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>>31477341
I've seen people post this spicy opinion before but it's wrong on multiple levels.
Mechanically PoDD is just a worse TSS. If you want that style of gameplay, just play TSS. You can dislike PoFV all you want, but at the end of the day at least it's something unique that you can't get elsewhere.
If you're talking about the single player experience you're still wrong. The game space is smaller than in PoFV, the patterns are generally less interesting, the difficulty curve is less balanced and the ai is far more cheesable. Seriously, just face Yumemi but just don't shoot, it's insane how much easier the game becomes because there's no built in mechanic to punish pacifist play hard enough.
And that's not to mention how awful the character roster of PoDD is. One of the fun aspects of PoFV is how ZUN took it as a rare opportunity to expand upon existing characters, while PoDD just introduces a bunch of half assed characters that would never show up again. Would have been nice to revisit some of that SoEW cast aside from Marisa and Mima, but I guess we just really needed a expy of a character from some manga ZUN really liked instead.
PoDD being good is such a shit opinion and I wish contrarians would at least latch to a vs shmup with something interesting going on like Seihou 2. I'd still argue that PoFV blows it out of the water, but I can at least respect an opinion like "Kioh Gyoku is better than PoFV".

Of course, I'll give credit where credit is due, and PoDD's use of cutscenes is interesting at the very least. I don't think that's enough to elevate it above PoFV in any meaningful capacity, but it's a neat bit of experimentation on ZUN's part.

>>20173939
CRASHING THE GATE