Angelian Trigger (Switch)

Space Harrier is obviously an excellent game, but since the hard of thinking like to assume that there's no place for sprite scaling in a world with polygons, and that there's no place for rail shooters when free roaming flight sim-style shooters exist, there hasn't been a lot of iteration on its principles over the years, not by SEGA nor by anyone else. But Pixel, who made a name for themselves with Flame Dragon Fist Master Xiaomei, a game in another genre considered dead and obsolete by the ill-informed, the single plane beat em up, took on the task a couple of years ago with Angelian Trigger. Just looking at screenshots, you can see one thing that this game has going for it: it looks amazing. Most of the graphics are made up of high resolution sprites, with those used for the player characters also being lavishly animated. There's some enemies (mainly robotic ones) that are represented by polgyonal models, but most of the enemies, as well as the stages themseves are super-sharp…