Alien Soldier: Difference between revisions

* [[0% Approval Rating]]: Xi-Tiger, the new leader of Scarlet. He's hated by his own comrades due to being [[Blood Knight|too ruthless]] towards the Sierrans, tries to kill off his old deposed leader, but what takes the cake is that he takes an innocent girl hostage [[Moral Event Horizon|AND KILLS HER]]. When you fight him, he literally transforms himself into a monster tiger.

* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]

** Those bomb-dropping birds can be a pain in the ass too.

** As well as those things that travel in long lines and explode into suicide bullets, found at only one part of the game. A smart player can use the [[Bullet Catch]] ability to turn their bullets into health.

* [[Arbitrary Maximum Range]]: All weapons except for Lancer get this as their ammunition goes lower.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Ranger, and to a lesser extent, Sword.

* [[Badass]]: Epsilon-Eagle.

* [[Collision Damage]]: Just about every enemy save for some bosses.

* [[Continuing Is Painful]]: Using a continue or password removes extra ammunition and health.

** Epsilon-1 also has these during the boss fight against him. Get out of the way or else you'll be blasted by the mecha bird's [[Eye Beams]] or a laser from a [[Kill Sat]].

* [[Do Not Run with a Gun]]: You can switch to and away from fixed-fire mode, though the moving-fire mode drains more weapon power.

* [[Dub Name Change]]: The terms "A-Earth" and "A-Human" are changed to "Sierra" and "Sierrans" in the European version.

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: {{spoiler|Sierra inexplicably blows up partway through the game. It gets better}}.

* [[Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks]]: Deep Strider.

* [[Everything Is Worse With Bears]]: Subverted by the aformentioned teddy bear, who is the only ally you'll get the whole game. The track that plays during his stage is even named ''Epsilon's Ally''.

* [[Free-Fall Fight]]: Silpheed Force.

* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Sword and Lancer.

** One of the bosses in the game is a giant lobster. He [[Kick the Dog|throws the poor blue teddy bear driving your boat overboard]]!

* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Almost everything. [[Giant Enemy Crab]] in an airport, [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|cyborg cowboy wolf]] riding a [[Mechanical Horse]] in a tunnel, etc.

* [[Helpful Mook]]: Any Mook that can fire those orange shots at the player. They will drop health pickups when their shots are destroyed via [[Bullet Catch]]. [[Nintendo Hard|You're going to thank them for that, by the way]].

* [[High Altitude Battle]]

* [[Hit Points]]: You can choose to have this as an indicator to how much life you and/or the boss has.

* [[Horse Jump]]: Wolfgunblood and Garopa use this as an "attack" when the low walls appear. You gotta avoid the walls too or risk getting damaged.

* [[HP to One]]: [[Last Chance Hit Point|No single attack can kill you outright]]; you must be reduced to one health first, giving you time to collect health. However, some attacks are rapid enough that you won't have a chance for this.

* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: Superhard and Supereasy. Even though the latter is anything but; enemies are less tough, you receive unlimited continues (via a password system) and get an option to slow the game speed down.

* [[Invisible Monsters]]: Flying-Neo, a creature that looks like a cross between a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|zombie dragon and a helicopter]]. Once you get him down to a [[Turns Red|quarter of it's health]], the goddamn thing bceomes ''completely invisible'' save for a silhouette of its tail and legs on the platform you're on when it flies low or when the lightning strikes.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: You get two flamethrowers; a conventional one, and a homing flamethrower. Fire works very, very well on organic enemies, especially that giant plant Sunset Sting.

* [[Land Mine Goes Click]]: Mines, both on the ground and floating in midair, are a common obstacle.

* [[Life Meter]]: One of the selectable ways to know how much life left that you have or the enemy has. If desired, you can turn them off.

* [[Meaningful Name]]:

** [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Wolfgunblood]] and Garopa: If you think it's a '''wolf''' who wields a '''gun''', is out for your '''blood''', and is riding on a '''galloper''', you're damn right.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: No surprise, it's by [[Treasure]].

* [[Non Lethal Bottomless Pits]]: Somewhat. Falling into a pit will trigger a button-mashing sequence to get out while your health drops at a steady rate.

* [[Painful Transformation]]: Xi-Tiger. Though the cutscene showing this sometimes doesn't work.

* [[Power Floats]]: Epsilon-Eagle's ''other'' other main ability. Hit the jump button in midair to do this.

* [[Ring Menu]]: The action does not stop while this is open.

* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: During the initial weapon selection and configuration, the player has the option to make all information about his health, ammunition and boss health into '???', essentially preventing the player from tracking how much damage was taken or dealt.

* [[Sequential Boss]]: Seven Force, which only has six forms (including the human form she starts in). This is because the "Seven" is a reference to the Mode 7-style rotation effects the boss showcases, not the number of forms it has.

* [[Spread Shot]]: The Hunter Force. Pity it was kind of useless from the beginning...

* [[Stat Meters]]: Upon startup, you can choose how your health, your ammunition, and the bosses' health meters are displayed. They can be made invisible, even.

* [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: Subverted during the [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]] stage. If you fall into the water, you have to do a button-mashing sequence to get out as your health rapidly drops. Played straight against [[That One Boss|Sirene]] [[Sequential Boss|Force]].

* [[Tactical Suicide Boss]]: [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|Bugmax]] in its [[Giant Flyer|moth form]]. The dumb thing [[Mook Maker|drops A LOT of caterpillars]] on the floor, which you can [[Boss Arena Recovery|destroy for health]]. Allowing you to use your full health-only, [[Cast from Hit Points]] [[Ramming Always Works|fiery]] [[Tele Frag|teleport]] move effortlessly on it. MULTIPLE TIMES.

* [[Teleport Spam]]: Epsilon-Eagle's ''other'' [[Running Gag|other other]] main ability. At full health, [[Tele Frag|he turns into a firey phoenix that inflicts a great deal of damage to those in his path]], although it does come at a [[Cast from Hit Points|cost to his health]].

* [[Traintop Battle]]: Most notably the boss battle with Xi-Tiger.

* [[Underwater Boss Battle]]: Siren Force.

* [[Word Salad Title]]: Sniper Honeyviper, Wolfgunblood and Garopa, and a few others.

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