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Murdar Machene
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How is Otomedius as far as how hardcore it is, anyway? Is it the kind of game you can beat on a single life like Life Force or is it more in line with DoDonpachi / Progear / other cave shooters?
Also I seriously wanna know, what happened to jets shooting alien eyeballs and guts being cool? Gradius 5 is pretty much a sequel in spirit to Life Force from NES, they got it right.
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Syd Lexia
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My copy is coming supposedly coming to today, so I'll let you know on the difficulty curve.
Also, those Cave shooters are meant to be beaten on 1 life too. Or rather, one credit. And then you fight the super secret mega impossible boss.
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Murdar Machene
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Yeah but only japanese people can do that, because they're autistic robots
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Syd Lexia
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So I just started playing this a couple hours ago. It's not really hardcore. It's basically just Gradius with tits, right down to nearly every boss and mini-boss having a core that you have to shoot. There's also some bullshit system where you get experience for killing enemies that permanently levels your character. I haven't read the instructions, but I assume it gives you access to higher level power-ups or something.
The game isn't as zany as I hoped it would be. I am a huge fan of Parodius and not so much a fan of Gradius, and this is rooted firmly in Gradius. I expected a game about half-naked straddling laser-mounted space canoes to have more interesting enemies than gray spaceship #1, gray spaceship #2, and slightly bigger gray spaceship. There should be some fucking penguins and shit up in this bitch.
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Greg the White
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I'm holding out for a Gun-Nac remake.
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Murdar Machene
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
So I just started playing this a couple hours ago. It's not really hardcore. It's basically just Gradius with tits, right down to nearly every boss and mini-boss having a core that you have to shoot. There's also some bullshit system where you get experience for killing enemies that permanently levels your character. I haven't read the instructions, but I assume it gives you access to higher level power-ups or something.
The game isn't as zany as I hoped it would be. I am a huge fan of Parodius and not so much a fan of Gradius, and this is rooted firmly in Gradius. I expected a game about half-naked straddling laser-mounted space canoes to have more interesting enemies than gray spaceship #1, gray spaceship #2, and slightly bigger gray spaceship. There should be some fucking penguins and shit up in this bitch. |
well damn.
I'm still waiting for a true Life Force remake. Gradius 5 was about as close as we've gotten so far.
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| I haven't read the instructions, but I assume it gives you access to higher level power-ups or something. |
The manual is four pages long and explains absolutely nothing. And they say people don't care about plots in shmups.
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Syd Lexia
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You know what I love? The text crawl with the translation of the voice acting. Cuz I have time to fucking read when I'm dodging a shit ton of bullets.
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The Opponent
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you will die here HAHAHAHAHAH
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Syd Lexia
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I really suck at this game. I can't kill any boss past Level 2 before the timeout. It's pissing me off. Fucking "shoot the core" bullshit. I like my giant bosses to have giant hit zones.
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Murdar Machene
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Syd Lexia
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I played Dodonpachi Resurrection for 2 hours yesterday, and I am fairly certainly I will never clear the game properly. I could probably clear Otomedius Excellent properly if I worked at it. But, in those two hours of DDPR, I had a lot more fun than I did in the 20 hours I've played Otomedius Excellent. Otomedius Excellent, you are now dead to me.
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The Opponent
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I'm just wondering why music DLC costs more than extra characters.
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Syd Lexia
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They probably used the Japanese price structure, and the Japanese are weird.
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slapolakinkaido
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The Japanese are obsessed with side and bottom-boob.
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