Treasure is a video game developer that has under its label a large number of excellent titles: Light Crusader, Guardian Heroes, Rocket Knight Adventures, Mischief Makers, Gunstar Heroes, among others. Treasure is a company that has left a great legacy in the world of video games. The game I'll tell you about next is considered one of the best of this company, and I'm quite agree with this.
Today's Retro Review is about: Alien Soldier.
Alien Soldier tells us a quite interesting story, in a future where only human beings do not inhabit, but also quite strange creatures and robots with their own intelligence, even a union between these 3 "races". The game introduces us to: Epsilon Eagle who is the leader of a criminal and terrorist organization called "Scarlet", but after an overthrow by one of his subordinates, Xi-Tiger. Epsilon Eagle is imprisoned, and Xi-Tiger takes control of the organization, however, our protagonist manages to escape, but he does it by entering the body of a child, which has psychic powers. Xi-Tiger learns of this event and now wants to capture and eliminate Epsilon Eagle. Due to the child's powers, he is fused with Epsilon Eagle in such a way that his body mutates or "evolves". While this happens, in our protagonist's mind, there is a battle, as the consciousness of Epsilon Eagle and the child will be in constant conflict due to the values of each of them, on one hand, there is the criminal mentality of Epsilon Eagle, and his plan to end the human race and on the other hand there is the mentality of the child, whose innocence, but and will to survive, will make our protagonist think about the things his organization wants to achieve. And we are given the plot of this frenetic video game, without kinematics, just a text at the beginning of the game. A quite interesting story and whose creator said in interviews that he couldn't finish the game as he wanted, since there was still a lot of material and content to add to the game, but due to the publication deadline, he had to deliver the game "incomplete".
The graphic aspect of Alien Soldier is impressive, with a level of detail from the smallest to the most outstanding, this game makes every scenario look visually fantastic. In Alien Soldier we will be able to find scenarios full of details and with really good designs, very futuristic. Treasure has always stood out for creating video games that in the visual aspect are always going to leave us amazed, they manage to take advantage of the maximum capacities and create video games that are a show to the eye.
The color palette used in this video game is very striking, with good use of tones in both the scenarios and in the characters, make them stand out a lot, also being a video game of the genre Run & Gun, we will be in constant movement, shooting and dodging, so it is necessary to have a set of varied and fluid movement, and that is something that Alien Solider is able to achieve perfectly. Every stage we go through with our character is a constant struggle of shooting with visual effects such as explosions and light effects very well represented. The character design is great, with really big sprites and very original and futuristic designs. It's one of the most impressive graphic-looking games from Treasure by far.
The sound aspect of Alien Solider is very much in line with the graphic aspect, since we are going to find a soundtrack worthy of a game under Treasure's label, with a soundtrack composed by excellent melodies, which fit very well with the look and places in which we are going to travel during this action-packed adventure, full of shots and explosions. The sound effects also play a very important role, these are also of great quality, has a great repertoire of sound effects very varied and optimal to add a better playable experience to this excellent title.
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Alien Solider is a Run & Gun, so our main purpose is to go through a series of scenarios and shoot our enemies until we defeat it. This video game is quite frantic, there will be shots and explosions at every moment, we will have to be constantly alert to enemy attacks, as there will be very few moments of relaxation once we start each stage. The gameplay in Alien Solider is fast, frenetic and dynamic, along the way we will be able to count on different types of arsenals, each one with a very different level of impact and damage between them, and that we must use according to our needs.
Our character is also able to move him in the air in such a way that it will serve us to move on the stage more easily, to attack our enemies using some kind of strategy and also to avoid certain attacks from our enemies. The game has 25 levels which we must go through and defeat all the enemies that face us and we can also defeat more than 30 final bosses, each one of them presenting a quite original design and also, as it is logical, different attack patterns between them, in such a way that each battle with these bosses will suppose a great challenge for us.
Alien Solider is an undisputed jewel of video games, with a wonderful graphic appearance, which even today looks great and a frantic, fast, dynamic and highly addictive gameplay. Without a doubt, one of the best video games that Treasure has developed.
