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Summary

Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo Geo home game system. It is the sequel to the acclaimed Neo Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo Geo ROM at 346 Mb, the game makes extensive use of pseudo-3D prerendered sprites, brief anime and CGI cutscenes (mostly during the intro sequence), and frequent Engrish voice samples and captions. While Blazing Star was superior in many respects to previous shooter games, some fans compare it unfavorably with Pulstar on the basis that Blazing Star was overly easy and there are those that prefer the simpler 2D sprite look over the prerendered sprites that came to dominate many of the more recent shoot-em-ups.

Storyline

Sometime in their past, the planets Remuria and Mutras started an interplanetary war that showed no sign of ending. The endless fight between the human-like inhabitants of the two planets had gone so long that weapon development moved into dangerous territory: Organic Weapon Production combined with alien technology. Soon, a sentient weapon - Brawshella - was born. Brawshella gathered all animal life on both planets and forced them to do its bidding and attack the humans. In a week, the humans were assimilated by Brawshella. Yet, once they were assimilated, they found no other purpose in life but to continue fighting each other. After a while, six of the assimilated fighter pilots regained their consciousness and remembered their pasts. Upon discovering their humanity, the pilots were conflicted with following Brawshella's orders or fighting it to fully regain their independence. The pilots finally turn against the machine in a battle to rediscover themselves and reclaim their planets.

Ratings
70

User rating

13 ratings

70

Combined

13 ratings

Release Dates
9
Neo Geo MVS Jan 19, 1998
Neo Geo MVS Jan 19, 1998
Neo Geo AES Jan 26, 1998
Arcade Feb 24, 1998
Android Jul 25, 2012
iOS Jul 26, 2012
PC (Microsoft Windows) Dec 08, 2015
Mac Dec 08, 2015
Linux Dec 08, 2015
Language Support
2
English
Audio
English
Interface
Quick Facts
Release
19. January 1998
Type
Main Game
Status
Published
IGDB ID
10500
70

Combined rating

13 ratings

Also known as

  • ACA NEOGEO BLAZING STAR