Night Slashers - No Death Clear (Jake)

A remake of Night Slashers was recently shown off, so why not go back and play the original? I am a bit late for the horror-themed month, but I'm going to get back to more consistent uploads now.

This is a pretty good game to start off with. It's not difficult, it looks great and has awesome aesthetics, and it's fun to play despite the ever-present Data East jank. My only real complaints about the game is how you need to carefully inch your way forward at certain points, especially towards the end of the game. Otherwise tons of enemies will be flooding the screen, and they can easily overwhelm you. I'm sure there are some ways around that, like knowing where you can rush forward and press the bomb button to wipe almost everything out (like I do a little after the start of stage 3), but even so, just bypassing the enemies like that isn't particularly fun either. But I still like the game. Its presentation does some heavy lifting for a lot of the design faults, for me at least.

Jake has got to be the strongest character in the game by the way. I think the only really dangerous part (at least for him) is the double boss in stage 4, but even that isn't too hard to get through.

0:00 Intro
0:59 Stage 1
3:25 Stage 2
8:12 Stage 3
16:25 Stage 4
18:36 Stage 5
25:04 Stage 6
34:18 Stage 7

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