Just got ESPgaluda

Metal Gear Okt · Post by **Metal Gear Okt** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:33 am

Love it to pieces so far, with a couple exceptions. Art is fantastic, animation is phenomenal. Love little blood spurts when you kill humans. Arrange mode is insane. Scoring system is great. I <3 Kakusei.

That said, the 2p mode doesn't work as well as it could. Also, the last boss is a son of a bitch. Am I missing something? Either wait him out or don't use reflect or Kakusei?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:59 am

I've put hours upon hours in this game... and never once played 2 player.
No friends.

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:04 am

Cave games (aside from feveron) don't generally work all that well as 2 players, mainly due to the scoring mecanics not really being suited to someone else breaking up your game plan.

Kinda sucks, but galuda is good enough to not even warrant letting someone else have a go

Metal Gear Okt · Post by **Metal Gear Okt** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:34 am

Oh, don't get me wrong. I love it to pieces. Except for the last boss. Motherfucker.

8 1/2 · Post by **8 1/2** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:41 am

"Basic shots only" is my strategy for the final form of the last boss. Don't let yourself get scared and it's an easy little crossover that you just have to repeat a few times before it goes down. Not getting scared is the hard part. The actual movement is fairly slight once you see it.

Post by **system11** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:08 am

My favourite Cave game, by far. Nice to see other people enjoying this.

Naiera · Post by **Naiera** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:53 am

My second favourite, after ESP Ra.De.

I enjoy the arrange mode the most. It's a bit masochistic since I suck and can only get to the third level, but it's so much fun getting those (sort of) bad ass scores.

Metal Gear Okt · Post by **Metal Gear Okt** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:21 am

The arrange mode character (Black?) almost makes up for the lack of a home port of ESPRa.de.

almost

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:26 pm

an incredible game. while i am a lot worse than most that have posted it is the most fun "pick-up" cave game i own (meaning its easier to pick up than DDP and DOJ).

the last pattern of the last boss is a bitch, i have successfully navigated it once, and i was credit feeding at the time. *shame*

arrange is also a riot, although i can't clear stage 2 yet.

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:44 pm

what are the differences between arcade and arrange?

Metal Gear Okt · Post by **Metal Gear Okt** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:07 pm

Well, you only get one character (who's very similar to the second choice from ESP.Ra.De), the bullet patterns are insane, and you can't continue.

edit: hmm...i guess there's two gender variants of him.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:09 pm

actually, you get two characters and as far as i understand there were some scoring mechanics added to reflect ESPrade. the shot types work a bit differently too.

Metal Gear Okt · Post by **Metal Gear Okt** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:25 pm

I stand corrected.