How Much Should I Play Shmups In Order To Be Good?
They're called Options/Multiple and they trail behind the player ship like a snake's tail while literally multiplying the player's firepower. StB definitely helps for the brute dodging skills, but after playing DS you might realize that some spellcards that you're having trouble with had some simpler solutions than what you've been trying. How much time do you guys think it will take for HM to be translated?
I saw some say Ginga Force - its one of my favorites, but id say it’s definitely not for beginners due to the grinding for equipment, and difficulty. Mountain of Faith - Incredibly straightforward with no special mechanics, and considered to be one of the easiest in the franchise by a lot of people. Interesting how much Ikaruga streamlines the game, you’re always a max power, there’s only shoot and bomb, and you make yourself into the safe spot. And if emulation is an option for you then definitely check out the original DoDonPachi, which is the perfect introduction to Cave bullet hells and an all-time classic.
Good luck and remember the most important thing is having fun and dont compare yourself to other players cause a lot of people like to inflate how good they are and how "easy" a game is. Yes, there's a super small fraction of people who can get good at shmups. But that's not because they're gifted with superhuman reflexes or anything like that. If you want to get good at shmups, you have to play them, you have to free yourself from self restricting rules, you have to seek help, and you have to persevere. Very few people are willing to go through so much effort for such outdated "casual" games. This is basic but you never know if it might be helpful to point out.
By all accounts, staying as close to the spawn-point of enemies should result in the best run. We can think of this as “having the most territory” like in Go. The more territory you have, the less damaging your mistakes become.
Cave shmups are very doable for me, but Ikaruga is just prohibitively difficult because of its polarity mechanic and claustrophobic level design. By brushing aside the needs of our new players, they become stunted. By insisting “we’ll talk about all that hard stuff later. New players are incapable of comprehending high-level play. That’s our underlying assumption when we adopt this approach.
Turbo CD/PC Engine CD - Arguably, one could say this is this is to console shmups what Elvis is to rock n' roll. Hudson Soft championed this console with their shmups, but other companies had some nice inputs as well. Dreamcast - Short lived console that saw quite a few iconic STG exclusives. Due to its similarities with the Sega NAOMI arcade system board it was a bastion for arcade ports that ran on NAOMI/Capcom CPS-2 hardware.
Even a bad shmupper gets better by playing this way. The feeling of personal improvement and the rush of dodging swarms of bullets to beat your highscore or the current high is what it's all about. Besides the fantastic gameplay, shooters also have amazing artwork because they are scaled down worlds.
If you know the bullets will be fired to point x you will be able to vacate that spot before they get there. The more you can predict the less time it takes to react. I think I will never beat them 1 CC, althoug I enjoy playing them. I have just fun plaing them, trying to beat my personal highscore.
If you’d like to play on genuine hardware, it makes sense that your controller would be the same as what you’d use on the cabinet. We are blessed to have so many controller options in our modern era. Using the same control scheme — or even the same controller — across platforms will help you remain consistent. Therefore, you may need to try different setups.
In fact, I would really say that Dragon mastery of any danmaku game is like 70%% memorization/strategizing and 30% dodging. Sorry people who hate memorization, but that's just how it is. Realize also that memorization, just like dodging, is a skill.Which of course means that the more you practice/work on it, the easier it will become. Actually, this reminds me of something that was asked on the imageboard a while ago. During E3 2021, TicToc Games invited us to try out a preview demo of B.ARK and get to know the game a bit better ahead of its release. What we discovered is a game drenched in 90s nostalgia, both for the cartoons and the video games that generation grew up with.