Earthion

YUZO KOSHIRO IS BACK BABY!!! An amazing shoot'em up game with an incredible heart pounding soundtrack, good challenge and awesome graphics that push the Genesis hardware with awesome graphical scaling. My only complaint is that the soundtrack price is as much as the game. I love your music Yuzo, but come on man, that's crazy LOL

There isn't a dev around that can more completely continue the Genesis/Megadrive spirit and aesthetic. I love the soundtrack and that it's still pushing what's possible to render on a 16bit system. Looking forward to grabbing the physical cartridge when available

This game is fantastic if you meet it on its own terms, a sega genesis game with a couple design flaws, a bit rough around the edges. But that doesnt stop it from getting a spot easily on the top 10 Megadrive games of all time, along Shinobi 3, MUSHA, Streets of Rage 2, Lightening Force and Castlevania Bloodlines. Hell, the sound designer actually crafted the OST for this, SoR and Shinobi, and it doesnt dissapoint at all on this entry. I bought this initially for the ps5 along with extra copies for two friends, + obviously my steam copy, do I regret buying this game 4 times? Not at all, shmups deserve more love and support. My biggest complains would be that, on steam deck at least, the reset button crashes the game so you have to close and restart it. Also the lack of savestates is a mayor pain for practicing your 1cc, I actually had to get a, uhm, rom to practice with savestates through emulation, although I may just suck at shmups, as apparently a lot of people got their first 1cc easily after just starting the game. Mine on normal did take roughly 15 hours across platforms but it was time well spent, I will definitely be returning to it throughout the years.

I love this game, but at some point an update forced it into a different language and no matter what I can't get it back to English.

[h3] [/h3] 値段は安いし、古代氏が熱量を捧げハード制約の多いメガドラタイトルとして開発という背景も知っているが、そういった点を度外視して単純に横シューとしてどうか？と言われると、残念ながらおすすめはできない。 色数とかダミ声ボイスはゲームの本質じゃないが、[b]ハードの限界までプログラムやメモリ効率を考え抜いてスクロールや疑似3D演出を拘ったところで、それもやっぱりゲームの本質ではない。[/b] 背景や敵弾が見にくいのは、シューティングゲームとしての本質を見失っていると感じた。古代サウンドも残念ながら全然耳に残らない。シューティングとして武器やシステム面の詰めが甘いし、ボス含め敵キャラが没個性なのもゲーム進行が淡白でメリハリなくイマイチ燃えない。地球突入が2面というのも演出が適当すぎないか？あと、エミュレータ側の言語設定が記憶されないのも不親切だが、これらはちゃんとデバッグしているのか？ノーマルのラスボスっぽいところで断念したが、エンディング到達させたいと思わせる要素もなく、リプレイ性もない。 開発背景を分かったうえで言うと、俺はリアルタイムでメガドライバーだったし、TFIII・IVや東亜シューはもちろんだしソニックやベア2やガンヒーやエルソルや魂斗羅ハードコアといった、メガドラで本気で開発体制を組んだりハードの限界に挑んだタイトルは今やっても面白く開発者には敬意を表するが…この作品はそれらとは全然違うなと。まるでメガドラタイトルであることが免罪符のように感じられた。あの頃の名作達は、会社のビジネス面での戦略というのもあったのだろうが、単純にゲームとして面白いものを作ろうという意気込みがどれも感じられたし、繰り返し遊んでも飽きることはなかった。 まぁ俺のゲームに対する熱量は30年前とは比べ物にならないくらい落ちたというのもあるが、当時このタイトルがメガドラで遊べたとしても、上述の他タイトル達と比べて相当見劣りはしていたと思う。

Will end up being regarded as one of the best shmups on the Genesis. Great visuals and gameplay that is challenging yet feels fair. The mechanic that allows you to restart a run with your existing upgrades is interesting, but feels overpowered to me (too easy to beat the game with a fully stacked ship). Maybe on harder difficulties this becomes more fair/essential to use. I also must say while the music is very good, I was expecting a few more hyper-memorable tracks from Yuzo Koshiro. Perhaps it's my fault for expecting Streets of Rage-like house tracks in this genre, but even still, shmups need amazing music and the music here is merely very good. But it's still very good.

masterpiece for retro lovers

Games good. Soundtracks good. It's forgiving enough for bad shmup players (like myself) to enjoy themselves while also still offering a challenge for vets. I enjoyed this greatly.

One of the best SHMUPs of all time & a modern classic. Intense, action-packed space SHMUP heroics with top-tier graphics & music. Fans of THUNDERFORCE, R-TYPE, GRADIUS & DARIUS are required to play EARTHION. A+ Please hurry up with EARTHION II

메가드라이브로 이정도 퀄리티의 게임을 개발 해낸다는게 진짜 엄청나다 코시로 유조가 만든 회사답게 bgm은 말할필요도 없고 게임플레이도 단순하지만 슈팅게임의 감각을 잘 살렸다 슈팅게임 특성상 플레이타임이 짧은건 어쩔 수 없지만 그 부분 감안하더라도 정말 잘 만든 게임이다 장인정신의 집약체라고 말하고 싶다