A Very Beautiful Game, That Comes With A VERY Tough Challenge!

User Rating: 8 | Arcade Archives: Bells & Whistles NS

This Video Game Review is very monumental for me, because this now marks the 400th Video Game Review that I have written on this website! Now, I feel that the "Twinbee" video game series; while very popular in Japan, it constantly gets pushed aside in the United States. Of course, part of the reason this series doesn't seem to be as popular in the States as it is in Japan or Europe; is probably due in no small part, to the fact that this video game series is very, VERY hard! (Of course, the part where you have to shoot clouds in order to uncover bells, and than shoot them a random amount of times in order to collect power-ups; probably keeps the video game series from being exported to the states more as well). This video game series definitely benefits from the jump from the 8-bit video game generation, to the 16-bit generation. The video game sprites are more detailed and beautiful than ever. The stages are beautiful, the graphics are beautiful, the music and sound are great, and the controls handle great as well. Arguably, the biggest reason this game DOESN'T score as well as it could; is due to the fact that beating the game is really CHALLENGING on your own, even if you start on the EASY difficulty level! Even though there are only five stages with five bosses to fight, the amount of enemies you'll have to fight, and how hard the bosses are to ACTUALLY beat; will definitely make the game feel a lot HARDER despite the seemingly short length of the game. Add in the fact that even if you beat the EASY mode of the difficulty level of the game, it will WANT you to beat the NORMAL mode of difficulty before it will let you TRULY beat the game! This is definitely one game you'll want to play with a friend, in order to be able to hit TWICE as much! Beat this game, and you can consider yourself a TRUE video game master! Enough said, true believers!