What can save the shmup/STG genre?

What can save the shmup/STG genre?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    you posted it

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    i wish the modern anime style wasn't so soulless.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    why would anyone want to save one of the worst video game genres? let that dumb meme weeb shit die

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I agree, I hope I live to see fighting games die out

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Cute, sexy e-girls with non-forgettable designs
    >Good, catchy music
    >Good-looking backgrounds that don't distract you from the action
    >Normal difficulty for newfriends and hellish harder difficulty for the japs
    It doesn't need much more than that. It'll never be AAA tier so they should only focus in pleasing niches, the e-girlcon one being the easiest

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I want to drink her komizu.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    More horizontal shmups that take advantage of the screen everyone has instead of that outdated vertical shit.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Vertical shmups feel nicer to play since your eyes and brain are already wired to react to shit coming towards you from the front naturally.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        But it's coming from above you isn't it?
        It's not infront of you exactly right so you can't you that as an argument for it

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Most approachable shmup for me was
    Caladrius Blaze. Lets you mix up the powers from different ships so you can find a style that works for you. The art is sexy and the clothing removal mechanics make it fun to not get hit during boss fights. Its the only shmup i 1cc'd actually on Normal.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >playing Saidaiojou
    >theres a seat for the waifu in the ship

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      now this is how i want to pilot a ship

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Dead and with a robot girl embracing you?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          There are worse ways to go.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Dead and with a robot girl embracing you?

        God I wish that was me

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Tfw no waifu sitting next to you, talking to you, while dodging bullets.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >playing Saidaiojou
        >theres a seat for the waifu in the ship

        >the waifu

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I want someone to co-op Deathsmiles.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      i always thought her character design was the absolute worst. Her face is more like a smiley i dont know how to describe it. The other girls have depth to their faces and she is just a few inked lines

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's called mob face and I like it

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    in case you didnt know they are remastering Daioujou. Dec 2023 is the release date. Called Daiojou Revivial. Already preordered the $160 tier

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      opps, its called Reincarnation. not revival

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Same thing, really. Going to emulate this with my Yuzu. I don't want to get myself a PS4 just to play DOJ.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Will download the .nsp as soon as it's dumped

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Does anyone know if all the new key art for this edition is online anywhere in decent res? I would love to use it on an arcade stick.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        someone posted it last week, but it had a doujin 18+ warning on it. maybe ill try to find it after work

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Thanks anon, I'll stick around

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous
            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              artist likes to see them chewed up

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                oh shit i just noticed green 360chan Piper is not on the newer cover. i wonder if she will be in the game. xbox versions might still be worth keeping around

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                They haven't mentioned the arrange mode or Death Label AFAIK so it might be just White and Black Label.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't think M2 asked Arika if they could add Death Label.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >not even very high res
              >jpeg compressed to frick
              >le epik meem doujin stamp pasted over it
              why

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's all I got.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Here's the removed R18 and the game logo.
        https://files.catbox.moe/8pt3ky.png

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Thanks anon.
          Where is this from? Is there any more?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >$160 tier

      Where did you find that?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        https://ebten.jp/p/s/7015023120731

        im getting it proxy shipped. I use a service called Baggage Foward Japan

        https://baggageforward.co.jp/en/index.html

        Its expensive, expect to pay around $100 shipping but they are porn friendly and i will probably buy a bunch of hentai to make it worth it

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          wanted to add ive ordered a literal mountain of 'questionable' hentai and theyve not utter a word. highly recommend for sensitive purchases.

          you just fill out a form with links to the page of what you want.

          Ive tried other sites and you have to send the list for someone to review, that is some bullshit or your orders will just get cancelled randomly .

          ive gotten everything ive asked for with baggage forward. aside from the high price cant recommend them enough. But i feel confident buying from them

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Damn, looking into it there’s like 6 different limited editions on various retailers. I had the Amazon version preordered but now I might change to a different one. Thanks for the info

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Releases December 7
      Holy shit that is my birthday. Pretty based they are releasing it on that day.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        happy birthday anon. i know its not until when you said but i wont see you then so happy birthday now

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's unsalvagable because the playerbase refuses to move on from Ikaruga.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's like 30% of the playerbase. We're already moved on from Ikaruga. But Radiant Silvergun however...

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    As much as I love 'em, nothing can.
    Even if you make them journalist-level easy, people will not play because 2D and they will asociate the genre with either boomer shit or kid shit

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I think it's gonna be CAVE's Touhou game

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The only actual Touhou mobile game with actual gameplay. A bunch of Touhou mobile games are shit.

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    are there any non-shmup with the same style as deathsmiles?
    I just want a gothic e-girlta mc 🙁

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's certainly not me fapping to Windia, otherwise Cave would be having record profits every month.

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't think CAVE is going to save shmups. They've decided the money isn't there and they are probably right.
    It's gonna be indie/doujin devs that save the genre.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Considering how often their games get ported and re-released they could have moved to downloadable games and still be making new ones. They bet on mobile after the arcade business became unsustainable and that only worked for a while.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      CAVE did save shmup for a while but then they did something stupid with their investments. But also arcade is a dying business.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >It's gonna be indie/doujin devs that save the genre.
      For some reason, I can't seem to picture that. Shmups are a niche genre that is while relatively easier to make, is very hard to fine tune just right, which would filter all but the most determined devs. Hopefully I'm proven wrong and we get more stuff like Blue Revolver and Zeroranger.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Shmups are never going to be "big" again, probably.
      But niche is fine, as long as the small audience for it still exists

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Girl on the right was raped to death by a group of old fat men, don't fall in love with her!

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I feel like im one of the only people if not the only one in the western hemisphere that fully playerd through the Cave Visual Novel Instant Brain.

    >People dont even know about it
    >Jap Only
    >Jap console required

    I actually recorded and added some crude subtitles to the playthrough as well as the raw version. I got about 2/3rds of the way when my channel was deleted by youtube for being too sexy on other videos.

    The last 1/3rd with the crude subtitles is available in my new channel if you want to look it up.

    In the VN, the Cave shmups are treated as movies being filmed in a studio. Peoples names are references to ships, games, bosses, but it plays like a ace attorney game more or less.

    Story is you aquire a multimillion dollar android and she looks like a girl from a recurring dream / lost memory. Is she the same girl?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Did you like it?
      Also, lmao kinect compatibility?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It was a kinda mid. I liked the detective parts well enough. Art was a nice nastolgia trip into 2000s cg. The story was interesting, but justs never felt like i was enraptured by the story.

        The kinect thing, i read that some dev from Cave went bar hopping with some Jap Microsoft executive, and the guy begged him to put in kinect functionality.

        Supposedly theres a version of DDP1 on it, but after completion of the game i didnt see it. I havent unlocked 100% cgs so that might be the ticket

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Submit to Touhou
    https://www.youtube.com/live/YNFGJQww4ik?feature=share

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Unironically why was Deathsmiles Cave's best selling game?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I recognize that artist.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The coomer marketing did bring a lot of attention to the game despite Shmup fanatics and youtubers pissing and shitting themselves about the fact

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >despite Shmup fanatics and youtubers pissing and shitting themselves about the fact
        Got any examples to share? Sounds funny.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Not him but i remember boomer shmups fans mad that shmups were featuring anime girls. During this era shmups just died in general and a lot of those same fans attribute the death of shmups to the debut of waifu shmups

          But if you ask me, I didnt play the older shmups because they were all boring generic military shooters. Every fricking game looked like Raiden, 1942 or Darius. If you asked me the shmup-ship was already listing and unfixable by the time waifu shooters came along due to that stagnation

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Normalgays love to attribute the deaths of things that they weren't going to play anyway to "waifus" and "pedo pandering", even when the sales evidence always points to the contrary.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          ?t=89
          It always cracks me up when people have to point out how not pedo they are.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because Rosa

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        That can't be it.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It is truly a mystery.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I recognize that artist.

      What is that guy's new account? the one on shitter got removed

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >listen to amazing game OST
    >holy shit now where is this from?
    >its from a shmup
    Every. Single Time.
    I don't even play shmups I just really like their music, post tracks please.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I did buy and play Blue Revolver tho, since I knew their composer and I'm a fan of his work

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I did buy and play Blue Revolver tho, since I knew their composer and I'm a fan of his work

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      its like part and parcel with shmups, having a good soundtrack.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Usually music comes first before making the gameplay.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Heavy early 2000s vibes with this one:

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      (Soundtracks aren't in order but shouldn't be a big deal).

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        cute cute sayo-chan

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    its nice to see people talk about deathsmiles, or even just know what it is. i was so ecstatic when 1+2 got a physical release for switch, wish more people knew about it

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Deathsmiles bundle is meh. I want only Deathsmiles I due to more accurate slowdown. I hate Deathsmiles II.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        i dont hate it but i do think the first one is leagues better, which is a shame. deathsmiles 2 felt like it had no budget at all, which to be fair it probably didnt

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, all of the budget went to the cutscenes. They're nice and cute but the first game did much better.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Which version did you get? For me it was the Strictly Limited Games one because it had the new DLC pre-installed on cart, their cover kinda sucks though unfortunately.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        just whichever version is on amazon, which yeah looks like its a different cover than the strictly limited one. it came with collectible cards and a booklet, which is more than i can say about 99 percent of switch games

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't like playing that game at all but the girls sure are sexy-cute.

  23. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    not dying in one hit and going back to the start of the entire game, that would be a start

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >what are lives

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