Thunder Cross II

**Thunder Cross II**
Developer:	Konami
Publisher:	Konami
Producer:	T. Nakagawa
Music:	Mikio Saitou
Program:	K. Tokunaga ; K. Kano
Art:	Satoru K. ; S. Yamamoto ; T. Kiuchi ; Y. Kimura ; Yasushi Takano ; K. Nakanishi ; T. Nakazawa ; M. Tohyama
Release date:	Arcade: 1991 ; PS4/Switch: April 28, 2021
Previous game:	Parodius Da!
Next game:	Detana!! TwinBee

Thunder Cross II (JP: "サンダークロスII") is a horizontal scrolling shoot em' up developed and published by Konami in the year 1991. It is the sequel to Thunder Cross.

The game was never released outside of Japan arcades, only recently getting a port on the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.

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Gameplay Overview

Controls

Thunder Cross II is a 2 button game with 7 stages. Finishing every stage will start the 2nd loop.

A button: Fires the player's main weapon.
B button: Adjusts the gap between the player's options/Fires the super-weapon.

Items

Enemies drop containers that cycle between each upgrade. Super-weapons have limited ammunition and function separately from the main weapon.

	Speed Up Increases the player's speed. Can be equipped up to 5 times.
	Normal Standard shot. Deals the highest amount of damage.
	Vulcan Vulcan bullets. Has high firing rate, but low power.
	Boomerang Bullets that bounce off of surfaces. Has good damage/coverage.
	Tail Laser Secondary shot. Has great coverage and high damage.
	Option Small drone that mimics the player's main weapon. Can be equipped up to 4 times.
	Flame Fires a set of flame phoenixes.
	Laser Fires wide, long-distance beams.
	Crush Fires area-of-effect bullets that explode at a short distance.
	Question Mark Score item worth 6k, appears when a super-weapon is equipped.