Soukyugurentai
Soukyugurentai (a.k.a. Terra Diver) is a vertical-scrolling Shoot'Em Up published by Eighting Raizing in 1996 for the Sega Saturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the Sega Saturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the Ray Series, except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto and Manabu Namiki.
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In the year 2050, space mining operations are becoming competitive as the Eight Luck Interstellar Development Inc. starts muscling in on other companies in an aggressive manner. The Jin-Sei Corporation teams up with Japan to counteract Eight Luck. It is now up to a few pilots and their advanced space ships to save the day.
- Animal Wrongs Group: The violence in the game is blamed on these kinds of groups to hide the truth.
- Asteroids Monster: One stage involves flying through the asteroid belt, complete with asteroids that get blown up into smaller but still-quite-deadly pieces.
- Battleship Raid: The final stage, the High Altitude Relay and Attack plane 'Bakuzan'.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Eight Luck Interstellar Development Inc. builds a whole military force and attacks other companies in order to achieve a monopoly.
- Dynamic Difficulty: It is based on the number of power-up items collected and the percentage of enemies destroyed.
- Evil Counterpart: The final boss has a lock-on weapon just like the player.
- Fighter Launching Sequence: The launch sequence before the first level takes 9.92 seconds to complete. The next two levels after that has the player ship launching from an Airborne Aircraft Carrier.
- Homing Projectile: All of the homing weapons of the playable characters, and many missiles used by the enemies.
- Humongous Mecha: The boss of stage 4, the General Purpose Strategy Aggressive space craft 'Akitaka'.
- Kill Sat: The boss of stage 2, the Anti-Space Anti-Ground satellite Shin-Sen.
- Mega Corp: At a minimum, the Jin-Sei Corporation and Eight Luck Interstellar Development are this.
- Required Secondary Powers: Each of the pilots has undergone strengthening procedures so that they can survive high-speed dogfighting in deep space.
- Roboteching: The playable characters fire a lot of bending beams.
- Tank Goodness: There are many enemy tanks, but one that stands out as the boss of stage 3 is the Grapple Strategy Attack tank 'Don-Ryu'.
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