| Credits | |
| Published: | 1989, Discovery Software |
| Coder: | Martin Pedersen |
| Graphics: | Torben Bakager Larsen |
| Musician: | Paul van der Valk |
| Information | |
| Hardware: | OCS |
| Disks: | 1 |
| License: | Commercial |
| Language: | English |
| Players: | 1 Only |
| Categorization | |
| Genre: | Shoot'em Up |
| Subgenre: | V-Scrolling |
| Tags: | shootemup, shooter, topdown, vertical |
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Added by Kim Lemon on Jun 29, 2004. Viewed 42547 times.
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Read review by ManekiNeko
Graphics: 8 ‧
Music: 7 ‧
Playability: 8 ‧
Overall: 8
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Strong shoot'em'up, a classic of the genre. It does not have the graphic splendor of the ideal successor Battle Squadron, but it has sufficient care both in the backdrop (land, sea, viscera) and in the sprites. Excellent balance in the entry on the scene of the enemies and in the timing of the assault, set by default on a rather difficult level, but fixable in start option menu. Great displacement of power-ups, 3 life-long smart bombs and above all the possibility of extending your spacecraft to increase the range and type of shot. Excellent performance of explosions in sound effects and high quality music; which combines the 8-bit vibrations typical of the 80s with an enveloping epic-rock inspiration: a soundscore that succeeds in the paradox of making relaxing a game that normally requires great reflections. Fundamental trait-d'union between two decades of shooter, of great class without free exhibitions, Hybris also fascinates for the idea, I don't know how original but still effective, to gradually move the battlefield from biological to human nature, aiming on a symbolic hybridization between organic and robotic.
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One of the best shooters ever. 10/10.
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This game has held up so well. One of the best Amiga games, and that for a game from 1988!!
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Hybris looks and sounds much better than the games it took inspiration from and plays at least as good as them. Iconic game for the Amiga and easily a classic (8/10).
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Best vertical shooter on the Amiga (admittedly not a difficult accolade to obtain). I prefer this over its cousin, Battle Squadron and is it much easier to complete once you get the knack of upgrading and downgrading between level 4 and 5.
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This is an excellent shoot'em up! The graphics and music are top notch considering it is an OCS game.
9/10
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Only recently played this and I must say this has not aged at all. The design is very well thought out and the player feels like home in it. Relaxing even when hectic.
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This is a TRUE amiga Game. It doesn't exist on any other machine and it pops to excellence in every aspects. The Tittle that define the amiga to me along with cinemaware titles. Fun fact When the game is loading from a floppy you can recognise it sounds among any other games.
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This is one of the first games I saw on an Amiga. I was really amazed about the graphics and the sound.
Still today I play it time to time.
I would rate it 10 all the way:
Graphics: 10
Sound: 10
Playablity: 10
Overall: 10
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I only got round to playing this last night for the first time.
What a brilliant shmup! It plays really well, the level design is very well done and soundtrack is toe-tappingly excellent - I can't get that damn tune outta my head!
Love this game and will keep playing it until I conquer it. For a 1989 game it is very, very good.
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This is a great SHMUP game. Battle Squadron is similar and a bit prettier, but overall, I like this game better. It's a lot more balanced, IMO.
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Now that is a good game! Hybris has evrything: Cool graphics, nice sound effect, great music and really awesome gameplay. I also liked the idea that you can fold open your wings into a separate drone.
A game that I think is still highly playable - I play it every now and then again.
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One of my all-time-favourites, and one of the best soundtracks ever.
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This is one of the high quality 'below 1990' games--very playable. Nice music score, good controls.
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One of those classics that brought true arcade quality to the Amiga. An addictive shooter with lots of swirling sprites and great graphics, accompanied by some groovy chiptunes by Paul van der Valk.
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With its narrow screen and arcade style, it has that real pizza bar coffee table 20c shooter feel... And for me thats a win! Simple gfx, but its silky smooth and good balanced game play that doesn't start off to hard.
Top game!
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Excellent one, you were really feeling like playing on a coffee arcade game.
I loved the music and the fluidity, good gameplay too even if this kind of game seems to be a neverending repeat. I've always thought it was the father of Xenon II but it seems not.
Anyway, a must try
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Fantastic soundtrack and very addictive game!
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Borrows a lot to the arcade game Dangar (battle squadron did that too) and probably to Terra Cresta as well. Nevertheless it was good when it was released in 89 although it lacked a bit of variation in the gameplay. And the music is much better than the nasty one featured in Dangar anyway.
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Am I the only one that just didn't care for this? No specific complaints, just found it boring to play. Battle Squadron and the Silkworms were heads and shoulders above this one when it got to entertainment.
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Best scrolling shoot-em-up I've ever played. High replay-value, hard to put down.
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Great chiptune soundtrack and some cool visual effects. Just a bit hard.
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As someone pointed out in the forum, this is an inofficial conversion of an arcade game called "Dangar - UFO Robo", which was published one year before. I wonder if there were any legal problems, even if the name and a few things in the gameplay were changed.
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Had it come with a couple more levels - even if this had implied making them shorter - Hybris would have been the greatest vertical shooter on Amiga. As it is, this one loses the title to its spiritual successor Battle Squadron.
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Hybris is probably the best shooter on ANY machine. It combines sleek graphics, awesome soundtrack (in the C64 style), well-balanced difficulty and a superior power-up system.
Configure the Enter key as your secondary gamepad button (you'll notice the mouse and gamepad control are somehow linked). This key makes the formation of your satellites vary.
If Hybris leaves you wanting for more, then go for MAME, it has plenty of nasty shooters to entertain your soul (Raiden, 1942...). Very few of which can beat this gem, though.
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Man, you've no idea how much I wish I'd known about this game back in the old days. This was exactly the kind of game I would have loved to spent some serious time with.
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Best SHMUP game available on the Amiga, and the good thing is that there's more!
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It was a very nice shooter, had some arcade feeling and was fun, but its sequel (Battle Squadron) simply made this to seem too poor.
Pheraphs my judice is due to the fact that I played it after its sequel, so I never liked it to its max, anyway I give this a 7
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A nice good game to spend hours of entertainment.
A mix of great music with fair and decent graphics.
Also worth playability.
9/10
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A must have for shmup fans.
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A good Terra Cresta clone form the earliest day of Amiga, still worth a round
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Flawless shoot em up! I seem to remember playing for ages and that cracking music hadn't even looped! I can remember it going into a nifty drum solo too! Great graphics, lovely weapons and well... Playabilty in spades!
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GREAT, simple and very much FUN!
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My first shoot em up on the Amiga and I still think it is one of the best.
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Hybris is one of the best Amiga games of this type, very slick.
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I played this game over and over and over and... Well, you get the idea. The soundtrack is simply awesome and IMHO up until today still the very best I ever heard in a game on what platform whatsoever. And the playability is tweakable to your own liking. You can make it a breeze to finish, or just painfully difficult.... The best game ever on the Amiga!
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Best soundtrack ever.
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This kind of paid homage to Terra Cresta, in some way, and it fully succeeded. Well balanced, easily controlled and good looking and sounding - another classic, that's it.
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Fantastic game! High playability, very good graphics, exciting soundtrack and sound effects (enemy explosion): nothing is missing in this Discovery Software's gem.
Together with SWIV and Battle Squadron the BEST V-shoot 'em up on Amiga.
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One of the first arcade quality vertical scrolling shooters for the Amiga. Good game, nice theme music.
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Fantastic shooter which borrows more than one idea from the Coin-op Terra Cresta. The powerup system and the 1st stage graphics are almost the same.
A little to easy to finish though.
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Great playability with this vertical scrolling shooter which is also nice to look at. It's thumb-friendly too thanks to it's very own autofire. Great game.
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Awesome game with some kick-ass music. Very similar with Terra Cresta on C64. Check it out.
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