Earlier this week we welcomed the news that twin-stick shooter Tachyon Project is coming to the Wii U, helping fill out a genre that's somewhat under-represented on the home console's eShop. The classic vertical shoot 'em up (shmup) is also largely unfulfilled outside of the Virtual Console, but it seems that a smartphone title may try to fill the void.
Developed by UFO Crash Games and - according to a PEGI rating - being published by EnjoyUp Games, FullBlast is making its way to the Wii U. With 12 'Random' levels, three bosses and a heavy metal soundtrack, this game has been trying to emulate classics in the genre since its release on iOS, Android and Ouya. As a likely budget slice of shooting action it could be worth a punt.
You can see the Ouya trailer below - is this a title you'd consider picking up?
[source neogaf.com]
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Now this one I like!
This. looks. awesome.
Holy crap, a shmup! I will indeed be picking it up after NL review, because I love me some shmups!
Never enough Shmups! This one looks distinctly old-school, like old Raiden games.
You had me at Shmup . . . (but love that trailer too!)
So it's come to this, looking forward to Wii U getting Ouya games? Oh my.
Though I always did like Xevious. And I can't complain about these graphics (like I did w/ Elliots Quest.) Installing it now on my tablet to take it or a test run.
@rjejr Nothing wrong with a good deal of the games from OUYA. Especially in the survival horror & SHMUP dept. Admittedly though, I have'nt pulled out my OUYA in a while. I've been to busy with the Wii U and now Bloodborne.
Anyway, I'm getting this game & hope Wii U gets some more mobile SHMUPS (they seemed to have moved there). Heck, CAVE is on mobile.
@rjejr: What's left below OUYA games? Maybe PSP Go games?
Sigh, time to start working on a shumup stick for the wiiu.
I love shmups so I'm definitely exicted! I'll looking into it. Glad to see IOS shmups coming to Wii U as I oddly enough don't enjoy Shmups on touch only devices much.
Does it have online?
@Ryno - PSPgo, the only joke funnier than Wii Mini.
And my Ouya comment was meant to be funny in light of my forum thread last April about FireTV, w/ the occasional Ouya comment peppered about.
https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/wii-u/amazon_fire_tv_new_wii_u_competition
Nice trailer! Haven't heard of the game, but there are so many shmups on the Play Store that it can be hard to find the gems (Air Attack, Plasma Sky, Xelorians, Sector Strike, to name a few indies).
Just tried it out on Android. First level was pretty fun, high production values and solid gameplay.
SO. MUCH. WANT!!!!
The satisfaction when blowing things up is here sadly ruined for me, with the word 'BOOM' texted in the explosions. What an odd decision..
@rjejr I like my OUYA. Obviously most of the games aren't of the same production quality as the proper console games but it's also like five times cheaper entry barrier.
@Ryno They have games exclusively for PSP GO?!
@TheDavyStar - I've looked into OUYA, and Fire TV and Chrome Player, and Apple Tv, and Roku, and PS TV, but I bought a PS3 for $170 for Christmas instead which included $70 Disney Infinity Marvel 2.0, which is a $70 game by itself, making the PS3 about $100, so I'm not too sure about that "5 times cheaper" argument.
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