i went and 1CCd salamander 1. great game, but it's definitely more of a routing and strategic puzzle than like a dodging skill sort of shmup, which is a polite way of saying it's a memorizer. i don't know why the 1-4 boss is so ridiculous, but i suspect it has to do with the 2-player mode, lol...
Most of the older shmups feel like that for a combination of quarter-eating reasons and also because hardware limits made more analysis-reaction based bullet hell play unfeasible
To me, the series that carried strategic shmup play past the arcade era was R-Type
Congratulations Dot!! ^^
went back and 1CCd Life Force. general consensus seems to be that this game is easier, which I do get (recovering from a death with the Lord British is really simple), but they took away a really useful safe spot (and made the boss possible without it) and added a REALLY nasty enemy swarm in 1-5 lol
is there a difference between the two ships? :o
Wait why is lord british in this game
you didn't know this? the red ship is the Lord British. in the anime it's piloted by a guy named Lord British. like if my name was Hyundai Elantra
I'm just imagining an Ultima shmup now
the 4th boss is bugged, it's not suppose to shoot out as many balls as it does. that was fixed in life force jp
Congrats!