Vimana
Bitwave Games · 2024 · Action, Arcade, Shoot 'Em Up, 2D, Pixel Graphics
PC
Positive94% · 18
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About Vimana
THERE IS NO ESCAPE!
Toaplan's Vimana invites you to a thrilling space showdown! This vertical shooter boasts breathtaking graphics, an epic soundtrack, and a captivating journey through Indian mythology. Crush your foes with mighty shots and utilize eight rotating shield orbs for ultimate defense. With accessible controls, players of all skill levels can dive into Vimana's exhilarating action!
"A once prosperous planet has been devoured by madness. Only a few righteous souls remain. They must restore peace to their world by reviving the sacred fighter craft Vimana in its holy temple. Go forth, Vimana! Restore peace to us all!"
ORIGINAL GAME FEATURES:
- No Sweat, All Thrill: Enjoy simple controls and an exciting challenge level for non-stop fun!
- Team Up: Take on malicious space pests with a friend in co-op mode for double the excitement!
- Shoot with Style: Unleash barrages of wide-ranging shots and harness the power of eight rotating shield orbs to wreak havoc!
- Get Mythical: Immerse yourself in an enchanting world filled with vibrant elements from Indian culture and Sanskrit epics!
- Groove It Out: Pump up the volume and groove to the spectacular soundtrack by Toshiaki Tomizawa!
QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS:
- Minimal Input Lag: Emulation, input processing, and rendering all complete on the same frame.
- Quick Save using F1-F10, Reload with Shift+ F1-F10
- Online leaderboards for Single Credit, No Assist, and Assisted plays.
- Instrument panels with extra gameplay information and artwork.
- Rewind the game between 10-18 minutes, depending on the action.
- Capture sharable replays to immortalize your interstellar victories (or funny moments).
- Assist Features such as auto-fire at multiple rates.
- Very Easy Mode: Lower the difficulty to breeze through the adventure.
- Pixel perfect or full-screen scaling in windowed or full-screen mode.
- Rotate the gameplay in 90-degree increments.
- Steam Achievements
- Choose between Raw Input on Windows or Steam Input.
- Hone your skills in the ultra customizable practice mode!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Vimana has always been my favorite Toaplan shmup. This is what an arcade sounded like when you walked in. I'm talking to you Truxton fanboys. Also, Vimana has the best colors. Lots of neon green, pink, purple, and reds against a black background. The actual game has a beautiful background wallpaper, not shown in the featured video for single player, and the best sound effects of any shmup not shown in the feature video. Also, Vimana is on the easier side, but in truth not too easy if there weren't infinite continues, but a lot easier than Truxton. FLAWLESS PORT! 9/10 for Virmana. https://steamcommunity.com/groups/indieretrogamers3 found this helpful
Exactly as I remember it from the ’90s. This was one of the most memorable vertical shmups for me, and this version brings those memories back like it was yesterday. Everything works perfectly, and the sound is spot-on. A must-have if you enjoy this type of game.2 found this helpful
This is generally considered one of Toaplan's weaker games, but frankly, I enjoy it more than Truxton. For starters, you have overlapping waves of enemies, and many of the single wave patterns are super fast, so you're always moving and prioritizing targets. It has maybe the best bomb in any shmup ever. And unlike Truxton and its many clones, you don't have to pick up 80 powerups to raise your shot level. It's probably too easy with 30hz autofire and the spread shot is almost entirely useless, but it's still a fun game and triggers my happy shmup neurons most of the time. I'd probably put it in the A-tier, it's not S-tier perfection like the Shark games or Twin Cobra or Out Zone or Slap Fight or V-V or Batsugun, but it's better than much of Toaplan's catalog and the massive glut of arcade shmups from the era in general. I have more fun with it than the Truxton games, Fixeight, Dogyuun, etc. Port-wise, it's pretty barebones like all of these Bitwave Toaplan ports, and I'm not sure if the audio emulation is the best, but I appreciate that it feels like there's essentially no input lag and it offers easy access to the different versions and dipswitch settings, plus easy to use …1 found this helpful
Really Fun Plays well on Steam Deck1 found this helpful
suffers heavily from gradius syndrome, although you can just cheese it with bombs since there is no checkpoint system get it on sale, its always worth checking out old stuff just for the novelty of it
Who makes the best ShootEmUps? Toaplan -> Cave
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