Vasara - your thoughts

[Sobek]

Vasara is good. The melee thing could be tedious, I suppose, but I was always focused on trying to hit as many enemies as possible to feel put upon or tired of it.

That said, even though I also saw the Vasara for a good price, I didn't jump on it.

lol @ Cave mention...

Have you tried vasara 2? it really fixes the tedious nature of the first,s scoring system IMO

Agreed. I find 1 a bit dull but 2 is in my top ten favorite verts.

[clp]

Also no one on here has made it to the 2nd loop on vasara 2 i really hope someone takes up the challenge!

[NTSC-J]

I hate the way enemies push you around (and often into bullets). Whenever I play I get so antsy having to hold the melee and wish I could just use the shot and dodge like normal, but that's not how you Vasara, and so that's why I don't.

If you want to play a non-Cave or Psikyo (kind of boggles the mind, really) try Cyvern, Varth and Air Gallet. Some good variety and quality with those.

You can play vasara just like shooting and dodging if you please its fully possible you just wont score well . Also as said the bumping you around thing is a weak complaint compared to most shmups that annoyingly kill you vasara gives you a chance .Its sad to see whenever a shmup comes out doing something different or its own thing no matter how well executed there is always a massive % of traditionalists who just cant bare having to think past shooting and dodging , i guess thats why the psyvariars arnt that popular here either .

I would rather my ship blow up, actually. Bumper cars is more aggravating.

And yea, I could just shoot and ignore scoring, but like I said, that's not how the game is supposed to be played and I don't like how it's supposed to be played.

As far as the traditionalist thing, I don't mind at all when a shooter tries something new. I think Battle Garegga is great and the suiciding is certainly going against the grain. Vasara tried something new and I think it failed.

[system11]

I had to clean up the thread.

Some posts are deleted, one user is warned.

Back to the point - I highly rate Vasara 2, it does something different, and if you like what it does they've done it very well. In my opinion it's a vast improvement over the original, with some interesting scoring and much higher production values. One has a permanent place in my collection.

[KBZ]

what are the going rates for both these pcbs?

Been trying out Vasara 2 in shmupmame and am quite impressed so far.