Shmups

[Sureshot]

I've been playing Crimzon Clover World EXplosion a good deal lately, really enjoying it.

 

This is pretty much me in the process:

 

[ImmaculateClump]

Haha, yeah, it actually feels a little much at times.
I remember playing something a lot less flashy after and my brain was thankful for the break from the overload.

 

If anyone fancies a free blind 1cc, harmful park on the PSX has got you covered.
I realised on my second go that it's got that mechanic like in hazelnut hex where the more enemies you kill with one shot, the more points you get. The idea seems to be that you hurt the big enemies until they're almost dead and then wait for a lot of popcorn to get in front so you can shoot and hopefully take out a conga-line of pricks, your multiplier building with each kill, getting a big score payout from the high value bigger enemy at the end.

 

I don't know if I can bring myself to play it again and try and get a decent score. It's just so damn boring.

It looks great and is very inventive, but there's lots of dead air and you do a fair bit of just floating about, even if you're playing for score, waiting for lots of enemies to congregate and start shooting.

There's lots to admire, but it plays like shit.

[ImmaculateClump]

Another patch for Akai Katana - https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2076220/view/3637254425214912943

 

People complaining that there was a lot more slowdown when firing and chasing your katanas in shin mode on the 360 so it looks like they've sorted that.
I remember reading on the steam forum that the dev was having trouble fixing the laser behaviour without breaking replays so it looks like that might take longer to sort out.

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//Slowdown adjusted.
-Increase slow down when large amount of items exist.
-Tweaked behavior when released.

※about laser pushback. The roots of the problem are deeper than expected, and the schedule for fixing is still undecided.

 

Finally got round to trying the Eigengrau demo. The slow focus speed was bothering me a little, but it's alright. Canny good.

Three buttons, fire, turn clockwise, and turn anticlockwise.

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1624320/Eigengrau/

 

 

[geldra]

On 24/01/2023 at 15:01, geldra said:

Got the err 2CC(?) of Novice mode. 1CC is doable if I can manage to not fuck up on the way to the last boss I guess. Only had to continue right at the  end. 

Ohoh!! (Novice Mode obvs)

 

[ImmaculateClump]

Excellent! Was that with the red ship as well? That's the hardest ship to use for survival!

 

This is ... surprisingly fun to play. Space Saviour Special. Two stage demo. Don't worry, you don't get that horrible inertia that's in the video on digital input.

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2189200/Space_Saviour_Special/

 

There's a score to beat.

 

[Quest]

Started playing Hazelnut Hex today as part of Operation Play More Shmups and really enjoying myself. I can do the first three stages without taking a hit and then it all goes to shit in stage four, but I'll get there eventually. 

 

Wish it was a bit more more clear when the charge shot is ready. I've pretty much internalised the timing now but it could do with being a bit more flashy or something. Think that's my only complaint, though.

 

[Sel Feena]

Picked up Astebreed and it’s kind of sick, like the lock-on system especially. Great presentation and soundtrack, though I am finding it pretty hard right now to parse everything that’s going on. I feel like I should definitely be abusing the dash more

[geldra]

23 hours ago, ImmaculateClump said:

Excellent! Was that with the red ship as well? That's the hardest ship to use for survival!

 

 

survival?  I was going for score*!!
 

yeah there was no thought involved in my ship pick other than “I failed with blue last time, let’s give a different one a blast”.

 

I can’t even imagine what the last 2 levels must be like on normal difficulty. 
 

*was I fuck

[Gloomy Andy]

I've been chipping away too recently and managed the 2CC clear on Dodonpachi yesterday. 

 

On novice obviously. 

 

Got all the way to the final boss on a single credit. 

I think it's possible for the 1CC. 

 

Score was 4,427,672,765. 

I think that's my score before the continue was used. 

[MagicalDrop]

On 28/01/2023 at 23:17, Sel Feena said:

Picked up Astebreed and it’s kind of sick, like the lock-on system especially. Great presentation and soundtrack, though I am finding it pretty hard right now to parse everything that’s going on. I feel like I should definitely be abusing the dash more

 

I bought this yesterday too - silly cheap and bloody bonkers. 

[ImmaculateClump]

This is good fun. Hyper Snow Drifter - https://kevinmonitor.itch.io/narumi-stg

There's a score to beat. 349,887,900

 

[ImmaculateClump]

Demo for that valfaris shmup coming next week.

 

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1647920/Valfaris_Mecha_Therion/

 

Just got a blind clear on EX -Extra-.
Guy on my youtube was recommending it. It's cool, like a ketsui lite. It's chill but the second loop looks like a nightmare!

 

You want to be playing the executable in the "bsize.zip", that way the game will fill up the full screen. The fullscreen mode forces 60hz, so if you've got a high refresh rate monitor, turn off fullscreen in the ini file and use borderless gaming to play fullscreen windowed. Left margin 240, right margin -240 to preserve the 4:3 aspect ratio at 1080p

https://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/winnt/game/se481666.html

 

 

edit: Better score with the first ship.

 

[ImmaculateClump]

On 01/02/2023 at 13:05, ImmaculateClump said:

Demo for that valfaris shmup coming next week.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1647920/Valfaris_Mecha_Therion/

 

Out now. Is dogshit.

[immortaljellyfish]

9 hours ago, ImmaculateClump said:

 

Out now. Is dogshit.

Oh.

[ImmaculateClump]

It's got some really nasty acceleration on the digital controls and it's just so slow and boring.

I don't know, maybe folk who are into r-type and the more sedate old memo games might get a kick out of it.
It was doing nothing for me. A bit too tame and bland.

[ImmaculateClump]

Somebody's been at the monkey paw again.

 

 

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/02/batsugun-s-tribute-rated-for-switch-in-korea

[phillv85]

 

Edit: No idea why I’m so happy, I already have it on the Saturn, but…. 

[ImmaculateClump]

 

"M2STG live broadcast 2/10 (Friday) 19:00"

 

Those ships are from Zero Wing and Hellfire according to the comments.

 

 

[spatular]

isn't the s-tribute stuff the saturn ports which don't seem well received so far? hopefully they've been fixed up/batsugun one is good anyway.

[phillv85]

1 minute ago, spatular said:

isn't the s-tribute stuff the saturn ports which don't seem well received so far? hopefully they've been fixed up/batsugun one is good anyway.

Yeah, the emulator they use seems to have a few frames of lag by default that is added. If it’s released physically I’ll probably grab it, but if it’s download only I’ll do what I did with Elevator Action Returns and just stick to playing it on Saturn.

[ImmaculateClump]

Yeah, I'll wait for the bitwave release of the arcade version.

 

 

M2 will get around to it eventually on consoles.

I remember trying a naughty copy of the the s-tribute release of Layer Section and the input lag didn't feel bad on that one, so you never know, this might not be a total write off.

[spatular]

cheers, sounds like a good plan to wait for reviews at least.

[geldra]

7 hours ago, spatular said:

cheers, sounds like a good plan to wait for reviews at least.

Fuck that! Batsugun?! I’m all in even if it has an hour’s worth of input lag. 
 

Hope it doesn’t put the blockers on an M2 release though. 
 

Speaking of which, I doubt there’s much hope of retrospective Switch releases of Ketsui and Garegga?

[Yasawas]

14 hours ago, geldra said:

I doubt there’s much hope of retrospective Switch releases of Ketsui and Garegga?

I fear you’re right but this has always baffled me since Nintendo did get the weird DS Ketsui thing and a port of the GMode phone game.
 

My  remaining Switch dreams at this point are a solid Ketsui port and a Parodius collection. Neither will happen and it breaks me a wee bit.

[ImmaculateClump]

Oh dear, apidya on the mister is fecked. When you get to scene 3 the sprites start to disappear!

 

https://streamable.com/i5eal6

 

Looks like it's a know issue with amiga emulation - http://mantis.whdload.de/view.php?id=2421&nbn=2

That's a shame, I was doing quite well up until that point!

 

Wonder Planet got added yesterday - https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6109

[geldra]

2 hours ago, Yasawas said:

I fear you’re right but this has always baffled me since Nintendo did get the weird DS Ketsui thing and a port of the GMode phone game.
 

My  remaining Switch dreams at this point are a solid Ketsui port and a Parodius collection. Neither will happen and it breaks me a wee bit.

Parodius maaaay happen. We did get some decent Konami collections this gen. 
 

@ImmaculateClump apidya, that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long while!! 

[strawdonkey]

Pretty rough 1CC of Dodonpachi Resurrection (Novice) in the books! Had an inexplicably good fourth stage that was leagues ahead of anything I'd managed before, but a terrible 5th stage that was about half the score of my best. Also plenty of soft deaths just to rub in the fact that I'm still really terrible at it 🙌

 

Score was a shade over 17 billion which feels respectable but also way off the potential best I've had from other runs - I reckon 21 billion is very possible with my current playstyle and if I could actually get through the horrible rotating shit on stage 5 with a combo, who knows.

 

Naturally I've just seen that Jonster's score on the leaderboards is 300mil higher so now we've got a target too...

 

[edit] booo, replays are completely munted and unrecordable. Seems to be a common problem.

[Qazimod]

Batsugun trailer:

 

 

[geldra]

Physical version, go on then. Where do City Connection titles usually go on sale? 
 

It would be nice in trailers for them to make a fuss about input lag being low or whatever (assuming they’ve even made a point of addressing it that is). For the target audience it’s a genuine selling point. 
 

edit: guessing like Akai Katana it’ll be available from Amazon Japan (phys ver). 
 

edit2: 

 

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/B0BTLH1CVJ?psc=1&smid=AN1VRQENFRJN5&ref_=chk_typ_quicklook_titleToDp

[Riven]

So the free Xbox360 shooter Aegis Wing gets delisted tomorrow, it was North America only and I thiink you need a North America account to download it, but it does play on the Xbox One if you set your region to the USA.

 

Xbox One store page (This link may stay up as it's been suggested only the 360 link will be removed.)

https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/aegis-wing/bwhxzbv41qs1#activetab=pivot:overviewtab