Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 04:34 am
BLAZING STAR – Casual Game Review
BLAZING STAR is a Casual/Entertainment/Action game from SNK CORPORATION, first launched in 26th July 2012.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 62+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes BLAZING STAR Stand Out
“BLAZING STAR”, legendary NEOGEO shooting game with its unique game system and its gorgeous graphics, lands on iPhone/iPod touch!
“BLAZING STAR” features integre a multitude of exciting options such as a “point scaling system” for insane scores!
Shoot down your enemies with your powerful options and weapons!
■Not only a perfect port of the original NEOGEO game!
In addition to its classic “ARCADE MODE”, this perfect conversion of “BLAZING STAR” includes a “MISSION MODE”, allowing you to select in which stage you want to play!
You can now train yourself in your favorite stages or those which give you a hard time!
■Many spaceships with various characteristics!
In total, 6 spaceships with various strengths (spaceships for beginners, high scoring or with an increased defense) are available to selection in “BLAZING STAR”. “CHARGED SHOTS”, which vary depending on the selected spaceship, worth a watch!
■Intense cooperative gameplay via the Wi-Fi function!
Besides the “MAIN MISSION” game mode, “BLAZING STAR” can be doubly enjoyed by playing in “MULTIPLAYER” via the Wi-Fi function!
Will you be able to clear the hardest stages with your friends?
■Smooth controls!
Move your spaceship by tapping the game screen in “TOUCH CONTROL”, or maneuver it via the Virtual Pad displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen in “PAD CONTROL”!
■Compatible with “GAME CENTER”!
Complete a maximum of “ACHIEVEMENTS” in order to increase your Shooter Level!
Beat the best scores and become World’s Number 1!!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, BLAZING STAR is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th April 2022
Recent improvements include:
Compatible with iOS14 or higher
Download & Availability
BLAZING STAR is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is a great game and plays beautifully on Icade. Please release more SNK on iPad.
If you like SNK games this is a wonderful translation of a classic shooter. STILL THOUGH, NO SAMURAI SHODOWN.
Aside from a few CAVE titles, this is our favorite iOS shmup. Its just all around wonderful. Lots of different ships with different weapons. Crazy scoring multipliers and bonuses. The port is really well done with good graphics options (SCANLINES!). Also, some reviews complain about controls; the relative touch is not 1:1 because the various ships have different speeds. The developer had agreed to implement 1:1 relative touch for the whiners but they will have their own separate GC leaderboard for cheating.
This is a fun and cool game–exactly how we remember it. Perfect. HEY SNK: SAMURAI SHOWDOWN !! Please.
This game has great graphics, tons of variety in characters/ships, and huge bosses. The controls are the only thing causing us to not give it 5 stars. These types of games demand precise control and this game controls adequate at best. Still fun and certainly worth $3.
We dont mind not having auto fire but it needs a virtual joystick or dpad.
Once we saw the title we clicked the install button but you guys really let us down with the controls. Is there anyway to speed them up.
Often resulting in a ridiculous loss of lives. This needs addressing for sure. Other than that, another perfect port! Bring em all SNK.
Confusing menu. It's not obvious that u must press the buttons a second time to make a selection.
We have two v1 iPads. Games works on one and gives blank screen on the other ( with cellular connection) not sure why.
The dpad has awful spacing and sensitivity. Space invaders infinity gene did this best, but we're not certain that solution would help this game. We feel SNK should rework the level pacing to fit the slower, less responsive nature of touchscreen controls. That way, the game will feel more natural on the device.
This is a faithful emulated version of the game, with good pixel scaling and expected options. However, the touch controls need some work. We're willing to allow the fact that slide control isn't as easy to implement compared to R-Type and EDF due to the different character speeds or even built-in NeoGeo technical challenges, but an autofire option seems like it should have been a foregone conclusion — auto by default, then hold a button to charge shots, right? Not so here. In addition, the button sizes on the iPhone version are a little too small, especially the joystick — a scaling option would be appreciated. Nevertheless, it's a suitable emulation that just needs a little more care in the control.
This is not only a classic shooter – but one of the all time greats. Great graphics, sound, gameplay…add up to one the best Shoot-em Ups of all time. So when we saw that this was available as an app for the iphone we were beyond stoked. And everything is there. The only problem is that the control just does not work. We are not sure if the detection is off or what but you can't have the types of delay that we've experienced with this in a bullet heavy SHMUP, and it's everything from being able to move the ship to the fire button. We do not know how they are going to fix it, but until they do you should wait. The reality is that the game is not playable with the current control set-up. We do not believe we are the only one logging this particular complaint either. Lots of folks gave this a 5 star rating (which is fine based on the game's actual merits), but without the ability to actually play it we can't give it the rating we also think it deserves.
Runs very slow in menu. Black screen with sound in game. Unplayable.
Need Auto shot and Fast Move(Smartphone Mode) Update Patch Plz.
This could be such a great game. But the joypad is terrible. There's so much lag between your finger movements and ship it's maddening.
We bought this game for 0.99 US thinking that it would be a small loss if it played poorly. However, it runs great and is an absolute blast. We are running it on a standard iPad 10 with an 8bitdo SN30 Pro controller, which to our surprise is fully supported in-app. Theres really no reason to pass this one up if you enjoy scrolling shooters.
In the 90s we dreamed of one day having a neo geo system to play these arcade games at home, and now we can do it anywhere. This game is fantastic, a brilliant side-scrolling shooter with guts and charm. Some reviews say its not perfect and maybe those folk had the OG system or played it endlessly at the arcade but none of that matters if youre just looking for a great arcade shooter for iOS. Its worth the price and your time.
Thanks for adding new ios support. Amazing game now works for iphone 8 and X.
The emulation is not cycle exact, and the level 2 parallax scrolling flickers horribly. Its distracting and almost unplayable that way. How did this pass QC? Plays better on our Raspberry Pi 3 than on our much more powerful iPhone, ironically.
Game is great SNK classic. Great port, but on iPad 9.7, stage 2 background is glitchy. If dotemu fixes this it will be great once again. Please update, & thanks for keeping the classics alive.
The sky background on level 1 and the level 2 glitches out.
There are numerous game breaking bugs that make this unplayable. We cant believe this is even on the App Store . Dont waste your money.
PLEASE UPDATE GAME. We have massive buttons on our screen covering up the gameplay…. Have mercy :(.
When playing the game on ios version 13 on an iphone 7 plus the games buttons cover the whole screen blocking out the ability to move around the screen and actually getting a good look where the enemies are. Please update this to be compatible with the current ios version.
Please update to current version of iOS. It's the one game we spend the most time playing.
SNK made some fantastic games back in the day, this game blows many modern games out of the park. Dotemu did a great job porting as everything flows nicely, controls are smooth, and there are many options.
Another great SNK game on our iPhone! Keep the classics coming guys. Controls seem a little sluggish on touch but manageable. Much better when using our icade jr. Still a great overall game to have on the go.
So happy to play this Neo-Geo CLASSIC on iOS. Give it a try- you'll love it.
This game is fun asf enough said.
Can the game be updated for the latest iOS please.
The characters were a bit off our expectations, but gameplay and style are good.
The Bluetooth 2 player mode doesn't work. Gave it 2 stars for single player mode.
It is now playable on IOS 7. Thanks SNK but why so long for the fix? Suppose better late than never. All SNK games rock.
This game is amazing now thanks to the newest update.
Thanks to the new update, it now plays on iOS7 flawlessly.
Thanks for updating…this game is now awesome.
First iCade now iOS 7 controller support.
Game now works correctly on IOS7, ipads, etc. Thank you SNK for not abandoning the game, glad we could count on you! Remember to release Pulstar and Blazing Star on PSN :3.
New update finally fixed iOS7 display bug. They also added a nice new rapid fire button. Thanks.
No improvements have been implemented for the multiplayer mode. Only single player is worthwhile. Stay away if u like coop.
Please fix to use the video options on IOS 7, as it is now they are useless. We would like to use 4:3 with scan lines.
Solid game that deserves a play from fans of the genre.
To SNK, Great job with this wonderful anime/mecha shoot Em up game. However Both major and minor errors and bugs require fixing. This game does not work on iOS-7, the aspect ratio is locked incorrectly and it only shows half of the screen. Also, iOS-7 made the screen orientation completely flawed. We would like the arcade Bluetooth controller support increased and upgraded for iOS-7. Why? Because this application is malfunctioning. It is not exempt from errors and bugs in iOS-7. One bug is the screen orientation. Please add these fixes so we can enjoy this wonderful anime style game. We also hereby give this game five stars for the best graphics ever. Thank you, and good luck Jon Spinac.
This port of Blazing Star looks and plays quite well. The touch controls take some getting used but with added the iCade support we think that the devs have provided the best control solutions. Our biggest gripe with this game is that the graphics settings don't stick. We do hope they fix that.
Great game, The intro was amazing, so it display all six characters and their individual battle ship. The game-play was fun and was quick since is an SNK PLAYMORE, the quality was great. Thanks.
Great game, but need iphone 5 support. Please update.
It's awesome! But we will give full 5 stars if you make the number of credits increase depending on the difficulty (ex. Easy=20 credits Very Hard=05 credits), and a free play option.
The autofire makes the game even better. The controls also feels tighter. Thank you for listening to your customers. Hopefully the next update tightens the controls even more.
Thank you so much for adding a fast touch mode and auto fire It makes the game so much more playable on IOS and the perfect shooter on the go. You guys really know how to give the fans what they want. 5 stars.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.1
- Size: 91.39 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: SNK CORPORATION
Last updated: 19th April 2022 | Genre: Casual, Entertainment | Developer: SNK CORPORATION