#TWINBEE 3 SERIES#
The player must shoot these bells to keep them afloat and after shooting them a number of times, they will change colour, allowing the player to add new abilities to their spacecraft.ĭespite being one of Konami's most prominent series in Japan during most of the 1990s, only a select few titles were localized for the foreign market. The main power-ups in the TwinBee are yellow bells that the player can uncover by shooting at the floating clouds. The player controls their spacecraft in most games shooting or punching at airborne enemies while throwing bombs at enemies on the ground, similarly to Namco's Xevious. In contrast to the serious sci-fi theme of Konami's Gradius series, the fictional universe of the TwinBee series is set in a cartoon-like world featuring several kinds of anthropomorphic creatures in addition to regular human characters. A third ship also exists named GwinBee, a green counterpart to TwinBee and WinBee who in most games serves as a power-up, but in some instances also appear as a third playable spacecraft. In most games, the first player controls TwinBee while WinBee is controlled by the second player. The series centers around a blue bee-shaped anthropomorphic spacecraft named TwinBee, who is usually accompanied by a pink "female" counterpart known as WinBee. The series also inspired a radio drama adaptation that lasted three seasons in Japan, as well as an anime adaptation. The character designs of almost every game in the series since Detana!! TwinBee in 1991 were provided by Japanese animator Shuzilow HA (Jujiro Hamakawa), who also planned and supervised most of the subsequent installments in the TwinBee series. The series originated as a coin-operated video game simply titled TwinBee in 1985, which was followed by several home versions and sequels. TwinBee ( ツインビー) is a video game series composed primarily of cartoon-themed vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up games produced by Konami that were released primarily in Japan.
#TWINBEE 3 PC#
I can’t believe 4 years went by and this series is still doing the same thing, but worse.Arcade, NES, MSX, SNES, Game Boy, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PlayStation Portable, PC Engine, Sharp X68000, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, mobile phones, i-Revo, iPhone OS, Android, Wii, 3DS and Wii U's Virtual Console, PC (EGG Project), PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch Keep in mind, TwinBee 3 released months before the Super Famicom would hit store shelves. It feels way too basic for the third entry in a franchise and its only pretensions toward innovating consist of removing features from the last game.
The game is generally passable and I did have some fun, but I want to place the bar higher for this series. I wasn’t tense because the boss was hard, but because I seriously didn’t want to die and have to do that whole fight from the start. It’s such a bastard that just keeps tanking hits for an eternity while his RNG attacks can potentially leave you without any way to escape taking damage. I won’t blame anybody for dropping the game during or after the first boss. Some of these bosses were just a time-consuming cakewalk while others were relentlessly obnoxious. TwinBee 3‘s hit-detection is way off and frequently had my bullets passing through sprites unless I hit them dead center, which was especially obvious in boss-fights that all tend to be bullet sponges that take forever to beat into submission. This does not excuse the game’s mechanical shortcomings. The spritework is quite impressive and several levels had cute enemies or some impressive animations. In the game’s favor, it does flaunt a better all-around presentation. A handful of horizontal stages, the same power-up mechanic that has you juggling bells, and a mixture of flying and ground-based enemies that require you to alternate between your two weapons. It cuts the vertical-scrolling segments from the last game out entirely, so the game just feels like a level pack for the first game. Twinbee 3 is basically just more of the same. Somehow, they put 3 years of work into TwinBee 3 and it still came out feeling inferior to that charming first game that founded the series. I thought it was yet another lazy sequel cranked out in less than a year, but no.
Its sequel, Moero TwinBee, made me swallow those words and this third entry just bewilders me.
I remembering heralding TwinBee as a great example of a 2D shoot ’em up in a sea of lesser competitors.
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