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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: July 03, 2008 (12:51 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Great review as usual Rob. I love reading about old shmups, and you're the man as far as those are concerned. I especially liked the paragraph dealing with the fifth boss, and the challenges it presented. I was a bit confused with the bit early on describing the seventh level boss as BRUTAL. That means brutally hard, right? (I'm easily confused, I realize this.) If so, that's particularly notable, given the fact that the rest of the game seems a snoozefest.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: July 03, 2008 (04:02 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It was typed with the intent of being brutally difficult, but after reading your post, I could make a bit of a case for brutally tedious, as well. It's this huge ship that just goes crazy with flooding the screen with bullets and fireballs. You can knock a couple parts off (like the wings which are just spewing bullets all over the place) and eventually get left with the center part, which gives you a five-way spread of fireballs, occasional 3-way bullets and regularly drops big bullets which explode into a multi-directional (6 or 8-way) shot. The thing is, this center part takes FOREVER to kill. So you'll have 4-5-6 waves of it leaving the screen, coming back on, fighting you for awhile, leaving again and doing the same thing over and over.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: July 04, 2008 (07:48 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That sounds particularly dumb when the actual levels are so vapid. It's so hard to get shooters right.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: July 04, 2008 (07:50 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Anyway, the point was, great review. ^_^
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Author: Felix_Arabia
Posted: July 04, 2008 (07:54 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Masters, you should use this incriminating evidence against Ruder should he decide go against what you just said.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: July 04, 2008 (09:20 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Haha, good find Felix. I knew he felt that way too, but I'm surprised to find that it was down somewhere in black and white.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: July 04, 2008 (09:33 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Six posts in, and nary a word of thanks from bitter OD.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: July 04, 2008 (09:49 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
HARSH! But appropriate punishment.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: July 04, 2008 (10:01 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Uh.....thanks for the compliments, guys!....
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