Super Hydorah
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta…
Super Hydorah is an arcade developed by Locomalito, released 20 September 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.
What Super Hydorah is
Super Hydorah is an arcade game developed by Locomalito and released in 2017. It was published by Abylight Studios. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Force, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
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, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 21 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Super Hydorah holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 58% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1GHz+, 512 MB RAM and 128 MB. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Super Hydorah launched on 20 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Cuphead, Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Divinity: Original Sin 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Cuphead, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Divinity: Original Sin 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Super Hydorah yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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