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| I still don't get why you love Cho Ren Sha 68K and hate other shmups. by Mischief Maker 10/18/2013, 7:16am PDT | ||||
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| I think Ikaruga's polarity absorption system is gimmicky and doesn't really add to the fun. Didn't find it compelling in rRootage or Exceed 2nd Vampire Rex, either.
I prefer a scoring system that rewards risky maneuvers. Ikaruga's "shoot 3 of the same color at a time" feels like it would be more at home in a latter day Space Invaders than a full screen maneuvering shmup. Ikaruga's claim to fame was filling a gap in the marketplace (at the time) and coming from a very popular developer. And for the newbies, enjoy. The appeal of shmups for me are twofold: 1) Challenge porn. Same reason why someone would want to beat a Devil May Cry game on "Dante must Die" difficulty. Goddamn it's satisfying to clear a game that at first glance seemed impossible. In the shmup context, the controls are about as simple as could be, no wrestling with camera angles or enemy lock-on. Pure challenge. 2) Shmupper's Zen. An occasional altered state of consciousness you enter when playing through the absolute chaos of a bullet hell shmup at maximum difficulty. There's just a shift and suddenly you're picking out patterns and gaps calmly and clearly in a situation that should be sensory overload. It's being in "the Zone." Can't think of a single non-shmup videogame that ever brought that out of me. Note that bullet hell is a very specific sub-genre of shmups in general for me. Typically open-air shmups defined by massive amounts of relatively slow-moving bullets. They almost never have surprise deaths, enemies coming from weird angles are usually presaged by a HUD warning. When you die in Bullet Hell, it's pretty much your fault. I DO NOT like R-Type and Gradius style shmups for this reason: and this reason: Bumping into walls in Hellsinker is not fatal, btw. You just bounce off. |
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