How unfair and frustrating can you be as a shmup boss?

[kengou]

Just found this great flash game called "Boss Rush" that lets you control a boss (they have several to pick from) and use combinations of bullet patterns to take out the enemy spacecraft! Now you can BE the super-unfair boss that traps you into a corner with no escape! You can control the insta-kill laser and use it in combination with a bullet pattern to create a trap that only memorization can avoid! Enjoy!

http://bossrushgame.com/bossrush/

[AraraSPAMWitch]

ugh, could they have chosen a more obnoxious control scheme?

Not worth my time...

[Dave_K.]

Change Air Blade is more fun.

[Udderdude]

Like watching paint dry.

[captpain]

Poop: The Game

[kengou]

Surprised at the negativity, I had a lot of fun with it. Although the levels requiring you to ram the enemy fighters were frustrating.

[Ruldra]

LOL at all the replies. It's fun, I'm gonna experiment a bit more tomorrow.

[Dale]

I like it, but I hate the interface. Kind of makes you think.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

not my cup of tea sadly, Much prefer a more vanilla Vs shmup over this.

[ZOM]

Change Air Blade is more fun.

[spadgy]

This game is a great little idea. Sure the interface is screwy and the controls lumbering and slow, but it feels like that's the point.

When we're facing down a boss the huge fortress feels menacing and overwhelming, but they are slow manovering in many cases, and they do have ridiculously elaborate weapons cababilities relative to a typical shmup player-operated attack fighter.

Being at the helm of a boss (standing, I imagine, like Darth Vader at the bridge of any of his massive vessels) controlling and orchestrating an attack against some agile little spaceship would probably be a really infuriating process. I think this little Flash game does a great job of putting you in the shoes (or super-shiny leather boots) of the commander of a flying fortress.

It isn't that much fun, but it's a great little shmup related toy nonetheless.

It's probably best played in an over-the-top, macho-camp black and gold military uniform with a cape and and exotic space pet on your shoulder.

[Ruldra]

Well, the game is fun but gets old quickly. Once you find what kills the enemies the fastest you just keep repeating that over and over again.

1st ship: Shot 3, then use shot 2 to lead them into the bullet spray.
2nd ship: Fire 4 drones then use shot 4. Or use shot 3 to kill them Discharge-style.
3rd ship (my favorite): Spin around and use shot 2.

4th ship sucks so I stopped there.

[Jockel]

As entertaining as watching gilmore girls.

[mr_m0nks]

It's probably best played in an over-the-top, macho-camp black and gold military uniform with a cape and and exotic space pet on your shoulder.

Like sex?

[ZOM]

You do sex with exotic space pets?

[captpain]

You do sex with exotic space pets?

Wow, for a poster on a Hentai Video Space Shooter forum, you're getting pretty judgmental.

[null1024]

It's probably best played in an over-the-top, macho-camp black and gold military uniform with a cape and and exotic space pet on your shoulder.

Why am I imagining M. Bison with a tribble on his shoulder?

[ZOM]

You do sex with exotic space pets?

Wow, for a poster on a Hentai Video Space Shooter forum, you're getting pretty judgmental.

I dunno, I guess the whole egglaying story got me into some strange mood. Thank Cuilan for it.

[Ed Oscuro]

Truth: fighter spacecraft pilot plays space invaders, boss plays command & conquer.

Remember kids, Hell March puts diabeetus directly in your brain.

[spadgy]

It's probably best played in an over-the-top, macho-camp black and gold military uniform with a cape and and exotic space pet on your shoulder.

Why am I imagining M. Bison with a tribble on his shoulder?

'Cause that's exactly the imagery I was going for!

[ROBOTRON]

Tribbles are brain food!

[Mills]

Sounds like a lame brain stupid f**king idea!

[monkeyman]

Nice idea but i gave up as soon as I had to ram an enemy (dumb ships kept running into the laser I was using to try and herd it). Would be interesting to see if you could have a person controlling the ship as well, though since memorisation is so important in these things i'd imagine the ship player would get trounced pretty quick.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Nice idea but i gave up as soon as I had to ram an enemy (dumb ships kept running into the laser I was using to try and herd it). Would be interesting to see if you could have a person controlling the ship as well, though since memorisation is so important in these things i'd imagine the ship player would get trounced pretty quick.

Yea i think something like that would really work well. Have one player control the fighter and another the boss ship. But have both of the ships play and control differently. The boss would be controlled with the mouse / keyboard with the player concentrating on trying to hit the fighter with different attack patterns. And the fighter would play just like any normal joystick shmup and be all about dodging the bosses attacks while returning fire.

The great thing is that non shmuppers would have fun playing the boss and us guys would actually get to play a 2 player shmup without badgering friends who arnt into shmups. If a developer made this into something other that a flash game and added extra shmup mechanics to the core design it would be great!

[ShmupSamurai]

Oh....sorry I thought this was a thread about how much of a bastard u would be if u were a shmup....

Now I see it's about a flashgame.

[kengou]

Nice idea but i gave up as soon as I had to ram an enemy (dumb ships kept running into the laser I was using to try and herd it). Would be interesting to see if you could have a person controlling the ship as well, though since memorisation is so important in these things i'd imagine the ship player would get trounced pretty quick.

Click the 'versus' option in the main menu.

[roker]

Something someone said that I agree with.