|
|
|
|
飛ing ヒーロー (フライング ヒーロー)
©CBS/Sony Group Inc.
Release: 1989-02-17 (¥5500)
Cartdridge ESF-FZ/55・6R-3
Action/Platform game
|
Flying Hero is a fire-fighting action game developed by Aicom
and published by Epic/Sony Records. The plot of the game is simple - a group
of courageous firemen have the unenviable task of extinguishing building fires and
rescuing people in distress. The player takes control of two firefighters and a large
trampoline. A third firefighter bounces off the trampoline and goes hurtling towards
people in order to rescue them - as long as his friends can catch him before he painfully
crashes into the ground. Each building is chock full of windows that come in two main
flavors. Some feature people waiting to be rescued and the fireman can grab them, one
at the time, and bring them down to safety. Some windows sometimes turn red and people
will start jumping off the building to save their lives - as long as the firemen can
catch them. Other windows are simply burning and hitting them reduce the blaze but
also release special items which range from Power-Up (changes the color of the
fireman and increase his resistance to fire), larger trampoline (cancelled out
by the hammer item) and lives. However, there are a lot more items to
collect, or avoid. Each burning window that the player hits drops a small flame that
sets the trampoline on fire, and doing it twice brings a 'game over' unless he can collect
a fire extinguisher. Other items complete the level - the trumpet calls
a rain cloud that will extinguish the blaze, a curious looking staff takes the
player inside the building where he has to pick up a key to unlock the exit door and,
finally, the radio calls for a helicopter that complete the stage and brings
the player to a bonus stage in the clouds (as long as the he can hold onto it
before it exits the screen). Adding another degree of strategy, flying
creatures (such as birds) move around the screen and bounce the fireman around.
Although most levels each occupy a single screen, some scroll vertically as well to
reveal much taller buildings.
|
|
Flying Hero was slated for an American release by ASCII. This
version, renamed 'Blazebusters', was ultimately canceled. Interestingly,
Flying Hero also appeared at the time in American video game magazines under
the name 'Super Rescue'.
|
O
M
A
K
E
|
|
|
|
|
Click on picture to enlarge |
|
|
|
LK
|
|
Add your Pov here !
|
P
O
V
s
|
|
Flying Hero is a simple yet surprisingly fun game. I
personally have a soft heart for titles such as this one - they remind
me of these old single-screen arcade games that featured simple gameplay
concepts almost exploited to their limits. Flying Hero is really
well balanced and surprises the player at every corner. I was thrilled the
first time I picked up the odd looking staff and entered a
building - how cool is that ? The difficulty also slowly builds up as you
play through and makes the whole experience immensely enjoyable.
Flying Hero is however really repetitive and tends to recycle itself
after the fifteenth stage or so - so only hardcore players will be patient enough to
complete this one. All in all, Flying Hero is by no means amazing,
but it provides its fair share of fun.
|
|
|
|
