![]() Instead you’re encouraged to explore and move between the various tiers, while consistently performing well and (with any luck) earning medals on all of the levels, regardless of tier.Īnd those medals…wow. While there are three main branches to take through the main game, Lylat Wars doesn’t overly reward you for taking the hard route as opposed to the others. A few missions have three results, a best, a good and a standard one. Some levels have a simple good or bad result, where a positive outcome (Mission Accomplished) causes you to move up a difficulty level and a, shall we say, less positive outcome (Mission Complete) will move you to an easier story branch. The game has a branching system, so every playthrough is different depending on which levels you opt to/are able to access. The characters, setting and story are as charming as they are daft the environments are cool and varied the controls are tight the aiming is excellent (even though the controls to somersault and U-turn are somewhat obscure) and the game as a whole is paced remarkably well, with exciting level design and bosses throughout.Īnd I should add, it’s packed with iconic lines. At heart, Lylat Wars is simply an excellent rail shooter, easily ranking up there with Panzer Dragoon II Zwei on the Saturn in the race for the best rail shooter of that generation and beyond. ![]() In the many years since – I picked up the game for myself eventually – the singleplayer mode has always been the highlight and the multiplayer a curiosity at best. It’s this game’s way of telling you that you really shouldn’t be playing two-player – and to be fair, it is a bit samey with only two Arwings duking it out. One is that when playing with two players, the screen is still divided into four: the bottom half of the screen becomes dedicated to the kind of cool replay angles you get in racing games. There are some definite quirks to the multiplayer that hold this game back. ![]() In hindsight it’s surprising to me that we got so much joy out of Lylat Wars’ multiplayer mode. Falco, taking the words right out of my 10 year old adversaries’ mouths just after facing moi in multiplayer airborne combat.
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