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Unexpected Shmup Level

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162 feature instances
169 referencing feature instances

Unexpected Shmup Level	type	FeatureClass
Unexpected Shmup Level	label	Unexpected Shmup Level
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Unexpected Shmup Level	comment	A subcategory of Unexpected Gameplay Change often found in action games, this is a level in which the Player Character enters a sequence reminiscent of an old-school Shoot 'Em Up, usually of the side-scrolling space shooter variety. The sequence is usually triggered after gaining access to a certain vehicle or Power-Up. Because of its climactic nature, this is a relatively common gameplay style for final levels and Final Boss battles. As the example list shows, there are two very distinct forms of this level: A 2D Shoot 'Em Up where your character automatically moves along a left-to-right or bottom-to-top path, shooting down numerous enemy spaceships and collecting power ups. Think of Gradius, R-Type, Ikaruga, or Touhou Project. Usually there's a boss battle at the end against a giant UFO/space ship/mecha or a reactor. A 3D Rail Shooter level. Can overlap with Action-Based Mission. Compare RPG Elements. Examples
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Unexpected Shmup Level	isPartOf	DBTropes
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_10be2b4f	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_10be2b4f	comment	In Solar Jetman, the final act after you complete the Golden Warpship is a side-scrolling shmup.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_129cc93d	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_129cc93d	comment	The first and third Distorted Travesty games have Bullet Hell shmup segments. YMMV if they're really unexpected though, since the games try to incorporate as many video game genres into them as possible.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_12d03b27	comment	Gunstar Heroes features a spaceship level near the end. Interestingly, your weapons still work the same way as they normally do.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_142657fa	comment	You can play this sequence as a minigame afterward, and you can select from two ships: the R-360 cabinet you use in the story mode, and the Syrinx, which was meant to be the main ship for Thunder Force VI on the Dreamcast before it got scrapped. The final boss theme, The Justice Ray Part.3 is also on the "Broken Thunder" soundtrack for Thunder Force VI.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_15ba0e84	comment	Kirby's Epic Yarn has two types of these. The first is the Rocket Metamortex, which transforms into a rocket ship that goes upwards. The second is the Starship Metamortex, which brings back the Starship from Kirby Super Star for a battle with Kracko in Cloud Palace. It returns again in the final Bonus Level.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_187d5707	comment	Devil May Cry, after hack'n'slashing your way through the entire game, ends with two of these. The first one is the first battle against Mundus, then, after battling his second form, going through a Timed Mission that has you escaping the place, and then throwing down with his third and final form, Dante and Trish escape on a biplane in the second and final rail shooter level.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_18fd74a7	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_18fd74a7	comment	Super Mario Land: Levels 2-3 and 4-3 are this kind of level, with Mario in the Marine Pop submarine for the former and the Sky Pop airplane for the latter.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_1da37105	comment	Most of Sin and Punishment is a third-person rail shooter, but one level turns the perspective into a side-scrolling affair.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_1fca96ce	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_1fca96ce	comment	Magic Knight Rayearth on the Sega Saturn ends with two brutally hard vertical-shooter bosses.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_1ff419c5	comment	The series does this with the Gummi Ship, which is used to travel between worlds. Kingdom Hearts II plays the trope even straighter: while the Kingdom Hearts example was essentially a 3D standard "moving forward" shmup, Kingdom Hearts II updates it to be a full rail shooter. It even adds a Battleship Raid complete with a Reactor Boss. And then there's the random rail-shooter segment during the final battle which does not involve the Gummi Ship. And that's leaving out the minigame in Christmas Town...
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_20cff8c	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_20cff8c	comment	The last section of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier's first proper mission combines a rail shooter with an Escort Mission, where you drag Paez with one hand while taking down enemies with your pistol in the other.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_2594b808	comment	In the third mission of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2, you man a helicopter minigun turret to destroy an enemy convoy. The first GRAW has two levels of this type, one where you're clearing a landing zone near Zocalo Plaza, another while being dropped at Chapultepec Castle.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_25cf8a59	comment	Stinkoman 20X6 has this happen on level 9.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_25d97c04	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_25d97c04	comment	James Bond Agent Under Fire has one in the second mission. The first mission is standard FPS controls. The second? Rail shooter. Then it's a DRIVING MISSION. The Licensed Game of Tomorrow Never Dies also has a Spy Hunter-style driving level.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_27c361a9	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_27c361a9	comment	The 3D Spy Hunter games occasionally have Rail Shooter levels where you control the Weapons Van's turret.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_284882f8	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_284882f8	comment	In WarioWare: Twisted!, in Kat & Ana's boss stage, you play as a robot who shoots out hands with fingers extended, destroying noses by picking them (nose-picking is Serious Business at WarioWare Inc)
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_2d4fee99	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_2d4fee99	comment	In Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc the second phase of the final boss fight Rayman jumps into a plane and has to fight the boss to win the game.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_2e79ce7a	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_2e79ce7a	comment	The remake of Odin Sphere features a few segments that are horizontal shoot-em-up stages when playing as Mercedes. As she is a fairy and the only playable character with a ranged weapon, they suit her quite well.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_3077dde8	comment	The Fairly OddParents: Shadow Showdown has two of these in which you control either Cosmo or Wanda; one in "Dad's Dream", and another, slightly more appropriately, in "Vicky Strikes Back". In the former, it's to collect "brain fuel" to power Timmy's dad's boat. In the latter, it's to open a door to get to Vicky.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_3084658b	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_3084658b	comment	Wario Land: Shake It!'s Subwarine (no, that is not a misspelling) underwater levels were this type of level.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_30f32521	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_30f32521	comment	Darksiders has a Panzer Dragoon-esque rail shooter section as you ride on a griffin to a dungeon inaccessible by land.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_36395288	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_36395288	comment	Kirby: The True Final Boss of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is fought in this manner, though you're not chasing the boss, instead circling around it to avoid its attacks and taking aim at various parts to cripple it and expose its weak point. With 2D shooter segments already present in multiple stages of Kirby: Planet Robobot, it opts to change things up for the final battle by making it a 3D rail shooter instead.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_393b2bdf	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_393b2bdf	comment	Machinarium has an in-game walkthrough, but every time you access it you must first complete a shmup Minigame. Perhaps intentionally, the game is incredibly boring, with one enemy type, no power-ups or alternate attacks, slow movement speed, and controls of limited responsiveness.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_3a7f5b49	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_3a7f5b49	comment	In Alice: Madness Returns, the game transitions from the land-based platforming section to the underwater-but-it-doesn't-much-matter platforming section with a side-scrolling underwater shooter featuring you piloting the HMS Gryphon and avoiding the Shipwreck Sharks and Cannon Crabs and their shots or shooting them with cannonballs and depth charges. There's an achievement for getting through using only one ship.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_3da9c1a3	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_3da9c1a3	comment	In Bravoman, the Under the Sea levels all play shmup style, with the ordinary attacking and jumping controls now producing missiles and depth charges.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_3fc54526	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_3fc54526	comment	Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2's final level in the final episode has the party fly to the moon on the Flying Armor they've built to fight the demon army head-on. You play a vertical shooter before you get to the actual final level. The pickups are speed and various sub-weapons from your party members that add extra attacks.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_42d070ed	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_42d070ed	comment	Non-videogame example: Keima from The World God Only Knows plays a horse racing game that suddenly becomes Bullet Hell.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_438b63e4	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_438b63e4	comment	In one chapter of the "Tip of the Spear" mission from Halo: Reach, during your ride to the Spire, you use the Falcon's mounted grenade launcher to take out ground targets, including Shade turrets, Fuel Rod turrets, and Wraiths. "Exodus" also has a rail shooter chapter, this time using the machine gun.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_455ede40	comment	Super Paper Mario: The first part of the Outer Space chapter and the battle against Brobot have elements of this.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_46546d53	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_46546d53	comment	SeGaGaGa ends with a shoot-em-up segment straight out of Thunder Force V, despite the rest of the game being an RPG/corporation sim. You fight various Sega game systems: the SG-1000, the Master System, then the Megadrive with the Sega CD reader and 32X. You can play this sequence as a minigame afterward, and you can select from two ships: the R-360 cabinet you use in the story mode, and the Syrinx, which was meant to be the main ship for Thunder Force VI on the Dreamcast before it got scrapped. The final boss theme, The Justice Ray Part.3 is also on the "Broken Thunder" soundtrack for Thunder Force VI.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_46f8bfdb	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_46f8bfdb	comment	The Turrican games have this a lot, most notably in Turrican II where the entire third world is played as rather excellent 2D space shooter, lampshaded with a Force power-up from R-Type seen hanging by the world 2 exit.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_476bc61d	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_476bc61d	comment	Kid Icarus: Uprising, which is already mostly a shooting game, has a straight shoot-em-up segment when you use the Lightning Chariot. Oddly enough you can beat many enemies by ramming into them; only shots and asteroids actually hurt you.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_4811a5a6	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_4811a5a6	comment	Asura's Wrath subverts this. Unlike most other action games with a shmup level, the ones on this game are an integral part of the gameplay.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_4a2b34ad	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_4a2b34ad	comment	Star Fox Adventures is an action-adventure game with shoot-em-up mini-games between the Hub Level and the different dungeons. And the final boss is fought this way as well.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_4a6f5c97	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_4a6f5c97	comment	Rocket Knight Adventures: The original game has three of these levels; the first leading to King El Zebulos' castle, the second through the city of the Devotindos Empire, and the third one through space on the way to the Pig Star. The SNES spin-off, Sparkster, has an overhead variant in the seventh stage, that ends with Sparkster and Axel Gear battling each other in giant robots.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_4c56381b	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_4c56381b	comment	The Binding of Isaac: The True Final Boss of the Repentance DLC has Isaac grow a pair of wings and changes the perspective from isometric roguelike to side-scrolling shmup. It's not just for show either: items are affected by gravity and tear height can drastically alter the arc of your shots.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_526d4c5c	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic you have to shoot a bunch of enemy ships before they let you take off on the Ebon Hawk for the first time. This also has a random chance of occurring every time the Ebon Hawk leaves a planet.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_52f6626	comment	Jak II: Renegade has a couple of levels like this, shooting down Krimzon Guards with jetpacks or flying Metal Heads and at one point destroying a tanker. Jak 3 also has a couple stationary rail-shooter type missions, using Spargus City's turret gun to shoot targets or Dark Makers out of the sky before they make landfall. Of course, this series is one of the kings of the Unexpected Gameplay Change.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5425ce75	comment	The 3D Grand Theft Auto games every now and then include a mission where you're gunning enemies from a moving vehicle.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5846165c	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5846165c	comment	Kid Icarus: Kid Icarus (1986): The final level, which makes up for the entirety of the fourth world, is a Horizontal Scrolling Shooter. Kid Icarus: Uprising, which is already mostly a shooting game, has a straight shoot-em-up segment when you use the Lightning Chariot. Oddly enough you can beat many enemies by ramming into them; only shots and asteroids actually hurt you.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_58cf4968	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_58cf4968	comment	The PS (and presumably PSP) version(s) of Tales of Phantasia have a pretty elaborate shooter minigame available at a broken-down hi-tech town called Groovy Arche, starring the resident Black Magician Girl, you guessed it, Arche, complete with 3 weapons that can be powered up and used simultaneously, bombs, complex scoring system and lots of voice clips unique to the minigame. Too bad it's only 2 levels long and to get to the second one, you need to score high enough in the first one, which is no easy feat. It was popular enough to be made into a separate cellphone game.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_591aa39f	comment	Metal Slug: Metal Slug 3 has a vertical space shooter level as an intro to the last level. Metal Slug 5 has a level that starts out as a normal one, but becomes an Unexpected Shmup Level in the final section just before the level's boss (which is a giant airplane with turrets and missile launchers). Metal Slug 6 does this in the San Francisco level. Youu're crossing the (mostly-destroyed) Golden Gate Bridge, fighting aliens left and right, and reach one of two dead ends where you either hop into a Slug Flyer or allow Rootmars, the Flying Alien, to give you a lift.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5a2333ef	comment	You can invoke this deliberately in LittleBigPlanet, for a game revolves around a Level Editor.
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LittleBigPlanet (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5a2333ef
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5afbc0cb	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale: There's a form of this in the Yellow SOUL segments during a few of the Mettaton fights, most prominently featured in Mettaton EX. While you are in Yellow SOUL form, you can move like normal, but can fire a magical bolt upward by pressing Z. This is actually incapable of damaging the target, but it is excellent at destroying (boxes, bombs) or modifying (disco ball, arms, legs, and Mettaton's SOUL) attacks, making it a strong utility power and by far the most useful SOUL color. Yellow SOUL color makes another appearance in the Asriel Dreemurr fight at the end of True Pacifist. Here, you call upon Alphys as a Lost Soul to help you, and she attacks you like the rest of the Lost Souls. However, she uses much of the same attacks Mettaton EX does, so nothing new here. Alphys is not a fighter by any stretch of the definition, but she was able to construct Mettaton, who is a mild (and ultimately subverted) Killer Robot. If she had to fight, she likely would simply use the weaponry she designed and built for him.
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Undertale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5afbc0cb
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5b698717	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5b698717	comment	The boss level of the Space world in Pac-Man World and its remake forgoes the platforming gameplay of the rest of the game and has Pac-Man ride atop a small spaceship and fly through space shooting at alien bugs just like the ones from fellow Namco arcade classic Galaxian. The final boss of the stage is a giant King Galaxian ship that he must destroy by shooting at its eyes.
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Pac-Man World (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5b698717
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5caf7aa0	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5caf7aa0	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition* an Affectionate Parody of Sonic, taking the form of a Let's Play of a fictitious Updated Re-release has a side-scrolling shooter level (blatantly "borrowed" from Se Ga Ga Ga) in which you fight various Sega game systems. By that point, it's probably the most sensible thing that's happened.
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5caf7aa0	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5caf7aa0	featureConfidence	1.0
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition (Web Video)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5caf7aa0
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5e3832b5	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5e3832b5	comment	Cave Story turns into a Horizontal Scrolling Shooter for the Boss Battle against Ironhead. (This is a Shout-Out to a previous Studio Pixel game, Ikachan, which is however not a shmup but a Metroidvania.)
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Cave Story (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_5e3832b5
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_637269d4	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_637269d4	comment	Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death does this every time you take control of a turret. The first boss is entirely this save for the finishing move which is delivered via QTE.
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Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_637269d4
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_63ac9abf	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_63ac9abf	comment	Sky Chase Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is an odd borderline case, as you're on a biplane and the level is arranged like a horizontal shooter, but you still control and attack like in the normal platforming levels.
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_63ac9abf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_63ac9abf
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_63fe06a0	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_63fe06a0	comment	Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon does this in the prologue.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_63fe06a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_63fe06a0
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_64180c2e	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_64180c2e	comment	The second half of the first mission of StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops is suddenly this, where you not only have to gun down enemies, but also avoid civilian cars on a highway.
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StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_64180c2e
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_667fbcca	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_667fbcca	comment	In the Adventure Time video game Hey, Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!, Lumpy Space Princess goes on a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum when she finds Finn threw out the home-made ashtray she made for his birthday, and tries to sabotage the Lumpy Space Reactor Core and blow up all of Ooo. Finn and Jake proceed to ride Lady Rainicorn through Lumpy Space in order to stop LSP... by blasting her with rainbow-colored lasers. All this while a delightfully-cheesy pop song plays (in the 3DS version).
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Adventure Time (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_667fbcca
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6b6d989e	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6b6d989e	comment	Red Faction 2: "Shrike's Wild Ride" and "Tank on the Town".
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6b6d989e	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Faction (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6b6d989e
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6bf2d08	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6bf2d08	comment	Super Mario Maker: Because of how the Course Maker works and with the number of bullets and projectiles that can appear on-screen, players can invoke this trope by creating their own shmup levels using Lakitu's Cloud or the Koopa Clown Car. A later update included the Fire Koopa Clown Car for this purpose, and two levels in the 3DS version are designed to showcase this trope (one of them even has the optional challenge for the player to reach a certain score by defeating as many enemies in a row as possible).
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6bf2d08	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Mario Maker (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6bf2d08
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6c47db4e	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6c47db4e	comment	Dynasty Warriors 7 (of all things) had these "siege weapon" sections, which are mountable weapons put in certain places in the battlefield. First there's the Ballista (you aim, fire, and wait for the ammo to hit the gate, rinse repeat), used for opening gates. Then there's the Gatling Crossbow with Bottomless Magazines (seriously) sections where you basically go More Dakka with arrows on a huge number of people (thankfully they're fixtures, so you can't use one on the whole level). Then there's the optional Tiger Tanks, which move as fast as molasses and has an extremely slow firing rate, and is somehow as fragile as porcelain despite being made of bronze, making it completely useless in harder modes where you need to quickly travel around the map and defeat enemies.
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Dynasty Warriors (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6c47db4e
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6d10ab05	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6d10ab05	comment	In Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, of all things, completing the game would let you choose one of a number of rewards (though the game wouldn't tell you what they were until you picked one). They included character bios, fatality demonstrations, particularly hard bonus fights... and a Galaga-themed shoot-em-up minigame.
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Mortal Kombat 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6d10ab05
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6e0dcc59	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6e0dcc59	comment	In the Super Story Mode of the PS version of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future, the fight against Lovers and its drones is the side-scrolling version of this.
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6e0dcc59
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6e34b51b	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6e34b51b	comment	The Prague Countryside truck ride and Colombia helicopter ride in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6e34b51b	featureConfidence	1.0
Soldier of Fortune (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6e34b51b
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6fa2c385	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6fa2c385	comment	Max Payne 3 has a helicopter sniping Escort Mission sequence during the second chapter, the boat chase in Chapter 5, the bus ride in Chapter 10, and a car chase in the final chapter.
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Max Payne 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_6fa2c385
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7131953	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7131953	comment	Kirby's Dream Land, the first game, used it for the level 3 boss fight with Kaboola instead. This boss was left out of the rehash of the game in Kirby Super Star, but finally made a comeback in the Revenge of the King mode Kirby Super Star Ultra, now renamed Kabula.
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Kirby's Dream Land (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7131953
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_71ac4d48	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_71ac4d48	comment	Just Cause 2 has a few missions that the player is expected to complete primarily like this. All are escort missions where you car-surf on the protectee's vehicle. However, you are still free to complete these as you like. One, done on a car, relies on your own finite ammo supply, and so practically requires jumping from car to car. Another is for a boat with a mounted minigun, so it's a bit more sensible to stay put.
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Just Cause 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_71ac4d48
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_72a1ac51	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_72a1ac51	comment	Subverted in The "Da Nang Thang" from San Andreas, where it initially looks like it's going this route, only for your helicopter to be shot down almost immediately, forcing you to complete things on foot.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_72a1ac51	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_72a1ac51
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_72ab82	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_72ab82	comment	Kid Icarus (1986): The final level, which makes up for the entirety of the fourth world, is a Horizontal Scrolling Shooter.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_72ab82	featureConfidence	1.0
Kid Icarus (1986) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_72ab82
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7353a7bd	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7353a7bd	comment	Dynamite Headdy has not one, but two consecutive shoot-em-up levels. At the start of the first, and at regular intervals throughout both, you can select one of three different flight heads for Headdy. The Air Head turns Headdy's head into an airplane and lets him fire 3-way bullets either left or right. The Feather Head gives him a bird head, letting him spit projectiles which arc downward. The Rocket Head turns his head into a missile, letting him fly faster than normal and shoot penetrating lasers straight forward, but he can only face to the right. This act also has two bosses (only counting bosses that have their own scene, otherwise three)- Recurring Boss Trouble Bruin, now piloting the Wheeler Dealer, and the actâ€™s final boss, Baby Face.
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Dynamite Headdy (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7353a7bd
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7357234c	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7357234c	comment	The second-to-last boss in Beyond Good & Evil puts you in an on-rails spaceship boss fight to take down The Dragon's Tripod Terror.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7357234c	featureConfidence	1.0
Beyond Good & Evil (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7357234c
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_74b21a30	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_74b21a30	comment	The video game based on the film Suburban Commando actually begins with a shmup level, while all the rest of the stages are platforming action suspiciously similar to then-recent Superfrog by Team 17. Come to think of it, the starting level is similar to another game by Team 17, the shmup Project X.
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_74b21a30	featureApplicability	1.0
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Suburban Commando	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_74b21a30
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_77011132	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_77011132	comment	In Kingdom Hearts coded, the entire ending stage of Wonderland, including the boss, is a rail-shooter.
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_77011132	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_77011132	featureConfidence	1.0
Kingdom Hearts coded (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_77011132
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_77aa72de	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_77aa72de	comment	Happens near the end of I Wanna Be the Guy when the Kid jumps into the Vic Viper.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_77aa72de	featureConfidence	1.0
I Wanna Be the Guy (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_77aa72de
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7b2ca7a2	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7b2ca7a2	comment	Bayonetta goes from hack-and-slash to a rail shooter for Chapter 14, inspired by the classic Sega arcade game Space Harrier. True to the game's mood, you're not flying a jet, spaceship, or even unassisted; you're riding a missile toward the next area.
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Bayonetta (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7b2ca7a2
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7c52fe9b	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7c52fe9b	comment	Wrath of the Black Manta: The second level is a side-scrolling shooter where Black Manta flies around on a kite, shooting down other ninjas.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7c52fe9b	featureConfidence	1.0
Wrath of the Black Manta (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7c52fe9b
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7f4c0014	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7f4c0014	comment	Star Wars: Episode I - Jedi Power Battles, for most of the game, have you playing as various Jedi slicing up enemies with your lightsaber, save for the level in Theed which begins with you taking down a battle droid on a STAP in a cutscene, and then using the STAP to take a shortcut to the city's center, shooting enemy droids along the way froma top-down perspective.
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7f4c0014	featureApplicability	1.0
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Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7f4c0014
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7fcddc41	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7fcddc41	comment	The Journeyman Project has a pseudo-3d space shooter minigame at the end of the Mars Colony quest, where you must chase down and neutralize the robot's escape shuttle before he destroys the alien ship.
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7fcddc41	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Journeyman Project (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_7fcddc41
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_80aeba67	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_80aeba67	comment	Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness has a bonus stage called Pier Pressure where Ms. Pac steers a boat through an Auto-Scrolling Level while firing rockets at other ships being driven by ghosts that attack her once she gets close.
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Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_80aeba67
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8258e260	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario Land: Levels 2-3 and 4-3 are this kind of level, with Mario in the Marine Pop submarine for the former and the Sky Pop airplane for the latter. Super Mario Sunshine has a literally on-rails mission in Pinna Park where one must get water rockets while on a roller coaster to aim and fire at Mecha-Bowser while avoiding Bullet Bills from behind. This is repeated in the same world except with shooting down balloons under a time limit. Super Mario Maker: Because of how the Course Maker works and with the number of bullets and projectiles that can appear on-screen, players can invoke this trope by creating their own shmup levels using Lakitu's Cloud or the Koopa Clown Car. A later update included the Fire Koopa Clown Car for this purpose, and two levels in the 3DS version are designed to showcase this trope (one of them even has the optional challenge for the player to reach a certain score by defeating as many enemies in a row as possible). Super Paper Mario: The first part of the Outer Space chapter and the battle against Brobot have elements of this. Mario Party DS: The boss battle against Kamek has the challenger fly across the former's library with the help of a magical book, and along the way they have to shoot ink at flying books and dodge moving bookshelfs (or move through them if they have open sections with few books). Eventually, the player's character reaches the central room where Kamek awaits, and the objective is to shoot ink at his face while dodging his wand's energy projectiles as well as the books he's sending to them (once again, the player does all of this while moving around with the magical book they're traveling with). When his face is fully covered up, Kamek will react aggressively and make several books fall down, and those have to be dodged as well; when one of the books falls onto his head, he loses health and the procedure has to be repeated. Once three books fall above his head, Kamek faints and the player's character wins the fight. Mario Party 10: Kamek's Rocket Rampage plays like a side-scrolling shoot-em-up game. Players fly around the screen in planes and score points by collecting rockets and firing them at Kamek, all while avoiding his attacks. WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$: One of the boss microgames puts the player (who is driving a spaceship) in a shmup level where they have to destroy incoming enemy ships, and eventually defeat a boss whose weak point is a core that periodically leaves its body for a brief while.
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Super Mario Bros. (Franchise)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8258e260
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_83e4c44e	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_83e4c44e	comment	Felix the Cat on the NES has one of these when Felix is flying his spaceship in order to get The Professor's lair on an alien planet. This is also one of the more difficult levels, as you have to keep on collecting power-ups in order to keep your spaceship going; unlike the other levels, Felix can't survive without his spaceship.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_85248c6a	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_85248c6a	comment	This was used this for the last final boss fight in Kirby & the Amazing Mirror.
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Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_85248c6a
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_87056d17	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_87056d17	comment	Sonic Adventure includes two rail shooter levels in Sonic's story via the Sky Chase minigames.
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Sonic Adventure (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_87056d17
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8712fc68	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8712fc68	comment	Yoshi's Woolly World has a portion of World 3-7 and World 6-7 after Yoshi is transformed into an airplane name Sky Pop Yoshi.
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Yoshi's Woolly World (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8712fc68
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_87d9cf80	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_87d9cf80	comment	Wily Stage 2: Dreadnought in Rockman 7 EP is one, much like Cossack 1 from Minus Infinity. In fact, the stage itself is lifted directly from the Gradius series, with Gamerizer's patterns changed to the Yorogaton Chimera from Gradius 4.
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Rockman 7 EP (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_87d9cf80
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8bbda387	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8bbda387	comment	In The Rocketeer for the SNES, the "Chase" and "Armada" levels are side-scrolling shooters. Then again, it's a Gameplay Roulette.
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The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8bbda387
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8ea03e4c	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8ea03e4c	comment	In Densetsu no Stafy 4, the Propeller Bit is a rabbit-like helicopter vehicle that throws carrots as ammunition and shows up in some levels, including the battle against Owlrunâ€”thankfully without its usual One-Hit-Point Wonder status.
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Densetsu no Stafy 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8ea03e4c
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8f1721e2	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8f1721e2	comment	Gunman Clive has a shoot-em-up level at the start of the final set of levels when Clive (or Ms. Johnson) climbs onto a rocket to chase after aliens.
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Gunman Clive (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8f1721e2
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8f526e	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8f526e	comment	Drawn to Life has a shmup level once you draw the Rocket Ship. Its sequel, Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, has three unexpected shmup levels, one of which contains two consecutive boss fights.
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Drawn to Life (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8f526e
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_90d53be	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_90d53be	comment	Cyberia included a first-person rail shooter segment near the end of the game.
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Cyberia (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_90d53be
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9175542a	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9175542a	comment	Ecco the Dolphin introduces shmup-style autoscrolling in "The Tube", and "Welcome to the Machine".
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9175542a	featureConfidence	1.0
Ecco the Dolphin (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9175542a
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_935a39be	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_935a39be	comment	Super Smash Bros. Brawl: The game does this when you beat Classic or All-Star mode. It also features the Coin Shooter minigame that lets you collect trophies and stickers, and is a great source of distraction.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_93ef7a8c	comment	Super Smash Bros. Melee: The credits of the game become part of a shooting minigame, and this tradition was carried over to all subsequent games (except for the Adventure Mode of Brawl and Ultimate, which use standard credits).
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_968e23f4	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_968e23f4	comment	Captain America and the Avengers turns into a horizontal shmup at two points: the middle of Scene 2, flying above a city, and the beginning of Scene 5, flying through space.
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Captain America and the Avengers (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_968e23f4
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_96cff0c5	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_96cff0c5	comment	The World Is Not Enough (N64) has Cold Reception, a ski shooter based on the parahawk battle from the movie.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9ae0c2a8	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9ae0c2a8	comment	The two Pegasus segments of God of War II might feel familiar to those who played Star Fox 64. Of course, without Peppy saying "Do a barrel roll!"
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9b602c3f	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9b602c3f	comment	Deltarune, the follow-up to Undertale, has the Yellow SOUL mechanic return with the addition of a Charged Attack, with Susie and Ralsei gaining unique ACTs granting you faster charging and an Orbiting Particle Shield. It shows up primarily in the Spamton NEO fight in Chapter 2.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9ba9abc6	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9ba9abc6	comment	Rockman 4 Minus âˆž has the second half of Cossack Castle Stage 1. Mega Man rode on the Balloon Adaptor until Shadow Man ambushed him. Rush saved him and Mega Man defeated Shadow Man, enabling the usage of the Robot Master Weapons for the rest of the stage.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9cac3606	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9cac3606	comment	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers has this right at the beginning.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9f4256af	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_9f4256af	comment	Alex Kidd In The Enchanted Castle has the In The Air level, where Alex is required to use the missile-firing Pedicopter to fly over a long distance and get to the castle. The Pedicopter can be used in other levels too, but it's not required there and there's very rarely opportunity for long shmup runs.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_a6543322	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_a6543322	comment	In Touched!!, Ashley's boss stage has you controlling the Earth itself, dodging bullets and other stuff before finally shooting away at an alien mothership, similar to a heavily toned-down version of Touhou Project.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_a6fb0678	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_a6fb0678	comment	La-Mulana's battle against Palenque (complete with a graphical reference to Gradius 2 MSX.) Room 21 of the Hell Temple requires you to score enough points on a parody of a parody of Gradius.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_a7a0b48b	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_a7a0b48b	comment	NieR: Automata begins with this, and alternating between vertical scrolling shooter, multi directional twin stick shooter, forward fixed scrolling flight, and horizontal scrolling shooter before even going to the hack and slash segments that makes up the bulk of the game. Later the game alternates between hack and slash, side scrolling, top down, and the aforementioned shmup segments again in various segments.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_a7bb29b5	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_a7bb29b5	comment	Mega Man X8 has two of the 8 maverick stages as behind the rail shooters.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ac4fcd09	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ac4fcd09	comment	Solatorobo: Red the Hunter has this in Tartaros, where Red obtains an all new form for the DAHAK and has to mow down waves of Shades by firing regular and homing charged shots similarly to Panzer Dragoon. Thankfully, this doesn't last very long, and Red returns to the standard Action-Adventure style in order to beat down the Final Boss.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ac8a8d1e	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ac8a8d1e	comment	Shantae: Risky's Revenge has a bubble-shooting underwater section like this right before the final boss.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_aca0ecd9	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_aca0ecd9	comment	Girls' Frontline does this in its Shattered Connexion event; the final battle between M4A1 and Isomer Black or rather, Nimogen is a Bullet Hell Shoot 'em Up level. In this battle, you need to move your unit with an analog stick to dodge bullets while using your unit skills to take down the boss.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ad5e238f	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ad5e238f	comment	Final Zone II, a run-and-gun shooter, switches to continuous vertical-scrolling helicopter action in Round 3.
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Final Zone (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ad5e238f
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ae806378	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ae806378	comment	No More Heroes III: Both the first boss in its second phase and certain giant-sized minibosses over the course of the game are fought with Travis piloting a huge mecha in outer space.
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No More Heroes III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ae806378
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_afc517de	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_afc517de	comment	Burning Rangers is a third-person game based around a firefighter putting out fires, saving people, performing acrobatic movements with jetpacks and fighting giant monsters. However at one section of the game you control their spaceship and fly through a crumbling space station before it crashes into a massive spaceship that just came through a wormhole. Yeah, the game doesn't make a whole lot of sense in retrospect.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b0b4e8ff	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b0b4e8ff	comment	Jade Empire has the flyer which is piloted in a vertical shmup against enemy flyers. Option flyer missions unlock additional abilities for the flyer.
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Jade Empire (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b0b4e8ff
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b2049837	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b2049837	comment	The sequel features the level "Bakunawa Chase", which involves the heroines guiding Mayor Zao's airship towards the raising Bakunawa after it has been resurrected by Merga. The level culminates in a battle against Giant Enemy Crab robot Crabulon.
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Freedom Planet 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b2049837
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b4967d43	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b4967d43	comment	Many Sonic the Hedgehog games, following Sonic and Knuckles, tend to have a True Final Boss battle that plays like this as a reward for collecting all of the Green Rocks, getting 100% Completion, etc. The main character goes Super and flies off to fight the Big Bad by either shooting at it or ramming into it. Or in one case, letting it shoot at you and then ramming the things it shot. Sky Chase Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is an odd borderline case, as you're on a biplane and the level is arranged like a horizontal shooter, but you still control and attack like in the normal platforming levels. Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition* an Affectionate Parody of Sonic, taking the form of a Let's Play of a fictitious Updated Re-release has a side-scrolling shooter level (blatantly "borrowed" from Se Ga Ga Ga) in which you fight various Sega game systems. By that point, it's probably the most sensible thing that's happened. Sonic Frontiers has a hacking minigame that play like an homage to Ikaruga. It's also foreshadowing for the True Final Boss (unlocked by beating the regular final boss on Hard), which plays the same as the hacking minigames. Frozen Base Zone Act 2 from Sonic Superstars has you controlling an Eggmobile modified by Tails, with the goal being to destroy a set number of targets, upon which you boost into space and fight the boss. Like with Frontiers, this one plays like a homage to Fantasy Zone.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b5fd1359	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b5fd1359	comment	Quite common in the LEGO video games. Titles such as LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham have sidescrolling shooter examples, with the player moving left or right in a circular area. Other games, like Star Wars or Marvel's Avengers use the rail-shooter type.
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LEGO Adaptation Game (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b5fd1359
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b79644c8	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b79644c8	comment	Candy Mountain Massacre Revenge puts you in a Cupcake-piloted fighter craft for the final mission, which plays out like a rail shooter. You have a machine gun (which can overheat), and missiles (which you get two of at a time). You're up against all the enemies of the game, including ones in ships that fly and shoot purple beams and missiles at you. This is also how you fight all three phases of the Final Boss of the game.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b80b5c0d	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b80b5c0d	comment	Sonic Frontiers has a hacking minigame that play like an homage to Ikaruga. It's also foreshadowing for the True Final Boss (unlocked by beating the regular final boss on Hard), which plays the same as the hacking minigames.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b87de35b	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_b87de35b	comment	Super Mario Sunshine has a literally on-rails mission in Pinna Park where one must get water rockets while on a roller coaster to aim and fire at Mecha-Bowser while avoiding Bullet Bills from behind. This is repeated in the same world except with shooting down balloons under a time limit.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ba2ab0a2	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ba2ab0a2	comment	Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has this happen when Ezio steals the Machine Gun.
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ba2ab0a2
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_bbcd4e9b	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_bbcd4e9b	comment	In the second Digital Devil Saga there is a bonus where you can play a 2D shooter with Cielo.
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Digital Devil Saga (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_bbcd4e9b
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_be96ca39	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_be96ca39	comment	Thunder Hoop: Strike Back have levels in which you're supercharged with energy, sending you hurtling through space as you blast your way past enemy ships, in a game where most of the action is on foot.
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Thunder Hoop (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_be96ca39
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_bec6f25e	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_bec6f25e	comment	Shows up in several Batman (Sunsoft) games: The "Gotham City Street" stage in Batman for the Sega Genesis is nominally a Batmobile driving level, but it actually plays as a horizontal shooter. The later sky stage with the Batwing (also featured in the Game Boy version) is a more normally styled example, aside from the Monster Clown inflatables. Batman: Return of the Joker for the NES also has two shooter stages (2-2 and 5-2) where Batman flies down horizontal tunnels in a Jet Pack. Batman for Game Boy has two Batwing stages.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c43ed6f1	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c43ed6f1	comment	Lunar Knights is a surprisingly enjoyable Zelda/Diablo clone, with a rather unfortunate design decision to cap off every boss fight with a ten-minute-long unskippable really freakin' hard space shooter level. Making the shooter levels even harder is that the DS stylus is used to move your ship and to fire your guns, so you can only do one or the other at any given time.
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Boktai (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c43ed6f1
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c488a57d	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c488a57d	comment	In Chicory: A Colorful Tale, boss battles have the game suddenly change to a Bullet Hell-like game where you use the arrow keys to dodge attacks and the mouse to paint when the boss is vulnerable.
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Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c488a57d
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c4a1d59e	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty has few rail-shooter segments, such as the car ride level in the first game. Prominently featured in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare are: Death from Above, Shock and Awe, and Game Over (the final mission).
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Call of Duty (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c4a1d59e
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c60e8211	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c60e8211	comment	The Closer: Game of the Year Edition has one party member's combat mechanics be entirely based around shmup mechanics, with them shooting enemies and collecting powerups until they're overwhelmed by numbers.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c6cba714	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c6cba714	comment	The final boss of Exmortis II turns the game into a simplistic arcade shooter where he throws imps and melee attacks at you.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c6d91592	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c6d91592	comment	Bomber Jet and Bomber Marine levels in Bomberman Hero, with the exception that the Marine is capable of stopping and moving backwards.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c6e31a96	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c6e31a96	comment	The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures has multiple auto-scrolling shooter sequences, such as the Silver Surfer (1990) sequence in "Future Fuckballs 2010"(reprised in "Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts"), the Giant Claw fight in "Dungeons and Dickholes" and the shark ride in "Thy Farts Consumed".
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c7d1edfb	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c7d1edfb	comment	DRIV3R features a rail shooter mission in France. And then again in Istanbul, only here, you have a BFG. No more needing to burst the police cruisers after you with a machine pistol!
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Driver (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c7d1edfb
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c906b175	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c906b175	comment	The SNES game based on The Pirates of Dark Water have a shump level against a boss called a Feryx, with the players riding on gryphon or eagle steeds and suddenly gaining an unlimited amount of arrows to use on the Feryx. After defeating said boss, the players land and the game goes back to kicking and punching.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c9633211	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c9633211	comment	No More Heroes: The game fills the time to the Rank 4 fight by having Travis fall asleep on a train and dream that he's playing a vertical shooter based on the Show Within a Show Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly.
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No More Heroes (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_c9633211
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ca6bd928	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ca6bd928	comment	Yo! Joe! Beat the Ghosts: This is how you move from one level to another. Additonally, it is a good chance to gain additional lives by collecting power-ups and avoiding damage.
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ca6bd928	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_cd00c365	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_cd00c365	comment	In Super Star Wars: Two early levels have the player shooting Jawas in a landspeeder (third-person view) in order to head to a destination. The second-last level is similar with the player in an X-Wing having to shoot TIE fighters and Death Star towers that one-hit-kill the player. The final level is a first-person rail shooter, in the Death Star trench, of course. The trend continues in Super Empire Strikes Back (Battle of Hoth 3D and side-scrolling shooter sequences, Asteroid Field in the Falcon after escaping Hoth, and in Luke's X-Wing approaching Cloud City), Super Return of the Jedi (Speeder Bike chase on Endor and the fleet battle above Endor / Death Star II bombing run). The trend also continues in Shadows of the Empire where literally every other level is some sort of vehicle based mission. Two of these, the Asteroid Field and the first half of the Skyhook Battle, are rail shooters, one is a speeder bike race, and the last two are free-range flight combat. Star Wars platform games have a love for this trope dating back to the 1987 Famicom game, prior to which almost every Star Wars Licensed Game was a Shoot 'Em Up of one sort or another.
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Super Star Wars (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_cd00c365
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_d0a5a846	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_d0a5a846	comment	A rare case of a shmup having an Unexpected Different Kind of Shmup Level: Gradius III (Arcade version) had a 3D rail shooter sequence pop up in the fourth stage, the difficulty here being using the impossible controls to avoid walls.
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Gradius (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_d0a5a846
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_d47715d9	comment	Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is mostly a beat-em-up set in the Medieval European Fantasy setting of The Legend of Zelda. However, there are several levels where you get to control one of the four Divine Beasts and blast through hordes of enemies with elemental projectiles and lasers.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_d54469f8	comment	Kirby games have a tradition of becoming shmups for penultimate battles (which, humorously, makes them Expected Shmup Levels), usually in conjunction with an 11th-Hour Superpower, starting with the second game in the series, Kirby's Adventure, and reaching an apotheosis in Kirby Super Star. As it's standard for the series, unexpected is probably the wrong word, but, let's face it, the rest of the stages are about a cuddly pink thing running around and eating stuff. Kirby's Dream Land, the first game, used it for the level 3 boss fight with Kaboola instead. This boss was left out of the rehash of the game in Kirby Super Star, but finally made a comeback in the Revenge of the King mode Kirby Super Star Ultra, now renamed Kabula. This was used this for the last final boss fight in Kirby & the Amazing Mirror. Kirby's Epic Yarn has two types of these. The first is the Rocket Metamortex, which transforms into a rocket ship that goes upwards. The second is the Starship Metamortex, which brings back the Starship from Kirby Super Star for a battle with Kracko in Cloud Palace. It returns again in the final Bonus Level. And again in Kirby's Return to Dream Land. The tradition is played with somewhat this time, if you've been paying attention to the pattern of past games. Kirby: Planet Robobot features this to a larger degree than in past titles, with multiple stages utilizing the Robobot Armor's Jet mode for shooter segments. Kabula also makes another return as a surprise boss.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_d59d9e99	comment	Shockman, normally a poor-man's Mega Man clone, becomes an R-Type-style shmup in its third and sixth levels.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_d607c683	comment	No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: From Travis' TV in his apartment room, it's possible to access a Game Within a Game based on Bizarre Jelly 5. Completing it on any difficulty unlocks an anime opening scene based on the game's fictional anime adaptation.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_dab32c0	comment	And the jet ski section of Wave Man's stage in Mega Man 5.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_dab32c3	comment	Mega Man 8 has this happening twice during the course of the game, first during Tengu Man's stage and then in Wily's Castle.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_dab32e1	comment	Mega Man V (GB) has a Shmup level right before the final stage.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_db33cf5f	comment	Kosodate Quiz My Angel in PS1 version has one of unexpected bonus stages where parents must protect their child from mosquitoes in a form of this, if you succeed, the game will reward you an extra heart.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_de669380	comment	The sequel, ASSimilation has a few as well. The first one is "Sush 'Em Up" in Nerd Gaiden, where he mounts a flying tanuki with fiery testicles and fights a Totoro expy named Scrotoro. A part of "Hippo Hell" turns into a shmup level when the Nerd jumps onto a helicopter. That is immediately followed by "You'll get caught up" which is a straight shmup level that is a reference to the commercial for the 1990's board game "Crossfire".
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_df3a0b37	comment	In Ripper, Jake Quinlan sometimes has to bypass ICE defenses to reach certain areas of Cyberspace. These range from logic puzzles to rail shooters that often amount to Jake shooting down an attacking enemy. Joey Falconetti even invokes this at one point to test Jake on this.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_e093763b	comment	Scaler tosses a couple of Rail Shooter segments in at the start of a couple of stages, where you control Reppy. There's also a boss battle consisting of this.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_e4b5d35b	comment	Freedom Planet has a portion before Battle Glacier in Adventure and Classic modes that involves shooting flying enemies, either with Dragon Pangu as Lilac, who acts as a flying shooter ship with straight line shots, or with one of Zao's tanks as Carol or Milla, which can double jump and can aim with its primary weapon. The sequel features the level "Bakunawa Chase", which involves the heroines guiding Mayor Zao's airship towards the raising Bakunawa after it has been resurrected by Merga. The level culminates in a battle against Giant Enemy Crab robot Crabulon.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_e6c59cd1	comment	Quake IV features a scene where you go between two towers on a monorail which is slightly damaged, so it doesn't make full speed. Other rails are constantly catching up... There's also the convoy level.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_e6e18fa4	comment	Fox N Forests: The game is mainly a Platform Game, but the second level of the Summer Season, Tricky Treetops, changes it into an auto-sides-crolling shooter where Rick is riding on Patty's back as she flies him over a burning forest.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_e9cb2780	comment	Gears of War 2 has a brief rail shooter sequence when you first get your flying mount.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ea051cf0	comment	Viewtiful Joe and its sequel allow you to pilot the Six Machine through part of a level.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ed8889ff	comment	Wai Wai World has a shmup level towards the end, where the player is given the choice of flying either Vic Viper or TwinBee. The sequel has a short one in the middle of the first world and then later stages in the style of TwinBee and Gradius.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ede28baa	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ede28baa	comment	Vanquish has a rail shooter sequence on a hijacked enemy transport in Act 2-3, and a Silent Scope-style stealth sniping mission on a monorail in Act 3-4.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ef8bd4a5	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man series: Mega Man V (GB) has a Shmup level right before the final stage. Mega Man 8 has this happening twice during the course of the game, first during Tengu Man's stage and then in Wily's Castle. And the jet ski section of Wave Man's stage in Mega Man 5. Mega Man X8 has two of the 8 maverick stages as behind the rail shooters. Rockman 4 Minus âˆž has the second half of Cossack Castle Stage 1. Mega Man rode on the Balloon Adaptor until Shadow Man ambushed him. Rush saved him and Mega Man defeated Shadow Man, enabling the usage of the Robot Master Weapons for the rest of the stage. Wily Stage 2: Dreadnought in Rockman 7 EP is one, much like Cossack 1 from Minus Infinity. In fact, the stage itself is lifted directly from the Gradius series, with Gamerizer's patterns changed to the Yorogaton Chimera from Gradius 4.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f0d8374	comment	Mario Party 10: Kamek's Rocket Rampage plays like a side-scrolling shoot-em-up game. Players fly around the screen in planes and score points by collecting rockets and firing them at Kamek, all while avoiding his attacks.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f0d85e4	comment	Mario Party DS: The boss battle against Kamek has the challenger fly across the former's library with the help of a magical book, and along the way they have to shoot ink at flying books and dodge moving bookshelfs (or move through them if they have open sections with few books). Eventually, the player's character reaches the central room where Kamek awaits, and the objective is to shoot ink at his face while dodging his wand's energy projectiles as well as the books he's sending to them (once again, the player does all of this while moving around with the magical book they're traveling with). When his face is fully covered up, Kamek will react aggressively and make several books fall down, and those have to be dodged as well; when one of the books falls onto his head, he loses health and the procedure has to be repeated. Once three books fall above his head, Kamek faints and the player's character wins the fight.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f4656bf5	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f4656bf5	comment	WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$: One of the boss microgames puts the player (who is driving a spaceship) in a shmup level where they have to destroy incoming enemy ships, and eventually defeat a boss whose weak point is a core that periodically leaves its body for a brief while.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f4ba2731	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f4ba2731	comment	Dive Mode Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] is closer to a rail-shooter than anything else.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f6a54e75	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: The series does this with the Gummi Ship, which is used to travel between worlds. Kingdom Hearts II plays the trope even straighter: while the Kingdom Hearts example was essentially a 3D standard "moving forward" shmup, Kingdom Hearts II updates it to be a full rail shooter. It even adds a Battleship Raid complete with a Reactor Boss. And then there's the random rail-shooter segment during the final battle which does not involve the Gummi Ship. And that's leaving out the minigame in Christmas Town... In Kingdom Hearts coded, the entire ending stage of Wonderland, including the boss, is a rail-shooter. Dive Mode Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] is closer to a rail-shooter than anything else.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f6db149f	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f6db149f	comment	Frozen Base Zone Act 2 from Sonic Superstars has you controlling an Eggmobile modified by Tails, with the goal being to destroy a set number of targets, upon which you boost into space and fight the boss. Like with Frontiers, this one plays like a homage to Fantasy Zone.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f75e479a	comment	The Messenger (2018): The Elemental Skylands become this, with the Ninja riding a fireball-spitting dragon in an autoscrolling area, ending on a shmup boss battle in the form of the Clockwork Concierge.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f81f1f30	comment	Bubble and Squeak: The game is a Platform Game where the second level, Strawberry Lagoon, has the duo piloting a submarine and shooting fish, octopi, and a cat in a submarine.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f8d1500a	comment	Takeshi's Challenge has the hang-gliding level, a horizontal scrolling stage which is made all the more infuriating because of the inability to gain height without gusts of wind that can fall victim to shots.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f985c67c	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_f985c67c	comment	Agent Under Fire has one in the second mission. The first mission is standard FPS controls. The second? Rail shooter. Then it's a DRIVING MISSION.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_fada66d	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_fada66d	comment	With 2D shooter segments already present in multiple stages of Kirby: Planet Robobot, it opts to change things up for the final battle by making it a 3D rail shooter instead.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_fbd61109	comment	The battle against N. Gin in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped was basically a rail shooter.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_fc7b1e84	comment	Mushroom Kingdom Fusion was going to have a whole world based on this, but it was replaced with a fantasy / mythological world and the shmup gameplay system was scrapped due to being an example of Author Appeal.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_fe24dd6f	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Unexpected Shmup Level / int_fe24dd6f	comment	The Medal of Honor series does this several times, e.g. the jeep level in Allied Assault, the halftrack ride in Spearhead, and the truck ride and Minecart Madness sequences in Frontline.
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Unexpected Shmup Level / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: Super Smash Bros. Melee: The credits of the game become part of a shooting minigame, and this tradition was carried over to all subsequent games (except for the Adventure Mode of Brawl and Ultimate, which use standard credits). Super Smash Bros. Brawl: The game does this when you beat Classic or All-Star mode. It also features the Coin Shooter minigame that lets you collect trophies and stickers, and is a great source of distraction.
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Kirby's Dream Land (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
La-Mulana (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Layla (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Leo & Leah (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
LittleBigPlanet (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Looney Tunes (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Machinarium (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Make a Good Mega Man Level Contest (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Mario Party 10 (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Mario Party DS (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Medal of Honor (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Mega Man 5 (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Mega Man 8 (Video Game) / int_acf39687	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch (Video Game) / int_acf39687	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Mega Man Maker (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Mega Man Revolution (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Mega Man V (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Mega Man X: Corrupted (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Metal Slug (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Mushroom Kingdom Fusion (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
No More Heroes (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Noitu Love (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Normal Super Mario Bros. (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Odin Sphere (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
P.N.03 (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Pac-Man World (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Pandemonium! (1996) (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Rabi-Ribi (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Rockman 4 Minus âˆž (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Rockman 7 EP (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Runbow (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Sea of Stars (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Senran Kagura (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Shadows of the Damned (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Shantae (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Sideswiped (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Skullman In: Scooby Doc 4: The Destroyer (Featuring Atsushi Onita) (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Skylanders (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Sonic Adventure (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Sonic.Exe: Spirits of Hell (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Sonic Superstars (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Space Station Silicon Valley (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Spectacular Sparky (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Star Fox Adventures (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
stikir (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Stinkoman 20X6 (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Street Fighter X Mega Man (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Super Filly Adventure (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Super Mario Land (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Super Mario Maker (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Super Paper Mario (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Super Smash Bros. Melee (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Syphon Filter (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Takeshi's Challenge (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
The Adventures of Batman and Robin (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
The Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
The Binding of Isaac (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
The Closer: Game of the Year Edition (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
The Fairly OddParents: Shadow Showdown (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
The Messenger (2018) (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
The TakeOver (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Thunder Hoop (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Tokyo Crash Mobs (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Touhou Hyouibana ~ Antinomy of Common Flowers (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Turrican (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Udongein X (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Vanquish (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Void Stranger (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Wai Wai World (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Parsley JÅ� (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Parsley JÅ� (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Wario Land (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Wario Land: Shake It! (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
WarioWare (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Yakuza 0 (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Yakuza (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Yoshi's Woolly World (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Yume Nikki (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped / Videogame / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
Kirby's Epic Yarn / Videogame / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level
P.N.03 / Videogame	seeAlso	Unexpected Shmup Level
Vietcong (Video Game) / int_5098e87	type	Unexpected Shmup Level

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