To strengthen the must-have classification of Eschatos on the X360, Qute included on the disc two legendary M-KAI WonderSwan shooters as inestimable extras: Judgement Silversword and Cardinal Sins!
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Judgement Silversword was created using a game development kit distributed by Qute, the Wonder Witch, a Windows C+ software that permitted everyone to program homebrew games for the WonderSwan.
M-KAI won a developers contest with JS, so his title received a very limited print run, quickly becoming one of the rarest games for the system.
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You can tell that JS is the progenitor of this series, it plays almost identical to Eschatos with the same couple of main shots and the shield mechanics. So cool fact: on the WonderSwan you must play this one in -on the go- Tate mode!
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The shooting pace is super fast, with fluid waves of enemies that invade the screen, cool-looking and very well animated bosses, and addictive gameplay that pushes the player to blast away all the aliens as fast as possible. Remarkable for a WS indie game, and a gem of a shmup!
JS has everything, catchy chiptune OST, too. So well composed that reminded me of the classics 8bit shooters.
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A year later, M-KAI released as freeware only, the pseudo-sequel of JS: Cardinal Sins.
Being a digital-only WonderWitch exclusive game, this X360 port is actually its unique physical release.
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A.k.a "JS: recycle edition", Cardinal Sins reuses assets and sprites from JS, but proposes different backgrounds and brilliantly twists the gameplay.
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It's not only about destroying everything as fast as possible here, but each of the 7 stages also proposes different objectives to the player: from "stay alive!", to "Do not destroy 1-Up icons" and so on.
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The difficulty is even harder than JS, with more and faster bullets, and fiercer enemies. It's an unbelievable tech effort by the WS, with a solid audio department with many remixed tracks from JS.
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6 years agotropicalbits
Yo, have you beat cardinal sins? I’ve been so close but the last pattern at black n white keeps killing me.
6 years agodefthead
Awesome WS gane. I collect for Wonderswan but I miss this one ... Like everybody else 😂
6 years agoitami_ms
Bella review 😎 dal gameplay sembra molto divertente 😀 i libretti mi fanno scendere una lacrimuccia 😍
6 years agonattyb0hman
If you're looking for this game and have the opportunity, try to pick up the Ginga Force and Eschatos Wonder Pack. It includes all of the games in this post, plus Ginga Force.
6 years agoshmupjunkie
I never had or played a wonder swan so that’s really cool it’s included. I didn’t know that. I out Eschatos on my list of games to look up and buy so thx for your reviews on these. Great info thank you for this buddy 👍🏻
6 years agomarty_dyr
Should also say that I had no idea about the history of it and the connection to Eschatos. That’s really interesting how the different elements came about. Going to have to play them all again with this in mind 😄
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