I think Banshiryuu and Samidare are my desert island shmups.

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:46 am

Despite my love for Cave, Raizing and Psyiko shooters, Amusement Makers' shmups are just brilliant. Samidare is unrelentingly difficult (for me, anyway

) and Bansh takes the Touhou formula and perfects it (although I think I like Touhou music a bit more).

Can't...stop....playing...and dying...

Observer · Post by **Observer** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:08 am

Agreed! After seeing SFKhoa's videos of the extra stage I immediately wanted to get this thing... and finally I could do so last week and put my claws on the RebRank's reprint, which has the latest patch applied (1.52).

Unlock Extra Stage, unleash that beast: you are in for a party that will be hard to forget.

After this game, of course I'm impatiently waiting for RefRain -Prism Memories- the successor of Samidare with an even more pro and sober interface design and great artworks.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:10 am

Observer wrote: Unlock Extra Stage, unleash that beast: you are in for a party that will be hard to forget.

It's a sweet ride from start to end.

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:25 am

Observer wrote:
After this game, of course I'm impatiently waiting for RefRain -Prism Memories- the successor of Samidare with an even more pro and sober interface design and great artworks.

It looks, dare I say, even better than Samidare.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:27 am

IMO, Samidare > Touhou. Mind you, I love Touhou, but Samidare just goes that extra mile.

OP should try Blue Wish Resurrection if he likes Cave shmups, it's very Cave-like.

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:06 am

Zweihander wrote:IMO, Samidare > Touhou. Mind you, I love Touhou, but Samidare just goes that extra mile.

OP should try Blue Wish Resurrection if he likes Cave shmups, it's very Cave-like.

I have (and Aegis Wing) -- also outstanding.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:14 am

Samidare is the best conservatory shmup ever.

Observer · Post by **Observer** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:19 pm

By the way: do we have a scoreboard for this game?

Hoping RefRain will have a couple more stages. (bosses are already looking incredible)

CStarFlare · Post by **CStarFlare** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:58 pm

Samidare was great when I was just starting out and was like "wow this'll take forever for me to clear!"

Then I found out that it was three stages long and lol'd

I don't know if I could put it over Touhou just because it feels like a demo with an extra stage taped on.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:31 pm

CStarFlare wrote:Samidare was great when I was just starting out and was like "wow this'll take forever for me to clear!"

Then I found out that it was three stages long and lol'd

I don't know if I could put it over Touhou just because it feels like a demo with an extra stage taped on.

With how hard Samidare was, I don't know if many would want it to be much longer.

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:44 pm

I wouldn't compare Samidare to Touhou because they're different kinds of shooters. I was comparing Bansh to Touhou.

SockPuppetHyren · Post by **SockPuppetHyren** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:34 pm

Square King wrote:Despite my love for Cave, Raizing and Psyiko shooters, Amusement Makers' shmups are just brilliant. Samidare is unrelentingly difficult (for me, anyway ) and Bansh takes the Touhou formula and perfects it (although I think I like Touhou music a bit more).

Can't...stop....playing...and dying...

Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.

The game rips me a new asshole every time I hop on it (Of course, most every shmup rips me a good one, but that's not the point), but I love these games to death. I can't praise them enough, really.

CStarFlare · Post by **CStarFlare** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:20 pm

Zweihander wrote:With how hard Samidare was, I don't know if many would want it to be much longer.

Eh, Samidare isn't that impossible; half of survival is just using your sheild effectively. Not that I'm any good at it, but hey.

They could have extended it to five stages and made the difficulty curve a little kinder, or even kept making it progressively harder and had one hell of a shooter on their hands. In any case, it's not just the length - there's one ship type to go along with that 10 minute game. I didn't find the scoring system to be very exciting, but that's the kind of thing that I can put aside when I'm still playing for survival.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:49 pm

Observer wrote:By the way: do we have a scoreboard for this game?

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=5120

Observer · Post by **Observer** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:40 pm

lgb wrote:
Observer wrote:By the way: do we have a scoreboard for this game?
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=5120

Thanks! I bumped the scoreboard... Now, time to attempt beating this damn Extra Stage. The final moments are so great.

Aisha · Post by **Aisha** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:34 pm

Just a heads up since I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere: The C74 version of Banshiryuu v2.x has an Extra mode now. I unlocked it by clearing Normal mode; the game doesn't care if you use continues. If you have an earlier version of the game, you can download a C74 patch from the developer's site.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:16 pm

CStarFlare wrote:
Zweihander wrote:With how hard Samidare was, I don't know if many would want it to be much longer.
Eh, Samidare isn't that impossible; half of survival is just using your sheild effectively. Not that I'm any good at it, but hey.

They could have extended it to five stages and made the difficulty curve a little kinder, or even kept making it progressively harder and had one hell of a shooter on their hands. In any case, it's not just the length - there's one ship type to go along with that 10 minute game. I didn't find the scoring system to be very exciting, but that's the kind of thing that I can put aside when I'm still playing for survival.

Actually I've clocked Samidare in at 17 minutes.

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:50 am

Yeah, so maybe 'desert island' is too strong a term, but I like Samidare quite a bit anyway.

orange · Post by **orange** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:40 am

there's too many good games to pick

Etrian · Post by **Etrian** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:44 am

Samidare's great! The only thing I dislike is the mass memorization in EX stage. Apart from that it's really good.

I think Banshiryuu and Samidare are my desert island shmups.

I think Banshiryuu and Samidare are my desert island shmups.

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