CAVE has really gone above and beyond to make this a great title and they deserve to be commended. The varied play structure and arrange mode are sure to keep anyone entertained, while the robust display settings package is a god send for the hard core. Though the price is high once you factor in shipping and DLC, it's a price Blogcritics happily paid. If ever there was a time to vote with your wallets this is it, so go buy it now.
Cave once again dominates with "shmup" fun.
“Shmups” or Shoot’em Ups are games that involves you flying some sort of shiplike object while shooting enemies and dodging bullets. This all began towards the very beginning with games like Gradius and Lifeforce and eventually it grew into various subgenres like the vertical kind and the type where the screen is all flooded with bullets.
before fps came on the scene. So many good shmups past and present and I hope....the future.
I can see a revival of the space shooter with a new r-type or gradius or darius, or thunderforce (my personal fav) or ....
the list goes on. It would be a nice break from the over crowded first person shooter market.
Binge Gamer writes:
Esgaluda 2 Black Label is a great game at it's core, but it is held back by some of the choices made during it's trip from arcade to console. Unlimited credits are great for practice and being able to experiment with what the game has to offer, but they really should have been left out of Score Attack mode. Also-as is the case with most Cave games, but especially this one-the complex scoring system could have some players scratching their heads and wondering what the point of it all is. It took me a while to really get into it, and at first I thought I didn't like it too much. Give it some time, though, and all of the elements will sink in.
