For sure. It's not the easiest game to get into, it fatigues the eyes like hell, and the boss rush is incredibly punishing and obtuse, but the soundtrack/nightmarish atmosphere did it for me. The game was just too awesome not to keep coming back to it.
Wow, this is such a beautiful run. I really like your tactics, not to waste too many bullets, but instead to find the right position to stay in. I've been playing this game for about a month for fun now, without save states and can only get to stage 3. Then I get wrecked almost instantly by all those turrets and raining enemies :D I hope, one day I will beat the game and maybe even record it.
Great comment, thanks! The strategy is certainly that because in the end I went with the kind of optimization you'd see in speedruns, but to understand this one you'd need to look just slightly under the hood so to speak, load up FCEUX, turn on the frame counter, and verify which actions cause lag frames and thus add to the final time. Good luck putting a run together if you still feel you have it in you, it's far from the hardest shmup imaginable, but it has its annoyances; my standard sure was originally much lower, close to a casual deathless run, but IIRC one late game lag reduction strat motivated me to change my approach completely. Quite funny in retrospect. What mattered most to me though the game was fun to do attempts of and an experience I overall very much enjoyed, and if you ask me so long as you're getting that out of a game and it keeps being a positive use of your time, I say keep at it!
@@Hachimen Thanks for your reply! I already assumed, that the game runs smoother, when you're not shooting, since in that case there aren't as many particles at every each frame on the screen. Also, another benefit of playing like that is that you are not risking to collect power ups, that you don't want (sometimes they appear right in front of you). I've been doing 1-3 runs a day the last weeks (still without save states) and was able to get to the penultimate boss yesterday. There were so many times, when I thought, it was impossible to beat the game (and I'm still unsure, how many more tries it will take me to beat it), but I still try, because I enjoy the game so much. The music, the gameplay and overall style is unique. If life allows, I will try to do a speedrun one day ;) Thanks a lot again for the inspiration!
@@kakoiniksvoboden Sure thing. To be clear: I mostly meant speedrunner minutiae centered around saving 5-10 frames for some waves, which becomes especially hard to see on the harder mode where enemies never really stop coming. (Did some minor routing on that and it is significantly more cumbersome and the lag can only ever be mitigated at best.) The framecounter is a godsend for those. Also, sounds awesome & glad you're still at it. Hope something pops up eventually!
Thanks, and hi. :) Funny enough this may have been my only attempt that actually finished -- not counting save-state practice -- as losing a life on a random hiccup on the earlier bosses -- like the horseshoe boss with the green thing in the middle killing me for no reason -- would drain me enough to decimate my chances. The final fight could have gone the worst it possibly could, and my grind would have been over either way. I'm very glad it decided not to after all the item drop trolling, though!
My speedrun starts from a hard reset, so no, no extra settings whatsoever. 11 stages is the hard mode, and to unlock that you have to beat the normal mode and then soft reset. As this is any%, beating the final boss and viewing the credits completes the speedrun. This is the accepted convention for the majority of speedrun communities.
My name is this: th-cam.com/video/4L4jGSgTH2Y/w-d-xo.html Not exactly anime related, but then again, the character chants in nothing but anime references. :p
I don't even game but I love watching you play. So weird.
11:50 nice move :3 , from start till end im usually using H power up :(
But yeah that help me at regular stage but at boss not giving much damage
Try bombing in the middle and hopefully the boss will shift into it. Not much else that you can do ill-prepared given his random movements.
Never heard of this game before but it seems cool :D
For sure. It's not the easiest game to get into, it fatigues the eyes like hell, and the boss rush is incredibly punishing and obtuse, but the soundtrack/nightmarish atmosphere did it for me. The game was just too awesome not to keep coming back to it.
Wow, this is such a beautiful run. I really like your tactics, not to waste too many bullets, but instead to find the right position to stay in. I've been playing this game for about a month for fun now, without save states and can only get to stage 3. Then I get wrecked almost instantly by all those turrets and raining enemies :D I hope, one day I will beat the game and maybe even record it.
Great comment, thanks! The strategy is certainly that because in the end I went with the kind of optimization you'd see in speedruns, but to understand this one you'd need to look just slightly under the hood so to speak, load up FCEUX, turn on the frame counter, and verify which actions cause lag frames and thus add to the final time.
Good luck putting a run together if you still feel you have it in you, it's far from the hardest shmup imaginable, but it has its annoyances; my standard sure was originally much lower, close to a casual deathless run, but IIRC one late game lag reduction strat motivated me to change my approach completely. Quite funny in retrospect. What mattered most to me though the game was fun to do attempts of and an experience I overall very much enjoyed, and if you ask me so long as you're getting that out of a game and it keeps being a positive use of your time, I say keep at it!
@@Hachimen Thanks for your reply! I already assumed, that the game runs smoother, when you're not shooting, since in that case there aren't as many particles at every each frame on the screen. Also, another benefit of playing like that is that you are not risking to collect power ups, that you don't want (sometimes they appear right in front of you).
I've been doing 1-3 runs a day the last weeks (still without save states) and was able to get to the penultimate boss yesterday. There were so many times, when I thought, it was impossible to beat the game (and I'm still unsure, how many more tries it will take me to beat it), but I still try, because I enjoy the game so much. The music, the gameplay and overall style is unique. If life allows, I will try to do a speedrun one day ;) Thanks a lot again for the inspiration!
@@kakoiniksvoboden Sure thing. To be clear: I mostly meant speedrunner minutiae centered around saving 5-10 frames for some waves, which becomes especially hard to see on the harder mode where enemies never really stop coming. (Did some minor routing on that and it is significantly more cumbersome and the lag can only ever be mitigated at best.) The framecounter is a godsend for those.
Also, sounds awesome & glad you're still at it. Hope something pops up eventually!
Cara você é um mito
nice gameplay dude!
Good run
Thanks, and hi. :) Funny enough this may have been my only attempt that actually finished -- not counting save-state practice -- as losing a life on a random hiccup on the earlier bosses -- like the horseshoe boss with the green thing in the middle killing me for no reason -- would drain me enough to decimate my chances. The final fight could have gone the worst it possibly could, and my grind would have been over either way. I'm very glad it decided not to after all the item drop trolling, though!
can you explain how did you beat the game with only 4 stages ? :o
main game doesnt have more than 11 stages ? did you set something up?
My speedrun starts from a hard reset, so no, no extra settings whatsoever. 11 stages is the hard mode, and to unlock that you have to beat the normal mode and then soft reset. As this is any%, beating the final boss and viewing the credits completes the speedrun. This is the accepted convention for the majority of speedrun communities.
16:50:22 IGT
I got his name
Thanks man
Just realized your name was 8man
My name is this: th-cam.com/video/4L4jGSgTH2Y/w-d-xo.html Not exactly anime related, but then again, the character chants in nothing but anime references. :p