Virtual Boy Longplay [03] Vertical Force (US)

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Played by: MadMatty

Vertical Force, developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo in 1995.

"Pilot a Futuristic Star Fighter in a Battle for Mankind! GALACTIC YEAR 210. The earth and its colonies face annihilation in a futuristic war against the human race. YOU have been chosen to pilot RAGNAROK, a star fighter from an advanced alien civilization. Reinforced by fearless AI CHARACTERS, you must locate and destroy menacing fighters and enemy droids. With sheer VERTICAL FORCE blast your way into another dimension to the final Virtual frontier. This mission for mankind is brutal. Be prepared, for it has only just begun!"

Not a bad shoot em up that makes real nice use of 3D to provide an upper and lower shooting area. Stage 4 looks really good. The game was played on Hard and let me tell you, it was no walkthrough. The bosses ere downright evil and the game feels to fast to play on the Original hardware to me. I had it zoomed and on a big screen to help me out.

The game uses a difficult scale of 1,2,3 but to play each difficulty feels like its should be 1,2,10 its that much of a jump. Stage 5 is multiple boss fights and gets quite insane. I try to stick with laser throughout this playthrough, as its only weapon that does any meaningful damage, although it means me missing a lot of kills. I didn't quite get the hand of controlling the AI droid, so its certainly not being put to optimal use. I got fed up with the 'your about to die' beeping throughout stage 4, so started fresh on stage 5, it was a deliberate death ...honest.

00:00:00 Stage 1
00:04:03 Stage 2
00:09:23 Stage 3
00:14:30 Stage 4
00:20:16 Stage 5