This means more frequent power-ups and long stretches with no enemies. Fail to defeat fortresses or end level bosses in time or die frequently and the system will ease up. If you are a shooter savant, able to dodge and weave through bullets with the greatest of ease and collect lots of power-ups the game will throw more enemies on screen. Certain enemies will appear more frequently depending on your current weapon. The game judges your performance in a number of nebulous categories and adjusts accordingly. Speaking of AI, Zanac’s big feature is its ALC, or Artificial Level of Difficulty Control. It is no big deal, it is not that great anyway. Once collected the game will spawn a never ending stream of enemies on top of everything else until you get rid of it. Sound good right? Unfortunately the game’s dynamic AI absolutely hates it.
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At full power it lasts eighty seconds instead. At first it will absorb a certain number of hits. The Field Shutter is a shield that steadily covers your entire ship at higher levels. It has rapid fire, can be directed, and at max level can destroy bullets.
6) is a limited set of smart bombs that can be useful if you aren’t the best pilot. But at max level it transforms into a massive powerful laser. 5) fires a single indestructible ball that travels the entire screen than returns. 3) are incredibly useful who doesn’t want a rotating shield? The Rewinder (No. Each weapon is radically different and has their own quirks. They start at level 0 but can upgraded to level 4, at which point some weapons change dramatically. There are eight special weapons, numbered from 0-7. Zanac’s weapon system goes deeper than that. While not especially powerful it can destroy bullets and is better than nothing. Your secondary option is the all-range which can fire in eight directions.
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Grab enough power chips and you can even upgrade it to the super, but good luck doing it that way. The standard cannon is a single shot that can upgrade to a triple beam by collecting power chips. Zanac has a more robust weapons system that offers plenty of choice. Going from Gradius to Zanac is a lot like the jump from Pitfall to Super Mario Bros.
As such the Zanac fighter is sent in to dismantle the System alone. But a hole in the system’s logic means it is meant for large scale attacks and not small responses. Mankind fails in doing this task, causing the system to react violently. But if its systems were improperly accessed it would become a tool of destruction.
If accessed properly it would grant untold wisdom and knowledge. The System was a device created by an unknown alien race millennia ago. Unlike most shooters Zanac has an elaborate story that adds some context to the heavy opposition you face. Even though Zanac came early in the NES’ life I still feel it is one of its better shooters. This was my introduction to the Compile universe and I would continually return to it every time. If Gradius made me like the genre than Zanac made me love it. But the mechanics and theme of Konami’s classic took it to the next level. I had played many a shooter on the Atari 2600, some that I really loved like Demon Attack and Atlantis Attack. Gradius was the game that made me appreciate the shooter genre. Developer: Compile Publisher: FCI Released: 1987 Genre: Shooter Platform: NES
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