Underplayed Gems

D-Force (1991)

D-Force cover
Developer
Asmik Ace
Platforms
Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom
Genres
Shooter

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How it feels

Vertically scrolling helicopter shooter with alternating shooting and exploration modes and escalating boss encounters.

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About

Gameplay involves being the pilot of an Apache Helicopter, and shooting enemies down in the style of a vertical scrolling shooter. Large red gunships can be shot down to gain power-ups for the helicopter in order to upgrade the guns and have it fire homing missiles. Each level features a midboss and a boss, and both must be destroyed in order to advance to the next level. The style of the levels as the player advances alternates between "Shooting Mode" and "Exploration Mode," where the latter involves levels set in a fantasy-like setting and are the only level types that provide no power-ups to the player and give the player the ability to switch their altitude.

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.