Re: You only hated BWR. You loved Cho Ren Sha 68K and you hated Ikaruga, too.by Bananadine 04/14/2011, 11:53am PDT
Mischief Maker wrote:
If activating hypermode and annihilating enemies in a giant confetti shower of gold stars in the Crimzon Clover demo doesn't make you crack a smile, then you truly are a lost cause.
Now don't go all new yorker on me and make a run for the ennui.
That was pretty but it looked very cluttered too. What are the stars for? Can you fail to collect them, or are they just eye candy? To my eye, they mess up the military scene the game is otherwise trying to display, and they distract from the bullets, which I assume are far more important.
My sister and I used to rent RPG's and finish them in a few days. Now we are adults and we do harder things. We were not trained to play WoW. I like making things, myself. I like building things up in a game and gaining choices and customizing--but in the multiplayer strategy war game way, say, or the physics-based puzzle game way, not in the JRPG way. If a game is dauntingly challenging and doesn't let me build anything more complex than a score, then it'd better really grab me in some other way. Shmup videos show off appealingly colorful and complicated action, but I expect those games to have some big flaws too (some of which are visible right away in the video)--the clutter, the annoyingly tacky design, the plentiful free continues--and I also know that they don't quite match my basic style. I'm an improviser. When I am put under pressure to perform in real time, I need to be able to make mistakes and learn from them on the fly. These games crushingly punish mistakes. I'd have to stretch myself to get into them. And, you know, this is supposed to be a fun thing. There's no reason to work to enjoy some single-player game that's got nothing else attached to it. I'd work to become a Crimzon Clover expert if somebody paid me to do it. And I'd probably enjoy it at least some of the time! That'd be a good part-time job and I'd snap it up if it were offered. But nobody's paying me so I play games that match my preferences more closely. Games with turns, or with life meters.
