M2/Compile Heart's Zaleste announced for 2025

[muzakefron]

I think Senjin Aleste is considered to be way too easy, though

I think most of the complaints about Senjin's (lack of) difficulty come from it being an arcade game that even less experienced players can 1CC within their first four or five times playing the game

i feel like it's easy to overstate how "easy" senjin is... novice & casual difficulties are very easy, type-d (as a ship and leader) is defensively overpowered, & assist mode essentially gives you a double autobomb. but without those crutches there is a bit of survival difficulty i think, & if you explore different ways of playing or try to build rank or do any amount of scoring theres an incredible amount of potential challenge. (for example, looking @ the runs that are up on youtube, the majority of them are novice/casual, assist on, type-d leader, type-d ship 90% of the time, zero rank 90% of the time, no TLB, practically no attempt at scoring...)

[eksratu]

Agreed muzakefron, most people who have played the game can find a difficulty that’s not easy. I enjoyed trying to 1cc Original difficulty with no assist (but also on the no TLB route) as much as any other good CAVE(-adjacent) shmup. And the Expert difficulty is far out of reach for me.