In this video, Soldier of Light, released in 1989 for the Atari ST by RAD/ACE
This is the ST port based on Technos 1986 coin-op "Xain'd Sleena". The game is divided into 2 steps, the first is a simple go from left to right platform shooter where you occasionally must jump up or down obstacles or buildings and has a end-level boss armed with a light-sabre. The second is a horizontal space shoooter where you must destroy waves of alien space ships.
Despite being labeled as a second rate game I spent thousands of hours and money playing the coin-op of this game back in the day and I expected a good faithful conversion for the ST. Well, graphically the game is surprisingly good and faithful to the original, the scrolling is good and the tunechip is simple and good yet repetitive. So this game seems good but when you grab your joystick there's a surprise; the controls are very different from the original. The main sprite jumps and stays suspended for too many seconds, and you can't control it while in the air. There are many bullets that you cannot avoid and your main weapon fires 2 bullets so slowly that you can't kill everyone walking in your direction, you have to kite them only to find other enemies in the other direction.
To prove the fact that it's a lazy conversion please notice that there's no intro, the planets are 3 instead of the original 5, there's no main ship aiming at the planet, no animation of Xain jumping out of its ship and landing on the planet, when you place the bomb you go automatically into your ship, and the escaping sequence is very different.
Yes I'm very disappointed it could have been an awesome conversion while it's only a standard game.
Here you'll find gameplay of first planet and escape session.

All footage taken from original hardware machines and upscaled to 1080P.

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