BLUE REVOLVER

Un poco de contexto: me encantan los matamarcianos retro estilo 1942, o R-Type. Cosas como Dezatopia, Pawaruni o Sky Force. Y estos tres son muy buenos.... pero Blue Revolver es el que más me ha devuelto las viejas sensaciones del matamarcianos clásico. Acción salvaje, suficientes opciones para regular la dificultad, armamento variado y nada de "farmeo" (sí, te miro a ti, SF).... el pixel art al principio me pareció un poco tosco: pero va a la perfección, como la música. La idea de "encadenar" series de disparos, y las mecánicas de puntuación aportan la suficiente novedad mecánica, sin convertirse en un engorro ni ocultar lo importante: aquí has venido a moverte mucho por la pantalla y destrozar todo lo que se ponga por delante. Tal vez lo más desconcertante para mí sea que sólo tienes que evitar que las balas den a la cabina: una minúscula parte en el centro de tu nave. Así que, como ves en el trailer, puede haber miles de balas en pantalla... pero mientras tu cabina pase por el minúsculo espacio entre dos de ellas, estamos bien. Y eso de lanzar mi vehículo contra las balas se me hizo contraintuiivo. Pero nunca me quitó las ganas de continuar. Y sí, la cosa se pone infernal en muy poco tiempo, incluso en el nivel fácil... pero supongo que por eso en las opciones tienes un montón de opciones para personalizar aún más la dificultad. En resumen: un juego que rezuma atención al detalle y mimo en todos sus aspectos. Genial. Mi favorito en el género, con diferencia.

A really enjoyable shmup with an amazing soundtrack, visual design and artwork. Throughout my playtime, I didn't find anything even remotely negative to say about this game

Relative shmup beginner. This is a quality shmup, which tends towards faster bullet patterns that aren't overly complex or layered and which has a strong focus on resource management, with both bombs and a special attack meter to manage - the bombs feed into the special meter and have a timing element since bullets convert to meter items, so there's a nice amount of depth here. The special also makes the enemy drop score items, and accruing score to certain points gives you an extra 1UP, and there's an additional system where you break parts of special enemies & certain boss phases in order to gain extra score. I like the mechanics, though I didn't actually engage with the break system much and it's one of those mechanics that doesn't make itself obvious in the game. (Which is not exactly uncommon - there are some very oblique scoring mechanics in shmups.) The biggest issue I have - playing on Hyper difficulty, which is basically this game's 'normal' difficulty - is that the difficulty balance between the stages and the bosses is very wide. Bosses are much more difficult, and the first three stages barely require effort to pass. It makes replays a little tedious. And you know this is bad when I'm coming from Touhou, which is infamous for boring first (and second, and sometimes third) stages. This game doesn't really get teeth until the final stage, other than the bosses. edit: Parallel difficulty fixes this by fixing the difficulty to the highest level. I really like this, actually. The difficulty curve is relatively flattened towards the upper end without the game having a level of difficulty requiring obsessive memorisation. Talking of bosses, I really like that the final boss is a hard skill test. It mostly negates your bomb on use and prevents you from getting meter items, and while you can still pop it in a clutch moment for temporary self-invincibility, the boss actually gets more invincibility from using it than you do! While finishing a challenging shmup is always satisfying, bomb-spamming kills the impact of what should be the climax. The final boss itself is actually not particularly difficult, but because you're hard resource-capped its phases last longer and it turns into an extremely tense game of resilience, and scraping through that final phase and getting the win was intensely satisfying. One small gripe is the poor feedback for the special. I find it difficult to tell when the special has been executed. There should be more audiovisual feedback. I'm using the piercing lancer and I can't even see the attack happening, and I'm often not sure that it has. This might vary depending on what special you use, and maybe if I used headphones there would be a discernible audio cue there? Respect for adding the 120fps mode. Shmups are particularly input lag sensitive and benefit a lot from playing in a high refresh window alone, even if they only run at 60fps, but actually increasing the framerate is even better.

경쾌하고, 청량하다 !

Old school game. Open the game and play, no bs in between.

Хороший шутер. Лично для меня тяжеловатый, но для заядлых задротов в шмапы думаю это прям неплохая штука убить время. Также мне очень понравился местный саундтрек и возможность к переключению разных новых треков. Да и в целом тут очень много контента, который можно ещё относительно долго осваивать. Ну и самое главное - игра очень веселая и атмосферная!

One of the best modern shmups