I'm playing a shooter? Well, isn't this something. This one, however, is made by Capcom and is one of their all-time classics, so this one should be good.
Here is the plot for Legendary Wings, according to Wikipedia:
Legendary Wings is set in a distant future where an alien supercomputer named "Dark", which has been helping human civilization achieve a new state of enlightenment since ancient times, has suddenly rebelled against mankind. Two young warriors are given the Wings of Love and Courage by the God of War Ares in order to destroy Dark and ensure mankind's survival.
Level 1
The Control Pad moves, A shoots and B shoots bombs.
The first sets of enemies move around in a circle but will eventually charge at you, so take them all down. After this, a flashing circle will fly around. Shoot it and grab the P icon to change your single laser to a double laser. This makes your weapon more powerful, and if you get hit, you'll go back to the single laser before one more hit kills you. The more you power up your weapon, the more power levels of weapon you can lose to the enemy and the more hits you can take.
The gray turrets that shoot at you can only be destroyed with bombs. By taking them down, you can make flying around and destroying enemies a little easier.
The enemies with the pink brackets for wings will slowly fly forward and slowly move to the side towards you, but they can be easily taken down.
The Level 3 weapon is an energy wave that travels all the way to the top of the screen.
The big face in the ground will open its mouth and shoot whirlwinds at you. If the whirlwinds get you, you'll be sucked into the mouth and you'll have to fight enemies to get back out, but the whirlwinds here are pretty easy to avoid.
The enemies that look like shells take a lot of hits to destroy, but they can be destroyed.
The flying statue heads are indestructible. When you see them, hang all the way back and fly around them to avoid getting hit by them.
The blue balls will turn to enemies that shoot at you before charging to the bottom, and the ships that show up afterwards after that will fly to the bottom, shoot at you, then go all the way back up. Shoot as many of those enemies down as you can without getting hit.
After this, one of the turrets will create a whirlwind when bombed. This time, let the whirlwind touch you. You'll be carried into an underground bonus area where you can collect King Tut heads and snake statues for a ton of points. Here, you'll be in the horizontal shmup mode in a game where most of the action is of the vertical shmup variety. While you can't drop bombs, you can still move and shoot. Shoot down the walls if you're about to get trapped; you'll find a hole in the wall to travel through somewhere. Also, if you see something inside of a wall; shoot it. You'll be able to find P icons and hearts that give you continues in these secret underground areas.
The Level 4 weapon is a fireball with two smaller fireballs that move up and down following it, while the Level 5 weapon is the "Turtle Dove" form, also known as the "Psycho Flame" weapon in the arcade game. The Psycho Flame does the most damage to enemies and wastes the majority of them in one shot; unlike the arcade game, however, the most powerful weapon also gives you two extra hits before your weapon goes back down to Level 4 upon taking damage. Picking up P icons allows you to restore those extra hits.
Watch out for the enemies near the statues that you can't pass through, and stay near the bottom for the spinning enemies, so you don't get shot.
When you see the statues with the wings; bomb the faces and avoid the projectiles. At the end, take out the statue head, then shoot at the dragon that flies around while avoiding its attacks. When the dragon heads back to the center, hang all the way back and get to the center, then shoot at the dragon as it gets close to - but never reaches - the bottom of the screen. Once you beat the dragon, you can enter the temple.
Inside the temple, destroy the pink panels in the background wall when they flip around and reveal their turrets. As for the blue machines that fire lasers downwards on the ceiling, avoid the attack before attacking yourself. For the green enemies that hang on the floors and ceilings, wait for their attack, then attack them as they move.
The boss here has an opening in the center that you can shoot at while moving around the projectiles that they shoot, but you also want to shoot down the eyes on the side of the boss as they are open without getting shot by them yourself.
Once you beat this level, it's on to the second of five levels in the game.
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