Final Soldier is a scrolling shooter video game released for the Japanese PC Engine

TurboGrafx-16

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 system on July 5 of 1991 and the third game in the main Star Soldier

Star Soldier (Series)

is a series of shoot 'em up video games mainly developed by Hudson Soft.The first game, named Star Soldier, appeared on the MSX and NES in 1986, and the series has continued on various gaming systems...

series. It was originally only released in Japan but has been released in Europe for the Wii

Wii

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's Virtual Console

Virtual console

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 on May 2, 2008 and in North America on September 8, 2008 at a cost of 700 Wii Points

Wii Points

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Story

On Earth in the 23rd century, a space time warp opens up over the Atlantic Ocean. From it comes an enormous invasion force analyzed to come from the 25th century. As Earth is attacked by the alien war machines, it is revealed that the culprits are identified as the Gader'el, a race of large bio-mechanic creatures, who have the ability to freely manipulate space and time; after conquering the future Earth in the 25th century, the Gader'el decided to ensure their influence on mankind by traveling back in time to the 23rd century, conquering that time and then going further into Earth's past.

As the armed forces of every country on Earth combats the Gader'el, each scientific academy collaborates on making a weapon capable of destroying the Gader'el's strongest weapons. The result is the Dryad

Dryad

Dryads are tree nymphs in Greek mythology. In Greek drys signifies 'oak,' from an Indo-European root *derew- 'tree' or 'wood'. Thus Dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, though the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general...

, a single-fighter spaceship capable of wielding several types of futuristic weapons. The Dryad's flight path and mission is to warp into the Future Zone in order to reach the Gader'el headquarters and destroy their leader.

Gameplay

This game features 7 stages to play as well as a 2 minute and 5 minute challenge mode. Unlike the other PC-Engine Star Soldier games, the player chooses at the beginning of the game the exact kind of weapon each color power-up grants.