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The title is a portmanteau of Gunhed and Zanac.
The options in this game are complicated and I'm not going to mess with them.
I don’t know why the shrine maiden plot was taken out. Maybe Nintendo thought that Americans don’t want to play as a woman but by 1992, everyone knew who Samus was. Not only that, but Compile also developed The Guardian Legend, which does change the box art to a ripoff of the poster for the movie Creature but not the main character.
You have five weapon types and four bomb types.
The smiley face guy drops an item if you hit him or touch him and then flees. The manual calls the yellow one Garban-Zo and the blue one Liman III.
1 just increases the amount of shots. They go out at 45 degree angles to your ship. Upgrading adds rear shots as well.
3 shoots homing crescents
4 is a really powerful flamethrower. The longer you hold the button, the shorter its range but you can tap the button instead.
5 is a penetrating laser.
Grabbing a wing gives you increased attack power and an extra hit.
The first of the planets is called Lunarus in the manual and merely Planet of the Moon in Japanese.
Rabbit on the Moon. This game has a lot of references to Japanese culture and folklore, which makes me wonder just how Nintendo agreed to release this game in the US. Maybe Nintendo of America was unaware.
2 shoots spheres that themselves shoot bullets. I don't use it a whole lot.
Basic introductory miniboss.
The main level boss is a giant mech rabbit. It's called Rabbit's Talata in a video but I have no idea if that's official or what it's supposed to mean.
The rabbit just poses there and fires homing carrots while other regular enemy rabbits appear and do the same thing.
The second planet is fire themed. It's called Magmapeei in the manual. The levels are mostly bad puns but I'm not sure what some of them are supposed to mean.
But it's just Planet of Fire in Japanese.
The missiles and suitcases were matches and cigarettes in the Japanese version. I know that Nintendo of America was very concerned about not corrupting the morality of our youth, but the cigarettes are actively trying to murder you. If that isn’t an anti-tobacco PSA, I don’t know what is.
In Japanese, the mid boss is a value pack of matchboxes and come the fuck on, I don’t think anyone here knew what it was supposed to be.
The oni moves back and forth and tosses various things at you. He's called Moving King Kaifudo in a video but when I look up "kaifudo" and "oni" I get what I think is Amharic, the results of Google using AIs to spam its own search results into total ruin.
This world is called Atlantajorja in the English manual. There exists a French portion of the manual on the Internet Archive but either the section on the levels is missing from the scan or it wasn't deemed necessary for French people to know about each world before playing the game.
It must be the Atlanta of Futurama because there's no ocean anywhere near the actual Atlanta.
By now, I started to notice a pattern with the worlds.
The water siren throws bubbles at you.
Eventually she loses her arms.
After the miniboss, we start seeing aircraft carriers.
The octopus moves around in a roughly circular pattern firing eight-directional shots at you and occasionally sinking below the water. His tentacles come up to fire shots at you. You can destroy the tentacles for points or for safety but they’ll just keep coming back.
This might be the best game Log shows up in.
This planet is called Logeart. Like, I get that it's supposed to be a play on "log" but that's about it.
As you can see, this game can get very chaotic.
This miniboss is super easy, as long as you have a weapon that can fire at an angle or track enemies.
During the Dryad fight, the sky moves backwards. Or maybe it's a treant, which is Dungeons and Dragons' name for an ent after the Tolkien Estate threatened them, or a kodama, which is the Japanese equivalent of a dryad.
Kodama can extend his arms to punch you.
And he'll belch out a spray of acorns.
On Meggadeniro, not to be confused with Robert De Niro, all of the enemies are money-themed.
In Japan, it's called the planet of metal. Stages 2 through 6 are all based on the traditional Chinese wǔxíng or elements: fire, water, wood, metal, and earth.
In Japan, the five godai are earth, water, fire, wind, and void.
Here's the water bomb in action. It's a full screen attack.
The guide calls this guy Mewtwo but he’s a Maneki Neko statue. The maneki neko raises its arms and makes a bunch of coins appear and then launches the coins in a spread.
Going by some stuff in the Japanese game, this might be a statue of an old woman. I don’t know why it has wheels or why it’s made out of gold. This boss is a bullet hell of various floor tiles and bullets.
This planet is called Arkiendy Smith. Or just Planet of Earth, which I saw coming.
The pointy enemies explode into a ring of debris that then homes in on you.
The pots are enemies as well.
You can only hurt this guy when he's not moving.
Haniwa figures are basically late-antiquity era Japanese versions of the Terracotta Warriors.
The big haniwa figure pops out of the ground in random locations. Some debris flies off in both directions.
Adding the first and seventh level gives you the days of the week, starting with Monday, which is how they do things in China but not Japan.
In the manual, this world is called Bengayleum. I don't even know.
The fire itself doesn’t damage you but flares will shoot out and those do damage you.
There's no miniboss in this world, just a gauntlet of solar flares.
You can just sit there and spam homing shots.
After beating him, you open up a hole in the sun.
Because it’s the last world, you don’t really need money any more.
In the English translation, level 8 is its own world called Usseinasillum.
In Japan it seems to just be the inside of the sun.
Most of this world is a boss rush.
Well, mini-boss rush.
In Japan, the first form is a grotesque looking fetus instead of the H.R. Giger homage to a Japanese Martian that we get.
And I only learned after playing Nier Automata that Japanese base their generic aliens on the Martians from War of the Worlds.
They show up in Go Go Ackman but I didn’t notice that until I started seeing more of them in other franchises.
I have no idea where the standard Western aliens, that is to say, Little Green Men and the Greys that supplanted them in popular culture, come from.
It wouldn't be a final boss if it didn't have multiple forms.
This is why I’ve been saving up all these lives. After dying, your weapons are reduced to the basic shot. So, like Fantasy Zone, dying once gets you in a vicious cycle of death.
There are definitely more elegant ways to beat that boss.
If you play the game on Non-Death mode or on Novice Difficulty, you don’t get the full ending.
I found these screenshots. I wasn't going to play through the game twice just to get a few screenshots.
burning question: so, I once said that Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is the worst Christmas movie of all time but is it really a Christmas movie if it’s just Thumbelina (or Jack and the Beanstalk) with a framing story to add to the run time?
The title is a portmanteau of Gunhed and Zanac.
The options in this game are complicated and I'm not going to mess with them.
I don’t know why the shrine maiden plot was taken out. Maybe Nintendo thought that Americans don’t want to play as a woman but by 1992, everyone knew who Samus was. Not only that, but Compile also developed The Guardian Legend, which does change the box art to a ripoff of the poster for the movie Creature but not the main character.
You have five weapon types and four bomb types.
The smiley face guy drops an item if you hit him or touch him and then flees. The manual calls the yellow one Garban-Zo and the blue one Liman III.
1 just increases the amount of shots. They go out at 45 degree angles to your ship. Upgrading adds rear shots as well.
3 shoots homing crescents
4 is a really powerful flamethrower. The longer you hold the button, the shorter its range but you can tap the button instead.
5 is a penetrating laser.
Grabbing a wing gives you increased attack power and an extra hit.
The first of the planets is called Lunarus in the manual and merely Planet of the Moon in Japanese.
Rabbit on the Moon. This game has a lot of references to Japanese culture and folklore, which makes me wonder just how Nintendo agreed to release this game in the US. Maybe Nintendo of America was unaware.
2 shoots spheres that themselves shoot bullets. I don't use it a whole lot.
Basic introductory miniboss.
The main level boss is a giant mech rabbit. It's called Rabbit's Talata in a video but I have no idea if that's official or what it's supposed to mean.
The rabbit just poses there and fires homing carrots while other regular enemy rabbits appear and do the same thing.
The second planet is fire themed. It's called Magmapeei in the manual. The levels are mostly bad puns but I'm not sure what some of them are supposed to mean.
But it's just Planet of Fire in Japanese.
The missiles and suitcases were matches and cigarettes in the Japanese version. I know that Nintendo of America was very concerned about not corrupting the morality of our youth, but the cigarettes are actively trying to murder you. If that isn’t an anti-tobacco PSA, I don’t know what is.
In Japanese, the mid boss is a value pack of matchboxes and come the fuck on, I don’t think anyone here knew what it was supposed to be.
The oni moves back and forth and tosses various things at you. He's called Moving King Kaifudo in a video but when I look up "kaifudo" and "oni" I get what I think is Amharic, the results of Google using AIs to spam its own search results into total ruin.
This world is called Atlantajorja in the English manual. There exists a French portion of the manual on the Internet Archive but either the section on the levels is missing from the scan or it wasn't deemed necessary for French people to know about each world before playing the game.
It must be the Atlanta of Futurama because there's no ocean anywhere near the actual Atlanta.
By now, I started to notice a pattern with the worlds.
The water siren throws bubbles at you.
Eventually she loses her arms.
After the miniboss, we start seeing aircraft carriers.
The octopus moves around in a roughly circular pattern firing eight-directional shots at you and occasionally sinking below the water. His tentacles come up to fire shots at you. You can destroy the tentacles for points or for safety but they’ll just keep coming back.
This might be the best game Log shows up in.
This planet is called Logeart. Like, I get that it's supposed to be a play on "log" but that's about it.
As you can see, this game can get very chaotic.
This miniboss is super easy, as long as you have a weapon that can fire at an angle or track enemies.
During the Dryad fight, the sky moves backwards. Or maybe it's a treant, which is Dungeons and Dragons' name for an ent after the Tolkien Estate threatened them, or a kodama, which is the Japanese equivalent of a dryad.
Kodama can extend his arms to punch you.
And he'll belch out a spray of acorns.
On Meggadeniro, not to be confused with Robert De Niro, all of the enemies are money-themed.
In Japan, it's called the planet of metal. Stages 2 through 6 are all based on the traditional Chinese wǔxíng or elements: fire, water, wood, metal, and earth.
In Japan, the five godai are earth, water, fire, wind, and void.
Here's the water bomb in action. It's a full screen attack.
The guide calls this guy Mewtwo but he’s a Maneki Neko statue. The maneki neko raises its arms and makes a bunch of coins appear and then launches the coins in a spread.
Going by some stuff in the Japanese game, this might be a statue of an old woman. I don’t know why it has wheels or why it’s made out of gold. This boss is a bullet hell of various floor tiles and bullets.
This planet is called Arkiendy Smith. Or just Planet of Earth, which I saw coming.
The pointy enemies explode into a ring of debris that then homes in on you.
The pots are enemies as well.
You can only hurt this guy when he's not moving.
Haniwa figures are basically late-antiquity era Japanese versions of the Terracotta Warriors.
The big haniwa figure pops out of the ground in random locations. Some debris flies off in both directions.
Adding the first and seventh level gives you the days of the week, starting with Monday, which is how they do things in China but not Japan.
In the manual, this world is called Bengayleum. I don't even know.
The fire itself doesn’t damage you but flares will shoot out and those do damage you.
There's no miniboss in this world, just a gauntlet of solar flares.
You can just sit there and spam homing shots.
After beating him, you open up a hole in the sun.
Because it’s the last world, you don’t really need money any more.
In the English translation, level 8 is its own world called Usseinasillum.
In Japan it seems to just be the inside of the sun.
Most of this world is a boss rush.
Well, mini-boss rush.
In Japan, the first form is a grotesque looking fetus instead of the H.R. Giger homage to a Japanese Martian that we get.
And I only learned after playing Nier Automata that Japanese base their generic aliens on the Martians from War of the Worlds.
They show up in Go Go Ackman but I didn’t notice that until I started seeing more of them in other franchises.
I have no idea where the standard Western aliens, that is to say, Little Green Men and the Greys that supplanted them in popular culture, come from.
It wouldn't be a final boss if it didn't have multiple forms.
This is why I’ve been saving up all these lives. After dying, your weapons are reduced to the basic shot. So, like Fantasy Zone, dying once gets you in a vicious cycle of death.
There are definitely more elegant ways to beat that boss.
If you play the game on Non-Death mode or on Novice Difficulty, you don’t get the full ending.
I found these screenshots. I wasn't going to play through the game twice just to get a few screenshots.
burning question: so, I once said that Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is the worst Christmas movie of all time but is it really a Christmas movie if it’s just Thumbelina (or Jack and the Beanstalk) with a framing story to add to the run time?
