Otomedius\オトメディウス (2007) Arcade (Casual Play)

Emulator Used: Teknoparrot

Machine: Konami PC

Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami

Enhancements:
Bezel
Curser

Game played to completion (You only play 3 stages before game over)

Thoughts:
Otomedius is one of those legendary shoot' em ups that was is certain magazines back in the day from my memory like Play. It stayed in Japan until its sequel Otomedius Excellent came out in the west. Otomedius is a shoot' em up that is a side series to Konami's Gradius. It has some of the humor of Parodius, but the ships are personifications of anime girls. Otomedius plays much like Gradius as you collect a powerup and you can select what you want to powerup. Do you wait for a ripple laser or should you get that missile? You only play three stages in the arcade original. The Xbox 360 port has an enhancement version that has a lot more stages and is a much better game in my opinion. The port also has the original game in it. The arcade version much like some other arcade in Japan at the time and to this day allows you to save progress with a card that you would buy at a vendor at the arcade. This would save your name and progress. America never got anything cool like that. The content that is saved to your card in Otomedius are rank and weapon upgrades I believe. I'm not sure if additional stages are unlocked as you progress. They do have a versus mode, but I have no idea how it works. All in all this is a neat game, but I'd say play Otomedius Gorgeous instead which is the Xbox 360 port. The enhanced version is really hard to pass up. I also think that Konami really needs to look into making more games in this series again.