Iron Draggon
03-12-2005, 07:53 PM
WOW! I just got this game for the PS, and it is AWESOME! No wonder why I always heard so many good things about it! Now I really wanna check out the Saturn version! I hear it's even better on the Saturn, but at least now I have a copy to tide me over until I can get a copy of the original. I still can't believe how cool it is though! If it had come out earlier in the Saturn's life, surely it would've been released here in the states. Talk about a hidden gem!
I can't beat it though! I got as far as the final boss battle with the unlimited continues, but I can't beat it! I think it's meant to be played with 2 players. I can defeat the big red boss before the giant purple boss alright, except I usually have to use one bomb on it. That leaves me with 3 bombs to use on the last boss. And I have to use all 3 of them to get to the part where he fires the massive green laser. I can usually manage to survive that OK, and the barrage of smaller green laser after that, but then he goes nuts on me with some smaller bullets and I can't seem to navigate my way through that attack! I have no more bombs left to use at that point, so all I can do is try to dodge his bullets, and there's just too many of them to avoid them all!
So I seem to need a friend or some good cheat codes. And I don't have any friends available. I have a friend coming to visit soon who might be able to help me, but he pretty much sucks at shmups, so he wouldn't be very much help anyway. I wish I knew someone else nearby who's as good at shmups as I am. I'm no master, but usually I can beat any shmup as long as I have enough continues. But unlimited continues aren't helping me with this one! I've tried all 3 different weapons, and none of them have helped. I think I know the best one to use, since only one gets me as far as I can get most of the time without any problems. But I need more bombs or something! If I had a code for unlimited bombs, then I could do it for sure. Yes, it would be cheating, but DAMN, have you ever played this game? It's tough as nails! Definitely a dodging game, but even a good dodger like myself has trouble with this one! You need godly dodging skills for this one, and I'm not a god! So I need unlimited bombs for sure, or an invincibility code that I can use.
I don't know what else I can do to beat it besides try to practice on it to death, but I got tired of fighting the last battle over and over again after about an hour or so of trying to defeat it. I've never had so much trouble with the last battle of a shump before. BTW, I was playing it on geki mode. I'm not sure what that is, but it's the default, so I assume it's normal mode. I didn't wanna try it on easy, in case I could get something unlocked by playing it on geki mode. And forget hard mode, it's hard enough already! So should I try it on the easy mode instead? Is there even anything to unlock?
BTW, about the weapons, the lightning weapon is the coolest weapon I've ever seen in a shmup! Usually it's the best one, but in some situations like the last boss it doesn't seem to be effective enough. So I was using the one with the bullets and missiles for the last battle. I tried it with the lasers too, but they didn't seem to work well enough either. So not the blue (lightning) weapon, not the red (laser) weapon, but just the yellow (bullet & missile) weapon seems to be the only weapon that I have a chance of beating it with. But I can only get as far as when it zooms out and zooms back in on the purple boss. Once it zooms back in, I'm toast. I hope that I'm close to killing it at that point, but it wouldn't surprise me if I have a long way to go.
Anyhow, this game rules! It's definitely the best shump that I've ever played since Raiden! And you know Raiden is one of the best classics of all time. So I can't believe that i waited so many years to get this game! I heard all the hype back in the day, but I never got a chance to see it in action, much less play it, so I never bothered to import it. And now I wish I had! I'm like OMG!
Everything about this game totally rocks! But especially the big red boss, and the squid boss, or whatever it is! I was freaking out over that! And all the special effects too! It's unbelievable! I never even heard of Warashi before, but if this was their first and only shmup, what a waste of talent! Did they ever make any other shmups? A sequel to this game, I hope? I'm amazed at how good it is! The hype never did it justice! I always thought that it was just a cult classic, but this is true mainstream classic shmupping material here!
No wonder Natsume decided to port it over to the PS for us! It's the most underrated shmup that I've ever played! I can hardly wait to see how much better it looks on the Saturn! Dang, all the greatness that I've missed out on for so long, I have alot of catching up to do! If any of the other shmups that I've missed out on are even half as good as this one is, then I've missed out on some truly great ones! And this game should be getting alot more hype!
I can't beat it though! I got as far as the final boss battle with the unlimited continues, but I can't beat it! I think it's meant to be played with 2 players. I can defeat the big red boss before the giant purple boss alright, except I usually have to use one bomb on it. That leaves me with 3 bombs to use on the last boss. And I have to use all 3 of them to get to the part where he fires the massive green laser. I can usually manage to survive that OK, and the barrage of smaller green laser after that, but then he goes nuts on me with some smaller bullets and I can't seem to navigate my way through that attack! I have no more bombs left to use at that point, so all I can do is try to dodge his bullets, and there's just too many of them to avoid them all!
So I seem to need a friend or some good cheat codes. And I don't have any friends available. I have a friend coming to visit soon who might be able to help me, but he pretty much sucks at shmups, so he wouldn't be very much help anyway. I wish I knew someone else nearby who's as good at shmups as I am. I'm no master, but usually I can beat any shmup as long as I have enough continues. But unlimited continues aren't helping me with this one! I've tried all 3 different weapons, and none of them have helped. I think I know the best one to use, since only one gets me as far as I can get most of the time without any problems. But I need more bombs or something! If I had a code for unlimited bombs, then I could do it for sure. Yes, it would be cheating, but DAMN, have you ever played this game? It's tough as nails! Definitely a dodging game, but even a good dodger like myself has trouble with this one! You need godly dodging skills for this one, and I'm not a god! So I need unlimited bombs for sure, or an invincibility code that I can use.
I don't know what else I can do to beat it besides try to practice on it to death, but I got tired of fighting the last battle over and over again after about an hour or so of trying to defeat it. I've never had so much trouble with the last battle of a shump before. BTW, I was playing it on geki mode. I'm not sure what that is, but it's the default, so I assume it's normal mode. I didn't wanna try it on easy, in case I could get something unlocked by playing it on geki mode. And forget hard mode, it's hard enough already! So should I try it on the easy mode instead? Is there even anything to unlock?
BTW, about the weapons, the lightning weapon is the coolest weapon I've ever seen in a shmup! Usually it's the best one, but in some situations like the last boss it doesn't seem to be effective enough. So I was using the one with the bullets and missiles for the last battle. I tried it with the lasers too, but they didn't seem to work well enough either. So not the blue (lightning) weapon, not the red (laser) weapon, but just the yellow (bullet & missile) weapon seems to be the only weapon that I have a chance of beating it with. But I can only get as far as when it zooms out and zooms back in on the purple boss. Once it zooms back in, I'm toast. I hope that I'm close to killing it at that point, but it wouldn't surprise me if I have a long way to go.
Anyhow, this game rules! It's definitely the best shump that I've ever played since Raiden! And you know Raiden is one of the best classics of all time. So I can't believe that i waited so many years to get this game! I heard all the hype back in the day, but I never got a chance to see it in action, much less play it, so I never bothered to import it. And now I wish I had! I'm like OMG!
Everything about this game totally rocks! But especially the big red boss, and the squid boss, or whatever it is! I was freaking out over that! And all the special effects too! It's unbelievable! I never even heard of Warashi before, but if this was their first and only shmup, what a waste of talent! Did they ever make any other shmups? A sequel to this game, I hope? I'm amazed at how good it is! The hype never did it justice! I always thought that it was just a cult classic, but this is true mainstream classic shmupping material here!
No wonder Natsume decided to port it over to the PS for us! It's the most underrated shmup that I've ever played! I can hardly wait to see how much better it looks on the Saturn! Dang, all the greatness that I've missed out on for so long, I have alot of catching up to do! If any of the other shmups that I've missed out on are even half as good as this one is, then I've missed out on some truly great ones! And this game should be getting alot more hype!