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Sine Mora - Quite possibly the best horizontal shmup of all time
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I only asked because I really don't like playing games on consoles anymore. I have an Xbox, sure, and I guess I could go in there and grab the game but I don't know if I'd ever play it. The only time the TV or Xbox even gets turned on is to watch Netflix and that's not even all that often anymore.
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The 360 is well worth a purchase if you're a shmup fan. So many games to choose from on XBLA (and even a few really good ones on XBLIG like Leave Home).
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some of the bullet hell in these games scares the hell out of me when they first start
cos im thinking "no way i can work out how to avoid that"
But I'm stuck in the Story mode as Dryak, (female leopard lady, I don't know her name.)
There's this pipe there you break open to get inside, but inside, I either get hit by the garbage or die instantly at the end of the pipe. I think I need glasses, but I don't see what I'm supposed to be doing.
EDIT - Fly through the rubble. Wow that part is kinda lame, but the rest of the game is gold, and the story is really fucked up.
The worst bit is that it's easy to lose a lot of your weapon's level, and guess what immediately follows that section? A boss fight. Good luck fighting it with your weapons set to default power.
Ohh and about the Hungarian voice over work. Holy shit, it seems like the line delivery of every character was done really well.
This is the first schmup I've ever played, and I'm having a blast, but I feel very noobian.
DON'T PANIC
I played some more last night. Got to the train boss in Arcade Mode on hard. Also, tried Insane mode - as far as I can tell, it's identical to Hard mode except enemies shoot a few bullets around them when they die and the timers might be slightly shorter.
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Microsoft says U MAD?
I'm sorely dissapointed this game thoughtlessly earned itself an M rating exclusively due to language. The story and all its horrors and tradgedies could have been an E10 and be as memorable as goddamn Bastion if the writers didn't throw in all this foul language.
Edit~ I'm not using the right words here. Bastion has an excellent story for more age groups. Sine Mora had this opportunity and throws it away exclusively due to dick~killing language. Anyway, I beat Story mode on Casual, but I feel like moving on to Arcade.
The game has a second ending, apparently.
Did you 1CC either Gradius V or DeathSmiles?
There is not a single cave sequence where I take a hit, not knowing what I touched. So my two major beefs with Sine Mora are the needless cursing and shit camera.
See the camera at 2:00? This is how you have a 3d background. The camera needs to be tight enough to know exactly where the wall is and isn't.
I can agree that Deathsmiles advanced play requires memorizing "turn on Power Up here, grind points there," and so on. It's doesn't feel as blatant as RJF though. I 1cc'd Deathsmiles with every character, but I had to avoid Death Mode. In other words, I would not set every stage to Level 3 even though I could handle it.
I had top DS leaderboard scores for 360 Arcade Mode for a while. Black Label...not a chance
Nope.
Maybe DeathSmiles because amazing at high level play but at low-medium play, I just thought it was kind of boring.
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anyway, this thread reminded me that the arcade near here put in Progear recently. that game is a blast.
AND SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IT TO ME
I second that murder!
My university's food/pub has a Capcom cabinet. I thought it had just all its fighting games, but I'm going to have to give it a spin because it was playing one of the Aero Fighters game.
I wonder if it has Mars Matrix. Its the only game I 1cc'd with an audience
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Its all Star Fox esque animals...all really fucked up in th head. The Empire genocides the shit out of a time controlling race "The Enkies." The remaining two million Enkies are rendered comatose and stuck in a prison where they generate time control for the Empire.
The story revolves around a group led by Koss, a handicapped veteran who wants revenge against The Empire, who executed his son for refusing to dump the last of four nukes on the Enkies. The closest thing to a main character, he's also the most evil.
The second group is the last Enkies trying to rescue their imprisoned kin, while comtemplating if they can.
Ikaruga never impressed me. DoDonPachi, Esp.Galuda, and Guwange most definitely did.
How is the life/time/WHATEVER system justified in-story? That's the big.. thing I want to know.
It's boring because you continue. Just keep in mind that someday you really should 1CC EspGaluda, Mushihimesama Futari, Mars Matrix etc.
I don't know how to explain that one. The Enkies are the time controlling race. They all live knowing exactly when they will die, with the first one, named Enky, predicting the exact moment when they go extinct. The Empire imprisons them to predict shifts in their world's volatile landscape.
The individual planes use something called a Time Capsule to activate their powers, and this consumes Time Mass, which behaves like regular mass, creates greater "time gravity" the more you have of it. This is why the Empire needs all the Enkies together, because they collectively form more Time Mass. I don't know the whole "plane blows up at zero" thing.
You unlock an encyclopedia after the first run in Story mode. It explains everything from time control to the Enkie calendar versus The Empire calender.
*gets out wallet* All right, Suda, you win again. Curse yoooooou.
Somehow, I don't think the game would suddenly become amazing if I chose not to continue in the final level.
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Rainbow knows his shumps. Yes you don't "beat" a shump by seeing the credits. That's not what the problem is here, it's just not for him.
Does this game have leaderboards replays? I can't seem to find them. Ikaruga on XBLA set the standard for that. Also, I really wish Arcade mode had a nice inbetween, rather than just Hard and Insane. Challenging seems good enough. I can't beat Story mode on Challenging...yet.
Uh...yay?
EDIT - Apparently this is a requirement for the final "promotion" achievement.
I found out it's a fake item. Avoid a dark blue item with "???" written on it. But you need to touch it at least once to get the final achievement.
It helps that I love this genre as well.
Still makes more sense than Killer7, despite time travel.
Also, I'm starting to get used to the notion that my entire plane is not where I die if shot.
From there you unlock Alternate Story, in which the between-chapter expositions change perspectives. For example, in the prolog, Akyta narrates instead of Koss.
Can I just say holy shit? This is one of the coolest concepts I've heard of.
Then there's The Project.