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Navigating these environmental hazards and deciphering how to exploit enemy weaknesses requires equal parts mental and physical dexterity. While the game initially introduces shoot 'em up mainstays like dive-bombing fighters and large gunships that fire solid beams of energy, it inserts in later levels colored barriers, reflective surfaces, and purple vessels that are immune to both blue and red bullets. The polarity mechanic is a tried-and-true system that works wonderfully in Iro Hero thanks to clever, inventive level and enemy designs. As a blue fighter, Iro can absorb blue bullets to power his special weapons and destroy red vessels as a red fighter, he can do the opposite. Players will pilot Iro's ship through nine vertically-scrolling stages, flipping back and forth between red and blue polarity. While the game owes its mechanics to many previous-gen shooters, it shares a special affinity with Ikaruga, with its polarity mechanic and bullet hellscape. In any event, the real draw in Iro Hero is its blistering, back-breaking arcade action. Still, the inclusion of a provocative narrative in a genre traditionally bereft of them is welcome.
Iro Hero would do better to include background information by way of data modules in the mission select screen, à la Tyrian 2000. The storyboards are crudely drawn, and the dialogue sequences are unfortunately difficult to follow as they take place on the margins of the screen during flight your eyes can only focus on one point of interest at a time, after all.
The developers at Spanish studio Artax Games tell their story in two ways: through static storyboards in between levels and via written dialogue mid-mission. As Iro, a young pilot whose mother goes missing in an energy farm, players will uncover the truth in a decades-old conspiracy and join the resistance in a vast, solar war. In the year 2306, a century after visiting aliens called the Nyagu taught humans how to draw electricity from within their bodies, unscrupulous companies are farming people as an energy source. Unlike many shmups, Iro Hero has a significant story, even if it's told a bit clumsily. Be warned, though: like its predecessors, Iro Hero is tough as nails, and a poor match for fans looking for a casual, relaxing space shooter. It wears its old-school inspiration on its sleeve, even as it demonstrates some inventiveness with a nifty four-color polarity system. Enter Iro Hero, a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up with a retro aesthetic, that debuted on Nintendo's hybrid system (and subsequently arrived on Steam). In its brief time on the market, Switch has seen quite a few classic shmup ports - among them Blazing Star, Gunbird 2, and Ikaruga - but few homegrown arcade shooters. By Evan Norris, posted on 27 July 2018 / 6,107 Views
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