The "newbie Plays Shmups For First Time Ever" Starter Kit
Even digital board and card games give me headaches. The concept of shooting games existed before video games, dating back to shooting gallery carnival games in the late 19th century. Mechanical target shooting games first appeared in England's amusement arcades around the turn of the 20th century, before appearing in America by the 1920s. Shooting gallery games eventually evolved into more sophisticated target shooting electro-mechanical games such as Sega's influential Periscope . Shooting video games have roots in EM shooting games. The other big crime comes courtesy of layering and rotation.
The games come with 4 difficulty levels that build upon each other pretty well . Which means they're far less punishing to small mistakes. You can still have tons of fun even when you're trying and dying a lot on a lower difficulty and never even work your way up to more skilled play. Play it on easy mode, set the 1 ups to the easiest score setting, play the first two and a half stages for score, play the rest for survival and it is reasonably achievable to 1cc it. I'm not counting Ikaruga among the traditional danmaku shooters that I described in the OP.
I also know that I am barely off the floor and nowhere near the skill ceiling, so bearing in mind that I can and will get better is exhilerating. The stressors of this modern life have pushed me back into video gaming in a pretty significant way. I feel rather burnt out on tabletop gaming in general; it’s not relaxing for me these days. I expect the mental bandwidth required for even simpler board games or tabletop RPGs is just a tad much.
By all accounts, staying as close to the spawn-point of enemies should result in the best run. We can think of this as “having the most territory” like in Go. The more territory you have, the less damaging your mistakes become.
Addressing these concerns will likely improve your ability to play shmups. Credit-feeding is an option but it dulls the edge of difficulty. Starting a new credit typically grants full powerups, a reset in rank, and a reset in score. That second item — rank — can be nearly impossible to simulate but it cannot be ignored.
Whether the fixture of your attention is a sport or a shmup or a subject of professional interest, practice is pretty much the same. You, the practitioner, must find pleasure in the methodical drive toward improvement. You must find payoff even when you fail constantly. Like that pair of boots, they were at some point brand-new and unfamiliar and slightly uncomfortable. The pleasure of slowly chipping away at a game stopped making sense.
Even a bad shmupper gets better by playing this way. The feeling of personal improvement and the rush of dodging swarms of bullets to beat your highscore or the current high is what it's all about. Besides the fantastic gameplay, shooters also have amazing artwork because they are scaled down worlds.
If you know the bullets will be fired to point x you will be able to vacate that spot before they get there. The more you can predict the less time it takes to react. I think I will never beat them 1 CC, althoug I enjoy playing them. I have just fun plaing them, trying to beat my personal highscore.
If you’d like to play on genuine hardware, it makes sense that your controller would be the same as what you’d use on the cabinet. We are blessed to have so many controller options in our modern era. Using the same control scheme — or even the same controller — across platforms will help you remain consistent. Therefore, you may need to try different setups.
In fact, I would really say that mastery of any danmaku game is like 70%% memorization/strategizing and 30% dodging. Sorry people who hate memorization, but that's just how it is. Realize also that memorization, just like dodging, is a skill.Which of Dragon course means that the more you practice/work on it, the easier it will become. Actually, this reminds me of something that was asked on the imageboard a while ago. During E3 2021, TicToc Games invited us to try out a preview demo of B.ARK and get to know the game a bit better ahead of its release. What we discovered is a game drenched in 90s nostalgia, both for the cartoons and the video games that generation grew up with.