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XoPachi · Joined: 03 May 2012 Posts: 517

I started playing Blue Wish again because I want to play it properly. I'm not good at Hell mode sadly. I can get up to stage 3 before I start dying but I think it's beyond me. I can hit stage 5 on one credit in original though. Most of my deaths lately have been slippery movement. Game feels sort of sensitive for me. I feel like if I give it a good grind, I could actually clear this soon.

(Please god tell me going into stage 2 with 3.4 mil is a good start so I know I'm playing this game right...)

BareKnuckleRoo · Joined: 03 Oct 2011 Posts: 4638 Location: Southern Ontario

I got a new PB in Donpachi, making a bit of progress into the loop. Got to 2-4, but it's really hard, the S3 boss is a lot more aggressive and fast...

mycophobia · Joined: 22 Sep 2016 Posts: 598

i wish the donpachi second loop didnt have revenge bullets

BareKnuckleRoo · Joined: 03 Oct 2011 Posts: 4638 Location: Southern Ontario

Same. I actually lose steam once I get in the second loop because I find it boring compared to DDP, everything does the exact same thing, fires giant clouds of revenge bullets...

Lethe · Joined: 03 Mar 2020 Posts: 98

XoPachi wrote:

I started playing Blue Wish again because I want to play it properly. I'm not good at Hell mode sadly. I can get up to stage 3 before I start dying but I think it's beyond me. I can hit stage 5 on one credit in original though. Most of my deaths lately have been slippery movement. Game feels sort of sensitive for me. I feel like if I give it a good grind, I could actually clear this soon.

(Please god tell me going into stage 2 with 3.4 mil is a good start so I know I'm playing this game right...)

Are you playing BWR+? Survival can be kind of sink or swim in Plus thanks to survival-focused scoring + every extends. Build up your consistency on the first few stages and you should get enough resources to clear. There's also a massive difference in difficulty between Wait on/off runs, especially Hell where the slowdown is extreme (Hell with Wait on isn't that much harder than Original IMO, more crap on the screen = more score = more extends and it's still all aimed at you). Non-Plus is a nightmare by comparison: there are only two score extends and you have to fight the TLB every run.
3.4mil after stage 1 Original is about typical if you're not milking cancels or tick points.

I've also often felt this game was a bit "slippery". I seem to go from safe to making an easy-looking movement and suddenly exploding. It might be to do with the hitboxes - I think Prales mentioned during his Shmup Slam 3 run that he thinks they're asymmetrical or something.

XoPachi · Joined: 03 May 2012 Posts: 517

Lethe wrote:

[Are you playing BWR+? Survival can be kind of sink or swim in Plus thanks to survival-focused scoring + every extends. Build up your consistency on the first few stages and you should get enough resources to clear. There's also a massive difference in difficulty between Wait on/off runs, especially Hell where the slowdown is extreme (Hell with Wait on isn't that much harder than Original IMO, more crap on the screen = more score = more extends and it's still all aimed at you). Non-Plus is a nightmare by comparison: there are only two score extends and you have to fight the TLB every run.
3.4mil after stage 1 Original is about typical if you're not milking cancels or tick points.

I've also often felt this game was a bit "slippery". I seem to go from safe to making an easy-looking movement and suddenly exploding. It might be to do with the hitboxes - I think Prales mentioned during his Shmup Slam 3 run that he thinks they're asymmetrical or something.

I'm playing Plus with wait and guard both turned off using Peace.
I was curious about the hitbox. It does feel slightly off center. Sometimes I feel like things hit me from the back earlier than they should and the game's very sensitive. Evident in the menus. One analog tap and it flips through 3 options.

I've been getting a bit more brave in how I play this. Actually waiting for heavy enemy patterns to fill the screen before hitting the last bit of health on screen clears and get up to the top of the screen to get chests as soon as possible. I'm able to get my first extend before the stage 2 boss which is about normal for me in any game like this.
I keep getting to stage 5 and then just losing everything though.

EDIT: WHERE can I get this game's soundtrack? I cannot find it. :l
I love this sort of 2000's StepMania/DDR-ish music. Man this takes me back to middle school.

nesrulz · Joined: 13 Nov 2013 Posts: 177

I finally tried BG a little more seriously...
How good this game is! Damn.

Interactive shmup techno!
Of course, headphones are required.

OS: Linux
Emulator: Mednafen - Sega Saturn

DEL · Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 4156 Location: Oort Cloud

Currently playing Dariusburst EX+ Event Mode and AC missions. A whole new game really, with new stages, new BGMs. Plus many of the missions are tough.
One problem though. The AC 2nd Iron Fossil Cup mission glitches for me. Even though I complete it with a near WR score, it doesn't let me input my name or put a completion medal on the mission....Strange.

BareKnuckleRoo · Joined: 03 Oct 2011 Posts: 4638 Location: Southern Ontario

XoPachi wrote:

EDIT: WHERE can I get this game's soundtrack? I cannot find it. :l

All of the background music is in the game folder in OGG format if I remember correctly. They're not compressed within a data file or anything, and I think they are named with the original song titles (there's some freeware music in there, I remember the artist name being listed in at least some of the filenames).

Starfighter · Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 9 Location: Sweden

Crisis Wing. Great pixelart, great music. I'm struggling a bit with the endurance side of things but it's fun none the less.

XoPachi · Joined: 03 May 2012 Posts: 517

Playing Fast Striker and it will definitely not be for long. This game kind of immediately sucks.
It doesn't feel good with dpad, analog, or my joystick, no auto fire, and it is REALLY hard to see shit with these disorienting backgrounds.

(Poor GenzoMan is cursed. I only ever see his art in mediocre games when he's not doing YuGioh.)

ashiteru73 · Joined: 11 Aug 2020 Posts: 7

Played DoDonPachi today...again. This is probably my 8 times giving it another try. The more i play it the less i seem to hate it and the more i seem to enjoy. Might just wanna stick with retro shmups/touhou though...

davyK · **Posted:** Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:29 pm

Layer Section (Saturn)

Have managed to get to level 6 a few times on 1 credit. Great old game this.

Sengoku Strider · Joined: 05 Aug 2020 Posts: 376

Sōkyūgurentai is back in the rotation. Every time I start it up I just think "man, this game is so good...why did I ever put this down?" Then that dumb third boss starts clobbering me and I remember. I end up having to brute force my way past it every dang time, so by the point that I hit stage 5 my resources are spent and I'm entering my initials.

ashiteru73 wrote:

Played DoDonPachi today...again. This is probably my 8 times giving it another try. The more i play it the less i seem to hate it and the more i seem to enjoy. Might just wanna stick with retro shmups/touhou though...

Which platform are you playing it on?

ashiteru73 · Joined: 11 Aug 2020 Posts: 7

Sengoku Strider wrote:

Sōkyūgurentai is back in the rotation. Every time I start it up I just think "man, this game is so good...why did I ever put this down?" Then that dumb third boss starts clobbering me and I remember. I end up having to brute force my way past it every dang time, so by the point that I hit stage 5 my resources are spent and I'm entering my initials.

ashiteru73 wrote:

Played DoDonPachi today...again. This is probably my 8 times giving it another try. The more i play it the less i seem to hate it and the more i seem to enjoy. Might just wanna stick with retro shmups/touhou though...

Which platform are you playing it on?

Vanilla retroarch, like i spent 20 hours and some headaches learning it, so might as well put it to good use.

Edit: also using FBneo core

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