What do you enjoy most in a good shmup?
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Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 12:21pm
Topic: What do you enjoy most in a good shmup?
Posted By: JustinGameDesign
Subject: What do you enjoy most in a good shmup?
Date Posted: 10 July 2014 at 6:52pm
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I've been working on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snYs0ubKaSw - Wings of Aetos for a while now, and I wanted to know what people out there have enjoyed in shoot-em ups and which shmups they've enjoyed the most in the past. For my part: Likes A variety of weapon/upgrades. Building up power/weapon levels. Risk/reward while grabbing power-ups. Small hit-box for the player. Hates One-hit kills. Overly difficult levels. Restarting from the beginning. Accidentally grabbing a new weapon, when I preferred my old one. Favorites Stinger - Interesting power up mechanic and whimsical levels Airzonk - Not too difficult, lots of weapons, interesting character designs, the ability to gain helpers and merge with them Fantasy Zone - Nice backgrounds, memorable music, freedom to move in multiple directions, in-level shopping Space Harrier (is this a shmup?) - Amazing music and level and enemy design Guardian Legend - Nice amount of health/shield, top-down exploration segments, great music, but high difficulty Blazing Lasers - Great power-up system, not-too-difficult, weapon/sub-weapon combos |
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Posted By: Loni
Date Posted: 05 August 2014 at 10:29pm
| I enjoy a smooth beggining for learning a games gimmicks, then exponentially increasing the difficulty as the game goes on, no upgrades, risk/reward needed for high scores, a variety of weapons and fluid progression of a level, also, bombs not for damage but to save yer ass from death |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 06 August 2014 at 12:54pm
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I've played... Fantasy Zone Twinbee Flying Tigers Tyrian Touhou Jamestown Solarwinds Sigma Star Saga Iridion (Probably more that I can't remember) What I like really about them depends from game to game. Jamestown and Touhou for example are bullet hells, the "1 hit you die" games.  If you're going to aim for a bullet hell crowd the important thing to add is replayability value. For other type of games customization options are really great. Something like Tyrian and Solarwinds does a really great job at that. I think I had more to say but by the time I found that picture I got completely derailed. XD -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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