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3D Classics: Xevious
3D Classics - Xevious, Original Arcade game by Namco Bandai 1982. 3DS conversion by Arika and published by Nintendo in 2011. Exclusive to the Nintendo eShop.
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Player's Review
"Strike deep behind enemy lines in the intense, classic arcade shooter now revamped in 3D!
3D Classics Xevious puts you in the cockpit of a state of the art Solvalou strike fighter on a daring mission to infiltrate hostile airspace. You are humanity's last hope of eradicating the sinister XEVIOUS collective - shoot down wave after wave of enemy fighters, drop your deadly payload of guided bombs and take out the colossal flying fortress to bring the XEVIOUS war machine to its knees! Considered one of the forefathers of the overhead vertical shooter, Xevious can still dazzle yet with new 3D features!"
It's Xevious but on the 3DS! Not much to say about it. It plays as you would expect. An endless score attack consisting of sixteen levels that loop back to level seven. There are four hidden flags to find which act as a score multiplier and can only be collected once (not appearing in later loops if collected already) The flags are always in the same place surrounded by tanks, just bomb the centre. There are silos to find and destroy for a big point bonus but I don't know where they all are in this version of the game.
The longplay goes through all sixteen levels follower by a second loop just to show what the game is doing. I end the game at the start of the third loop by throwing away all lives (not shown). Overall it's a nice yet very challenging conversion and adds clouds to the sides of the screen to fill the game out as well as giving depth in 3d mode. Another feature is the ability to save progress at any point by opening up the main menu.
3D Classics Xevious puts you in the cockpit of a state of the art Solvalou strike fighter on a daring mission to infiltrate hostile airspace. You are humanity's last hope of eradicating the sinister XEVIOUS collective - shoot down wave after wave of enemy fighters, drop your deadly payload of guided bombs and take out the colossal flying fortress to bring the XEVIOUS war machine to its knees! Considered one of the forefathers of the overhead vertical shooter, Xevious can still dazzle yet with new 3D features!"
It's Xevious but on the 3DS! Not much to say about it. It plays as you would expect. An endless score attack consisting of sixteen levels that loop back to level seven. There are four hidden flags to find which act as a score multiplier and can only be collected once (not appearing in later loops if collected already) The flags are always in the same place surrounded by tanks, just bomb the centre. There are silos to find and destroy for a big point bonus but I don't know where they all are in this version of the game.
The longplay goes through all sixteen levels follower by a second loop just to show what the game is doing. I end the game at the start of the third loop by throwing away all lives (not shown). Overall it's a nice yet very challenging conversion and adds clouds to the sides of the screen to fill the game out as well as giving depth in 3d mode. Another feature is the ability to save progress at any point by opening up the main menu.
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