Detana!! TwinBee
Title screen
| Developer: | Konami |
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| Publisher: | Konami |
| Director: | Masato Ohsawa |
| Music: | Hidenori Maezawa Michiru Yamane Masae Nakashima |
| Program: | Toru Shimomura |
| Art: | Ryouhei Shogaki Hiroyuki Ashida K. Ishimoto Shūjirō Hamakawa |
| Release date: | Arcade:February 1991 PC Engine: February 28, 1992 PS1/Saturn:September 29, 1995 PSP: January 25, 2007 PS4/Switch: January 16, 2020 |
| Previous game: | Thunder Cross II |
| Next game: | Crisis Force |
Detana!! TwinBee (Japanese: 出たな!! ツインビー "Here Comes TwinBee!!") is a vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up developed and published by Konami in 1991. It is the second of three arcade games from the series following TwinBee.
The game received ports on PC Engine, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and PlayStation Portable; with a recent port on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.
It was localized overseas under the title Bells & Whistles.
For replay videos, visit the Video Index.
Contents
Gameplay Overview
Controls
Detana!! TwinBee is a 2-button shooter. There are 7 stages, completing all of them enters loop 2.
- A button: Fires the player's main weapon. Holding down the A button releases a charge shot.
- B button: Fires the player's ground bomb (losing both arms disables the bomb).
Items
Bells are hidden within floating clouds, they can be uncovered by firing at the clouds. Ground Bells, GwinBee, Lucky Stars, and Fruit appear by destroying ground enemies.
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Yellow Bell Score item. Value increases with subsequent collection: 500 > 1000 > 2,500 > 5,000 > 10,000. Value resets when a Yellow Bell goes off screen or upon death. |
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White Bell Upgrades the players shot to a twin cannon. |
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Blue Bell Increases the player's speed. Can be equipped up to 5 times. |
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Green Bell Creates 3 duplicates of the player's ship. |
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Red Bell Adds a shield barrier. |
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Purple Bell Adds a shield to the player's duplicates. |
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Black Bell Reduces the player's speed. |
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Ground Bell Upgrades the player's shot to a 3-way shot. |
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Fruit Ground item worth 50, 100, or 200 points. |
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Lucky Star Clears all on-screen enemies except for bosses. |
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GwinBee Adds a helper ship to the player's main ship. Can only take 1 hit. |
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Ambulance Repairs the player's arms. Both arms can also be repaired through clearing a stage. |
The bell cycle starts at yellow. Hitting a Yellow Bell five times will make it advance to the next color. Every 5 hits will advance the bell to the next color.
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Extra Lives
The player recieves no extra lives throughout the entire game.
Loops
Detana!! TwinBee ends after the second loop. There are no requirements, so upon beating stage 1-7 the player will always enter 2-1.
The player retains all Power Ups.
Strategy
WIP
