Dogou Souken picks up the story right where Ikari Warriors ends: Paul and Vince are swept thousands of years into the future by a mysterious storm, where they must face the villain Zang Zip and his alien army. It keeps the saga's characteristic control scheme, with an 8-direction joystick that also rotates to fix the firing direction independently from movement, something uncommon in the run and gun of the era.
It's a key piece for understanding the evolution of the top-down war genre that SNK helped shape with Ikari Warriors, in the stretch before the company turned fully to fighting games with Neo Geo's arrival a few years later.
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