Blasting its way onto Switch in western territories next week is Rolling Gunner, a side-scrolling, bullet hell shoot 'em up which has only been available in Japan up until now.
You'll be able to pick this one up from 20th June as a digital download, although a physical release is also planned for "late 2019" if you'd rather have a lovely box to plonk on your shelf at home. We've got a description and feature list for you to check out below, as well as a handful of screenshots.
The year is 2061 and nearly three decades have passed since the new metallic element "Busterium" was discovered by the Lerman Matsunaga corporation at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Utilizing this new alloy, Lerman Matsunaga developed a new clean energy engine called the Buster Engine, which was globally adopted and quickly replaced fossil fuel and nuclear-based engines.
With nearly all of the world’s engines now being centrally powered and controlled by a fully automated computer system called BAC, the unthinkable has happened: BAC has gained intelligence and has turned against humanity. With humanity on the verge of extinction, a secret internal division of Lerman Matsunaga had the foresight to design a special weapon against BAC: the Rolling Gun.
Key Features
● Navigate across 6 stages blanketed in a hail of bullets from an unceasing
onslaught of enemies and screen-filling bosses
● Choose from 3 different STORK ships to pilot, each with unique attributes and
firing patterns
● Multiple difficulty settings allow players of all skill levels to jump in and enjoy a
true bullet hell experience
● Save Replays and use Training mode to master the Rolling Gun and learn the
intricacies of each stage
● A pulse-pounding, high-energy original soundtrack composed by COSIO (Space
Invaders Extreme, Groove Coaster) perfectly complements the gameplay
● Beautifully animated cutscenes marry gameplay and story
● A challenging risk v reward point system will have seasoned players shooting for
the top of the in-game leaderboard
The digital version of the game is priced at £17.99 / $19.99. Will you be giving this one a try next week?
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Looks decent. Not the biggest bullet hell fan out there but may check it out.
I love all shooters but I particularly enjoy the side scrolling variety, always more varied parallax backgrounds. This is made is japan I think? May have to check it out
"We had been developing 4 years"
"Finally completed"
Dat engrish.
Downloaded Rolling Gunner a few weeks ago on my Japanese account, it’s superb.
One of my favourite STG’s on the Switch.
Please, someone hear my cry... EINHANDER!!!!!!
It's one of the best shmups on switch, very much like games made by Cave. I have had it few months already as it was release earlier in japan eshop.
It definitely works better docked though, this is because there are tons of small bullets coming at you that you need to dodge, sometimes from very small openings and it's sometimes hard to be accurate on the Switch small screen. No performance issues whatsover (I'm pretty sure that the slowdown happening in some parts is intentional as in a lot of Cave games).
Here is a video review of the original PC release last year I recommend to check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtHymw6T_gw
Hopefully it'll be less disappointing than Devil Engine was.
Not feeling the aesthetics on this one.
@HikaruKitsune
If you come and start describing DE as disappointing, would be also worthwhile to explain why you think that.
Devil Engine is great and very high quality shmup, which has been well received by shmup fans and also in all reviews I have read. One of the top tier shmups on the system for sure.
@Yorumi it's actually not messy or overly flashy at all, especially compared to some bullet hell style shmups. The background and graphics are simple enough. It's probably a bit hard to judge from the pics and especially without playing the game and understanding the mechanics yourself.
@Yorumi yeah, I really don't see that as a big problem in this game.
I'm all for ORIGINAL and WIDE SCREEN shmups, but why aren't the missiles being fired at enemies flying away from the ship?!?
My favourite genre ever but I'm not a big lover of the bullet hell shooters. I prefer shooters like Rtype, Last Resort, Thunder Force, etc.
Got this when it came out on the JP eShop and will definitely double dip for a physical release.
It's really great.
On a sidenote, Radirgy Swag came out on the JP eShop this week, finally a worthy successor to Milestone's classics (Chaos Field/Radirgy/Karous/Illvelo).
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