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Shoot’em Up

Explosionade Review (XBLIG)

Explosionade, while causing a stir within the XBLIG developers community, is another release from Mommy’s Best Games.   See if I keep reviewing Mommy’s Best Games, or schmups, you are going to start things that I either A. work for Mommy’s Best Games (I don’t) and B. Play nothing but schmups.  Though, I am playing this XBLIG title until my xbox screams for me to stop, I might as well tell you why it’s worth the 80 Microsoft Points ($1).

All your friends are storming the Horronym Fortress but Colonel Bouche left you to guard the supply depot.  Disregarding orders to clean the toilets, you open the depot to find a gigantic, prototype mech!  You jump into the mech, and you head down into the sewers for a little fun shooting things, only to find the Horrornym right at your back door.

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Guwange, Cave’s shoot’em up hitting XBLA

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Shoot’em up developer Cave officially announced today that it will be releasing Guwage on XBLA  World wide.

Guwange is a popular Japanese “medieval” bullet hell style schmup that was released in Japanese Arcades back in 1999.   It’s a vertical scrolling shooter that has a very retro and classic style about it.

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