バルンバ
©1989 Zap Corp./Namco Ltd
Release : 1990-04-27 (¥6800)
HuCard (4 Mbits) NC90003
Shooter / Horizontal
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Barunba is a cute multi-directional shooter by Zap Corp.
The player takes control of an unusual globe-shaped ship where the pilot
can be clearly seen through the windscreen. Yet the game offers another
interesting feature - a rotating ring is built around
the craft and can shoot in any direction. One of the action button can
rotate it one way and the Run button the other way. The ship
is also equipped with a fair arsenal of weapons that can be
switched from one to another by pressing select.
Weapons vary from a fast-paced Vulcan gun to a slow laser, a powerful
canon gun and a round light-beam that can be charged-up and also
used as a shield. All those weapons can be boosted by collecting
floating icons scattered throughout the game. Barunba counts five long
stages with two bosses per zone -
one located mid-way and another one, a lot tougher, waiting at the end of each area.
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A MSX2 version of Barunba was also released in 1990 on 2 floppy disks.
This conversion (picture on the left) doesn't feature the rotating ring anymore and the player can
only switch the gun's direction from pre-defined modes such as front, side or
four ways.
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Barunba is a really average game, graphics are nice in
places and terrible in others. The action is also really
slow, not much is happening and levels are really long. Yet, this is
not much of a problem the first time you play but it can become quite
frustrating later on, especially as you are only given one single life
to complete the whole game!
The weapon system is also tricky to
master, other games like the popular Forgotten Worlds
or less-famous Hany in the sky use this 'rotating gun' feature and I've
always had problems with it. Standard game controllers are just not
designed to handle this well. All in all, Barunba is
technically good and original but it could have been much better.
The rotating gun feature isn't just enough to make this
game a more memorable experience and the whole game
just ends up being a slow paced and more than average shooter.
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