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Fans of the “bullet hell” approach to shoot-em-ups hold designer Kenta Cho in high regard. Cho has crafted some of the best freeware PC shoot-em-ups in recent memory, including Tumiki Fighters, Parsec47, and rRootage (which saw an excellent free-to-play iPhone port last year).
Today, homebrew developer ZodTTD brings a port of Kenta Cho’s Noiz2sa ($0.99) to the iTunes App Store. Originally released in 2002 (as the first shooter to be released under Cho’s ABA Games label), Noiz2sa is a challenging vertically scrolling shooter with abstract backdrops and enemy characters. The simple, geometric character models allow players to better focus on the thousands of enemy bullets that must be dodged.
The iPhone port of rRootage turned out much better than I would have expected, thanks to its precise, touch-based control scheme. If Noiz2sa can live up to the same standard of quality, it could easily rank among the platform’s best shooters to date.
[...] made its way to the iPhone. Tumiki Fighters ($0.99) joins Cho’s previous games rRootage and Noiz2sa in the iTunes App [...]
[...] point, rRootage disappeared from the App Store, though ports of Cho’s Tumiki Fighters and Noiz2sa remained available for purchase. This weekend, rRootage returned to the App Store as rRootage [...]