It’s all Greek to me
A lovely unique shmup release has actually signed up with the ranks of Hamster’s Game Archives today, as Namco’s mythological and questionable blaster Phelios is now offered to download on PS4 and Nintendo Change.
Launched to the Japanese game market in 1989, in the past later on being ported to the Sega Mega Drive, Phelios is a vertically-scrolling shmup that is (extremely loosely) patterned after Greek folklore. Gamers put on the magnificent armor of the sun god Apollo, who installs his magnificent horse Pegasus and embarks upon an objective to rescue his partner, Artemis, who has actually been abducted by the serpentine god, Typhon. Gamers guide Apollo through 7 notoriously difficult phases, handling noteworthy manager characters such as Medusa, Antaeus, Cerberus, and The Sirens. Dusa would never ever.
Have a look at the button-mashing action in the video listed below, thanks to YouTuber Replay Burners.
While Phelios was an enormous success in its native Japan, it would, sadly, be hardly ever seen beyond its native area. Similar to Namco’s previous Rolling Thunder, gamers were welcomed with pictures of the damsel, Artemis, chained and tortured in between phases, which left Namco a little anxious about delivering the title westward. Phelios is likewise among the more difficult shmup titles of its day, with even basic opponents frequently needing several shots to dispatch. With its sexual material and high problem, Phelios would not end up being a pillar of North America’s game.
Still, it stays a truly hard and interesting title. And the now ultra-mild “sexual scenes”, in addition to the hilariously loose usage of Greek folklore, (from Apollo riding Pegasus as a family pet, to making use of the notoriously heterosexual hunt goddess Artemis as his “princess wife”), makes Phelios among the more intriguing examples of the late- ’80s shmup category.
Phelios is offered to download now on PS4 and Ninetndo Change, priced at around $8.
Chris Moyse
Senior Editor – Chris has actually been playing computer game given that the 1980s and blogging about them given that the 1880s. Finished from Galaxy High with honors. Twitter: @ChrisxMoyse
