Yōjūden
1986 video game
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Yōjūden[a] is a 1986 shooter video game developed and published by Irem for arcades. Originally released only in Japan, it consists of a mix of top-down shooter and vertically scrolling shooter gameplay.[1] It was released outside Japan for the first time by Hamster Corporation as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in 2018, under the name Heroic Episode, with support for vertical screen gameplay on the Nintendo Switch.[2][3]
Gameplay
In Yōjūden, players control a winged soldier in the fantasy land of Mule, which is under invasion by the Gule Empire; he travels through land and sea to retrieve a statue of their goddess from the Gule Empire. In the land segments, the soldier travels on foot while shooting enemy soldiers in a manner similar to Capcom's Commando, while the air segments has the soldier fly and shoot monsters emerging from under the ocean. The soldier is armed with a maser that can shoot standard projectiles and a stronger version with slower rate of fire.[1][4][5]
Reception
Reviewing the Arcade Archives release on the Nintendo Switch, Dave Frear of Nintendo Life praised the mix of gameplay but criticized its harsh difficulty and lack of originality.[1]