![]() The main villain is Giandigus (referred to in the awkwardly translated English text on the arcade flyer as “the Huge Boss”), who is attempting to destroy humanity by time-traveling to their past. ![]() The location test title was “Sol Breaker”. The title is difficult to render into English – “gekirin” refers to the anger of a superior (like making your boss violently angry) that directly translates to “imperial wrath” or “wrath of the heavens”, while “dan” means bullets. While Taito had established its own in-house brand of shoot-em-ups with games like Darius and Rayforce, Gekirindan is very much in the style of a Toaplan game. In some ways, it was a homecoming, since Taito had published most of Toaplan’s shooters through the 1980s. However, a few members shacked up with Taito to create one more title, Gekirindan. After the closure of Toaplan in 1994, much of the staff scattered in the winds, forming companies like Cave, Takumi, and Gazelle.
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