/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8647874]

What is a good danmaku / bullet hell game to ease into the genre with? I don't have a lot of experience with shooting games but these look fascinating.

[Anonymous No.8647886]

>>8647874
Dodonpachi

[Anonymous No.8647897]

>>8647874
>ease into the genre
anon its video game not anal stretching

[Anonymous No.8647901]

Battle Garegga, Battle Bakraid, Armed Police Batrider, Dimahoo

[Anonymous No.8647914]

>>8647874
Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil

[Anonymous No.8647921]

crimzon clover
armed batrider
ketsui

[Anonymous No.8648287]

>>8647874
Dodonpachi Resurrection/Daifukkatsu is one of the best to start with in my opinion, it was on sale on Steam recently (sadly it's not at the moment, but maybe if you wait a bit it will be on sale again). PC, 360 (it's also now on Switch) ports have a bunch of different modes and difficulty settings so it's a great introduction for that reason, just a really fun game all round. I think you can also just get the rom and play it in Mame, but you won't have all the different modes and stuff, so I'm not sure I'd recommend that. Great game though.

[Anonymous No.8648294]

>>8647874
>What is a good danmaku / bullet hell game
None exist.

[Anonymous No.8648831]

Touhou 8 Imperishable Night is a great intro to bullet hell IMO.

[Anonymous No.8649029]

>>8647874
touhou

[Anonymous No.8649039]

>>8647874
Probably the baby mode mobile phone ports of Dodonpachi. Then real Dodonpachi/touhou/ikaruga

[Anonymous No.8649114]

>>8647874
Mushihimesama is a good choice, also Espgaluda 1. Basically Cave's more beginner friendly games, that's going to be the best option probably.

[Anonymous No.8649118]

>>8647874
When you have to memorise the entire game its not fun.

[Anonymous No.8649152]

>>8647874
Dodonpachi
you get a billion bombs so you can clear without too much problem and be happy, and then you learn to lower your bomb usage
avoid touhou, it's shit

[Anonymous No.8649207]

>>8647897
indeed, at least anal sex feels good

[Anonymous No.8649442]

>>8648831
You might pick up bad habits with the last spell system. I'd sooner start with PCB. I found MoF pretty easy too.

[Anonymous No.8649696]

Go play Mars Matrix

[Anonymous No.8649715]

just start with the best: Ikaruga

[Anonymous No.8649840]

>>8647874
Castle of Shikigami, it has many characters with an alternate attack each, and grazing (which you inevitably do anyways) increases your shot power.

[Anonymous No.8649849]

>>8647874
sexy parodius

[Anonymous No.8649868]

>>8649118
I bet you started playing video games because you were terribly unathletic. I bet you can’t even play video games well enough either. You probably suck at just about everything. Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.8649871]

>>8649849
not even the best coomer shhoter

[Anonymous No.8650060]

>>8647874
Touhou 6, if you want something that's more of an arcade experience, Jamestown. Mushihimesama is a classic but the purple spam is very hard on the eyes.

[Anonymous No.8650127]

>>8647874
Take all of the suggestions so far ITT and pick the one that's the most aesthetically pleasing as your first 1cc. Sticking to a game will be a lot easier if you love how the game looks, sounds, and feels.

[Anonymous No.8650260]

>>8648831
IN is like one of the hardest ones, imo. The continue system is very strict. You can beat a stage and the game will still end because the timer hit 5:00 AM so you're really only allowed to continue twice unlike 3 times of the past games. Unless you grind out those shadow orbs or whatever, which good luck getting the required 8500 it asks for in a stage, especially if you're new. Plus to really beat the game you have to do it twice to unlock stage 6B. IN is brutal on stage 4 as well. Whichever boss you get it's pure hell.

[Anonymous No.8650429]

>>8650260
I wouldn't say it's one of the hardest but it's clearly not the cakewalk people pretend it is, it's of average difficulty compared to the rest of the series and can get confusing. like a new player would wonder what the fuck is that human/youkai meter even if it actually doesn't matter for non-scoring runs, and that timer thing instead of a straightforward continue system is pretty convoluted. there's also the need to switch between focused/unfocused to kill some enemies (or even see them? can't remember it's been too long). and yeah whichever boss you get in stage 4 is hard compared to the rest of the series
PCB is just a better and more balanced game and better entry point because it's straightforward, even if SA/UFO are the actual peak of the windows games, but maybe a bit too hard for a newcomer (not retro but whatever it's the same engine as MoF which is retro)

[Anonymous No.8650476]

Semi related to the subject I guess, but can anyone help with screen tearing in Touhous? I had none back in October when I played them, and I re-visit 7 and 8 last night and both have intermittent tearing about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom, but only when lots of bullets are on screen. Vpatch and setting v-sync in my graphics card settings can't fix it.

[Anonymous No.8650487]

rRootage

[Anonymous No.8650547]

>>8650429
>there's also the need to switch between focused/unfocused to kill some enemies (or even see them? can't remember it's been too long)
Yeah it's got that weird Ikaruga system going on too. Nice idea, but between that, the human/yokai meter, the collecting of night orbs, it's a complicated set of mechanics for a game that doesn't really need them. I know SA is considered one of the hardest, but IN is still the hardest one prior to that one, imo.

[Anonymous No.8650586]

>>8650476
Try asking in one of the 2hu threads on /v/.

[Anonymous No.8650690]

>>8650586
Those always get deleted

[Anonymous No.8650764]

>>8649840
>>8650060
Those. But you can also play one of the harder ones on easy mode.

>>8649849
The Parodius games are not only not bullet hells, they're hard as fuck.

[Anonymous No.8650948]

How hard is Mushihimesama? I remember it back in the early 2000s as being pretty famous for how crazy it looks. Is it really has hard as it looks?

[Anonymous No.8650982]

>>8650690
Not the gameplay ones

[Anonymous No.8651068]

>>8650487
I'm more of a Parsec 47 kind of man, but both are great.

[Anonymous No.8651083]

>>8650948
Normal is a fairly beginner friendly game but still tough enough for newbies to keep entertained.
Maniac is a big step up and is around the difficulty of you average touhou game on lunatic.
Ultra is another big step up and is extremely difficult. Its not the most difficult Cave game, but it is definitely up there for the genre.
Both of the Mushihimisama games are pretty great in that you can graduate up the difficulties over time. Down normal and get some expereance with other games, then revisit it on Maniac later, and so on.

[Anonymous No.8651089]

>>8650690
The fuck you talking about?
The gameplay ones regularly stay for 500+ posts

[Anonymous No.8651273]

>>8647874
both espgaludas