Cyvern: The Dragon Weapons
Cyvern: The Dragon Weapons
サイヴァーン
Title screen
| Developer: | Kaneko |
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| Music: | Katsuya Yoneda |
| Program: | K.Minegishi Hiyorinn.S Sho-Chan Osapan |
| Art: | U-Zool Hiroki Narisawa Endo Chang Ryo.Kimura Ishi-Ryu Gomez Marukeni |
| Release date: | 1998 |
Contents
Cyvern: The Dragon Weapons サイヴァーン is a vertically scrolling shoot'em up game developed by Kaneko and released in 1998 on Kaneko Super Nova System. It has 5 stages and 2 loops.
Controls
- A: Shot
- A (Hold): Special Weapon ("banish")
- B: Bomb
Characters
There are three playable dragons. Depending on whether you play as player 1 or 2, name and color of the characters change but not their speed nor weapons.
1. Altair (red) / Veqa (purple) : shot with homing elements, banish = flames
2. Schwarz (blue) / Vais (orange) : wide shot, banish = lightning bolts
3. Ferious (green) / Serene (yellow) : narrow shot with missiles, banish = focused laser beam
Weapons
Each dragon has three weapons: a shot, the special weapon "banish" and a bomb. The bomb is identical for all three dragons.
Shot
Use it to destroy pop-corn ennemies or to refill the banish gauge. When you reach a high power level, shot get additional elements depending on the character: homing lasers for Altair/Veqa, additionnal shots for Shwarz/Vais, missiles for Ferious/Serene.
Special weapon "banish"
Use it to score and destroy multiple/strong enemies. The use of the special weapons empties the "banish" gauge. When it is empty, the special weapon is completely inoperative. To fill up the gauge you must shoot enemies, pick up powerups or die (dragon respawns with a full banish gauge and two bombs).
The special weapon is very different depending on the character and changes drastically the gameplay.
Altair/Veqa = flames with medium DPS
Shwarz/Vais = lightning bolts with weak DPS but covering a large part of the screen but you can focus your power though by point-blanking enemies.
Ferious/Serene = powerful laser beam that shoots straight forward and slants to the right or to the left depending on the direction you take.
Bomb
Explodes mid-screen in front of you. Use it to destroy ennemies, cancel bullets and get some invicibility frames.
Items
Big powerup : equivalent to 4 small powerups. It strongly fills the banish gauge and increases firepower by one full level.
Small powerup : equivalent to a quarter of a big powerup. It slightly fills the banish gauge and increases the firepower.
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