Ode to WARASHI: What is your favorite?

[Herr Schatten]

Shienryu gets my vote, although Daioh and Triggerheart Exelica are also quite nice. Never played enough of Sengeki Striker to actually form an opinion on it.

[Pretas]

So whats the status on warashi these days, are they still active? website seems to be down since 2011.

Gone. They silently closed up shop, and the website faded with nary a warning. At least they weren't involved with organized white-collar crime, like Milestone.

[BIL]

Ah, Milestone inc's swan song: Bio-ethanol Hazard Battle

I haven't played their games terribly much, but damn if Shienryu's Stage 8-1 isn't cool. You first have a rematch against the orange mech you fought before, and then the TLB arrives in a rather surprising fashion. Cool stuff.

Boss fratricide is always cool! Besides the well-known Salamander 2 brain chomp, there's a great cheap shot here in RefleX. We Shin Contra players also know its TURTLE DROP is another highlight!

[Jeneki]

I really love the feel of Shienryu. I can pick it up and have fun any time. This is totally my type of game.

I only tried Sengeki Striker a few credits. Maybe it was the monitor on the machine, or maybe it's the colors, but I found the bullets really hard to track. I do have a Supernova motherboard so I should probably track this down some day.

Triggerheart I played a lot on the 360. This one required a lot of play to grow on me, as the unique game mechanics took a while to sink in. Unlocking extra boss fights gives a great incentive to learn proper play.

[xris]

Triggerheart!!!
Love this game, played a ton of it on 360. Like it says above me, good fun to be had. Pretty proud of getting achievements for no miss and 1cc hard.

Triggerheart!!!

[jasoncslaughter]

So many good games to choose from...I'm kind of wishy-washy on picking just one.

So, you might say that you're wishy-warashi?

Although I don't play it as much as I should, Shienryu is a lot of fun. For a while, at least.

[professor ganson]

Shienryu was one of the first shmups I ever bought. Got an import Saturn for playing shmups and Shienryu was probably the first game I played on it. Good times. If only for sentimental reasons, my vote goes to Shienryu. A fine Raiden-style game.

[pcb_revival]

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Game is far too easy otherwise could have been pretty good.

[BulletMagnet]

Did Warashi have anything to do with that one?

[moonwhistle]

Exelica's boss music is awesome as is some of the music in Shienryu.

[pcb_revival]

Did Warashi have anything to do with that one?

As their name is on the title screen ( and cover image above) I expect so

[BulletMagnet]

Y'know what, I never noticed that, and I own the silly thing.