Elevator Action™ -Returns- S-Tribute

Good port of an extremely ridiculous OTT style-over-substance game. The visual style and music are great, it's a shame the game is content to spam enemies at you to munch quarters instead of, idk, using clever level design to create a tough but fair challenge, but it is so visually entertaining and so short I can kinda overlook that it's a bit dumb gameplay-wise. Reminds me of Katana Zero for some reason, a game which does have actually good level design.

童年回憶，現在終於發現這遊戲叫什麼名子並找到它有在STEAM上架，感動到不行。

My brother forgot we played this together. It was our favorite in the collection of Taito games.

お目当てだったオリジナルのほうの出来がイマイチ。アーケード版でもなければファミコン版でもなければSG-1000でもない。 リターンズは多分こんな感じだった。当時空港迄しかやった事無かったのでそこまで行ったら満足しちゃった。 久しぶりにやるかって引っ張り出しても途中で止めちゃう程度の爽快感の無さが残念なんだど、元がそうなので移植のせいではない。思い出補正込みでも他のベルトアクションでいいのでは？

"I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME!" Elevator Action Returns is a fantastic and stylish sequel to the original classic. I was lucky enough to find an arcade that had this years back, but by the time I found out about the game's home port on the Saturn it was already prohibitively expensive. Luckily, this is a good port of that same version at a fraction of the price, with a few extra bells and whistles included. Everything, including controller support, seems to work well. Very pleased that the dev is making these games available on steam!

Comes with 2 games instead of one. As opposed to the original version, you do not need to beat the game to access the first game to boot. Personally, I think they should have left it to where you earned it after beating the game as a nice surprise, but whatever. Both games are arcade games, which means they're supposed to steal your quarters, which means they can be difficult. However, you can change the difficulty settings and you can also enable whether there's blood or not with Returns. You can also add credits, stock, and a ridiculous amount of bombs to start with if you so choose. As for the characters, I'm gonna tell you something: I'm an absolute sucker for these designs. I love them. That said, each character plays differently. One has a lot of speed and specializes in melee, another specializes in weaponry, and then the last one excels in power. These traits are noticeable during the game so they're not just there for nothing. It does have a 2 player mode, which is cool. The music: What can I say? It's good, it's chill, it's great. You can listen to all the music under options as well. Now for the games: Well, they're arcade games so they're going to be short. Despite this, they're pretty solid games. Is it worth the $14.99? Younger me would say yes. Present day me? Also yes. However, if you can grab it on sale like I did, I'd highly recommend it. I had no trouble with installation, it runs very smooth, just everything you could hope for.