TITLE: SILENT SHADOW
COMPANY: TOPO SOFT
YEAR: 1988
GENRE: SHOOTER
SYSTEM: MSX
FORMAT: CASSETTE
SOUND: PSG

"- Attention, attention, all in your battle positions."
"- Prepare the takeoff of the hunting number 1."
"- Prepare the takeoff of the hunting number 2."
"- All ready then. GO!!!!"

This game is a game of spacecrafts, whose mission is not to destroy the final enemy, nor to make a number of high points, is something different: to escort a great bomber through four phases so that it arrives at its destiny. The game itself divides the screen in two parts. One is the marker that is divided as well in three sections: first it indicates the state of the bomber while it loses energy if you leave turrets to destroy, the second part is the score (commentaries exceed) and finally it has the indicators of energy, lives and bombs of both players. The other part of the screen is the one of the game. This one has a good vertical scroll since if we accelerated the hunting the faster it flyes and in addition, the game also has a lateral scroll which we will have to use to kill the maximum of enemies. I recommend to you to play it with another player.



Luckily the controls of the game can be redefined. It also has the particularity of two simultaneous players that is what makes it really interesting since it has a quite high degree of difficulty. The graphics are good, but although being monochrome (spectrum inheritance) sometimes is a little confusing and the sound is limited with the firing sound, bombs, collisions, etc.



Some advice to enjoy the game: forget of the colors, listen to some good music, look for a companion and use the bombs of the player that you are going to sacrifice ;-). Personally I believe that it is a great game that contributed to many hours of entertainment next to my brother, sister, friends, cousins and other people. I recommend to you to play with another player simultaneously.




Ángel Alonso