Ed Oscuro wrote:playing whichever of the cho aniki games whilst in the throes of manpassion
I'm surprised that at least two more Big Brother entries have appeared since then
Anyhow, next to my dorm room there's a board with "WHAT SORT OF FUNS DO YOU HAS?" and I think I'll print up a little sheet in the style of the others saying "Fire Shark 1cc"
Thunder Force wrote:
Setup a game of Ikaruga with a dual signal splitter to two TVs facing each other, sit in the middle of them on a swivel chair, with the front/back of your body painted black/white, and spin 180 each time you change polarity in the game
When you think about the premise for Mushihimesama, it's possibly the strangest central conceit in videogames. You play a tiny, jailbait fairy girl with huge tits on the back of a beetle, flying through some gardens and woods and that. I'm not sure where you're going, but I'm sure it's for a good cause. Anyway, so far, so Enid Blyton. But then, on top of this wholesome setting (disregarding the tits), all the insects in the garden for some ungodly reason are spewing craptonnes of bullets at you! And your beetle fires out hundreds of bullets a second and eviscerates the entire insect populace of someones back garden! Is this really what it's like to be an insect? Has she no remorse for permanently affecting the biodiversity of the area?
It's the gaming equivalent of getting a magnifying glass and burning THOUSANDS of assorted invertebrates over and over while a particularly well endowed girl in GCSE year shrieks in your ear in Japanese.
MX7 wrote:When you think about the premise for Mushihimesama, it's possibly the strangest central conceit in videogames.
but but but....
...espgaluda.
Yeah, I see what you mean :p
I once briefly mentioned ESPGaluda in an essay about gay, lesbian and transgendered videogame characters. The concept of being male and female at once has a lot of precedent in far Eastern culture, but obviously 'Galuda is perhaps the logical conclusion of such a concept
MX7 wrote:Is this really what it's like to be an insect?
No, it's what games are like when their producers think: "We have no way of making this into a coherent, artistic whole, but who cares, our customers are geeks right, they see only the parts."
To really enjoy Darius you need to go to your local Smithsonian and steal a few of the fossil of dead plants and animals. It would be best to glue them to your walls and floor. Now you are ready for the Queen Fissil. You should then proceed to find a living coelacanth and suspend it from your ceiling fan. You then need to go to the local Wal mart and purchase a plastic child size rhinestone tiara and superglue it to the coelacanth to make a queen fossil. As the poor thing flails around let the sprinklings of fish water sooth your soul. If you really want to play the game correctly you will hire Zuntana to play.
Some of the best shmups don't actually end in a vowel.
No, this game is not Space Invaders.
MX7 wrote:Is this really what it's like to be an insect?
No, it's what games are like when their producers think: "We have no way of making this into a coherent, artistic whole, but who cares, our customers are geeks right, they see only the parts."
Or when they're smart enough to recognize when it's good to sacrifice some coherence for gameplay.
