Legendary Wings, released in Japan as Ares no Tsubasa (アレスの翼, Aresu no Tsubasa, "The Wings of Ares"), is a 1986 vertical shooting game released for the arcades by Capcom featuring side scrolling segments.
Legendary Wings takes place 20,000 years in the future in a Greek mythos-themed world. The player controls a soldier wearing mechanical wings who flies across the landscape while shooting various flying and stationary machines with a weapon that...
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Legendary Wings, released in Japan as Ares no Tsubasa (アレスの翼, Aresu no Tsubasa, "The Wings of Ares"), is a 1986 vertical shooting game released for the arcades by Capcom featuring side scrolling segments.
Legendary Wings takes place 20,000 years in the future in a Greek mythos-themed world. The player controls a soldier wearing mechanical wings who flies across the landscape while shooting various flying and stationary machines with a weapon that improves with power-ups. At the end of each level, the player must defeat a dragon;after which the players land and walk into a palace. At this time a message is displayed, "The Devil is waiting for us inside the palace. Rush courageously." Once inside the palace, the player walks and flies horizontally along various platforms, shooting enemies before reaching the boss, which resembles a giant ship that shoots eyeballs ("the Devil"). The game features 5 separate levels, which loop upon completion.
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