Sturmwind 2013

Is it still worth playing?

A scrolling shooter developed by the German studio Duranik and released in 2013 as an independent commercial game for the Dreamcast, with later remasters for Windows, the Switch and Xbox One. It is set in a futuristic science fiction world and scrolls mostly horizontally, with some vertical sections, and uses pre rendered sprites and backgrounds with some 3D. There are three weapon types, collected from containers dropped by enemies: the bent beams of Lichtblitz, the swiveling pair of guns of Nordwest and the forward firing Rudel. A trigger flips fire forward or backward. Normal mode has 16 levels and lets you resume at any stage you reached, while Arcade mode has six and allows no continues. A weapon you can aim backward still gives each stage a puzzle of positions.