Bullet Heaven #321 - Panzer Dragoon Old and New

conic for the time of its release, it's no surprise that Panzer Dragoon would receive a complete overhaul. But what is Panzer Dragoon all about? And how does its remake fare? Old meets new in this episode of Bullet Heaven.

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QCF: Broken Lines (Steam)

hen deciding to review Broken Lines I was unsure why I was so interested in playing it. I am not good at all at strategy games of any kind, and I have very little interest in war themed entertainment. Then I realized what it was that drew me to the Steam digital game released by Super! Publishing. I thought back to other games that tackled turned based strategy in an alternate timeline of war in the twentieth century, and I was eager to see how the developer PortaPlay would approach this hybrid of RPG and tactics. I was happy to find out that Broken Lines takes influence from strategy games from the current generation and the recent development of mental state mechanics of newer independent role-playing games to create a solid entry into the genre. A story that sometimes misfires and AI that can frustrate does not take too much away from a challenging and satisfying experience.

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Bullet Heaven #241 - TITLE UNKNOWN

We love a good doujin game here on Bullet Heaven but so many of them are doomed to obscurity... unless obscurity is the main draw. And we might have found, hands down, the single most obscure shmup of all time... and Platine Dispositif is behind it all. So how does this mysterious game stack up?

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Bullet Heaven 238: 70's Robot Anime Geppy-X
Bullet Heaven 239: Super Tank Warfare: Adventia
Bullet Heaven 240: Gradius III

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Bullet Heaven #239 - Super Tank Warefare Adventia (PC)

We love a good doujin game here on Bullet Heaven and Astro Port is a developer that we've covered games from many time already on Bullet Heaven. This time, it's 2012's PC Doujin, Cho Sensha Sen: Adventia - better known as Super Tank Warfare: Adventia. We've wanted to play this one for a while, so how does it stack up?

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Bullet Heaven CCXXXVII: Einhander Taikenban
Bullet Heaven 237: Stahlfeder
Bullet Heaven 238: 70's Robot Anime Geppy-X

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Bullet Heaven #234 - Devil Engine (Switch)

There has to be something to those rare games that literally everyone wants us to weigh in on But what is it about Devil Engine? Well, we think we have the answer to why this standard, traditional horizontal shooting game with a touch of Thunder Force DNA is such a hot contact on everyone's radar. But how does it stack up? 

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Bullet Heaven 232: Horizon Shift '81
Bullet Heaven 233: Star Fox
Bullet Heaven 233.5: Star Fox Secrets!

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Bullet Heaven #226 - Zero Ranger (PC)

There are a lot of great vertical shooters out there, but none do quite what Zero Ranger (formerly known as Final Boss) does. Even though there isn't anything especially noteworthy about its individual parts, it really all comes together to make an experience that's unlike any other shooter we've played yet. But how does it stack up? 

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Bullet Heaven 223: Shikhondo Soul Eater
Bullet Heaven 224: Battle City
Bullet Heaven 225: Velocity 2X

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Bullet Heaven, Episode 212 - Ikaruga Full Compare & Switch Review

In episode 59 of Bullet Heaven, we took a look at the XBLA version of Ikaruga on the Xbox 360. We really love Ikaruga, and with the recvent Switch version, we though it'd be neat to compare every home version of "Project RS2" to the most recent iteration of this amazing classic. How does it stack up?

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Bullet Heaven, Episode #205 - Sol Divide: Sword of Darkness for NSW

ome games have a pretty bad reputation but more than once on Bullet Heaven we've shown that sometimes it's not as bad as it seems. But Sol Divide? Who knows how it'll fare... but! Zerodiv has brought it to the Nintendo Shmup, and it's time to see if it shines, or if it gets eclipsed. How does it stack up?

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