerPort Sure, that would be great!
soundtrack of this video plzz
Someone uploaded it to youtube. You can check it out here:
ua-cam.com/video/LXiOoidJ5Vg/v-deo.html
Man, this would have been so much better with twin stick controls and faster movement. I struggled with- er, played it on my Playstation Classic, and its moments of brilliance were dampened by that crappy control. And the fact that a giant moth killed me with fairy dust.
Yeah, I was hopeful the JP version added dual-stick controls, but I'm pretty sure it's just noting Dual Shock compatible for rumble lol.
that game guide is in spanish( español)
There's actually a handful of languages in there. I assume I got a release from a territory where English wasn't required. But the game also defaults to English, so lol.
mmm "Style over substance" ah?
That title too...
Really makes me think of "Gungrave" for ps2...
I hope it doesn't come off as too negative, since I do really like the game lol But I definitely came away wanting more.
I really want to check that game out! I was watching someone on Giant Bomb play it not too long ago. They were pretty down on it, but I liked what I saw!
@@OneControllerPort The point with that game is, you need to understand it.
It's not your classic shooter and doesn't require much skill to beat, plus is really short (around 3.30-4h).
When you realize that you're on a semi-open autotarget railshooter of pure "gonna smash this square button till the world collapse", it becomes extremely fun.
PS: if you use your special ability on a boss that has low health (like 5-10%) you'll trigger an execution cutscene, for the time they were extremely fun ;)
@@onsidesilver7828 Cool! I had no idea about the special execution moves. I might need to pop it in and check it out.