Devastator
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| System(s): Sega Mega-CD | |||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Wolf Team | |||||||||||||||
| Developer: Wolf Team, Telenet Japan | |||||||||||||||
| Genre: Shooting[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||
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Devastator (デバステイター) is a Sega Mega-CD game that mixes platforming action and horizontal shoot-'em-up sections, developed by Wolf Team and Telenet Japan. It was only released in Japan and South Korea.
The game is based on the OVA anime D-1 Devastator and features various anime sequences.
Contents
Story
In the world of the anime, there is an alternate dimension that is entered when a vehicle reaches the speed of 300 km/h. This world is filled with demonic creatures named Devastators.
Investigating the disappearance of his missing friend Masato, a young man named Ryo joins the vehicle company Yaesu. While test driving the same vehicle as Masato, the Vector Versus, Ryo is able to exceed 300 km/h and finds himself warped into a mysterious world. He is rescued from the Devastators by a group of mecha pilots, who are fighting to prevent a group of nefarious people from creating a connection between their dimension and our own. A civilian bullet train is warped into the dimension and immediately attacked by Devastators.
Gameplay
The game takes place in a cyberpunk world. The player pilots a giant red mechanoid, which switches between walking for platforming stages and flying for shoot-'em-up stages. There are cutscenes in between the stages that were taken from the source anime.
In the platforming stages, the mecha walks with 
or 
. It kneels with 
and jumps with 
. It attacks with 
or 
, which whips an anchor-shaped blade at the end of a chain. It is also augmented by a special attack, which is initially shooting a spreadshot but can be changed by collecting items. The attack can be done while kneeling or jumping, and it can be aimed upwards with 
+/ or downwards (while in midair) with +/. The mecha can also dash forward while kneeling with +, which can be used to dodge or pursue enemies or to ram them as an attack.
In the shoot-'em-up stages, the mecha moves in any direction using the D-Pad and turns around with . It attacks with or . Its weapon works the same way as it does in the platforming stages, except it cannot be aimed upwards or downwards.
The mecha has five health bars and loses one whenever it takes damage. It is destroyed after losing its last health bar. Losing a life takes the player back to the last checkpoint, with the weapon downgraded by one level, if the player has extra lives left; otherwise, the game ends, but it can be continued an unlimited number of times. There are three difficulty levels (Easy, Normal, and Hard). This modifies the fierceness of enemy attacks (for example, bullets fly faster) but does not affect enemy placement or damage received. The player can change the number of starting lives (between 1 and 9).
Items
Items are dropped by flashing enemies when they are destroyed. Hitting a Life or a weapon item changes it to a different one. The mecha is momentarily invulnerable after collecting an item.
Collecting the same weapon again upgrades the weapon, up to three times. Collecting a weapon item awards 5,000 bonus points if the weapon is already at its maximum level. Collecting a different weapon keeps the weapon level the same.
| Life | |
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| Restores one bar of health. | |
| Shot | |
| Augments the mecha's weapon with a spreadshot. It is initially three shots but can be upgraded to more. | |
| Laser | |
| Augments the mecha's weapon with a helical blast. | |
| Bomer | |
| Augments the mecha's weapon with a bomb that is thrown upward, which then separates into a spread of bombs that explode after hitting an enemy or the ground. | |
| Question Mark | |
| Awards bonus points. | |
| 1-Up | |
| Gives the player an extra life. |
Stages
| City | |
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| Platforming stage. | |
| Bio-mechanized | |
| Platforming stage. The boss makes use of the Mega-CD's sprite scaling and rotation capabilities. | |
| Clouds | |
| Shooting stage. | |
| Sand-mechanized | |
| Platforming stage. | |
| Jungle | |
| Shooting stage. | |
| Palace | |
| Platforming stage. | |
| Mountains | |
| Shooting stage. This is a boss rush stage. There is no checkpoint if the mecha is destroyed. |
Production credits
- Ryo: Toshihiko Seki
- Kaoru: Yumi Tohma
- Nami: Meena Tominaga
- Jeldy: Fumi Hirano
- Yamashiro: Kaneto Shiozawa
- Yuuka: Mika Kanai
- Ethiman: Tessyoh Genda
- Game Design: Hiroshi Ogawa
- Main Program: Kazunori Ueno
- Sub Program: Shinji Hirachi
- CD Program: Chikaaki Tokuhiro
- Visual Program: Satoshi Kawabata
- Graphic Design: Tadashi Hamada, Nobuo Kanuma, Hiroshi Uehira, Hidekimi Takezaki, Akihiro Kabaya, Sakadate, K.Karasumaru
- Composition: Motoi Sakuraba, Ryota Furuya, Shinji Tamura
- Original Bill: Sphius.Lab, Toshi Yoshida
- Super Intendence: Tetsuo Isami
- Scenario: Seiji Togawa
- Design Works: Chouji Maboroshi, Yasuhiro Moriki, Hiroyuki Hataike, Mosami Ohbari
- Sound Track: Yoshitetsu Jahana
- Media Mix Coodinate: Junichi Basaki
- Official Report: Emiko Kobayashi, Akinobu Shiratori, Tomoko Murakami
- Manufacture Cooperate: Studio Signal
- Edit: Atsushi Fujimoto, Mitomo VTC., Go Say Do
- Editor: Hiroshi Kohno
- MA: Kohichi Imazeki
- NA: Tamiyoshi Okuda
- Thanks: Yoshiyuki Hirate, Kiyoharu Goto, Isao Kadowaki, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yugo Akai, Takeshi Ikeda, Tatsuya Tezuka, Naoki Watabe, Masaking, Kazuya Ishizuka, Ryuichi Ishizawa, Toshimasa Hagiwara, Fumio Shimoyama, Kenichi Suzuki, Takeharu Kimura, Mitsutoshi Yasumori
- Special Thanks: Kazuyuki Fukushima
- Assistant Produce: Takeshi Okuda
- Produce: Joe Asanuma, Masaaki Uno
- Exextive Produce: Masahiro Akishino
- Original: © Takara 1992, © Telenet Japan/Wolfteam 1993
Magazine articles
- Main article: Devastator/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: Devastator/Technical information.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/mcd/soft_licensee.html (Wayback Machine: 2019-06-10 17:56)
- ↑ File:Devastator MCD JP SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "May 1993" (JP; 1993-04-08), page 26
- ↑ Consoles +, "Mai 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 118
- ↑ Famitsu, "" (JP; 1993-03-05), page 1
- ↑ Game Power, "Settembre 1993" (IT; 1993-0x-xx), page 99
- ↑ Hippon Super, "May 1993" (JP; 1993-04-03), page 32
- ↑ Mega, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-07-15), page 46
- ↑ MegaTech, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-07-20), page 62
- ↑ Sega Power, "September 1993" (UK; 1993-08-05), page 36
- ↑ Sega Pro, "September 1993" (UK; 1993-08-12), page 78
- ↑ Sega Force Mega, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-08-19), page 116
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
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