/vr/ - Retro Games

So that stuff I said about Pentadragon being boring? I take it back, this game is awesome.

I hated it at first because the powerups seemed useless, the levels were too big, and the enemies were such a pain to kill, but then I realized that the scoring system DOES NOT REWARD YOU POINTS for killing enemies or midbosses!

So it's an entirely a speedrunning game, which makes it way more interesting. For stage 2 (the huge shitty maze dungeon), you can just kite the midboss around the entire stage to avoid having to fight enemies, and if you avoid switching shot types, you can keep powering up whatever shot you have until it's ridiculously strong (the weird V spread shot is actually incredibly powerful when you can rapid fire 4 shots (8 bullets) at a time.

It is pretty long, but there's an autosave system in place to keep your unlocked stages. And since the only score is your record time for each stage, there's no pressure to 1cc an unreasonably long game.

And then the bosses are just awesome, and so far all have unique music.

If you can get past stage 2, Pentra Dragon is actually really fucking cool.

I can't find an actual soundtrack rip of the game, but some dude made midi versions of the tracks. Listen to this cool shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWr35Di69Z0