Guardian Legend = top down + STG
Air Fortress = platform + STG
Blaster Master = top down + platform
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Yoshi’s Woolly World has at least two hori shmup level sections. I feel like a shmup level or two is pretty much standard in Nintendo franchise sidescrollers now. Woolly World shares a developer and ethos with Kirby’s Epic Yarn, so the inclusion of a shmup level is not entirely surprising.
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The Super Sonic stages in latter 2D Sonics tend not to count, as they’re missing the crucial “shoot” element, but there is one arguable exception: Sonic Rush, where Blaze’s main attack is a hadouken-type projectile.
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Its fucking bizarre that I came here to ask if sonic All-Emeralds final stages count.
Garfield Caught in the Act: Commercial Break, Earth Worm Jim chase stages also lack shooting but are suddenly flying (and bad).