Another tutorial made by Seishiro Leonhart!

When I first found this game, it looked familiar, then I decided to play to make sure if I was correct, and I was correct, this is one of the games that I loved to play when I had my NES emulator CD when I was a kid, I do not have many memories about this game related to my brother, but this was one of the games that I loved to play with him.

Anyway, let me begin this tutorial.

Story -
In this game you take control of a robot called ZED, also known as Z-Type Earth Defense.
Desperately looking to combat the overpopulation of Earth, scientists worked to create a artificial planet called Altile, which got the name of the scientist who created it. In the duration of the construction of the planet Altile, the humanity became united and peaceful. During this new time of progress, Earth decommissions the RoboWarriors, a force of heavily armed anthropomorphic robot war vehicles, but instead coming from another dimension, certain aliens naming themselves the Xantho Empire, by the command of the being Xur invade planet Altile and terraform it for their own uses. The only survivors of planet Altile send out a distress call to Earth. Copying the message, Earth people quickly activate the latest and most powerful of the RoboWarriors ever known, a model known as ZED (Z-Type Earth Defense) and send it at top speed to Altile.

Game controls -
Left, move left.
right, move right.
up, move up.
down, move down.
B, drop bomb.
A, fire projectile, use item.
start, pause.
select, opens items menu.

Game play -
The levels consists of a side scrolling map with enemies and obstacles, in order to beat the level you have to use bombs to destroy the obstacles and make passage for ZED, you can attack enemies using your projectile weapon, a bomb or a item that defeats the enemy.
Destroying obstacles with the bomb may make appear items at where the obstacles were before, which may include items that you can hold and use it later or a instant use item, while trying to find important items in order to clear the stage, being one of the items a Chalice sometimes, and a Key, eventually having monster boss fights, and sometimes an item shop where you can buy items that can be used at anytime or instant use items when you complete a period.

Items -
Inventory items -
Candle - When used in a dark place, the candle create around ZED a light that reaches up to 2 spaces around the ZED, the effect last for around 25 seconds before the candle finish burning, making everything dark again, when selecting it from the menu in a dark place, it automatically activates the Candle.
Extra - Extras will completely restore ZED's energy when used, when you select it from the menu press A to use it.
Time Stop - Freezes enemies in place for a short amount of time, the effects lasts up to around 10 seconds, but in boss fights the effect decrease to 1 second, but depending on the situation on the boss fight, this may come in handy, select it from the menu, and press A to use it.
Super Charger - Increases ZED speed temporarily by 25% for up to around 20 seconds, select it from the menu and press A to use it.
Hyper Missile - Launches a missile in the direction ZED is facing in a straight line, destroying all obstacles and enemies in it's way, it only stops when it passes the screen, hits a wall or hits a boss. In boss fights the Hyper Missiles causes to bosses the double damage a normal bomb would cause, select it from the menu and press A to use it.
Flash - When using this item, this item destroys instantly all enemies on the screen, during boss fights this Flash item causes half the damage a normal bomb would cause.
Cross Fire - Using this item allows ZED to fire in all four directions (up, down, left and right) at the same time twice in a row for a limited time, being that limited time around 35 seconds, select it from the menu and press A to use it.
Waterproof - This item allows ZED to walk on the water, preventing it from sinking and short-circuiting for a limited time, this item lasts for around 20 seconds, select it from the menu and press A to use it.
Lamp - The lamp is a difficult item to get, but being a 'rare' item means more advantages! The lamp causes all the stage to light up, and what's better, it lasts until you beat the stage, select it from the menu and press A to use it.
Megaton Bomb - Another rare item, just like the Flash item it can instantly destroy all enemies in sight, but can also destroy all obstacles in sight too, in boss fights instead it causes four times the damage of the normal bomb.

Instant use items -
Bomb - For every enemy you destroy, this item appears where the enemy were before they were destroyed, this item causes you to increase your bomb stock by one (1), you cannot hold more than 99 bombs at once.
Super Bomb - Getting this item will instantly increase your bomb stock by ten (10), note that you cannot carry more than 99 bombs at one time.
Power Ball - increases ZED projectile weapon range by 1 space, you will lose all the Power Balls collect if you lose the game and decide to continue.
Battery - Collecting the battery will increase ZED enemy by 10% of the total energy capability, which is 4 bars of the meter.
Barrier - Collecting the Barrier causes ZED to be surrounded by a shield which protects it from all damage, while the effect lasts ZED can run into it's own bombs blasts and enemies without receiving damage for a limited time. Note that the Barrier do not protect ZED from water.
Random - Represented by Hudson's mascot, a bee, this item grants ZED a random inventory item, not being included the Waterproof, Lamp and Megaton Bomb.
Chalice - In some stages you will need to find this item, this item will make the endless stage come to the ending part, instead of repeating over and over again.
Key - To beat a level (or period) ZED will need to find this key, found at the ending of the stage, in order to open the gate to the next stage and move on to the next level.
Award Medal - At first you won't notice anything change when you get this, but when you enter a item shop those items will serve as money to buy items there, get as much as you can.

Point items -
1 star - Grants ZED 100 points.
2 stars - Grants ZED 1000 points.
3 stars - Grants ZED 10000 points.
4 stars - Grants ZED 100000 points.
The most higher star items are harder to appear, being the 1 star easy to find and the 4 stars being very hard to find, if you're in a competition of High score, try to find them.

Tips -
Watch out when you place a bomb, when you place a bomb move away at least one space from the bomb or the blast will hit ZED and cause it great damage, the bombs you dropped looks like this .
Certain enemies can fire missiles at ZED, fire on the missile to destroy it, those enemies usually are tough and takes a lot of projectile shots to be destroyed.
Sometimes, you may find some stairs, those stairs lead to a dark place where you can get a lot of items there but a lot of enemies too, perfect for collecting items you need or getting points, but make sure you have some Candles to use there, but don't use the lamp, the lamp is a rare item and should only be used during the actual level.

Sorry if this tutorial was bad or something, I tried to get some content from somewhere else which include the images I placed here, hopefully this tutorial will help people who decides to play this game and read this thread.
I didn't made this like a Review because the review would be more like a tutorial instead of a review, and reviews aren't supposed to be like that, so I decided to put information about the game instead of reviewing it, I'm not very good at reviewing games, I'm just too nice and usually give high grades to everything, so I thought it would be better if I made tutorial instead of reviews, it should be very good enough for long posts.