Gynoug: the extraordinary shoot em up from the mega drive focused on current consoles

Not content to have piloted the recent gleylancer exit on PlayStation, Xbox and Switch, Rataika Games will once again delight the Nostalgics of Masaya Games by coming out another memorable shoot em up Mega Drive generation: Gynoug.

On the contrary, Gleylation which was essentially known for import lovers, the name of Gynoug could evoke something to the owners of Mega Drive many from us. If it does not matter among the games shoot em up the popular machine, which is a profound anomaly, this title released in Japan on January 25, 1991 had been entitled to distribution in the United States (under the name Wings of Wor ) and in Europe the same year. Perhaps you have only crossed the look of his jacket and his heroic protagonist, a muscular angel with the fist raised to the sky.

But if your Mega Drive has had the honor to taste this cartridge, probably have been marked by the universe confusing of this title far from the standards of the genre, kind of dark fantasy to nightmarish enemardes, especially these grotesque bosses At the length of biomechanical monstrosities. Delightful horrors that we owe to Satoshi Nakai ( Chief Aniki , Culdcept , Resident Evil Code Veronica ) who declared during an interview that had been influenced not by Japanese works like tetsuo or even by HR Giger, but by the film Dune of David Lynch and his Baron Harkonnen.

Perhaps even more than the bestiary and the varied environments (the ocean level 2, the Gothic castle of Level 3, the level 4 factory), Gynoug has marked the spirits by the music of a Noriyuki Iwadare ( Lunar , Grandia , Ace Attorney ) Still beginner but completely unleashed and determined to mislead the Yamaha synthesizer from the Mega Drive.

Here, no narrative kinematics anime way GleyCancer : The player just knows that he embodies an angel named WOR in the hope of saving the world of ICCUS from a family of mutants led by a certain destroyer. End of the scenario, beginning of the challenge. Because Gynoug was also and especially with a fairly raised difficulty. Despite the impressive cover of the shots of our winged hero, whose firepower becomes more and more broad by picking up the blue and red orbs, the slightest contact with the enemy (or the decor) is synonymous with a pair of wings that stand out and a life and less. In the absence of unlimited credits, the terrible level 5, taking place in a living organism whose nature does not even want to know about attempts before even the boss rush final.

In short, we will not say no to the addition of accessibility features that will probably allow at least to go back at any time, as in the portports of gleylation . Like the latter, the output of Gynoug on our current consoles is a real bargain since this title has never been included in the slightest compilation of Mega Drive games (even less in the MEGA Drive Mini) and only came out on the Japanese virtual console of the Wii on May 20, 2008. The price of the game, which is announced for the 12th of November on the Microsoft Store page, has not yet been communicated, but we have hopes as well as that of GleyCancer (6 euros on the console of your choice).