Twin Hawk Reviews

Let's see here. Badly-programmed emulation that's choppy and not accurate to the original instrumentation? Check. Badly-programmed extra features that don't ever work? Check. Lacking "pixel-perfect" options for a game with a non-standard pixel aspect ratio?! ...Check. The best results I could get were Frame aspect ratio, Steam Deck 1280x800, and that still had two very annoying shimmery lines in sharp pixel mode. There is no pixel aspect ratio option and it's absurd. Though this port is three times as rushed as any of Bitwave's previous volumes of abberations so I knew they'd never get anything right.

Very fun game to play plays great on Steam deck

A shmup different from the usual toaplan shmup. This game is a bit rigid. your ship is slow, bullet patterns are simple and easy to dodge but enemyes are a bullet sponge and sometimes hard to kill. yet is not a easy game as the enemyes are so tanky that get in close range and fire to close to react. This game is all about memorizing enemy positions, and play in a strategic way. sometimes you have to let a enemy fly away to kill the others. enemy priority killing is essential. The bullet visibility could improve specially in some areas (sdome backgrounds don´t have good contrast with bullets.right from the first stage were the backgrounds are orange and enemy bullets are yellow. It is not one of the best games from toaplan, but at least is a quite unique game and that is his biggest strength. You don´t see many shmups doing this, and the ones that do it are weaker.Also is good for quick bursts. Bitwave did a awesome port as always, with assist options like small hitbox, autofire,etc. They are perfect in everything except sound emulation (that is still good).

Even on the hardest difficulty(And it is) I freakin love this game! No matter how many times I get game overs! Never played this Toaplan game before. Simplistic yet challenging, so good.