Arrow Flash vs Gate of Thunder

[Emerald Rocker]

Arrow Flash
Pros:
You can transform.
You play as a hot girl.
Originally developed by Sega.
You have the ARROW FLASH special power which lets you blaze, Altered-Beast-golden-werewolf style, through enemies, slicing them from steel stallion status to metallic mincemeat.

Cons:
Awesome cartridge music does not play in my CD player.

Gate of Thunder
Pros:
Decent music.

Cons:
You can't transform.
The "wildcat" supply ship is fat.
Storyline implicitly endorses the Mafia.
The orange bar of death (after you collect excess powerups) is scary and could frighten young children or the infirm.

Objectively, I'd say that Arrow Flash wins.  What do you all think?

[guyjin]

Emerald Rocker

Pros:
His anus is bleeding.

Cons:
can't transform.
is not a hot girl.
is fat.
can't stand up to the space mafia in a fighter jet.

[Emerald Rocker]

guyjin

Pros:
Has a cute message board icon to compensate for... well, to compensate for something.

Cons:
I think he stole that message board icon from someone else.
He likes it when guys' anuses bleed.

[Emerald Rocker]

On an unrelated note, Compile shafted the Duo.  They put their one good shooter, Robo Aleste, on the Sega CD.

But damn that company knows how to make a mean puzzle game.

[runinruder]

Good points by Emerald Rocker.  It's too bad that the Duo didn't have any shooters with the intensity or soundtrack of a Wings of Wor. 

[Emerald Rocker]

Wings of Wor even has the arcade feel.  (Kind of like Arrow Flash)

[runinruder]

Good grief, it occurs to me that Renovation gave the Genesis Gaiares and the Duo Legion.  They REALLY shafted the PCE. 

Duo shooters also come up lame in effects.  Thunder Force 3 had a raging inferno, Wings of Wor had the unforgettable innards.  Meanwhile, Sinistron tried to do "wavy" and looked like a wobbly 8-bit mess. 

[Emerald Rocker]

I heard that the name of Mega Drive shooter exemplar par excellence "Eliminate Down" was originally going to be "Eliminate Duo", but then they realized that the Duo wasn't a serious threat to the shooter crown.

[GUTS]

Genesis definitely has the best shooters and is widely regarded as the shooter system amongst normal people.

[nat]

Meanwhile, Sinistron tried to do "wavy" and looked like a wobbly 8-bit mess. 

Hey, I like that wavy effect!

[Black Tiger]

Good grief, it occurs to me that Renovation gave the Genesis Gaiares and the Duo Legion.  They REALLY shafted the PCE. 

Duo shooters also come up lame in effects.  Thunder Force 3 had a raging inferno, Wings of Wor had the unforgettable innards.  Meanwhile, Sinistron tried to do "wavy" and looked like a wobbly 8-bit mess. 

You mean like Darius II's blazing inferno?

Of course, even Sagaia on SMS can do Genesis quality "wavy". :-"

Meanwhile, Sinistron tried to do "wavy" and looked like a wobbly 8-bit mess. 

Hey, I like that wavy effect!

They're just funnin'. 

[Emerald Rocker]

The Duo has shitty graphics.

[nat]

They're just funnin'. 

Ah yes, stupid me... Lest I forget, "TurboChip DUDS."

[Emerald Rocker]

Nah, those were chips, which everyone knows sucks (not enough memory to do any graphical effects).  The CDs suffered too... compare the slow and choppy rotation in Metamor Jupiter to the smooth, full-screen effects of Robo Aleste on Sega CD.  Or hell, compare F1 Circus to the driving scenes in Batman Returns.  No contest.

[Emerald Rocker]

Here are comparison shots.  You'll notice that both games feature black cars, but somehow, they don't look quite the same!

Shitty Duo graphics:


Awesome full-screen Sega CD scaling and rotation: