After a much needed month taking time away from the site(with one exception) Cho Aniki Collection is collection of two horizontal shooters for forty-five dollars. The games are the original Cho Aniki and AI Cho Aniki, its sequel. Both games were for the PC Engine, also known as the Turbo Grafx 16. The series is known for being homo erotic, starring lots of oiled-up nearly naked roid-freaks… and the occasional woman thrown in cause why not. The first game has you picking a male or a female and fighting through multi-part levels. The homo-eroticism is there, but turned down. That same cannot be said for Ai Cho Aniki, which leans in hard into that aesthetic, and is therefore a lot more fun to play. No to mention there is an “Invincibility Button” where you dance and become invulnerable, but cannot attack.
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The Games in the Cho Aniki Collection are well emulated and fun to play. In the screenshot above. you can see the prompt for rewind. It is a useless feature as you need to rewind immediately upon being hit and go back one second, often not saving you. But you do have save states you can use, which help greatly for the bullet-hell challenged. The main problem here is the price, two games for forty five dollars. And two not every long one at that. There are a ton of well made collections on the Switch, this doesn’t cut it. There’s even another shooter collection for the same publisher at the same price that gives you four games. I think its pretty predatory what this collection does, and unfortunately, I don’t think its worth the money at forty five dollars.
If the price of the Cho Aniki Collection were to come down, this would get a Recommended, but as it is, it gets a Your Mileage May Vary with a seven back-end score. It would’ve gone even lower, but the collection itself is perfectly fine.
Overall: The Cho Aniki Collection are two classic shooters for way too much money for what you get. Get on sale if you want it.
Verdict: Your Mileage May Vary
| Release Date | 1/29/25 |
| Cost | $44.99 |
| Publisher | Edia |
| ESRB Rating | E |
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