History VideoGame / XaindSleena

''Xain'd Sleena'' is a Japanese arcade game produced in [[TheEighties 1986]] by Technos Japan that was exported by Taito as ''Solar Warrior'' in USA and later on ported as ''Soldier of Light'' with more or less success to other platforms as the UsefulNotes/AmstradCPC, the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum, or the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} among others.

* TheGreys: While it cannot be seen well in-game due to the game's resolution, the standard {{Mook}}s are such type of alien, as can be seen on its flyer (see illustration at the beginning).

* TheGreys: The most abundant mooks. Even if their heads resemble [[Franchise/StarWars First Order Stormtrooper]] helmets in-game due to lack of resolution, artwork as the one above shows they look like your standard grey aliens, assuming these are not helmets that is.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: or rather, ordered for your convenience. Planets in Xain'd Sleena are ordered on the selection screen according to their difficulties, the more to the right the harder they're [[spoiler: the Dristarg fortress appears ''way'' to the right, outside of the screen, which should give a hint]]

** The large dark blue guys who carry large guns. They can take [[HeavilyArmoredMook quite a number]] of shoots before being killed.
** In space, the large ships that appear at the end of each stage. Not only they're large but also are moving while firing at you, attempting to block your path.
* HomingProjectile: The [[GiantMook large ships]] that appear at the end of each space stage as well as the Mothership will launch pink spheres that chase you -often for quite a while-. It's easy to dodge one, but less so when in later stages there're three or more of those ships, that are also firing normal projectiles, and you're also attempting to shoot them down.

* KingMook: The boss of Cleemalt Soa/Saturn [[spoiler: who appears also on the last stage]] is a large, able to double jump, version of the standard laser sword-wielding mooks. Unlike them he'll try to slash you with his weapon instead of attempting to impale with it.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: While Xain can jump from very high heights without taking damage, the BottomlessPit and the lava lake inside a volcano present halfway through Cleemat Soa/Saturn and Guwld Soa/Mars respectively will kill him.
* OneHitKill: Partially averted. Xain's armor can take several hits before being killed and colliding with an enemy will destroy him and will remove half the armor's health. However the enemies who carry {{Laser Blade}}s will kill you with one hit, touch either one enemy vehicle or a boss and you die, and ''any'' hit or collision taken with your spacecraft will destroy it.

* PowerUp: Kill a type of enemy who sees you and runs away and he'll left one. You'll get at random your standard shots but accompanied with grenades, a two-way attack that can hit enemies located high, a three-way one, or another that will kill several {{Mook}}s with just one shot.
* {{Sandworm}}: In Cleedos'/Jupiter's temple, between the temple and the Imperial base you'll find some large holes in the ground. If you fall into one you'll end up stuck on it until double-jumping. Otherwise be prepared for a nasty visit from the closest one.

* StuffBlowingUp: ''Everything'' dies exploding, or for Dristarg {{Mook}}s as well as you something that looks like that.

* BlobMonster: Cleemalt Soa/Saturn has some of them that appear from certain floating rocks. and move on their on. While they cause little damage if you touch one they may cause you to fall down, which can be [[BottomlessPit quite harmful]] for your health.

* CheckPoint#!: each planetary stage has several of them. They both are places where you respawn when you've been killed and reset the time counter to 60 seconds. In space there's sort of one when you fight the Mothership, where if you've been killed by the fleet guarding it you'll skip the latter it and will directly fight the former.

* {{Engrish}}: The ending screen in spades.
* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: The Imperial forces, the native lifeforms of the different planets (or the planets themselves...)

* HomingProjectile: the [[GiantMook large ships]] that appear at the end of each space stage as well as the Mothership will launch pink spheres that chase you -often for quite a while-. It's easy to dodge one, but less so when in later stages there're three or more of those ships, that are also firing normal projectiles, and you're also attempting to shoot them down.

* LaserBlade: Some {{Mook}}s as well as the boss of Cleemalt Soa/Saturn carry them.

** [=Guwld Soa=]/Mars. Geysers, volcanic bombs, a lava lake that will insta-kill your character if you mis-calculate your jump, and just ''one'' power up in the entire stage that you lose if you die after the part where it appears.
** [=Kworal Soa=]/Neptune. Enemies, be the planet's lifeforms or the Imperials, galore especially the latter at the end.

* PlanetSpaceship: [[spoiler:The Empire's movable fortress]].

* SuperDrowningSkills: In [=Lagto Soa=]/Venus, when crossing the river after the mid-stage dinosaur miniboss, fall into the water and see what happens.

In this game you control Xain'd Sleena, a bounty hunter who must free five planets ("Cleemalt Soa", "Lagto Soa", "Cleedos Soa", "Guwld Soa", and "Kworal Soa") of the same star system of the invasion of the evil Dristarg empire... [[ExcusePlot and that's all the plot]]. Even the name of the invaders is only revealed when you clear the end stage. While fighting on planets he's protected by a PoweredArmor, armed with a laser rifle that can be enhanced with {{PowerUp}}s released by some enemies, and uses rocket-powered boots that allow him to DoubleJump, but after defeating the {{Boss}} and destroying with a bomb the Imperial base he'll move from one planet to another with his [[CoolStarship starship]]... after you've fought the Imperial warships that guard the world, later on their [[TheMothership Mothership]], and finally their movable fortress in the last stage.

** [[spoiler: The Dristarg fortress]] UpToEleven, with enemies pretty much elsewhere and being a quite long stage.

* StreamingStars: Pretty much everywhere in space; at the beginning of each planetary stage, with your ship approaching to the planet and in space both while fighting and once clearing it.

* TheGreys: The most abundant mooks. Even if their heads resemble [[Franchise/StarWars First Order Stormtroopers]] helmets in-game due to lack of resolution, artwork as the one above shows they look like your standard grey aliens.

* ScriptBreaking: Sort of. If you are hit just when you defeat the Imperial Mothership, your ship will explode… but you will continue without losing a life, with the game playing the animation of it flying through the former.

* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: The Imperial forces, the native lifeforms of the different planets (or the planet themselves...)

* DarthVaderClone: In the roof of the temple at Cleedos Soa/Jupiter there's a big head whose outline is suspiciously similar to [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader's]] one. In some versions of the game, if you've not still cleared said planet it will chase you from behind in space (note that your ship can only fire forward).

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy:
** All the planets, be they a barren space rock, an ocean planet, or a big desertic world, have the same gravity.
** ''Solar Warrior'' has the stages named after RealLife planets. UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} takes place on one of its moons ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(moon) Hyperion]]?)... OK. UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} as a lush jungle world and UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} as a volcanic world... much less so. UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} as a desertic world and UsefulNotes/{{Neptune}} as an ocean one... even less.

** The large dark blue guys who carry large guns. They can take quite a number of shoots before being killed.

* AlienSky: Cleemalt Soa/Saturn has a starry sky with a large, ringed Saturn in the background, Cleedos Soa/Jupiter a pale blue one with two moons, and Guwld Soa/Mars a red one.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: The enemy vehicles are destroyed much faster if you kill the pilot. In the case of the flying bike-like things, this may backfire as it [[HoistByHisOwnPetard may fall in flames over you, losing a life]] [[spoiler: the Mothership can only be destroyed by opening a tunnel through its central version]].

* BossBattle: At the end of each planetary stage, you'll find the Empire's base -a hemispheric structure- and the planet's boss will pop up. Depending on where you're you'll have to fight from one of the laser swor-wielding Mooks in steroids to a large guy who employs a jetpack. You must kill it in order to be able to clear the stage, by putting a bomb on the base and leaving on your ship. The space ones except for the Mothership have no bosses ''per se''.

* TimedMission: Every planetary stage. You begin with 60 seconds, that are renewed each time you reach a checkpoint, and once the boss has been defeated you've 10 seconds [[spoiler: in the final stage, you put a bomb on the Fortress' reactor's core and are instead given 60 seconds to escape]] to jump on your ship and leave. If time runs out in any of those cases, you lose a life.

* JetPack: Some enemies, up to the boss of Cleedos Soa/Jupiter use this. The enemies who carry laser swords are the worst offenders, as they love dives attempting to impale you with their weapons.

* TimedMission: Every planetary stage. You begin with 60 seconds, that are renewed each time you reach a checkpoint, and once the boss has been defeated you've 10 seconds [[spoiler: in the final stage, you put a bomb on the Fortress' reactor's core and are instead given 60 seconds to escape]] to jump on your ship and leave. If you fail, you lose a life.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: The enemy vehicles are destroyed much faster if you kill the pilot. In the case of the flying bike-like things, this may backfire as it [[HoistByIHisOwnPetard may fall in flames over you, losing a life]] [[spoiler: the Mothership can only be destroyed by opening a tunnel through its central version]].

* Engrish: The ending screen in spades.

* {{Jetpack}}: Some enemies, up to the boss of Cleedos Soa/Jupiter use this. The enemies who carry laser swords are the worst offenders, as they love dives attempting to impale you with their weapons.

* OneWingedAngel: The boss of Lagto Soa/Venus is a large WalkingTank. Destroy it and it will release its pilot, which is considerably harder.

* Sandworm: In Cleedos'/Jupiter's temple, between the temple and the Imperial base you'll find some large holes in the ground. If you fall into one you'll end up stuck on it until double-jumping. Otherwise be prepared for a nasty visit from the closest one.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: The enemy vehicles are destroyed much faster if you kill the pilot. In the case of the flying bike-like things, this may backfire as it [[HoistByItsOwnPetard may fall in flames over you, losing a life]] [[spoiler: the Mothership can only be destroyed by opening a tunnel through its central version]].

* HomingProjectile: the large ships that appear at the end of each space stage as well as the Mothership will launch pink spheres that chase you -often for quite a while-. It's easy to dodge one, but less so when in later stages there're three or more of those ships, that are also firing normal projectiles, and you're also attempting to shoot them down.
* Jetpack: Some enemies, up to the boss of Cleedos Soa/Jupiter use this. The enemies who carry laser swords are the worst offenders, as they love dives attempting to impale you with their weapons.

** GuwldSoa/Mars. Geysers, volcanic bombs, a lava lake that will insta-kill your character if you mis-calculate your jump, and just ''one'' power up in the entire stage that if you die after taking as you respawn later on.
** KworalSoa/Neptune. Enemies, be the planet's lifeforms or the Imperials, galore especially the latter at the end.
** [[spoiler: the Dristarg fortress]] UpToEleven, with enemies pretty much elsewhere and being a quite long stage.

** Also there, the sand worms are likely a reference to ''[[Literature/Dune]]''
* SingleBiomePlanet: Cleemalt Soa/Saturn is your typical airless, irregular-shaped world, Lagto Soa/Venus a lush, jungle world, Cleedos Soa/Jupiter a desertic world, Guwld Soa a LethalLavaLand, and Kworal Soa an oceanic planet.

** All the planets, be they a barren space rock, an ocean planet, or a big desertic world with two moons, have the same gravity.
** ''Solar Warrior'' has the stages named after RealLife planets. UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} takes place on one of its moons ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion Hyperion]]?)... OK. UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} as a lush jungle world and UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} as a lush volcanic world... much less so. UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} as a desertic world and UsefulNotes/{{Neptune}} as an ocean one... even less.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Guwld Soa/Neptune, even if the action takes place in the seabed, has your character moving as if he was on the surface, including your spaceship descending to both leave and retrieve you.

%%* BossBattle %% incomplete example - when does it happen, who do you fight, and what characteristics make it a Boss battle?

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: While Xain can jump from very high heights without taking damage, the BottomlessPit and the lava lake inside a volcano present at the bottom halfway through Cleemat Soa/Saturn and Guwld Soa/Mars respectively will kill him.
* OneHitKill: Partially averted. Xain's armor can take several hits before being killed and colliding with an enemy will destroy him and will remove half the armor's health. However the enemies who carry {{Laser Blade}}s will kill you with one hit, touch either one enemy vehicle or a boss and you die, and any hit or collision taken with your spacecraft will destroy it.

* SingleBiomePlanet: Cleemalt Soa/Saturn is your typical airless, irregular-shaped world, Lagto Soa/Venus a lush, jungle world, Cleedos Soa/Jupiter a desertic world, Guwld Soa a LethalLavaLand, and Kworal Soa an oceanic planet.

'''''Xain'd Sleena''''' is a Japanese arcade game produced in [[TheEighties 1986]] by Technos Japan that was exported by Taito as '''''Solar Warrior''''' in USA and later on ported as '''''Soldier of Light''''' with more or less success to other platforms as the UsefulNotes/AmstradCPC, the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum, or the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} among others.

In this game you control Xain'd Sleena, a bounty hunter who must free five planets ("Cleemalt Soa", "Lagto Soa", "Cleedos Soa", "Guwld Soa", and "Kworal Soa") of the same star system of the invasion of the evil Dristarg empire... [[ExcusePlot and that's all the plot]]. Even the name of the invaders is only revealed when you clear the end stage. While fighting on planets he's protected by a PoweredArmor, armed with a laser rifle that can be enhanced with {{PowerUp}}s released by some enemies, and uses rocket-powered boots that allow him to DoubleJump, but after defeating the {{Boss}} and destroying with a bomb the Imperial base he'll move from one planet to another with his [[CoolStarship starship]]... after you've fought the Imperial warships that guard the world, later on their [[TheMothership Mothership]] [[spoiler: and finally their movable fortress in the last stage]].

The most noticeable feature of this game is to be both a platformer (the planetary stages) and a side scrolling shoot'em up (the space ones), as well as in the original version the -relative- freedom of play it gave, as you could go to any of the five worlds [[spoiler: the sixth one, the Imperial space fortress, is not unlocked until you've cleared the five others]] and clear them in the order you wanted. This was unfortunately lost in '''''Solar Warrior''''' as well as in other ports, where you played in linear fashion from the easiest planet to the hardest one. Other changes were to replace the text of the start screen, removing "Xain" and putting you in charge to defend not all planets but the Solar System instead, and to change the names of the planets from invented ones to RealLife ones (in the above's order: Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Neptune).

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** All the planets, be them a barren space rock, an ocean planet, or a big desertic world with two moons, have the same gravity.
** Solar Warrior, as commented above, has the stage named after RealLife planets. UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} takes place in one of its moons ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion Hyperion]]?)... OK. UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} as a lush jungle world and UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} as a lush volcanic world... much less so. UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} as a desertic world and UsefulNotes/{{Neptune}} as an ocean one... even less.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Guwld Soa/Neptune, even if the action takes place in the seabed, have your character moving as if he was in the surface, including your spaceship descending to both leave and retrieve you.
* AsteroidThicket: after you've cleared the third planet and on your way to fight the Dristarg [[TheMothership Mothership]] and the fleet that protects it you'll have to cross one complete with SpaceMines.

* BossBattle.
* DarthVaderClone: in the roof of the temple at Cleedos Soa/Jupiter there's a big head whose outline is suspiciously similar to [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader's]] one. In some versions of the game, if you've not still cleared said planet it will chase you from behind in space (note that your ship can only fire forward).

* EverythingIsTryingtoKillYou: the Imperial forces, the native lifeforms of the different planets (or the planet themselves...)
* LaserBlade: Some {{Mook}}s as well as the boss of Cleemalt Soa/Saturn carry them. You '''do not want''' to be either impaled or cut by them.

** The already mentioned floating head of the Cleedos Soa/Jupiter temple.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: While Xain can jump from very high heights without taking damage the BottomlessPit and the lava lake inside a volcano present at the bottom halfway through Cleemat Soa/Saturn and Guwld Soa/Mars respectively will kill him
* OneHitKill: Partially averted. Xain's armor can take several hits before being killed and colliding with an enemy will destroy him and will remove half the armor's health. However the enemies who carry {{LaserBlade}}s will kill you with one hit, touch either one enemy vehicle or a boss and you die, and any hit or collision taken with your spacecraft will destroy it.

* PlanetSpaceship: [[spoiler: the Empire's movable fortress]].

* DarthVaderClone: in the roof of the temple at Cleedos Soa/Jupiter there's a big head whose outline is suspiciously similar to [[FranchiseStarWars Darth Vader's]]. In some versions of the game, if you've not cleared said planet it will chase you from behind in space (note that your ship can only fire forward).

* PlanetSpaceship: [[spoiler: the Empire's movable fortress]]

* BossBattle
* DarthVaderClone: up in the temple of Cleedos Soa/Jupiter there's a

** Solar Warrior, as commented above, has the stage named after RealLife planets. UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} takes place in one of its moons... OK. UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} as a lush jungle world and UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} as a lush volcanic world... much less so. UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} as a desertic world and UsefulNotes/{{Neptune}} as an ocean one... even less.

* AsteroidThicket: after you've cleared the third planet and on your way to fight the Dristarg [[TheMothership Mothership]] and the fleet that protects it you'll have to cross one complete with {{SpaceMine}}s.

* LaserBlade: Some {{Mook}}s as well as the boss of Cleemalt Soa/Saturn

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: While Xain/the Solar Warrior can jump from very high heights without taking damage the BottomlessPit and the lava lake inside a volcano present at the bottom halfway through Cleemat Soa/Saturn and Guwld Soa/Mars respectively will kill him
* OneHitKill: Partially averted. Xain's armor can take several hits before being killed and colliding with an enemy will destroy him and will remove half the armor's health. However the enemies who carry {{LaserBlade}}s will kill you with one hit, touch a boss and you die, and any hit or collision taken with your spacecraft will destroy it.
* OneManArmy: You're a space soldier who along his spacecraft has to fight alone an entire space Empire and its fleet.

In this game you control Xain'd Sleena, a bounty hunter who must free five planets of the same star system of the invasion of the evil Dristarg empire... [[ExcusePlot and that's all the plot]]. Even the name of the invaders is only revealed when you clear the end stage. While fighting on planets he's protected by a PoweredArmor, armed with a laser rifle that can be enhanced with {{PowerUp}}s released by some enemies, and uses rocket-powered boots that allow him to DoubleJump, but after defeating the {{Boss}} and destroying with a bomb the Imperial base he'll move from one planet to another with his [[CoolStarship starship]]... after you've fought the Imperial warships that guard the world, later on their [[TheMothership Mothership]] [[spoiler: and finally their movable fortress in the last stage]].

The most noticeable feature of this game is to be both a platformer (the planetary stages) and a side scrolling shoot'em up (the space ones), as well as in the original version the -relative- freedom of play it gave, as you could go to any of the five worlds [[spoiler: the sixth one, the Imperial space fortress, is not unlocked until you've cleared the five others]] and clear them in the order you wanted. This was unfortunately lost in '''''Solar Warrior''''' as well as in other ports, where you played in linear fashion from the easiest planet to the hardest one. Other changes were to replace the text of the start screen, removing "Xain" and putting you in charge to defend not all planets but the Solar System instead, and to change the names of the planets from invented ones to RealLife ones.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy:

** Solar Warrior, as commented above, has the stage named after RealLife planets. UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} takes place in one of its moons... OK. UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} as a lush jungle world and UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} as a lush volcanic world... much less so. UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} as a desertic world and UsefulNotes/{{Neptune}} as an ocean one... even less.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: "Guwld Soa"/"Neptune" even if the action takes place in the seabed have your character moving as if he was in the surface, including your spaceship descending to both leave and retrieve you.
* Asteroid Thicket: after you've cleared the third planet and on your way to fight the Dristarg [[The Mothershp Mothership]] and the fleet that protects it you'll have to cross one complete with [[SpaceMine]]s

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In this game you control Xain'd Sleena, a bounty hunter who must free five planets of the same star system of the invasion of the evil Dristarg empire... [[ExcusePlot and that's all the plot]]. Even the name of the invaders is only revealed when you clear the end it. He's protected by a PoweredArmor, armed with a laser rifle that can be enhanced with {{PowerUp}}s released by some enemies, and uses rocket-powered boots that allow him to DoubleJump.

The most noticeable feature of this game is to be both a platformer and a side scrolling shoot'em up.