![]() ![]() He must reach the free planet of Savara before MicroSol find him. Buce was the only one to know about it and now Trent is the next target. Using it as a building material for MicroSol spaceships will make them nearly unstoppable. Buce, a lizard, is a good friend of Trent and one day he’s shot to death but he has the time to reveal him that everything was ordered by MicroSol a huge corporation willing to expoit the Gravitium, a precious mineral that exists on Tyrian that can control the gravity. ![]() He approaches Tyrian, which is next to the Hazudra territory, inhabited by a lizad race. Trent Hawkins is a terraforming pilot and his job is to to scout habitable planets. Even the menus, especially the one where you can upgrade your ship are very well made, in pure mid-90s style.ĭo you know? Shoot ’em ups can have a plot! Although the narration is quite linear and predictable, the fact that the developers included a plot in a genre that usually relies on nothing but shooting till your thumbs bleed does them credit. The screen sometimes can be a bit of a mess and can be hard to find your ship but overall the visuals are pretty good and the sidebar with all the infos about your status is a nice touch for the game. I cannot say that one of the two has a soft spot in my heart, but despite being a game “new” to me, I can consider Tyrian an affordable way to have fun blasting aliens and/or enemy spaceships.Ĭompared to other shmups of the same years, Tyrian has a more “cartoonish” graphics, rounder and bolder, like the ones you could find in games like Warcraft 2 (that in fact has been released the same year ans Tyrian). The first game that comes to my mind is Raptor: Call of the Shadows that is also a reference for the developers of Tyriar, a game that I first played a couple of months ago. Even though on my PC as a kid I always had some games of this genre is just in the last year that I started to play more seriously space shooters. ![]() My liason with shoot ’em up games is something quite new. ![]()
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