Maryokutai Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 Spent a bit more time with it (edit: Razion EX, new page). I think it's really good, the fact that you have a bullet-clearing move that's not limited by a resource, except for the charge-up time, makes the higher difficulties more approachable than usual (though I presume the hardcore sneer at that idea). On normal bosses get extra attack pattern and on maniac there are extra enemies moving around the stages though, so it's no cacewalk still. The only downside I think is that it's just so very barebones. That doesn't affect the actual gameplay but I like having some flourish around the experience, like galleries and such. There's not even a general settings tab, so they put "rumble on/off" in the sound settings. The credits only show three people, so I guess they were just laser-focused on making the game as good as they could and everything else had to play second fiddle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted September 24, 2021 Author Share Posted September 24, 2021 ^ that sounds cool, i want to give it a go at some point, not in a rush though, loads of stuff to play! shikigami no shiro 2 is coming out on steam, and switch apparently. Brilliant game if you like bullet hell stuff, one of the best non-cave bullet hell games imo. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556650/Castle_of_Shikigami2/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 I can vouch for Shikigami no Shiro 2 being good, it works really well in 2 player too if you match up your characters 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Does anyone have experience with these Cotton games? I saw a bunch of them pop up on the eShop recently and another one a couple of weeks ago. They look kind of cute but I've no idea if they're good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted October 1, 2021 Author Share Posted October 1, 2021 not really my sort of thing but i got the cotton reboot one to try, played it only a few times, bullet visibility wasn't great, then got distracted by something else and haven't played it since, so not much help really! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 On 01/10/2021 at 07:53, Maryokutai said: Does anyone have experience with these Cotton games? I saw a bunch of them pop up on the eShop recently and another one a couple of weeks ago. They look kind of cute but I've no idea if they're good. i'm not sure if it's the same cotton games you're refering to? - apparently the saturn collection of cotton games that just came out (maybe in japan and digitally over here? i'm really not keeping up to date on all the shmup releases recently!) has massive/really really bad input lag so i'd hold off on those ones for now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Oh, that's good to know. Yeah, my post was kickstarted by those releases so I asked more generally because I knew Reboot was out there as well. Thanks for the warning, I'll probably just pick up Reboot at some point when I see it for a good price. They also seem to be making a completely new one? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 On 30/06/2021 at 12:55, Maf said: It's still pervy! Do I look like a Genshin Impact player? (Don't answer that) I ordered Raiden 4 on Switch. It looks too cool not to get. How long ago. I totally forgot about this game. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Holy sh... this is the coolest thing I've seen LRG do so far. At 40 bucks it's reasonably priced, too. Probably doesn't work with the OLED model though. They're also releasing the game on cartridge alongside of this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I can't think of a worse way to play a shmup than with a single joycon on its side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Yeah, that's the downside, but you could always just mount it like this and use the pro controller (even if that defeats the purpose a bit). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 it says that stand thing supports the oled switch. i'm not getting that as my switch doesn't leave it's dock, but i do sort of think it's cool. i'll get the game though. played some g darius hd last night (uk version just arrived) the music was good and the bosses look cool, i'm pretty rubbish at it though, the last 2 bosses took ages to kill, turns out i was doing it wrong, need to capture enemies and use giant laser on the bosses apparently. i think it's a sort of ps1 era game with the resolution turned up but with the old textures so it looks pretty odd/not great, although some of the enemy fish look cool still imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggletooth Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 was very tempted to order the full thing, had it on PS2 bought back with me from time was living in Japan, but sold it on some years back when needed cash. But decided to be sensible and order the regular edition. Will just happy to have a physical copy again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 From the guys that made that Space Hunter game @spatular mentioned. I like the colour palette, really cool 80's vibe. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted November 6, 2021 Author Share Posted November 6, 2021 ^ nice one, yeah space moth is pretty good fun, i like the colours too, not sure what's different about this new version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illdog Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 https://store.strictlylimitedgames.com/collections/deathsmiles-1-2/products/deathsmiles-1-2-nsw-preorder 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 ^ thats cool. Heads up if anyones interested in ordering it theyre selling in 2 batches and the first i think is already sold out, second goes on sale at 5pm today i think. someone broke the world record on ketsui: ive been playing some g darius, im rubbish at it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 some stuff came out recently on steam, dodonpachi doj mobile phone version (and were talking really old java phone games here) (also out on switch in japanese eshop) - it didn't recognise my pad so not sorted that yet, not really recommending this i just got it as i was curious, doj is amazing (and really hard) so play the proper version on mame or whatever would be my recommendation. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1751100/GMODE_DX/ and blue wish desire, again not played this yet as had problems getting it to run full screen (solved with this as recommended by some cool dude on another forum https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases/tag/9.5.6), i think it looks really cool though and i'd definitely playing this if halo/forza hadn't just been released. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1794300/BLUE_WISH_DESIRE/ too many shmups at the moment! think the new version of space moth and some darius stuff is out soon/tomorrow and the new version of crimzon clover on steam might be soon too? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Yay, there's quite a bunch coming out. While I miss those with a slightly bigger budget (think Sine Mora or even the more recent R-Type) it's still cool to see. Wonder when Cygni will come out, if ever, haven't heard anything about that recently... Edit: Well, scratch that! Turns out they partnered up with Konami and released a longer trailer a couple of weeks ago, still looks phenomenal: Space Moth for consoles is today, yep. I'll be buying that, I think I even have enough Star Coins to essentially get it for free. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Wow that Cygni game looks great. Definitely want to play that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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