Wizard Star: Magical Shooters

Overview

Wizard Star: Magical Shooters is a video game published in 1999 on Windows by Next Fortress. It's an action game, set in an arcade, shooter and shmup themes. Rare Japanese shoot 'em up; perspective view - side view. Apparently, there is no specific plot: before the start we can choose one of four characters (among them two boys and two girls), each of whom flies on a broom (!), and the “auto” or “manual” mode, which corresponds to most likely, for automatically or manually performing certain actions - and after all this, you are invited to immediately plunge into action. Shooting from a single weapon (some kind of “magic flamethrower”) is carried out using “Z”, “X” is used to carry out a “super strike” - releasing several powerful plasma clots in different directions (the effect of it is directly proportional to the fullness of the yellow scale at the bottom of the screen , sometimes turning green for a while - in the latter case it is even more destructive; this bar increases with the intensity of our “basic” attack), and “C” is for switching the flight speed from “slow” to “fast” and back. The “auto” parameter apparently provides for automatic activation of the last two options at the right moments, although you can use them “manually” when installing it. The game is divided into seven levels, with the first six (meadows, beach and underwater world, mangroves, Christmas, space and surrealism) ending in boss fights, and the seventh is entirely a similar a fight that takes place in several stages. There are a lot of ordinary opponents, some of which are encountered throughout almost the entire game, while others are typical only for a specific episode. Since the process is very dynamic, it is very problematic to remember or consider all the creatures; among them there are roosters and ducks, sunflowers, crabs (representatives of these types, as well as some others, are on the ground, while in general most enemies move through the air), flying cats, many species of fish (including flying ones, present not only under water), aliens on various aircraft, girls with wings or umbrellas, big-eyed balls, faces floating in the air, mosquitoes, winged eyes, snowmen and snow globes, Santa Claus in shorts riding on deer, huge spherical hamsters in spacesuits, blondes in black underwear with very voluminous hair, and so on (less than half of the types are listed above). From time to time you will come across some kind of “half-bosses”: in most cases these are fat black women floating in the air (or, perhaps, representatives of the gyaru subculture who abuse visits to solariums); on the first level, a large girl in a chicken costume, surrounded by real chickens, will hatch from an egg that falls from above; under water you will meet sea dragons, and in the mangrove swamps - an almost naked dryad (fortunately, there will be nothing truly indecent) or, say, huge squirrels sitting on wooden trapezes; in space we are waiting for airy wooden ships with bows in the form of giraffes and crews of some kind of big-lipped creatures, and in the “surreal” world - a pink panda dancing on a ball.

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