Great video man. As someone who’s watched plenty of your replays to help learn and understand certain games better, I’m glad to see you make a video like this for the community. Was also stoked to see some of the concepts overlap with how I’ve approached games and found them work for me. I’ll be honest I rarely feel like I hate shmups even when I’m pissed at one, which is inevitable 😂. Just having some freaking perspective and compassion for yourself when struggling against a clearly brutal game and remembering why you play goes a long way. And you’re right on mental state is huge. I’ve found if I recently meditated or am just feeling super calm and balanced that day, I can just zone in on a game and play so much better. Because you’re just into it and not getting riled up at every little thing. The mind just thinks more clearly. If I’m in a bad mood I won’t touch hard games with a ten foot pole. That’s when it’s nice to grab something you’ve already smoked a hundred times and just enjoy playing on autopilot for the thrill of it or music or whatever. By the time it’s over I usually feel better. Smoking an easy shmup from time to time and not feeling guilty about it is my recipe for self care 😂. Anyway man, congrats on reaching another sub milestone. This year at least 1K more 🙌🏻
Really good content here, I'm used to seeing novice advice, but it's not often we see more advanced techniques. I really enjoyed the consistency part, it's really interesting that we can do hard sections, only that we can't do it every single time.
Amazing to see a snippet of my Embodiment of Scarlet Failure video pop up like this more than 15 years later. To think I initially made it as a throwaway joke video. It's like you say, when you suffer a heavy game over you gotta respond to it positively, and my response to that failure was to think "I could make a pretty silly video out of this one day, better save the replay."
the fact you saw this video is frankly amazing. i hope you're well kefit, the scarlet failure video really is how responding to a gameover should be : have fun with it and look at the positives
Legitimately a very helpful video for a super small niche of players I consider myself a part of. I'd agree that the hardest part of the shmup journey is overcoming salt and delusions of becoming a bigshot celebrity player. Seems like a lot of people in the shmup communities I've joined daily post hella salt about a bullshit boss instead of enjoying the game. I used to have this mindset in different communities until I learned to just enjoy my own improvement and drop games that were too hard for me.
Great vid! Gonna second the reverse stage practice approach. I'm still shit but I can get to my usual shit level in games faster now. And it feels nice when you get into that final boss practice groove, sometimes going back to the previous stages even feels like a step down in the fun factor when with the forward-practice approach I dread having to practice the last boss.
Great stuff! This reminds me of discovering The Full Extent of the Jam and being delighted to see someone actually put into words how to git gud. P.S. I see that TH-cam has annotated this as "DOOM II". Uh...good hustle, TH-cam. Good effort. You'll get 'em next time.
Awesome guide! I feel like a lot of times when I see newer players hit a wall it has less to do with the game itself and more to do with "meta" concepts like how to approach a problem section and break it down into smaller chunks, or how to keep a positive attitude while playing. You do a great job explaining all of these things and more. Congrats on the 2k subs! Please keep the content coming :)
This is the exact video I’ve wanted done in the past 3 years. Great vid Pearl. Suddenly dropping a banger and a must watch vid for people getting into shmups.
Nice video, good stuff! I'll add the secret ancient holy technique: Ask to yourself the most important question in shmups: why did I die? consistency in asking\answering this will get you closer to the goal people.
Thanks for the vid. I've hit that Intermediate level and it's been tricky to push past it. Good tips here, and I like that you're addressing the mental game. One of my bigger hurdles ATM. Still working on getting practice down too. Subbed.
Congratulations on getting 2000 subscribers. Lol at that moment when you mentioned a pillow and I thought about Gus' Futari 1CC in GDQ, and the next thing I hear is his voice going, "I can't stop!" And seeing snub's anti-replay posts in this video was frigging hilarious.
Nice tips! Good to hear someone talking about how important your mental state is to play well. I found myself having better plays when I'd have a max o 3~5 tries a day. Any more than that and my skill would drop by a lot
really good video, i never realized how all over the place my practice sessions are. i always thought that just having a lot of savestates or other tools was all there was to it. but i was just practicing whatever i felt like, and stopped whenever i arbitrarily decided i was confident on the section. its also made me realize that a lot of burnout i've felt recently is just because i forgot why i started playing in the first place. i started playing to impress myself, and nobody else. (and also because dodging bullet is le fun) but right after my mystic square lnn, i immediately started riding this high of wanting to only do stuff that i believed would be seen as impressive or cool to other people, instead of stuff that i actually wanted to do. but i ended up just stagnating for months. im really glad this video could give me a nice mental reset on that front.
Fantastic video, particularly the stuff on mental game. I'm definitely guilty of playing while tired or sick and getting frustrated, so I'm going to take that advice to heart and schedule my shmup sessions a little earlier in the day or before work and see how it goes. Hadn't seen your channel before and really enjoyed this vid, subscribed :)
Wonderful video, can tell you put a lot of effort into it, was really insightful and funny. It's nice how you highlighted what goes on 'outside' the game, the thinking and learning it takes to become acquainted with a game-- you can generally understand a lot of how to play by watching a good player, but you can't get how they think about the game while watching them. It's neat how you highlight the values or decisions that experienced players build up to and even how they build up to those. I remember the time you came into my chat when I was streaming DOJ and you asked me to please use laser on boss instead of shot xd I suppose a few questions I do have that are related if you squint hard enough is: how do you decide on a goal or what game you want to play? As a novice, there are so many games that differ and after watching so many or doing credit feed run-throughs just to see if I'd like the game, its hard to know like "hmm should I check out Raiden today or stick with DOJ or Garegga". Same thing with like developing my own unique "taste" or "values", I don't really know what I want out of a shmup yet because there are so many options. (though maybe the answer to this is 'Just Play game :)") The other question is how to learn the mechanical details of the game. Though I guess that comes down to just googling the game or looking at the shmupwiki page on it. Or watching a replay to understand how to trigger certain things or etc.
Thank you so much for your tips. I was watching Aktane's guide few days ago and now you also created your guide. I seriously need a guide to be better at shmup.
Wonderful video Pearl! Loved the entertainment aspect and helpfulness this brings to all players. Now I want to watch more replays!! Congrats on the 2k subs, hope you had a great birthday!
I've been playing STGs for many years, but have never had a 1cc deal in any game, except in Novice mode. But I personally don't mind because I still have fun with it and that's the most important thing
This good video. I got into the genre on a whim and kept playing the games cuz I found them fun. I went from I could care less to 1ccs to wow I’m getting p close to this one. I can’t imagine forcing yourself to play these games while not enjoying them 💀 Mental thing is real if I can take an entire bottle of xans just to remove my anxiety and nervousness but without knocking me out I can probably beat some games I’m really close on like Blue Revolver hyper mode and Mushi original. I think watching replays is fine for the most part. I usually watch them after getting close to beating a game to see how other ppl approach it a level and that’s how I find things like the 1up in stage 3 of Mushi. It’s like summoning in dark souls do it if you want who gives a shit.
solid stuff. That anti replay thing is the dumbest shit I've heard. Japanese players were sharing footage back in the 90s, there's no way they could have hit those scores so fast without sharing information. Anyway, your run is your run, unless you're TAS bot, you're not going execute some pixel perfect DOJ run, top players always have some differences and quirks in routing you'd notice if you would actually take the time to watch the footage.
i mean maybe there's a game out there with programming so fucked that bottom dragging slows you down while diagonal speed is too fast and if there isn't I could make it
I watched your replay just to figure out how to beat Hellsinker and somehow my run still end up looking different compare to yours. Anyways, I am thankful for your videos.
Fucc, counting my 1ccs i think im still a begginer XDDD (Finished watching the video: PEAK CINEMA, i laughed almost all the time but also relearned some things, thx Mr.Pearl)
So if I starting "playing for enjoyment" with each bullet hell game I own and keep credit feeding how am I supposed to learn to 1cc any of these games? It has nothing to do with my mental state. It is just just how these games are all designed. THEY ARE ALL ARCADE GAMES. THEY WERE ORIGINALLY MADE TO MAKE $$$$. I still stand on my opinion that a lot if these replays here are either TAS or spliced with save state captures. Happy New Year Eric.
I play Mushi for fun and it’s my first arcade game. I used to get my ass kicked and lose all lives at stage 2-3. I played a buncha other shit over the past few months without really clearing any of them other than same Normal Touhou runs and can now consistently get to stage 5 on Mushi. I just play cuz they’re fun and def do notice myself improving 🤷
@@Nerbless what's frustrating is a lot of these bullet games all have secret final bosses and endings you can only unlock by not continuing like Giga Wing or DOJ for example. I doubt I'll ever see those bosses unless I cheat.
@@FunkmasterKarnov That’s fair. A lot of Tlbs won’t be seen by most players unfortunately. I know I probably won’t be good enough for those with how busy I am with other things
Great video man. As someone who’s watched plenty of your replays to help learn and understand certain games better, I’m glad to see you make a video like this for the community. Was also stoked to see some of the concepts overlap with how I’ve approached games and found them work for me. I’ll be honest I rarely feel like I hate shmups even when I’m pissed at one, which is inevitable 😂. Just having some freaking perspective and compassion for yourself when struggling against a clearly brutal game and remembering why you play goes a long way. And you’re right on mental state is huge. I’ve found if I recently meditated or am just feeling super calm and balanced that day, I can just zone in on a game and play so much better. Because you’re just into it and not getting riled up at every little thing. The mind just thinks more clearly. If I’m in a bad mood I won’t touch hard games with a ten foot pole. That’s when it’s nice to grab something you’ve already smoked a hundred times and just enjoy playing on autopilot for the thrill of it or music or whatever. By the time it’s over I usually feel better. Smoking an easy shmup from time to time and not feeling guilty about it is my recipe for self care 😂. Anyway man, congrats on reaching another sub milestone. This year at least 1K more 🙌🏻
Really good content here, I'm used to seeing novice advice, but it's not often we see more advanced techniques. I really enjoyed the consistency part, it's really interesting that we can do hard sections, only that we can't do it every single time.
Amazing to see a snippet of my Embodiment of Scarlet Failure video pop up like this more than 15 years later. To think I initially made it as a throwaway joke video. It's like you say, when you suffer a heavy game over you gotta respond to it positively, and my response to that failure was to think "I could make a pretty silly video out of this one day, better save the replay."
the fact you saw this video is frankly amazing. i hope you're well kefit, the scarlet failure video really is how responding to a gameover should be : have fun with it and look at the positives
i love schumps
Schoot'em ups? Huh lol
my humor is so damn broken I laughed hard at basically every single gag of this video
really good tips for others, good work!
Awesome stuff my dude! Also congrats on the 2k subs! Yeah it's so hard to get a channel cooking in the genre ha
Legitimately a very helpful video for a super small niche of players I consider myself a part of. I'd agree that the hardest part of the shmup journey is overcoming salt and delusions of becoming a bigshot celebrity player. Seems like a lot of people in the shmup communities I've joined daily post hella salt about a bullshit boss instead of enjoying the game. I used to have this mindset in different communities until I learned to just enjoy my own improvement and drop games that were too hard for me.
Great vid! Gonna second the reverse stage practice approach. I'm still shit but I can get to my usual shit level in games faster now. And it feels nice when you get into that final boss practice groove, sometimes going back to the previous stages even feels like a step down in the fun factor when with the forward-practice approach I dread having to practice the last boss.
Great stuff! This reminds me of discovering The Full Extent of the Jam and being delighted to see someone actually put into words how to git gud.
P.S. I see that TH-cam has annotated this as "DOOM II". Uh...good hustle, TH-cam. Good effort. You'll get 'em next time.
Awesome guide! I feel like a lot of times when I see newer players hit a wall it has less to do with the game itself and more to do with "meta" concepts like how to approach a problem section and break it down into smaller chunks, or how to keep a positive attitude while playing. You do a great job explaining all of these things and more. Congrats on the 2k subs! Please keep the content coming :)
This is the exact video I’ve wanted done in the past 3 years. Great vid Pearl. Suddenly dropping a banger and a must watch vid for people getting into shmups.
Nice video, good stuff!
I'll add the secret ancient holy technique: Ask to yourself the most important question in shmups: why did I die? consistency in asking\answering this will get you closer to the goal people.
Thanks for the vid. I've hit that Intermediate level and it's been tricky to push past it. Good tips here, and I like that you're addressing the mental game. One of my bigger hurdles ATM. Still working on getting practice down too. Subbed.
Congratulations on getting 2000 subscribers. Lol at that moment when you mentioned a pillow and I thought about Gus' Futari 1CC in GDQ, and the next thing I hear is his voice going, "I can't stop!" And seeing snub's anti-replay posts in this video was frigging hilarious.
Nice tips! Good to hear someone talking about how important your mental state is to play well.
I found myself having better plays when I'd have a max o 3~5 tries a day. Any more than that and my skill would drop by a lot
really good video, i never realized how all over the place my practice sessions are. i always thought that just having a lot of savestates or other tools was all there was to it. but i was just practicing whatever i felt like, and stopped whenever i arbitrarily decided i was confident on the section.
its also made me realize that a lot of burnout i've felt recently is just because i forgot why i started playing in the first place. i started playing to impress myself, and nobody else. (and also because dodging bullet is le fun) but right after my mystic square lnn, i immediately started riding this high of wanting to only do stuff that i believed would be seen as impressive or cool to other people, instead of stuff that i actually wanted to do. but i ended up just stagnating for months. im really glad this video could give me a nice mental reset on that front.
Fantastic video, particularly the stuff on mental game. I'm definitely guilty of playing while tired or sick and getting frustrated, so I'm going to take that advice to heart and schedule my shmup sessions a little earlier in the day or before work and see how it goes. Hadn't seen your channel before and really enjoyed this vid, subscribed :)
Wonderful video, can tell you put a lot of effort into it, was really insightful and funny. It's nice how you highlighted what goes on 'outside' the game, the thinking and learning it takes to become acquainted with a game-- you can generally understand a lot of how to play by watching a good player, but you can't get how they think about the game while watching them. It's neat how you highlight the values or decisions that experienced players build up to and even how they build up to those. I remember the time you came into my chat when I was streaming DOJ and you asked me to please use laser on boss instead of shot xd
I suppose a few questions I do have that are related if you squint hard enough is: how do you decide on a goal or what game you want to play? As a novice, there are so many games that differ and after watching so many or doing credit feed run-throughs just to see if I'd like the game, its hard to know like "hmm should I check out Raiden today or stick with DOJ or Garegga". Same thing with like developing my own unique "taste" or "values", I don't really know what I want out of a shmup yet because there are so many options. (though maybe the answer to this is 'Just Play game :)")
The other question is how to learn the mechanical details of the game. Though I guess that comes down to just googling the game or looking at the shmupwiki page on it. Or watching a replay to understand how to trigger certain things or etc.
You have to eat well to do your good runs - that's why Dimahoo has the CHAMPION BEEF.
perfect integration of the memes we watched together. it did have a purpose after all
Thank you so much for your tips. I was watching Aktane's guide few days ago and now you also created your guide. I seriously need a guide to be better at shmup.
Wonderful video Pearl! Loved the entertainment aspect and helpfulness this brings to all players. Now I want to watch more replays!! Congrats on the 2k subs, hope you had a great birthday!
lol, the idea that studying replays is somehow cheating is hilarious.
do... do they know that people even LIVESTREAM shmups? and others WATCH?
It's also kind of existed all the time in arcades. People can watch how you play and you can do the same.
@@OmKol TRUE, but there's absolutely gotta some sort of grandfathered, boomer ass justification as to what that's probably fine.
Let's see if this helps my DOJ game. I've been at it a month and I'm still complete dogshit.
Damn, comparing the 1943 shotgun to the scattergun from Redneck Rampage. SAVAGE.
One of the best shmup guides, and one of the most cringe shmups guides I've ever seen. Grear work Pearl!
good video my dude. glad to help
amazing
You are extremely good.
Nice work. SUBBED ! ;)
Good video thank you porl
Fantastic video my guy! Hilarious but more importantly, informative
2:37 plantjak jumpscare
I've been playing STGs for many years, but have never had a 1cc deal in any game, except in Novice mode.
But I personally don't mind because I still have fun with it and that's the most important thing
16:44 no fucking way castellers in a shmup video
Great video. Congrats for share some good insights in how to be better at shmups games.
Very nice tips. Keep up the good work!
Brilliant video. Well done.
Good stuff, thanks for making the content!
ERC PRL
Thanks for focusing on intermediate!
Great video
Good stuff. I hope this helps someone, not me, I need way more help 😢
This good video. I got into the genre on a whim and kept playing the games cuz I found them fun. I went from I could care less to 1ccs to wow I’m getting p close to this one.
I can’t imagine forcing yourself to play these games while not enjoying them 💀 Mental thing is real if I can take an entire bottle of xans just to remove my anxiety and nervousness but without knocking me out I can probably beat some games I’m really close on like Blue Revolver hyper mode and Mushi original.
I think watching replays is fine for the most part. I usually watch them after getting close to beating a game to see how other ppl approach it a level and that’s how I find things like the 1up in stage 3 of Mushi. It’s like summoning in dark souls do it if you want who gives a shit.
0:20 owneddd
solid stuff. That anti replay thing is the dumbest shit I've heard. Japanese players were sharing footage back in the 90s, there's no way they could have hit those scores so fast without sharing information. Anyway, your run is your run, unless you're TAS bot, you're not going execute some pixel perfect DOJ run, top players always have some differences and quirks in routing you'd notice if you would actually take the time to watch the footage.
nice
also bottom dragging won't do anything if the game has fast diagonals
i mean maybe there's a game out there with programming so fucked that bottom dragging slows you down while diagonal speed is too fast
and if there isn't I could make it
Excellent video, thank you very much for sharing!
Awesome video
shmups
I watched your replay just to figure out how to beat Hellsinker and somehow my run still end up looking different compare to yours. Anyways, I am thankful for your videos.
Cool video, i'll have to take some of the advice on board and put it to use on Natsuki Chronicles or Dodonpachi that i just got. 😊
Good video!!
Great video! If I don't get a 1cc within a week I'm suing😊
epic
Great vid, i totally relate to the novice 1cc master 😂
19:36 I tried to do a bullet sealing in Dfk second stage boss but she still shoot giant lasers. Bullet sealing should be much clearer.
Was great. Got another samich.
post a song list
22:19 can you give us the link for that video? I wanna see his adventure for 1cc.
Its a fake thumbnail that I made for the vid, even if I also wanna see granpa raiden getting a 1all
@@baf__ hello baf. I felt betrayed.
@@soratheorangejuicemascot5809 sounds about your next project, make the video reality
This good video me like
I love crimzon clover!
What game is that @ 1:21 - 1:33. Looks awesome
Donpachi, stage 2 and 4 using type-B on player 2 side
milk
Fake interest?
Fucc, counting my 1ccs i think im still a begginer XDDD (Finished watching the video: PEAK CINEMA, i laughed almost all the time but also relearned some things, thx Mr.Pearl)
Super entertaining and very informative vid, nicely done!
So if I starting "playing for enjoyment" with each bullet hell game I own and keep credit feeding how am I supposed to learn to 1cc any of these games? It has nothing to do with my mental state. It is just just how these games are all designed. THEY ARE ALL ARCADE GAMES. THEY WERE ORIGINALLY MADE TO MAKE $$$$. I still stand on my opinion that a lot if these replays here are either TAS or spliced with save state captures. Happy New Year Eric.
unless you have proof of them being TAS, then your claims are baseless
Happy new year man
I play Mushi for fun and it’s my first arcade game. I used to get my ass kicked and lose all lives at stage 2-3.
I played a buncha other shit over the past few months without really clearing any of them other than same Normal Touhou runs and can now consistently get to stage 5 on Mushi.
I just play cuz they’re fun and def do notice myself improving 🤷
@@Nerbless what's frustrating is a lot of these bullet games all have secret final bosses and endings you can only unlock by not continuing like Giga Wing or DOJ for example. I doubt I'll ever see those bosses unless I cheat.
@@FunkmasterKarnov That’s fair. A lot of Tlbs won’t be seen by most players unfortunately. I know I probably won’t be good enough for those with how busy I am with other things
I hate shmups.
well gosh that was fun
awesome advice with hilarious memes