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^^ Longplays don't count as replays, Imipolex G. ^_^ They are tool-assisted and unconcerned with scoring tricks! I haven't played that one but it looks neat.
^ FRB is cute. I have it. :D I didn't know about Guxt but I just downloaded it so I will try it.
Longplays are basically meant to display a game and all its features, right?
Also, yeah, FRB is really adorably cute.
Also, it shares at least one music track with Rosenkreuzstilette. It's a track by Blue Sky!, and I think there are at least two FRB tracks by Blue Sky!. I'd like to know the source of all of FRB's music. Unfortunately, Rockin' Android doesn't have a forum...
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
^ In theory, yes, but the lonplays I've seen of games like Donpachi are essentially "move left, TAS through bullet cluster, move right, TAS through bullets, repeat" without scoring at all or navigating the enemy formations in ways that make sense. I do wish there were better danmaku longplays.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
They were very popular until the mid-1990s, I think, and easier to make than a lot of games (not necessarily *well,* but that is beside the point), so people used to make them a lot. After that, they became a niche thing.
The Raiden pack that's been uploaded to Desura lately has only one continue and is just as horribly unforgiving as its arcade incarnations. Which makes me sad.
The only saving grace is that they have an anti-carpal-tunnel innovation: you can enable an option which makes you shoot by default and only stop shooting when pressing the fire button. Or was it just autofire. Either one.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
imo Cave does (did?) the best console ports and everyone should do what they do. Cave ports almost always feature infinite continues, several different gameplay modes, a training mode allowing people to set whatever game state they want from any stage or boss, score saving, replay files, online leaderboards, arcade dip switch settings, and (my personal favorite) absolutely everything being available from the first time the game is turned on.
But even still, players of this genre have historically gotten used to not having continue credits, particularly in console versions, or even if they exist, players will simply not use them, because scores are usually reset by them. So, it's not like the Raiden Legacy collection's unwillingness to be nice to beginners is unusual, even if it would have been better without being restricting.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
I also suspect that some developers (i.e. Seibu Kaihatsu) want to disguise the short length of arcade games by barring new players from experiencing the game content without mastering it from the beginning. In my opinion it plays too much into silly expectations some people have that especially have no business dealing with arcade games.
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I beat the first level
^ FRB is cute. I have it. :D I didn't know about Guxt but I just downloaded it so I will try it.
I played Guxt. Guxt is fun, and also very old-fashioned.
Also, yeah, FRB is really adorably cute.
Also, it shares at least one music track with Rosenkreuzstilette. It's a track by Blue Sky!, and I think there are at least two FRB tracks by Blue Sky!. I'd like to know the source of all of FRB's music. Unfortunately, Rockin' Android doesn't have a forum...
Also, those bosses know how to die good
this has come to my attention
The only saving grace is that they have an anti-carpal-tunnel innovation: you can enable an option which makes you shoot by default and only stop shooting when pressing the fire button. Or was it just autofire. Either one.
But even still, players of this genre have historically gotten used to not having continue credits, particularly in console versions, or even if they exist, players will simply not use them, because scores are usually reset by them. So, it's not like the Raiden Legacy collection's unwillingness to be nice to beginners is unusual, even if it would have been better without being restricting.