Aerolith Aurorablast Edition
What's New?
Blue Revolver, it's pretty good
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It's a CAVE/Raizing-esque doujin SHMUP where it's more about microchaining instead of stage-long chaining. You kill eight dudes, and then 'cash in' by killing stuff with your special weapons which then nets you an additional score multiplier up to 64x. Pretty fun if you learn how it works. Additionally there are BREAKs which are secret score bonuses you get for destroying things in certain ways, but are usually more difficult to perform. There's also rank present, using bombs to transform bullets into special weapon energy, and suiciding. The stage design is great, the music is fucking kickass (soundcloud.com
Dodonpachi Resurrection
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Comes with all eight gameplay modes for the bargaining price of 28/24 european dollars. The arcade modes themselves are arcade perfect, some say they're even more accurate than the 360 port. Do note that Black Label Arrange has some Gradius 3 SNES levels of slowdown, whether that's going to be fixed is everyone's best guess. Everything else works fine for the most part. The lossy soundtrack and invisible boss bug for BLA have already been fixed.
The bullet-canceling hypers and mecha girl bosses are still present.
Battle Garegga Rev.2016
The king is back… exclusive to the PS4 and Japan only. Maybe it'll get ported to PC, apparently the arcade version of Rev.2016 ran on PC-based hardware, so a port may not entirely be out of the question. Premium Edition comes with superplays, a soundtrack disc with the original OST, arranged Saturn OST, new updated OST by Namiki himself, and even more arranges by the SuperSweep guys. Also includes an actual replica of the full-value medal, and more. Do note there is no physical disc of the game, only a download code. Why? I don't know. You'll have to order this on a Japanese site first.
Switch 'n Shoot
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A simple Downwell-esque (I'm positive the developer of this game worked on Downwell) game which is played with one button, and everytime you hit the button you change directions and fire a shot. It's way more fun than it actually seems and cheap.
Additionally, Raiden V is available for $12.50 with XBL Gold on the Xbone… not that I'd ever buy an Xbone. And STGWeekly hit their 100th episode, celebrating it with Blue Revolver. More DLC for Dariusburst Chronicle Saviours soon.
What are you dying to?
What SHMUP song are you jamming to?
Do you have problems with any particular SHMUP to get into?