Vimana

Please ignore that MusicalMinerDude clown who, for some bizarre reason, decided to purchase every Toaplan arcade port on Steam just so he could whine that they aren't good, followed by a bunch of woefully inaccurate and ridiculous complaints. These ports are great, and this game is great. Super fun classic shmup, smooth controls and fun as hell. There are literally articles holding up the Toaplan Shoot 'Em Up ports as the perfect example of how to do PC ports the right way, and this guy is claiming that all of them are terrible...lol.

Fun old school arcade shoot 'em up. Works great on Steam Deck!

It's a pay to win arcade coin muncher vertical scroll shooter. The main gun can be upgraded a couple of times. The bomb wipes projectiles from the screen and launches seeking balls. And you can use the charge button to shoot in a cone in the upper part of the screen. But the enemies are very spongy, so one hit won't do anything. The ship is super slow and unresponsive. And the game turns into a bullet hell really fast. Your hitbox is small, but the bullets are very big. The game really, really wants you dead. But don't worry, just put in another coin and continue. More pay more win. This one is a great release. There are no baked-in envelopes so you can play it on your 4//3 screen without ~boxing. It offers virtual coins, rewinds, saves and not very quick saves. So you can play it any way you want. There's even an unnecessary super easy mode with hit points and smaller hitbox.

Volume 3's launch has largely proven an unmitigated disaster. An even bigger disaster than Volume 1's. This is probably the most stable release of this batch, but that's not saying much when the music suddenly cuts out, the shot stats aren't correctly calculated, and it feels like even the rare inclusion of healthbars...still only for enemies, by the way, despite complaints...isn't counting down HP right. It's still sloppily emulated and "enhanced". I'm starting to just give up on these bundles.

Really Fun Plays well on Steam Deck

After many years this game is published in the home market. The game feels like a toaplan failed attempt , but is still interesting. It is a good entry point of toaplan library for begginers in the genre as it is the easiest shmup from them. The sound is great, the presentation is good but lacks the artistic vision and creativity of outzone, or doggyun. The main problem with the game is that lacks the chaotic nature of other toaplan titles. Here there is not a big variety of enemyes ship behaviors, the enemy density is lower than other toaplan. sometimes after you kill a enemy wave ou have moments that your ship will have to wait for a new wave. Once you fully power-up you will kill most of the enemyes on early levels before they shoot to you. The bullet patterns are not that interesting (except the guided ones) as normal enemyes snipe you with few bullets that have precision but lack speed to make things exciting as early toaplan (twin tiger for instance). Later stages become more i...

It's fun, it works. Emulation-wise it's a functioning product. Recommended! Vimana itself is certainly one of the easier Toaplan titles. Not the best, but to get used to Toaplan shmup tropes, this is an ideal game.