«©NCSX» You love shooters, right? We do too. Love 'em. Damn the RPGs, the FPS, and the puzzle games. Give us a shoe box filled with classics such Gradius, Salamander, Soukyugurentai, Radiant Silvergun, etc and we're set. Over the course of the past year, the Japanese Xbox 360 has become the go-to console of choice for home conversions of shooters. NCS isn't sure why the X360 has carved out this unique niche for itself but maybe Microsoft is subsidizing the ports to attract the shoot 'em up collective/hive/audience. Our numbers are legion. Sort of.
To add to the Xbox 360s shmup library, Triangle Service serves up two of their coin-op shooters - Exzeal and Trizeal Remix in a bundle of joy dubbed Shooting Love, 200X. The company also throws in a "Shmups Skill Test" on the DVD which features short but sweet shooting exercises that will check the twitchy trigger fingers of gamers. Finally, a fourth shooting game included on the DVD is a little number called "Minus Zero" which we haven't explored adequately this morning but we'll post some more information once we get around to it.
The first printing of the game includes a bonus Insanity Capture DVD which shows expert players who are so skilled that they blow through Exzeal without losing a single ship. By observing their approaches to the shooting action, maybe you can mimic their moves. The DVD also includes audio commentary (in Japanese) from the players as well as deftly handled demonstrations of the Shmups Skill Test.
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