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Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011














Ranking:

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Pocky & Rocky 2
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom (Jp)
Typing of the Dead
Gun Mute
Wario World
Dark Cloud
Wizards & Warriors
Code Name: Viper
Axelay

Arrhythmia fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Oct 28, 2022

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Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
Thought "I'm stuck, I can't find the red key on the fire level" and laughed at how absurdly generic that sounded.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

trying to jack off posted:

i know what game i would pick already

This.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

grieving for Gandalf posted:

I'm starting the game now and immediately jumped into the room above the spawn point and lost half my health trying to figure out how to open the chest at the bottom, giving up, and getting out again..please send prayers

You gotta find the key with the same colour.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
You can make the jump without the feather. Kill monsters till you get a blue potion and then you can jump far enough.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

That Little Demon posted:

you can make all the jumps, pink and blue potions

Todd Howard, 20 years younger: You see that jump...? You can make it.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
I thought it was good

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Evil Eagle posted:

Finished it off, had to walk back in forth in the hallway before the final boss for 5 minutes to get enough gems lol.

yep

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

mycophobia posted:

i got to a red knight and died and when i respawned there was a red knight asking for 100 gems so i went back and got 100 gems and then i couldnt find the red knight asking for it again? i guess? and then i game overed

he was gone because you had 100 gems for him.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
I can scrute this game perfectly.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
I think this game is ugly.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
Everything looks a lot darker and less colourful than I think it should.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Sub-Actuality posted:



this guy has done some pretty awesome Axelay artwork, found it while I was searching for the badge icons

very cool

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

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.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Lmao

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

That Little Demon posted:



The absolute WORST ska band you will ever see live

Lmao

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
BBG lifts up the sign outside the door to reveal that the Imp Zone Game Club was the Imp Zone Suicide Pact all along.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

mbt posted:

bravo. gently caress you.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Pablo Nergigante posted:

The Round Vulcan is by far the most useful weapon imo

It felt really cool to get good at.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Plebian Parasite posted:

The homing lasers looked dumb as gently caress

I liked how that one looked. :frogbon:

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

lol

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

lol

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
Got up to level 6 with my non-gamer fiancee. The asymmetry between Pocky and her partners suited my fiancee; I think she would have been pissed off if she had to worry about losing lives. Lots more fun than Axelay, IMO.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
Got down to 1 candle on the final boss... twice.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
I think if I can get the dodge on his really fast sword slash down I should be able to beat him.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

That Little Demon posted:

I feel like you trigger it by standing in front of him slightly so my strat was to trigger it as fast as possible and move the direction I approached from

That's what I figured so glad to hear it. :cheerdoge:

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

P-Mack posted:

What if anything does p2 do in the shmup stages

They just sit it out. My fiancee used it as an opportunity to go cook dinner.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
Beat it tonight. Good pick, had a lot of fun.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Yeah. Beady was an interesting boss

Yeah he was cool

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
lol

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

trying to jack off posted:

american mcgay in his gaming chair



lol

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Brady is your live in nurse, and you think he's ftw.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

rodbeard posted:



The few seconds where I thought was the end of the sentence were magical.

7 loadouts of the huge drug, he says to the man not wearing pants

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
no

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
The boxmen in stage 2 have me qqing really bad.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
I made it to stage 3. You guys weren't joking about the loving birds.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Thanks

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

That Little Demon posted:

finally know their entire secret plan....

Lmao at "Supply as much drugs to Commander Jones as possible".

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
I made it to stage 3 again. Gameovered before the birds. There's no way I'm finishing this one.

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Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011


I could scream.

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