Getting hit will lower your power level, but you do have a moment to quickly pick up the power again before it disappears.
There’s homing, spread, and flame available and each can be upgraded if you collect multiple of the same colour. Your primary attack works a little bit like Cotton to a degree, with coloured orbs scattered around that change your shot type. The combat itself is surprisingly a lot more layered than I had initially expected, and the depth makes up for the awkwardness. No doubt those familiar with the original will be able to adapt without a problem, but someone used to twin-stick games will probably find it hard going. In the end, I opted for stick movement but I always felt like most of the difficulty boiled down to fighting with the controls.
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There’s 8 directional movement, but aiming diagonally (which is absolutely essential in the game) is somewhat tricky to do using the stick the directional pad wielded far more positive results when aiming, but then general movement didn’t feel as free as with the analogue, making it harder to avoid enemies. The slow careful pace you need to proceed at can be quite jarring at first with everything else happening so fast, but methodological elimination is definitely the safest approach!Īnother thing that really threw me off initially was that, whilst it may seem like a twin-stick shooter in appearance, your weapon only fires in the direction the character faces. There’s no autoscrolling here instead, you have direct control of your character as you navigate the surprisingly intricate levels shooting down opponents that get in your way. Whilst that still is true to a certain degree, the game actually plays more like a run and gun game albeit from an overhead perspective. Many of the story elements are new to this remake too, as the development team decided to flesh the game out a little bit more by enhancing and adding additional levels into the mix – which includes some brand new playable characters too!īETWEEN A ROCKY AND A HARD PLACE From the glimpses of the game I had seen prior to playing it, I’d imagined that the game was effectively a shmup where you shoot a ton of enemies whilst avoiding their gunfire. It’s a simple tale befitting a title from early in home console gaming, and there are a surprising number of plot developments that occur via the cutscenes between each level. Pursuing the figure may not prove as easy as they anticipated, however, and may even prove life threatening to at least one of the pair… After a short investigation, they find reports of a mysterious figure donning a black mantle, who may be behind all of this. As is her duty, Pocky helps her furry friend find out what is going on. IRON MAIDEN The young shrine maiden Pocky is busy tending to her shrine one day, when the frantic Tanooki ‘Rocky’ runs up to her saying that all of the Yokai have gone crazy.
Many thanks to PR Hound for the review copy. With the release of Pocky & Rocky Reshrined, I now have the opportunity to revisit this classic game – albeit in remake form. It also meant that I missed quite a lot of other games that were only available on the competitor’s console one of which was Pocky & Rocky – a game that seems to have quite a reputation, even though I’d never even heard of it until recently. Growing up with a Mega Drive instead of a SNES meant that I played a load of fantastic games that many people have never heard of.
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