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アームドF
©1988 Nichibutsu
©1990 Big Don
Release: 1990-03-23 (¥6800)
HuCard (2 Mbits) PV2004
Shooter / Horizontal
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Formation Armed F is a vertical shooter by Big Don
and the adaptation of Nichibutsu's
arcade game originally released in 1988. The player takes control of
a red spacecraft called the Vowger and fights his way through
several stages made up of all kind of organic components. Tentaculous
eye-balls and all sort of armed shellfish try to stop the player
in his progression. To help the Vowger fulfill its mission,
special power-ups can be retrieved from flying pods scattered around the game. They
deliver basic upgrades such as speed-ups and, more interestingly, new weaponry. The
list is actually quite large and includes side-bombs, laser-beams, homing-missiles and
other colorful and flashy disc-beams. These power-ups vary throughout the
game and each stage features its own set of weapons.
Special flying orbs can be collected and have the ability to stay close
to the ship to protect it.
The second attack button can send them fly in formation for a short
amount of time (hence the title of the game).
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Formation Armed F was originally released in the arcades
by Nichibutsu in 1988 (picture on the left). The game is especially hard because of
its lack of continues and unbalanced difficulty level.
It also features bright and colorful graphics which
were replaced by sharper, visually more aggressive and blocky
backdrops in the PC Engine version tested here.
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Game Staff (Copied from the end credits) :
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Produce
Eiko Iida
Program
Teruaki Kawaguchi
Toru Takami
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Design
Yoshiharu Sakakibara
Akihiro Kochi
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Mapping
Toshiaki Kanauchi
Presented by
Big Don
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The original Formation Armed F wasn't great but could still be enjoyable,
despite an unfair and annoying difficulty level.
This PC Engine version is really disappointing, graphics are average and
the color palette badly designed (some parts of the game even look
completely different than the arcade). And the action is incredibly slow!
oh by all the shooter gods! I still can't believe how
slow that stupid ship is. I know this is a constant in
Nichibutsu games, they often want players to
spend more time tuning their power-ups that actually shooting
at things. But Formation Armed F
is gone overboard with that concept - each play just ends up being
a frustrating goose hunt to get those damn speed-up
power-ups before your ship gets obliterated!...
Gotta snap out of that one.
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