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Gley Lancer

Advanced Busterhawk: Gley Lancer
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Platform Mega Drive Year 1992
Publisher Masaya Developer NCS Corporation
Region JP Language Japanese
Tags Action, Shoot'em up, Single Player, Japan Only
Platform Mega Drive
Year 1992
Publisher Masaya
Developer NCS Corporation
Region JP
Language Japanese
Tags Action, Shoot'em up, Single Player, Japan Only

Pilot your space craft through nine stages fighting waves of enemies and bosses at the end. You have access to multiple weapon upgrades and additional gunners (ships that move with you) with numerous control options including the ability to have the automatically target enemies or rotate around you.
 
Good Bad
  • Change ship speed any time
  • Unique options for how your gunners operate
  • Built in auto-fire
  • No slowdown
  • Nice visuals
  • Beginner friendly
  • Easy to differentiate weapon choices
  • Excellent background music
  • Beautiful backgrounds
  • Bullets blend in with background
  • Enemies blend in with background
  • First level more difficult
  • Bosses are too easy
  • Storyline in Japanese
Good
  • Change ship speed any time
  • Unique options for how your gunners operate
  • Built in auto-fire
  • No slowdown
  • Nice visuals
  • Beginner friendly
  • Easy to differentiate weapon choices
  • Excellent background music
  • Beautiful backgrounds
 
Bad
  • Bullets blend in with background
  • Enemies blend in with background
  • First level more difficult
  • Bosses are too easy
  • Storyline in Japanese
 
8 A fun and accessible shoot'em up with nice visuals and a lot of unique options for controlling your additional gunners. The visuals are pretty but make the game more difficult as bullets blend in too often with the background. Automatic fire and beautiful bosses are a nice bonus.

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