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(c)TELENET JAPAN 1990
Release : 1990-9-21 (¥6780)
CDRom² TJCD0010
Shooter / Horizontal
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Legion is a horizontal shooter by Telenet and Renovation.
The player takes control of a small spaceship and fights his way through a horde
of enemy ships and facilities. The space-fighter starts off with a simple vulcan gun and there is a
total of three powerup weapons available : vulcan-gun (red), laser (green) and
homing-missiles (blue). There is also a small range of special icons, which appear
every once in a while, and can either power-up the current weapon, add ground missiles
or activate a shield around the ship. Finally, a smart bomb can be launched with the
second action button and greatly damage everything on screen. Legion has an
interesting level structure and different routes are provided at strategic points
throughout the game. It is also the only shooter (that I know of) to play a
narrative voice at the beginning of every stage, giving the game an unusual
and authentic film noir touch.
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Game Staff (Copied from the end credits) :
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STAFF
Produce
Bu-Cho as Takashi Fukushima
Game Design
Gaira as Takashi Yasugahira
Character Design
Takaki Iwata
Takashi Yagi
Stage Design
Atushi Suzuki
Jun Nagao
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Package Illust
Naoyuki Katou
Title Logo
Takashi Yagi
Program
Nuto-Nuto as Hiroshi Yoshida
Music
Shinobu Ogawa
Takaharu Umezu
Hiroto Ootubo
Mitiko Naruke
Business Support Co.,LTD
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Co-opration
Tomoko Miura
Ken Takeda
Shigeru Kimura
Tetuji Matuzawa
Special Thanks
Baitoman Outa
Takumi Stone River
Kenichi Nishi
Jirou Fukushima
Kazuyuki Fukushima
Yuuji Fukushima
COPYRIGHT 1990
TELENET JAPAN
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Legion is an awful and terrible game. I still clearly remember
the day I bought it, being completely attracted by the gorgeous
game-cover artwork by science fiction artist Naoyuki Kato.
Sadly, Legion disappoints at every turn.
Graphics are average and not too exciting. But still, later stages
have some interesting bosses and enemies, so nothing terrible here.
Music feels really cheap and do not fit the game. But, worse
of all, controls are just useless. It is impossible to fly this thing.
The ship is just much too slow and it makes virtually impossible to avoid
enemy ships and bullets. The only 'original' parts remaining are certainly
the non-linear structure of the game (if you manage to pass the first stage
though), and the kind of Film Noir monologue going on at the beginning
of every level. Overall, just avoid this game and all the frustration it causes.
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