Battle Garegga
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| Developer(s) | Kazuyuki Nakashima and team |
| Publisher(s) | 8ing/Raizing |
| Distributor(s) | Tuning (Europe) Fabtek (USA) Metrotainment (Hong Kong) |
| Release date(s) | 1996 (Arcade) 1998 (Sega Saturn) |
| Genre(s) | Scrolling shooter / Manic shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, 2 player Co-op |
| Platform(s) | Arcade Game, Sega Saturn |
| Input | 8-way Joystick, 3 Buttons ([A] Shot, [B] Special weapon, [C] Change formation) |
| Arcade cabinet | Vertical |
| Arcade CPU(s) | 68000, Z80 |
| Arcade sound system(s) | YM2151, OKI6295 |
| Arcade display | Raster, 240 x 320 pixels, 2048 colors |
Battle Garegga is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by 8ing/Raizing in 1996.
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[edit] Gameplay
You can select from four fighter jets, each with one of four configurations (Normal, Speed Up, Shot, Speed Up+Shot).
- G-1010 Silver Sword (napalm weapon)
- G-130 Grass Hopper (vulcan weapon)
- G-1026 Flying Baron (missile weapon)
- G-913 Wild Snail (fire weapon)
You shoot enemies, collect power-ups, and defeat bosses to advance levels. The game supports environment bombing such as bridges and buildings. There are many options, power-ups, items and secrets in this game, in the style of "Armed Police BatRider" and "Batsugun".
[edit] Criticism
- The game features an adjustable difficulty system that will increase difficulty based on the actions of the player(s). Firing and powering up the main weapon, as well as destroying combustible bullets, will increase the difficulty of the game. Losing a life will decrease the difficulty (rank) of the game. The less lives a player has when he or she dies, the more rank is decreased, thus, the game rewards a player who doesn't stock up many lives at a time. Players thus were forced to keep themselves powered down, conserve shots, and lose lives on purpose in order to keep the last few stages of the game playable. However, in spite of the common opinion that suiciding to decrease rank is needed in order to make the last several stages possible, the game was recently completed using only one life, disproving this theory.[citation needed] However, the game is much more easy to finish using only one credit if one takes time to master the strategy of suiciding to decrease rank.[citation needed]
- Unlike in most other scrolling shooter games, where bullets are often brightly colored to distinguish from the background, bullets are realistically colored, making it difficult for players to see the bullets.
[edit] Trivia
- The sources of inspiration for this game were "Gun Frontier" and "Batsugun".[citation needed]
- The game forbids the initials "SEX" on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed it to "H!?".
- Shinseisha released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game
- Part of the soundtrack is also used in "Terra Diver"
- The playable ships in this game appear as unlockable ships in Armed Police BatRider.
- There are four unlockable ships (from Kingdom Grand Prix).
[edit] Series
- Battle Garegga (1996)
- Battle Bakraid (1999)
