Loyalists will be disappointed if they attempt this threadbare adventure alone. This Final Fantasy experiment, dreamed up by market-hungry Nintendo, introduces a multiplayer mode requiring Game Boys. There are no bosses to pelt, and the puzzles and plot kinks keep you looking over your shoulder rather than shooting from the hip. As Mio, you follow Mayu into a post-massacre phantasmagoria-a black, fast-cut creepfest equal to most Hollywood horror-capturing lost souls on your camera obscura while picking up clues like newspaper clippings.
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The delicate underage twins who drift through this high-minded survival update imperil themselves all too pornographically but pop flashbulbs instead of the typical FPS plasma phallus. Then again, what’ll that buy you these days? Up the difficulty setting and you’ll be glad you don’t have to drop in a quarter for every life. There are only six levels-some in space, others that involve going underwater-but many difficult-to-find paths through each. Here, the 101 customizable crafts eventually at your disposal provide exponentially escalating ways to counter trickster bosses, some of which grow and change organically as you fight them. Ikaruga elegantly shaded this concept by varying the polarity of opponents’ fire, allowing you to switch and absorb like-colored shots. The premise, of course, could not be more simple: Your insect-like spaceship floats from left to right, encountering enemies that must be showered with bombs and bullets. R-Type Final may be the ultimate expression of the genre. Boutique developer Irem puts out retro 2D shooters only, relying on insatiable arcade fans wowed by play-qua-play and busy background graphics.
Some things never get old, no matter how much has gone down since they were fresh. And yet Gene Simmons still bothers to get head from 40-year-old groupies. But spend hours scrolling through 1984’s Spy Hunter-one of 20-plus titles included in the recent Midway Arcade Treasures-and you might as well be slathering on black-and-white makeup for a Kiss reunion concert. Obsessing over daring ’70s cinema is one thing. To the list of hardcore gamers’ disturbing tendencies (virtual violence, male gazing, hardcore gaming), add nostalgia. We're not sure either image: Beatrize Schiller
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