Truxton 2
Bitwave Games · 2024 · Shoot 'Em Up, Top-Down Shooter, Arcade, Difficult, 2D
PC
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About Truxton 2
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The sequel to Toaplan’s legendary vertically scrolling shoot ‘em up masterpiece Truxton brings even more intense hardcore space action. Truxton II is one of the hardest Toaplan games with higher difficulty than its predecessor. The thrilling insane action is unforgiving and appealing to the most hardened shmup veterans. Casual players who dare to play Truxton II can at least take solace in the added easy mode, and the modern features of rewind and quick save that gives a fighting chance to advance through the quick bullet rain and tough bosses.
“The visuals are freaking amazing, not just for their time, but even by today’s standards. It’s one of the coolest looking games ever made.” – Shmup Junkie
The story of Truxton II:
“During the time of the grand battle known as Tatsujin, another battle was being fought in a remote area of the infinite universe, with similar stakes. The battle was known as Tatsujin Oh.”
ORIGINAL GAME FEATURES:
- Visually stunning pixel art graphics with intoxicating bosses and atmosphere of dread.
- Team up two players co-op with two HyperFighters taking on the insanely difficult enemy.
- The blue laser that automatically tracks the enemy is back as a "search laser" in Truxton II, alongside a high-powered red "napalm bomb" and a green "normal shot" that becomes wide-range with power-ups.
- Melodic soundtrack with vibrant songs composed by Masahiro Yuge, the legendary musician behind the music to games like Flying Shark, Twin Cobra, and Truxton.
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.
- 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.
The visual jump from Truxton 1 to 2 might be one of the most impressive upgrades I've ever seen pixel-wise! The art is just gorgeous, full of detail from enemies to backgrounds. Ironically, the themes and sound effects are much weaker than the first game, in my opinion. Stages have organic transitions just like its predecessor, but here they are huge... and hard as balls, much harder than Truxton 1! Actually, it's pretty much impossible. Thanfully, you have the rewind option in this port as well. Use it with no shame! Don't waste any life, keep your ship at full power and enjoy the view while dying and going back a few seconds like crazy! Not as good as the original, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, what a beautiful game! P.S: I'd suggest using the standard red shot. They spread sideways... you'll need them against the cheesy spawns points!1 found this helpful
There is a bug on setting HP = 3 Assert. When you respawn, your ship will have only 1 HP. Meaning 1 hit, you're dead! Fortunately, there is a rewind assert. So I can beat the game (Painfully). Twin Cobra has much more assert like Auto dodge or TAS.
Truxton 2 is a great sequel to a good game. This game improves on the Orion almost every way. The game is hard, but there are several difficulty options (part of the original arcade and can be set by the arcade operator). The game is very accessible at the easiest level.
An old SEGA classic. Has a cool rewind mechanic perfect for learn the pace and patterns.
Hard as nails toaplan masterpiece
This game might have the coolest soundtrack of any retro shmup. Really gets me groovin'. Maybe too much. I need to pay more attention to the game, because it kicks my monkey butt all over the place.
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