/vr/ - Retro Games

Yes it's one of the best shmups of the 90s. Always was. It's better than Radiant Silvergun, G-Darius and R-Type Delta

>>8236601
It is impressive, memorable, and fun, iddn't it?

>>8236601
>is it me or is Einhander absolutely fucking GREAT?
It's the only good game Squaresoft's ever made, so, the latter.

It's not just you, Einhander is awesome. Came out back when Square was at its peak.

cool music too

Uh, yeah? Einhander's one of the best shmups ever made.
It's overall atmosphere is second to none.

>>8236601
I wish I could be as blissful and retarded as you.

i dont own a playstation i cant play this game
someone help how do i play this on my gamecube?

>>8237639
Shut the fuck up danmacuck.

>>8237639
OP here. Are you trying to say something or are you just venting your frustration? Either way, tell your mom to stop calling me.

am i the only one who can't stand 3D shmups?

>>8237918
What, the graphics? Gameplay is 2d.

>>8237924
yep, the graphics
it doesn't bother me in other genres, and yet with shmups it just doesn't fancy me

>>8238019
I'm not trying to convince you that you actually secretly like them but don't these screenshots look pretty damn cool?

>>8238058
i played it, it's not merely a thing i get from screenshots
i also had the same problem with ikaruga, g darius and a bunch of others

i never played the game but i regularly listen to the ost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JfsyfLzmDM

>>8238317
To be honest, it's a bit hard to say what's there to actually listen to. The "music" seems pretty nondescript.

How did square do it? Thier output in the 90s was fucking insane

>>8238334
>what's there to actually listen to
The music.
Badlands is fucking sick. Better than Thunderforce's theme.

>>8238346
>How did square do it? Thier output in the 90s was fucking insane

They were bursting with ideas in the 16 bit era and couldn't quite do them all until 32-bit hit. Then FF7 was huge so they got a lot of money. Then the PS1 era especially was still pretty small scale, where most games were like 4-5 million dollar budget. So a lot of these smaller titles that don't use a lot of CGI like Einhander maybe cost like 6 million or something. With less money, less risk, thus more creativity. Now we're in an era where a new FF game is a massive investment so you can't do these creative risk taking titles anymore.

>>8238346
Square wasn't a studio but rather a conglomerate of several studios under the same umbrella. Square's MO during the 90's was similar to what Microsoft has been doing recently, going around buying up random indie devs, that's why they released so many games almost every year.

>>8238856
can I read more about this?

>>8238863
I dunno, but you can just look at what Square did with the Front Mission devs (first they published their games then they simply brought the whole company into the fold), or how they failed to buy up Quest but ended up poaching Matsuno anyway. It's also easy to see this by looking at the credits from different franchises, you'll quickly notice how there's very little overlap in the teams working on different series, they're essentially completely different studios under the same name.

>horizontal shmup
it's called a shmacross

>>8238885