Examiner: Don’t take NEOGEO Heroes Ultimate Shooting too seriously. Don’t go on Facebook arguing about the merits of the story. Don’t go on N4G claiming that shmups haven’t been this good since Radiant Silvergun. And don’t go on NeoGaf expecting people to engage you in deep discourse when you have a bouncing Mai Shiranui avatar. Just forget it. Forget that there’s a “story” (that seems taken out of a NEOGEO fanfic) about a Doctor (Emmett?) Brown who uses time travel (huh?) to whisk away SNK’s finest from their battles and turn them into shooters with absurd special moves. Take any and all pretense you might have about the universe that the characters in Ultimate Shooting reside in and you’re left with a solid shmup that burns out well before you have time to complain about its shortcomings.
Original Gamer - Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting is a little known title available exclusively through the PlayStation Store for the PSP. The game itself is heavily rooted in the King of Fighters franchise, a series widely popular in Japan having achieved relatively moderate success in the United States.
Neo Geo Heroes Ultimate Shooting is a game that aims straight at the hearts of Neo Geo fans. From the somewhat nonsensical title yelled in Engrish at the title screen to the point-increasing "100Mega" medals, this game is soaked in SNK culture. It’s nice to see a company take a look at their past and make a game that revels in it.
411mania: NEOGEO Heroes, the new fighting game/bullet hell mash up, has just hit the PSP as a downloadable title and it's a pretty fun little game. Players can choose one of ten SNK characters from several different SNK franchises like King of Fighters, Metal Slug and Samurai Showdown to play as.
