For a new PCE owner looking for a quality shooter, I'd say this is the safest bet aside from Gate of Thunder. Spriggan's got just about all the elements one would look for in an old-school vert: addictive Aleste-style gameplay; a fantastic make-your-own-weapon system that lets you create all sorts of elemental-based, screen-rocking armaments; cool level concepts including a beautiful city in the clouds, a creepy insect lair, a factory flooded with awesome-looking lava, and a castle containing a portal to outer space; a nice soundtrack featuring an excellent end-credits tune; gigantic bosses ranging from mutant beasts to mechanical dragons; and even a cool score attack mode. It's an easy game; it doesn't get as challenging or as intense as Blazing Lazers' last few levels. But that's about the only possible flaw to be found in it. It's one of my favorite PCE CD verticals, ranking just behind Nexzr, which has better music, superior cinematics, a higher level of challenge, and more-rewarding gameplay--if inferior weaponry and background graphics.
The city in the clouds is quite pretty. The bronze boss of the board is not.
Even the early bosses are impressive, but the best don't make their appearances until later on.
The game does nothing special cinematically, but the parts that show your mecha surveying post-boss-fight carnage look very good.
Reach the top of the waterfall and you'll receive a warm welcome.
My favorite area is this creepy den of vermin. The boss keeps on fighting even after you blast his head off.
The lava in Stage 4 looks absolutely awesome, as does the boss.
Defeat a giant sorcerer inside a castle and you'll end up in outer space, forced to fight a metal dragon.
I'm not quite sure what happened to my mecha in this screen, but I don't think it was anything good. ^_^;
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