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In the mood for some seriously underrated shoot em ups?

>> No.5108341
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Another Amiga gem.

>> No.5108345
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One of the best DOS shmups.

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Comfy.

>> No.5108363
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The powerup system kinda sucked but Solar Striker was still a lot of fun.

>> No.5108390

>>5108345
And even then, it's honestly pretty flawed.

Training mode is completely pointless and you might as well start on Rookie and the way it increases the difficulty after each episode is odd so if you want to play the whole game on one of the easier difficulty settings you have to stop after the final level and select another episode.
Some weapons like the disruptor and plasma cannon are a waste of money and don't even deal any real damage and those screen-clearing bombs are also more or less worthless since they have to travel to the center of the screen first. So unless you are dead-center they can take up to two seconds until they activate and by that time whatever you wanted to blow up is probably already off the screen.
And as for the bosses, they have no interesting patterns or phases and essentially boil down to "fire a volley of bullets and missiles -> wait a few seconds -> repeat".
I also don't remember the game having ANY kind of backstory for why you are even doing all of this outside of the ending sequences and those told fuckall.

>> No.5108421

>>5108339
Banshee is the best Amiga shooter.

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>>5108363
Damn good game, especially considering it was on Gameboy.

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>>5108421

Agreed. Also Battle Squadron and Stardust.

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>>5108475
Considering its limitations the Game Boy had some great shooters. Xenon 2, Nemesis, Parodius, R-Type etc...

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Underrated as fuck!

>> No.5108762

>>5108339
You're lucky you posted apidya and not agony, or i would have had to berate and laugh at you for several paragraphs.

>> No.5108772

>>5108345
I love the poppy sfx in it

>> No.5108774

>>5108762
Alright shiposting aside, Air Gallet is pretty underrated and more importantly good. It's developed by Gazelle after Toaplan splintered off into several directions. It's also one of the few games this studio made.

>> No.5108776

What are the best ones for PCE?

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>>5108339
Dunno what the team did but it's a fucking competent Gradius clone with plenty of originality, kicking music, a weird plot, and honest to god console playability. On the Amiga. A lot of the same team worked on Turrican 3 which also wowed me as a kid for doing stuff only consoles could - on one floppy disk at that.

Gonna go with SWIV for my pick, solid Amiga vertical shmup that can be played two ways, is free of levels - only different themed scenery/bosses as the entire game's streamed from disk as you go - and has a rocking title theme to boot. I have no clue what they were doing with the console ports of SWIV, they try but are way too different.

>> No.5108878

>>5108345
This is one of the western shmups of the 90s.

>> No.5108884

>>5108339
X-Multiply
XEXEX
Summer Carnival '92 - Recca
Crisis Force
In The Hunt
Spriggan (Turbo CD)

>> No.5108890
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Not /vr/ but free

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>>5108776
Seirei Senshi Spriggan

>> No.5109291
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Twin Eagle changed my life when the slow helicopter gameplay suddenly transitions into dogfighting with jets from behind you, as 80s metal plays (with lyrics)

https://youtu.be/NarxSO1ugsM?t=1032

For 1988 it was only a year after the simplistic 1943 or Twin cobra. It feels like a generation leap in terms of audio and visuals.

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Prototype was one of the most awesome DOS shmups, addictive as fuck and naturally comes with cheesy metal soundtrack.

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>euroshmups
It's amazing how consistently crappy western shmups were, they couldn't get the most basic aspects like movement and solid game feel down much less good level design, difficulty, balancing, depth, etc. Only good for screenshots and soundtracks

>> No.5109629

>>5108776
Magic Chase, unicronically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHyvX5dzwEI

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Atari nigga reportin' in...

>> No.5110132

>>5108363
>The powerup system kinda sucked but Solar Striker was still a lot of fun.

Got it as a extra game to the GB starter bundle (which came with Tetris). Made my Xmas this year. I dont think that i made it past stage 4 as a kid (there are 6 in total if i remember right) great fun

>> No.5110167

>>5108762
Well Agony is a style exercise, pretty much like almost anything Psygnosis.

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Cannot believe that nobody mentioned this gem. PSX had great shmups, too.

>> No.5111154

>>5108348
Love the multidirectional shooting and how the scrolling direction changes. Excellent levels and great music too.

>> No.5111362

>>5111147
DDP is cool and all but OP asked for underrated. DDP is a lot of things, but underrated isn't one of them

>> No.5111363

Also this thread is about to be raided by the faggots at /shmupg/, who claim to hate /vr/ yet spend all their time here

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I dunno if they're underrated, I don't see them mentioned often anyway, but the Star Soldier games are pretty sweet. Especially the ones on the PC Engine. Solider Blade's my favorite.

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yo

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>> No.5111902

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbgnQ9Clqrs
What if your ship had a beak?
Pretty strong level memorization aspect to this one, but it feels fair, and it's nice that you have to consider if you want a stronger attack in exchange for a bigger weak spot.

>> No.5111920 [DELETED] 

>>5111902
How did they do that amazing parallax on pc engine?

>> No.5111930

>>5108341

...and music is great as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKKNBjFz9XE

>> No.5112058

>>5111513
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGM_GV9pFc
This game has a similar orbital positioning mechanic, where they drift behind you as you move