Blazing Star
Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo Geo home game system. It is the sequel to the acclaimed Neo Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically…
Blazing Star is an arcade developed by Yumekobo, released 19 January 1998 on Wii, Neo Geo AES, Android and Arcade.
What Blazing Star is
Blazing Star is an arcade game developed by Yumekobo and released in 1998. It was published by D4 Enterprise, Inc. It is available on Wii, Neo Geo AES, Android, Arcade, iOS, Linux, Mac, Neo Geo MVS, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sometime in their past, the planets Remuria and Mutras started an interplanetary war that showed no sign of ending. The endless fight between the human-like inhabitants of the two planets had gone so long that weapon development moved into dangerous territory: Organic Weapon Production combined with alien technology. Soon, a sentient weapon - Brawshella - was born. Brawshella gathered all animal life on both planets and forced them to do its bidding and attack the humans. In a week, the humans were assimilated by Brawshella. Yet, once they were assimilated, they found no other purpose in life but to continue fighting each other. After a while, six of the assimilated fighter pilots regained…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
What it launched against
Blazing Star launched on 19 January 1998, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Resident Evil 2 and Sega Rally 2.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Resident Evil 2, Sega Rally 2.
Official trailer
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Quick answers
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