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Batsugun

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» SATURN » 1996 » GAZELLE Although the original Toaplan is no more, its shmup legacy is hard to ignore and its final shooterBatsugunremains an outright classic.It not only features one of my favourite soundtracks of any shmup – check out stage 2’s brilliantSkim The Surface Of The Sea– but it laid the foundations for the subgenre of shmups that are now referred to as bullet hell shooters.

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