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Stupid Names, Great Games.

Posted March 15th 2009 by Adam Glasgow.

I'm not sure what it is, exactly, that attracts me to them, but I've always loved arcade twitch shooters. One of my most played NES games was by far Life Force, which fits in to the Gradius universe somehow, I think. Jump forward in time a little bit and chances are I was sitting at home playing Darius Twin on the SNES - a weird game where all the bad guys are like, fish spaceships or something. Getting closer to the now, I spent a lot of time on my Gamecube playing Ikaruga, and enjoyed having my ass kicked by Gradius V on the PS2.

I think it was the release of Gradius Rebirth on Virtual Console that put me in the mood recently to get my hands on something of this flavor, but for whatever reason I decided to hunt down something to play on my PC instead of ponying up the cash for Rebirth. I ended up finding these and have been enjoying them thoroughly, especially Blue Wish Resurrection Plus, a game I was probably attracted to for its ridiculous name.

If this looks more fun than headache inducing to you, I highly recommend it.

I'm also contemplating importing Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer (which definitely beats Blue Wish in the stupid name contest), a game that looks almost disgustingly gorgeous.

And all of the sudden my spring break schedule is completely full.

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