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I also think it is a pretty ugly game outside of some great sprite work sometimes
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i'm going to give it a try sometime over the weekend just to get myself set up for SNES emulation. my shmup experience as a kid was all gradius 3 and darius twin, which feels like the exception in terms of visual design. most of them seem to be simple and stylized like 1942, sky kid and squoon or else kind of bland "you're in space" like alpha mission.
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That Little Demon posted:I also think it is a pretty ugly game outside of some great sprite work sometimes I think the enemy designs are a little uninspired and I had some trouble with readability on the first vertical stage (only gotten to Stage 2 so far, digging in deeper this weekend) until I had it memorized the cool stuff with Axelay is the three-hit system with the weapons and the use of Mode 7
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Bicyclops posted:i'm going to give it a try sometime over the weekend just to get myself set up for SNES emulation. Bro have you seen Thunder Force III/IV.
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 this guy has done some pretty awesome Axelay artwork, found it while I was searching for the badge icons
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Sub-Actuality posted:
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the mode 7 is making me ill and i cant clear the first stage without dying. farewell
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stage 1 is a lot harder than 2, your ship is giant in vertical mode, keep at it
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a lot of enemies will just peace out relatively quickly so don't go too crazy trying to blow up everything
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Sub-Actuality posted:
very cool
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Jan 28, 2022 19:33
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Arrhythmia posted:Everything looks a lot darker and less colourful than I think it should. there's a brightness setting in the options that defaults to medium for some reason, it looks better all the way up
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not doin too hot today  lots of dumb stage 2 and 3 deaths
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this game keeps reminding me of starfox 64 it started with stage 5 ending with a giant two-armed monster that rises out of the lava that made me realize the part of stage 1 where you're skimming over water is a bit like Corneria, and the asteroids are a bit like Meteo and stage 6 is like Area 6, with the long star destroyer type ships with modular weakpoints, and ending with outrunning an explosion e: is like venom that's it though. stage 4 is not like Aquas. it's just not Cubone fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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Arrhythmia posted:Everything looks a lot darker and less colourful than I think it should. looks great in my crt
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That Little Demon posted:cool, just realized why you don't want to have missile and regular attack mapped to the same button lmao... you'll see lol finally got far enough to see what you meant
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Sub-Actuality posted:lol finally got far enough to see what you meant i dont think its going to be that big a deal, you can just not fire at that part. but i havent fought him myself yet
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yeah you can just not fire but its really annoying imo (at least it was for me) lol
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Explosion Bombs were still working pretty well on him before I died
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im currently skimming thru this replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jFsGTuXdFs its a hard mode 2-all but maybe still helpful for normal players like myself?
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Cubone posted:there's a brightness setting in the options that defaults to medium for some reason, it looks better all the way up It does. Didn't go looking for it because I thought it would be weird for an SNES game to have a brightness option. Anyways, I have basically no experience with shmups. The only one that I think I spent any time on was Gigawing, like, 19 years ago on Gametap, but I credit fed that because I just liked how the bosses exploded. This got my blood pressure all the way through the roof, and if this is a relatively median entry for the genre I don't think it's for me. Things I liked: The sprite work. They looked good. I especially liked the ship, and the boss of stage 5. The losing weapons system. Most of my deaths were to crashing into terrain or enemies so I felt like it didn't come up as much as I wanted it to, but it was cool. How firing the vulcan gun felt. Things I didn't like: Not being able to select from all the weapons at the start. Except for maybe the last one, none of them felt substantially better than another, and I feel being able to experiment with my loadout would have been more fun. How much I died from flying into poo poo. I rage quit on stage 6 when one of the sliding walls slid straight up into my butt hole.
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i'll try this game this weekend but i'll probably give up before i beat the first level.
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Arrhythmia posted:Things I liked: Yeah the lava boss guy looks really cool
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Holy poo poo
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im doing very poorly in this game today so i will try again tomorrow
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   The absolute WORST ska band you will ever see live
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That Little Demon posted:
The lovely lovely Bosstones
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Pablo Nergigante posted:The lovely lovely Bosstones incredible first debut album Beginners Trap
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That Little Demon posted:
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That Little Demon posted:
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I'm not a coward, I just played it on easy I'm not a cheater, I just read up on gamefaqs
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Bicyclops posted:I'm not a coward, I just played it on easy
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That Little Demon posted:
Lol
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Bicyclops posted:I'm not a coward, I just played it on easy
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