@ Vagiel
Sorry, i totally misunderstood the first time. Try Samidare (
Stage 1;
Stage 2) and RefRain (
Stage 1). They are made by the same people, who were originally in Amusement Makers, the ones who were doing the Seihou series. Samidare is really interesting in that you only have the basic shot and a shield that you can only raise for a second or two before needing to recharge it. The shield nulls enemy attacks and absorbs enemy bullets to supercharge your own shot, so it can get really weird at times with you suicide diving into crazy bullet streams to try and supercharge your shot long enough to finish the boss before your shield goes off and you go boom. RefRain is still just a demo, and it's pretty easy to finish the three stages in the trial. You have two diferent ships, and each have a normal mode, focus mode, and a four step special attack chain that eats charges you get by killing enemies and grazing bullets.
Then you also have the TWINS saga with
Twilight Insanity,
Twilight Refrain, and
Alternative Sphere. That's another of my favorite Shoot 'Em Up series, and what little i can understand of the plotlines is even weirder than Touhou with elemental sorcerers and flying nuns fighting in a cyberpunk world against god knows what, usually involving lots of surreality, crazy nanites, evil internets, and geometric shapes of mass destruction in cyberspace. They also have their own set of unique rules, like there being diferent bosses and paths and levels depending on how you play, a rank system that changes dificulty according to how much you suck and makes super frustrating trying to train with the bosses hardest patterns, and what choices you pick and there being no lives after the first one: You just have your Lifeline/Spirit energy that act as bombs. When you use one it is way cheaper than when you are hit and the bomb is auto-casted, but if you are hit and you do not have enought spirit energy to auto-cast is game over. And they also have pretty cool songs, like
Gun's Heart and
Impossible Mission, and
Turning Point.
Oh, and the Black Cat that made those videos is a diferent one. I really need a more original nickname.
And finally you have the king of surreal zen Shoot 'Em Ups: Hellsinker. It is amazing? Yes, it is. It is weird? Totally. It has lots of diferent paths and bonus stuff. It is crazy, insany, and stupidly dificult? Aha. It has many diferent characters, each with diferent configurations and each playing nothing like the next one. Wonderful music, most epic feeling ever, and so much weird i don't know where to start. There is no way to describe Hellsinker, you just have to see it for yourself:
The Apostles of Seed,
The Shrine of Farewell,
The Glitched Kareidoscope, and
The Way of All Flesh. Love it, cry epic tears, etc. Very amazing, very evil.
That should have you entertained for a while, but still... We cannot mention Hellsinker without
this video being linked to. Now it is done. The circle is closed, etc.
@ deuxhero
"Is it classic style "can't change jump direction in mid air" (unless you are playing as Grant in III) impossible platforming or post Symphony of the Night style Metroidvania."
You can both change directions in mid jump and, by pressing jump again, start flying. The boss battles seems to involve a lot of flying around to evade bullet barrages that would be easy in a Shoot 'Em Up but here are simply diabolical and a lot of mid air brawling along with the jumping. If you get hit while flying, though, you can't start flying again until you land and take off again, so those evil bottomless pits are as evil as always.
"Also the only link in the main post is to a youtube video."
The youtube video is the official trailer so you guys can see the art and the gameplay and stuff. If you want the links just send me a PM, i thought we can't post torrents and the like in the open (yet...).
"Who's the girl rubbing chests with Suika at the start anyways?"
That's
Tewi Inaba, Eientei's other magical rabbit.
"I think Black Cat is the last person here I would describe as a "Closet Wapanese Touhoutard Doujin Fan"."
This...
... is exactly how you just made me feel like. I hope you are happy, you big meanie you. I always thought i was pretty subtle about it.
