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There are half-naked female characters in your shmup. wut do?

It's a HUGE plus. I would hardly play without them
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12%
It's nice, but I still play shmups without them
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Be it dead babies, I'd still play it because it's a shmup
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I don't like it, but they won't stop me from playing the game
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Won't touch. My family and friends would think that I'm a rapist
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KennyMan666 wrote:I don't particularly mind a bit of fanservice, but put me in the camp of people who liked the DDP Element Dolls better when they were meant to be creepy rather than cute.
Wasn't Exy originally a pleasure doll?
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Yeah, but that's not mutually exclusive.
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Even DFK element daughters are to a certain extent creepy, arent they supposed to be deranged anyway?
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Yeah, I'm mostly comparing the DOJ and SDOJ ones.
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KennyMan666 wrote:Yeah, I'm mostly comparing the DOJ and SDOJ ones.
Really DFK is where they went especially Moe imo, SDOJ just took it to the next level. I think I liked DP better when there were no dolls and you were just unknowingly murdering all your comrades.
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SuperSoaker360 wrote:We should all just settle down and play Cho Aniki.
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I like the Rayforce/Galactic Attack/Layer Section/Gunlock girl, the too hot for US Gun Nac and Salamander Famicom girls (though you can at least see the former on the US version with a code), Elinor from the Aleste series, the Batsugun girls, and a few of the female characters in the Castle Shikigami games.
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They are really important to me. I cannot stress with my limited vocabulary how important the inclusion of underage female characters are for me in these shooting games. You see, these little girls are what gives me power and without these little girls I wouldn't be where I am today.

I have noticed that there's a tendency for me to get better at games that has good girls in them compared to games that has less good girls in them or games that doesn't even have any girls. I have mostly played the Touhou games for extremely obvious reasons and therefore those are the games that i'm most skilled at. Now this isn't anything related to the gameplay style that appeals to me or anything. It's just because that Touhou has so great lolis that their lasting appeal vastly surpasses the one found in Cave's more dark dank angsty manbabies in jet planes fetishistic games.

To properly illustrate what I mean, let's dive into one of my favorite games, UFO. You get girls like Nazrin and Kogasa straight off the bat. Both kids you'd be well willing to take a few years in the pen to mess around with when the lights are out. The presence of these two flowers makes the journey through, what would be the traditional shmups boring and lame, early game much less taxing. The quality of girls drop a little in some of the later stages, namely 3 and 6, but at these points in the game. The fun factor will have taken over.

A game like DOJBL doesn't have these little lubricants that makes the transition from bored pedophile psychopath to actively engaged young man vigorously dodging bullets proceed smoothly. Instead it has lame robots they can't really keep you stimulated in the time it'll take you to reach that part in the 2nd loop where the game starts being fun.

A game like Deathsmiles tries to imitate Touhou's great formula of making little girls the main characters but it doesn't manage to pull off the job with quite the same level of finesse. You might not be able to tell the difference filthy normie pig but a prison sentence waiting to happen like myself can definitely tell that love is in the air when you are playing Touhuo but when it comes to Deathsmiles, you don't really care about the characters. You just want them naked. And only 1-2 of them. And it's not French slut or Thorny slut.

But if you look at Casper, you see that Cave definitely has some potential for picking up. Casper is the 11 year old jailbait character that's hard to use. Yet, despite her being difficult to use compared to girls like Windia or women like Rose, you will still probably choose to jump as far into her cockpit as you possibly can. This is good character design but they still need to work on making their personalities better. Because shmups are storydriven like that.

Speaking of cockpits, Cave's latest game seem to keep up the style with having the cast being almost entirely female. But again, they showed us all that they still doesn't have too much of a clue. You will raise questions such as 'why must the A-type be burdened with such an ugly bitch? A-tan never bullied anybody :(' and to play as the pretty one you have to play with the B-type. You could say that this again is similar to Deathsmiles where they make the hot girl harder to use but in this case it simply WON*T F*CKING DO!

A: Hikari is not as hot as Casper. B: A-tan doesn't deserve this!! C: I'm not giving you credit for pulling the same stunt twice you assholes.

At least this one knows that the TLB should always be a little girl who knows how to kick some butt. Hibachi is a pretty awesome TLB. And you know it. It's done half-heartedly. With the effort it would take for normal people to reach and defeat Hibachi's glorious little butt you are hardly awarded with anything more than the bragging rights. How about a little picture album with hibachi trying out various swimsuits, panties or neglecting the use of panties or something. Anything. As long as she get's naked. Hmph!

So yeah uhmm.. You don't necessarily have to have girls to make a good shmup but they are certainly a good ingredient. 8)






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Zengeku3 wrote:...
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It's called multitasking you jerkbutt.
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I would bet money Zengeku owns a fuckpillow.
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BareknuckleRoo wrote:I would bet money Zengeku owns a fuckpillow.
Well now, why would i need one of those? I've got a cute little sister. :)
Please refrain from digging into our relationship, it's a bit taboo.

No, i don't own such a pillow. Is there anything else you wanna know. 8)
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Zengeku3 wrote:You will raise questions such as 'why must the A-type be burdened with such an ugly bitch?
I agree. A-Type is very unsexy.
Zengeku3 wrote:Hibachi is a pretty awesome TLB. And you know it.
Aoi Yuki has the best loli voice.

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Zengeku3 wrote:How about a little picture album with hibachi trying out various swimsuits, panties or neglecting the use of panties or something. Anything. As long as she get's naked. Hmph!
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SuperSoaker360 wrote:
Zengeku3 wrote:You will raise questions such as 'why must the A-type be burdened with such an ugly bitch?
I agree. A-Type is very unsexy.
You're both insane. She's the best.

This thread is going places... :lol:
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If you represent sanity then i'm fine with insanity.

If you ever change your mind, you know how to contact me. I'm starting up a religion dedicated to the proliferation of understanding for and the rights of loli lovers. If you get killed in this war against injustice, you'll get 72 lolis in heaven.

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The best is clearly Suzaku. I'd do her options any day
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Zengeku3 wrote:I'm starting up a religion dedicated to the proliferation of understanding for and the rights of loli lovers.
I'm pretty sure there's a South Park episode about this
trap15 wrote:This thread is going places... :lol:
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Zengeku3 wrote: You see, these little girls are what gives me power and without these little girls I wouldn't be where I am today.
In an asylum? Or jail, maybe?
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Zengeku3 wrote:EVERYTHING
This is the greatest post I have read on this board. Hats off to you sir. I suspect the deadpan tone will be missed by many though :P
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I couldn't agree more with what Zengoku wrote.

I have always, in every game possible used the underage female character no matter if it's a difficult / easy character. Furthermore i would refuse to play the game with other characters even if it would make gameplay easier.

Akai Katana - Suzuran
Giga Wing 2 - Romi
Deathsmiles - Casper

I'm curious if Sengoku similarly chooses his Anime. Looking at the last dozen series i watched i can definitely see a pattern here.

BTW to anyone finding SDOJ Xbox mode annoying - has anyone ever played the jap version of GW2 with character voices on an chosen Romi?
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Zengeku3 wrote:...
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Jaimers wrote:pic
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I play for the shooting, not the fanservice, as such, i couldn't care less.
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Lol, that picture. This is now how I'll imagine the colonel as young.
Hagane wrote: In an asylum? Or jail, maybe?
Nah, I was declared sane by psychologists and I've not done anything illegal yet aside from stealing a skateboard so I'll still allowed to run free.
matrigs wrote: I'm curious if Sengoku similarly chooses his Anime. Looking at the last dozen series i watched i can definitely see a pattern here.
Well, looking at the most recent stuff I've seen you could say that I can see a pattern too. However, I usually only see stuff that gets recommended to me and since people know that i like things with cute girls in it, doesn't even have to be sexualized really just being cute is enough, they usually recommend stuff with lolis innit.
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Zengeku3 wrote:I've not done anything illegal yet aside from stealing a skateboard so I'll still allowed to run free.
What are you doing running if you have a skateboard? Get your shit together, Zengeku.
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When I got found out... they took the skateboard away from me.
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n0rtygames wrote:
Zengeku3 wrote:EVERYTHING
This is the greatest post I have read on this board. Hats off to you sir. I suspect the deadpan tone will be missed by many though :P
Pretty sure he's serious
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chum wrote:Pretty sure he's serious
He's dead serious. :lol:
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