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Having recently played through Gunbird 2 -- another vertical shmup published by Capcom -- I assumed that I knew what was in store with me when I popped in GigaWing. Apparently I had no idea about the punch-you-in-the-crotch difficult game that was ahead of me, though. I recently decided that I would approach shmups by playing through them on the easiest difficulty first, and then incrementally attempting to take on harder levels of difficulty. But what I found was that even on the easiest difficulty (level 1 out of 5), GigaWing was amazingly tough.




Which is not to say I didn't like the game. I did. It's just that the challenge caught me off guard. But really it's a great looking game, with wonderful sprite-work and an onslaught of bullets that never slow the system down for a second. The music is fittingly good techno tunes, though strangely the boss battle music sounded very close to the Mortal Kombat theme song. (Remember? dun-nuh-dun-nuh-dun-NUH-dun-nuh-DUH-DUH!). I can't really comment on the story, as I own the Japanese version. But then again, I've never been one to pay close attention to storylines in shmups.




I am curious though -- is GigaWing as hard as I think it is? I mean, I'm no shmup expert, but I do pretty well and I've played quite a few. Was I just having an off day? Have any of you freaks actually 1CC'd this thing? Seems impossible to me.

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