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ファルシオン
©Konami 1987
Release: 1987-10-21 (¥2980)
DiskCard KDS-FAL
Shooter / 3D
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Falsion is an intense 3D shooter by Konami. In 21XX, humanity
has colonized space. But during its quest to find more habitable planets,
humans have faced an aggressive alien race who wants nothing but destruction.
Their fleet has now entered our solar system and hurls towards Earth.
Only the new Falsion spacecraft and its courageous pilot stand
a chance to save humanity from destruction. It will be a long journey through
six varied stages, from asteroid fields to narrow and deep canyons. The craft
can use a simple Vulcan laser gun or secondary, and in limited supplies,
homing missiles. Power-ups, in the shape of floating orbs stamped with the
letter P, sometimes appear from defeated enemies. Blue ones
speed-up the ship and red ones increase the depleting stock of homing missiles.
The greatest feature of this unusual title is certainly the 3D option, which
can be activated from the option menu or by pressing select
at anytime during the game (Nintendo's official 3D glasses must be
used though).
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The 3D glasses peripheral (HVC-021) was released by Nintendo in 1987 but
curiously the company didn't release any game for it at first. These glasses
use a LCD shutter system - two images are alternately displayed on screen
and the glasses alternately hide one of the player's eye. This is why it looks like the screen
is flickering if you are not wearing the special glasses. Other techniques exist, like
the two color anaglyph with red-cyan filters used in games such as
Tobidase Daisakusen, but LCD shutter
glasses have the advantage to display
colored images in 3D. Curiously, Nintendo's 3D glasses were never released
outside Japan.
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Falsion is an excellent game! Animation is surprisingly
smooth and the gameplay is also strong and responsive. Stage are also
incredibly varied. I was expecting at first a game with constant star field
backgrounds (and this game doesn't display the best ones I have seen)...
how wrong I was ! The second stage gets you to fly over a green planet
and the third one in a narrow canyon. Enemy attack patterns are also
varied and will surprise players in many occasions. Bosses are
definitively the icing on the cake. Thanks to Sega's Space Harrier,
3D shooters always felt like they had to design every boss like giant segmented
snakes. But Falsion is different and you will be confronted
to aggressive spaceships and other flying fortresses. Finally,
the 3D option is awesome (if you own the official 3D goggles) and
I wonder why this sort of feature has disappeared from current-gen consoles.
Falsion is truly a breakthrough in every aspect
(for the time) and, surprisingly, can still stand out today.
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