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This is a great freeware side-scrolling shooter from a Japanese freeware group. Choose to play as one of 3 main characters from To Heart, a popular anime series about romance in highschool, starring both humans and androids. Fans of the anime will immediately recognize the weapons for each of the three characters as being very true to the series. Multi the cute cleaning robot, for example, rides her white broom which shoot laser, surrounded by two helper brooms. Akari, the orange-hair girl, rides a boar with two surrounding kiddie boars, and mysterious girl Serika rides a witch's broomstick and drops little cats as her weapon. The animations are very smooth, the music is excellent, and the gameplay a lot of fun. Shooter fans might regret the lack of variety in power-up items (most of the things you can collect are To Heart bonus scores), but the challenging gameplay (two hits from end-level boss can kill you, even on Easy level) more than makes up for it. |
