good day. ufo picked up the latest milestone shooter for eventual us release.
now i can stop complaining that milestone made another shooter and nobody told me.
finally.
Friday, June 19, 2009
good day. ufo picked up the latest milestone shooter for eventual us release.
now i can stop complaining that milestone made another shooter and nobody told me.
posted by plounted
10:21 AM
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airplanes and triggerhappy ladies.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
oh progear you and your nonsense. this shining happy shooter from cave is one of their two shooters notable for their horizontal progression through levels, the other being deathsmiles, a game i have not had the pleasure or ability to play, thanks to microsoft and their region lock. regardless, i do have this game to play, and hate, because i force myself to clear a whole level no deaths before i get to the boss, which at the fourth level becomes ridiculous, and even more frustrating as i nearly cleared it on about my third try but then died a stupid death one ship from the end of the level. that level is particularly frustrating because as the game is horizontal, cave was like "hey lets up the difficulty and make this level vertical" and some programmer was like "you know, i dont want to code in a function where you turn vertical ill just leave the ship and its bullets sideways." thanks guy. yes you remain sideways, relying heavily on your hold shot and possibly your wide shot, should you have chosen the first pilot. if you try and play the level like a vertical shooter, the game ganks you with bottom spawns that actually fire offscreen into you should you sit at the bottom of the level to dodge bullets. that and a fairly ambiguous hitbox make this level a multifaceted bitch. the game itself is pretty okay, not my favorite cave, but then ive said all this before though now i am actually assesing gameplay aspects to make this blog more interesting. the scoring system is pretty rad, hold shots producing gems and normal shots producing rings, with bombs depleting scores but giving you upwards of 20,000 points should you hold on to enough of them. ive also been toying with player combinations, "gun"+ "nail" being my original preference, though ive been trying to branch out to others, using the weaker wideshot "ring" + with the slowpowerful "rivet" which is both helpful and not. the real benefits to the combinations are combining a normal speed and slowed speed that are comfortable, as it seems each combination has a different slowshot speed, missles being the slowest and my least favorite. the art is okay, its a little too anime for me but i suppose they can't all have giant catspiders. a good game, one i wil continue to observe and force myself to fail at.Labels: commentary, progear
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7:42 AM
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mamama.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
back into some of my shmuppy habits, i picked up mars matrix for the dreamcast the other day and found that it had some features that greatly changed how the game could be played, leading to some interesting conclusions on how i play shmups. the right trigger i believe auto pierces over and over, only factoring in pierce reload time. this technically should be stupid overpowered and make the game too easy, but the disjointed unaimable incredibly short ranged weapon really interrupts the flow of the game, as it is traditionally something i only use rarely or on accident, when the game forces me to as i begin streaming fire. there is also an autofire function, but autofire generally makes me sloppy and i error more often. also notable additions are gallery mode which i do not know how to unlock exactly past buying the function itself, the ability to buy more credits and lives, as well as level playthrough videosTHE COMPUTER DIES TWICE, invincibility mode, which would just make to game too easy though easier to get your gun higher than six, which is the highest ive ever managed to get it, and the addition of a second version of the game which i feel is kind of the rejected sprites version, or the we made dodonpatchi version. but takumi manages to pull it all off smoothly and ridiculous with the bullets still doing their best to make me crazy. someday maybe theyll make me a new shooter to hate and play over and over and over again. maybe.
also sorry for lack of posting. maybe more insightful things like this.
Labels: commentary, mars matrix
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6:51 AM
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RISE.
Monday, May 4, 2009
cave seems to be having a bit of trouble these days making their arcade masterpieces more accessable in general, with apparently highly buggy versions of dai ou jou black extra and the upcoming ketsui port which i believe is still ds only which is total nonsense in my opinion but regardless i am happy to discover that mushihime sama is on its way to the 360,
though thanks to microsofts hate for humankind, regionlock will hinder me from probably ever playing it. another hilarious not is that SNK is in the process of developing a shooting gae based on king of fighters characters, which sounds like a dojin game to me but hey whatever makes you happy. im sure characters i want in it will not be and the main characters that have always been the main characters will remain the main characters I LOVE YOU K999. also sorry for not posting ill try and make up for it.i still have to hit up shootthecore and find some downloads for you three.
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8:05 AM
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neo classical
Monday, March 30, 2009
a shmup i never thought i'd find, modeled after a pretty kickin ps1 rpg, baroque shooting takes the crazy enemies of baroque and puts you behind a cupid looking thing with an upgradeable gunstar heroes combining elements crossbow and charges you with the task of killing everything for no reason, to which i hope all of you would answer yes. get to it.
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9:54 AM
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flashmupp. (intentional im just funny like that.)
a typical wednesday afternoon exhibits a good deal of cho worship, in the form of not only exploding anemy shard similarities and the rrootage normal version bombs and a great example of someone else other than that bulletminded azn regurgitating shmup systems into the flash environment at an acceptable speed. check it outttt. hur.
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7:46 AM
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Monday, March 23, 2009
another perusal of kenta cho's flash doodlings has produced two games, both basically built on the same engine but with different controls, both interesting examples of flash shmups.
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9:27 AM
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attttttire.
Monday, March 9, 2009
for those of you who don't know, theres this english chap who's making some wonderful quality tshirts, most of which are shmup related, or at least videogame related. ive not got much money, and soon to have even less, so i havent had a change to pick one up myself, but as soon as i can i most likely will. andyway. chack them out, theyre pretty rad.
posted by plounted
8:26 AM
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strikers 1945.
the sped up cracked out 1942 clone/homage/ripoff/whathave you strikers 1945 presents a very basic and simple executed premise. you are a plane, you have to shoot. there are almost no gimmicks or scoring strategies, short of just not getting shot, or possibly the charge shot which varies in usefulness from ship to ship, my personal favorite being the first ship with its "ill stay here and shoot this whole side of the screen so you can worry about less, though in later levels the charge time, however minixcule, still leaves you open for smashing. another notable difference or aspect of this game is almost a darius throwback, the final couple of bosses straying from the robotic mech warship design of the early levels and replacing them with giant pallete retarded crabs who shoot too fast. an obvious psikyo game, with the same powerups as nearly ten other games on the hardware GUNBIRD YOU KNOW I SAW THAT. just kidding gunbird. a fun fifteen minutes. i think it took eleven credits my first whole run ever. pretty lame right.
i need to learn how to be better at these games.
but no matter.
uh yeah.
check it out.
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8:17 AM
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4k bio wars.
just a notable little shmupy thing that i found thanks to the glorious blogs i read each day, this shooter features pretty much nothing except an automatic complete level down every time you get hit, as well as some interesting and im convinced randomly generated little line based enemies, and the basic powerups with an interesting shot level up graphics. you can change forms with period and comma too, in adition to arrow keys and space as main contorols. could be pretty rad if expanded upon, but is intentionally small due to the nature of the contest, in that it is only 4k. chack it outtttt. here.
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7:10 AM
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dimawhat.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
i very much enjoy realizing ingrown shenanigans in shooters that actually increase their depth. somehow i overlooked this interesting one in the game dimahoo, a fairly straight forward one with four characters including one with a giant comb sword for his pompadour and a group of necromancers that kind of suck. you fly around a fantasy world and make swiss cheese out of dragons and tanks and the like. the gimmick i discovered was that there is a charged shot with a motive. holding down shoot charges your shot, realeasing a special attack that transformes destroyed enemies into items. the items vary depending on the level of the charge, as the longer you hold it the higher
the level. you can get all kinds of items, mostly weapons and armor, but also some joke items like a little cow and certain kinds of food. i didnt notice the unlocking of these items actually benefitting you in any way, but it adds another level of challenge to the game when you try and navigate bullets you dont have to for the sake of picking up the best items. when you finish it shows you all the items you picked up in your run, so you can brag about the items you got. its a simple gimmick that adds a good bit to the game. i good solid game too.im going back through some of the shooters i used to play so expect more reviewy stuff like this i guess.
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9:56 AM
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
kenta cho is one of my heroes.
here.
this site is pretty amazing, with an online open source presentation of flash games and applications that people can make and share and i assume edit.
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9:49 AM
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raiden II.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
because i like raiden and stuff.
so then i play this raiden 2 straight slone/port whatever this is.
and im like. FFFFFFFFF
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but its cool.
i just have to get better. it really shows how good this old shmups still are at challenging players, with still a ton of stuff going on at any moment. plus my favorite most glorious toothpaste laser. mmmm.
anyway. a relaly good fast mameless pc version. get itttt.
here.
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11:42 AM
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im still doing this i swear.
Monday, February 16, 2009
today i came across a beautiful little game.
this game is called usapi. you play a rabbit head that a rabbit tore off itself and hurled into the sky, capable of firing carrots either forward and backward or side to side, a bizarre and actually kind of original mechanic that i don't see often enough, making those pesky caution signs so much less frightening but still as difficult perspectively. you battle the denziens of your badly drawn town who fire what else: poop. yes poop throwing slimes, poop pooping cats, and even some poop vampires that say "die" in english. wonderfully crude, kind of really well done, sans graphicall, but consistantly badly drawn and giving the game an even more original feel. i reccomend it. the game seems to inifinitely loop, with difficult getting harder through the three levels. check it out.
download here. rename the exe to something in english if it gives you a fail to load message.
home.
posted by plounted
11:14 AM
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white butterfly.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
soy eah im back. so one of the shmups ive played recently was by the author of the garden of colored lights, for which i personally did not care, but was alright. this game, white butterfly, sports a similar but less vibrant graphical style again coupled with the multiple weapon styles that gocl had, though some notably more influenced by other shmups, most notably to me however hard it is to use well is the beamsword from chaos field, which i also played the other day and never realized that the yellow ship was actually halfway useful. anyway. in a deceivingly simplistic and slightly really difficult shmup for some reason i honestly cannot discern though it could be the fluidity actually makes it too easy to run into bulleds or the somewhat ambiguous hitbox, this game does manage to have go replay value as you'll probably feel bad about how much you have to play the first level. its a very nice tight shmup, not particularly notable but a good addition to the growing library of shmups by nonasians.i mean that in a nicer way than it probably came out.
download.
posted by plounted
7:24 AM
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
so i apologize, not that anyone is going to read this, but im sorry for abandoning this thing. ive not really genuinely played games in some time, and really need to get back at it.
im considering probably maybe continuing with this blog so if you are still there then let me know and ill see what i can do for you.
but im not expecting any of you to be.
BUT WATEVER.
ILL MAKE IT WORK.
WOOOO.
i miss shmups.
im considering probably maybe continuing with this blog so if you are still there then let me know and ill see what i can do for you.
but im not expecting any of you to be.
BUT WATEVER.
ILL MAKE IT WORK.
WOOOO.
i miss shmups.
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7:54 AM
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