MSX Longplay [031] Aleste 2
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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Played by: EiIno
Maybe not much different compared to original, but nice shooter nonetheless. Levels are way too repetitive though. The game would be much better with half the length. Also, clearly more effort was put into specific levels when compared to others.
I like that secondary weapons can be upgraded, but the system is somewhat unintuitive and flawed. There are total of 7 different secondary weapons and each has 6 power levels. Weapon is chosen at the beginning of a game, but can be changed during game by collecting a number corresponding to a specific weapon. When a number same as equipped weapon is collected, an upgrade is rewarded. Switch to a new weapon results in 2 levels substracted from power. When you run out of ammunition you'll lose all upgrades.
I don't see why you can't upgrade each weapon separately and change at will. This favors the player to use only one weapon, such as homing, that seems more useful than others. Another source of bewilderment is why the weapons need to be numbers, it would be much easier if you could just see an icon of what you're collecting instead of having to memorize what weapon is which number. In this video all 7 weapons are shown upgraded to maximum level. -
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Then... I was there, about 10 years old, in another world, in another time.
The "missing link" between Zanac and Musha!
I remember this SO good. Anybody here ever heard the sound on a hi-fi system? The MSX needed to be hacked with an audio output, plus a16 bit audio game, I don't remember which version of Aleste that was.
But goodness me , those explosions blew my mind. Drop-bass!
Nemesis III was my game
Gotta love how the game gives you 62 extra lives when you finish it.
Not like I need them anymore. :)
This is so fucking awesome. Just this, awesomenees in shoot'em up form. When I went to Amiga after coming from MSX, I really missed shoot'em ups like this, because European developers just couldn't do a good shmup to save their lives.
While I really liked you showed every weapon on the game, one at each level.
But you didn't show the cut-scenes after level 4. I guess a Longplay should have that :D
After level 4, the japanese written there is saying something like:
"Insert Disk 2 skip cut-scene
Insert 0 to watch cut-scene"
or something to that effect.
In the early 90s I sticked to MSX while all my friends were going to Amiga, Atari ST or PC exactly for that reason: these were really powerful machines but with honorable exceptions (e.g. Turrican 2) I wasn't seeing anything nearly close to the Japanese games, especially the Konamis (and super-especially the Gradius saga).
Swiv came pretty close... but Compile was the master of shooters for the MSX (has been since Zanac/Final Justice)
@@Vampier Mega Typhoon was way closer to Swiv and it's still miles away.
I do think Swiv is a fun game to play, but it can't even dream of touching the japanese shooters.
BANSHEE on the Amiga is fucking incredible! And swiv is pretty decent too.
Xenon 2 is overrated trash with some of the worst collision detection of any game though. But the bitmaps more than redeemed themselves with speedball 2 and, my favorite Amiga game of all time, The Chaos Engine.
Great comments, I agree Amiga shmups were crap. Euro devs had no idea compared to the Japanese. Once I played Thunderforce 3 on Megadrive that was the end of the Amiga for me.
A good MSX game, vertical shoothers with background animations and no scrolling issues and slowdown were not very common for that system. Nice intro and ending btw!
There is also a mid-game cutscene, not featured in this video. I have it on my channel.
See, I'd LOVE to get an MSX 2 or 2+ for the traditional shooters like this game. But I live in the USA, and they can go for as much as $500.00 on Ebay!
Get some friends overseas (The Netherlands or Spain would be favorite, since MSX was hugely popular there) to buy one for you. It'll cost you less than $100 for a decent MSX2 system, plus shipping of course.
There's also plenty of exellent emulators available, BlueMSX being the best, in my opinion. It supports everything you throw at it.
@@mvl71 Meanwhile, prices have gone up a lot. But there's ways to build one yourself if you can source the custom chip parts like VDP and sound chip. Luckily I picked up MSX2 computers when they were dumped at second hand shops and cost less than 10 euros :)
Best 8 bit vertical shooter.
These are some of the creepiest stage backgrounds I've seen this side of Yakouga. Especially Area 6 and the city that got overrun by the yellow alien goop.
It's unfortunate this game wasn't put in Aleste Collection, I'm guessing it was due to technical or legal issues, or M2 focusing on the games that made it to 8-bit Sega platforms.
Okay good so it ain't just me? Shout-out also to Stage 4 in that regard..
I'm really hoping M2 will make a Vol 2 Aleste collection with this on it. Maybe we'll get a new sequel to MUSHA or Super Aleste also lol.
That sucks that M2 didn't include this on the Aleste collection, however I bet they will do a second Aleste collection Vol 2 or something with the 16 bit Aleste games, and hopefully this would be on it.
Thanks for showing the ending... omg... 8 levels. After all these years I learn I almost beat it. I never made it passed the 2 ships in last level.
What an amazing lookin' and sounding game, my gosh! OPLL/YM2413 is such a funny little soundchip.
Also the final boss is equal parts funny and awesome to me, the emperor guy leaving his well-armed plane to KICK your fighter jet to death
The stage music sounds *way* too cheerful for those kinds of backgrounds.
Also,
2:41 - Well this is awkward.
You mean the WTC Towers right😂😂😂
Much harder to watch after 9/11.
is this connected to the SNES game called Super Aleste?
***** Technicaly it is. Super aleste (space megaforce)...Aleste 2, technicaly the same game. Though, there definitely was alot of improvement with super aleste...
+MoviesNGames007uk Yes.
How to play in blueMSX?
Run the second disk only. It won't have the intro just the game but it works. Someone was able to program all three disks in python but M2 didn't like that. So try that out and it should work.
Is this a sequel/prequel to Super Alaste?
Fact: Ellinor's Middle Name is Terri
The proof is, That's her name given in the US Version of Musha Aleste. This is actually my theory of her middle name. Ellinor's Full name is Ellinor Terri Waizen!
I do not understand why not created a 3D game with graphics like this
Why is the first level so damn hard if you don't focus on weapon 0 in this game?
Try 4
Yeah, Weapon 4 is probably the best for most of the game.
I can't seem to run aleste 2 on the blue msx emulator. Can someone tell me how to do so?
Super é a introdução da musica com efeito de sintetizados que apenas no mxs2 se consegue, o meu msx2+ estragou os disquetes e o leitor dele, que pena, instalei o emulador msx no not e ate que funciona mas nao se compara a essa maravilha de som, tenho que resolver esse probleminha para tornar a usar o meu msx.
Blue msx funciona perfeitamente o fim pac
area 4 music ))
does Aleste / Power Strike exist on the MSX ?
+bl00derly Aleste exists on MSX. It's mainly the same as on the Master System, with 2 more areas to conquer.
+bl00derly It's actually an MSX original. The Master System is a port, and an inferior one in many aspects (but the GFX are a little better overall)
It's also only called Aleste, on any region. Never got the "Power Strike" title which only exists on the Master System.
Actually, the SMS version of Aleste was first. That version of the game is considerably more difficult; probably the hardest vertical SHMUP I can think of. Power Strike II, however, isn't Aleste II, or even GG Aleste II, but an entirely unique game not released in Japan or USA.
2:43
10:43
Couldn't play this, Music's hurting my ears >
Heat the Dragon Either you have overly sensitive hearing, in which case to should see a doctor to get it sorted out, you need to turn the volume down or you're expecting way too much from an 8-bit game!!!!
@@terminusaquo1980 Turning off the background graphics would be helpful too. It makes me dizzy. The C64 do have nice music, so it is possible on an 8-bit. The sea-level is way better on the eyes than the first one, it's not all bad. Big potential