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Okay, so I couldn’t resist, because it was 10 dollars. Could you have? It should have been 10 dollars originally. I can’t believe they were trying to sell this for 60 bucks… this would have been an incredibly kickass XBLA game, for example…
Oh, what game am I talking about? WARTECH: Sendo No Ronde.
Anyway, if Bullet Hell Schmups and Fighting games had a child, this would be the game made. It’s… incredibly interesting. I can easily picture fans of Schmups really liking the game… each character has various patterns that they shoot out that I’m sure someone who was actually good at Schmups would be able to dodge, but I just spin around and get hit a lot… you also have this shield you can put up to halve your damage to bullets you can’t dodge that I always forget to use… oh, and you can transform into B.O.S.S. mode, where you basically get to become a Schmup boss for a few seconds and spew all kinds of crap everywhere… but if someone is actually good they can deal a ton of damage to you like that, too, because you can be attacked like a Schmup boss…
Anyway, I feel like I lack the vocabulary to properly describe this game because I rarely play games from one half of its formula. It sort of feels like Zone of the Enders multiplayer from a top down perspective… in that you have these close and long range attacks for each button, so you can try to rush in and melee or use your various bullet patterns to whittle them down…
It’s… it’s kinda neat. And they’re selling it for 10 bucks at every EBStop… and it’s totally worth that, and comes with some fairly easy achievements… like a whole set of achievements just for leaving the 360 on for like 100 hours or something… though that’s a RROD waiting to happen. Heh. But yeah, I could see someone who plays a lot of Schmups and who wants to challenge other Schmup fans on something other than score picking this thing up and loving it a lot… which probably means it was really fucking popular in Japan, because they’re crazy about such things…
Me, though, I’ll stick to dicking around in it on Very Easy for the achievements… the fact that the final bosses can still kill me on Very Easy shows you how much this game is not for me… oh well.
Call of Duty 4 tomorrow. Wheeeeeee!