STG Thread Stage 4 ~ Like the Night of Hunting Bees

[Aisha]

Gotta be an awesome Raizing quote for the fifth thread.

[An Odd Sea Slug]

STG Thread Stage 5 ~ Are you great??
WE ARE GREAT!!!

:V

[Azinth]

Got 4 million points in Dangun Feveron.  The endstage bonus for chaining all of stage 4 is freaking HUGE liek whoamg

I forgot to take a screenshot. :derp:

[Aisha]

For some reason I find Stage 2 of Dangun Feveron to be really hard, particularly in the section right after the midboss.

[Azinth]

For some reason I find Stage 2 of Dangun Feveron to be really hard, particularly in the section right after the midboss.

You need to memorize the places they spawn and kill as many as possible before they fire.  It's one set of four, then two sets of six (first set coming from right to left, second set vice versa).

A really important thing about DF, as I've learned, is that pretty much all of the 'large' enemies in the game wait a little bit to fire before appearing on screen.  Thus, for optimum survival, you must know where they spawn and kill them before they fire.  Stages 4 and 5 will slaughter you if you don't abuse the hell out of it.

[Bananamatic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fmchQq0Qk

looks like a DOJ DL promotion movie
and it's awesome

[Azinth]

I rammed into a giant wad of bullets with 3 bombs in stock when I was like 2 seconds away from getting 5M, come on now

I think I might have hit my limit with this game for the time being.  Stage 5 seems way harder than I initially gauged it to be.:ohdear:

[lmagus]

Ketsui

WHAT THE HELL

I thought DOJ was supposed to be hard, but this is a joke.

I'm telling you, this game is a joke.

This is the first game I've bought that I've played (not counting Mushi/Futari Ultra) and gotten sad about it. There's no way I can play at this level without wasting too much time practicing.

It's a wonderful game and I'm enjoying every single time I game over at stage 2

[KOA]

IKD did mention during an interview that when he (and his team) programmed Ketsui, they "went all-out" on the game.

[Aisha]

What's the Ketsui port quality like, anyway? Is it faithful to the PCB? After what 5pb did to DOJBL, I'm curious; although I heard they were put on a tight leash after the debacle with the DOJ code plagiarism and the port's shoddy quality.

[Formless God]

There is a game harder than DOJ ? :ohdear:

[lmagus]

Well, there is =(
I had already played Ibara and thought it was much harder than DOJ, but I didn't really like it, so I kind of ignored it.. Ketsui is up there with Ibara, if not harder.

@ Aisha: The port is very good. There are NO loading times at all. There are plenty of interesting options, and although it lacks an HD treatment, 5pb added some image filters, so it looks kind of good even on my 50" plasma. Well, better than DOJ anyway.

People who've played both the arcade and the port say it's very faithful. Ketsui never relied much on slowdown anyway, so it's not a big surprise.

I really enjoyed it, too bad it got here in a bad time, as I was having so much fun with Deathsmiles I think I'll go back to it today after work.

[Aisha]

That's good to hear. Looking forward to it, one day. Although ironically(?) enough, the slowdown was one of the reasons why the PS2 Ketsui port had to be scrapped. I think there was another reason, but I don't remember what it was. Also, I put up the last Ketsui arrange, plus some other stuff, a couple of days ago.

[Formless God]

Scarlet Meister Lunatic. What the hell was Hiromu smoking
The first stage makes the last attack in Mushihime look easy and fair.

[Bananamatic]

ketsui doesn't look that hard TBH

[KOA]

ketsui doesn't look that hard TBH

You'd have a different opinion after playing it though. That game is fucking merciless.

[Formless God]

Fighting BWR's extra boss with NO REMORSE in the background is a nice alternative BV

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

From what I've seen on Ketsui, take BWR which is based on it, then make everything faster. Less bullets than BWR Hell mode. Less clipshit.

It really does seem like a better game. Too bad I can't play it.

[Bananamatic]

harder than Dimahoo? :V

Also, Ketsui is a funny word

[Formless God]

Kay, live recorded it. One credit, three misses, best attempt so far.
'Tube y/n

[lmagus]

ketsui doesn't look that hard TBH

Whenever I watched superplays, they always killed the enemies too early, before they could fill the screen with bullets. I thought Ketsui was at the same difficulty level as Espgaluda 2 or something...

Now that I'm the one playing it and am still very new to the game, there are bullets everywhere since very early in stage 1. Stage 2 midboss is already hard for me.

My opinion changed in only a few credits at this game. It's truly brutal.

edit: Forgot to mention the game is FAST. There are barely any slowdowns.

[Bananamatic]

Kay, live recorded it. One credit, three misses, best attempt so far.
'Tube y/n

Now do a timeout it on Accel and wait off

[Formless God]

Wait isn't yours BWR+ ?

[Bananamatic]

Wait isn't yours BWR+ ?

yeah BWR is better but + has accel with wait off

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Could you do some vids of the Scarlet Meister thing you mentioned. Would like to see just how ridiculous it is.

[Sapz]

Ketsui is harder than DOJ

Oh man, I can't wait to play this for myself. Provided it ever actually arrives, of course - it's been 15 days since Play-Asia supposedly dispatched the game. Methinks I need to start ordering from somewhere else.

Also, 1.5 Maniac Larsa is fun stuff. :V

[lmagus]

Oh man, I can't wait to play this for myself. Provided it ever actually arrives, of course - it's been 15 days since Play-Asia supposedly dispatched the game. Methinks I need to start ordering from somewhere else.

Also, 1.5 Maniac Larsa is fun stuff. :V

Why didn't you order from NCSX?

I live in Brasil and received my copy in 11 days x_x


edit: You close to 1ccing 1.5 Maniac then? x_x

I can't get past stage 4 =(

[Formless God]

Could you do some vids of the Scarlet Meister thing you mentioned. Would like to see just how ridiculous it is.

I consider 1cc-ing Stage 1 Lunatic an accomplishment.

[Sapz]

Why didn't you order from NCSX?

I live in Brasil and received my copy in 11 days x_x


edit: You close to 1ccing 1.5 Maniac then? x_x

I can't get past stage 4 =(

Because I'm an idiot and didn't do my research properly, plus I had vouchers. :V Will order from them next, though.

As for Maniac, I still haven't gotten past the stage 5 midboss, I was just playing against Larsa in practice. Best I managed was something like 1D5B. Also, don't worry about dying on Stage 4; that gets really, really hard on Maniac. I usually lose most of my lives there even though I start playing for survival around that point. Tbh, it's a lot harder than Stage 5 except for Larsa. :V

[Matsuri]

Stage 3 is my major choking point on any difficulty. Is it weird that I don't really find stages 4 and 5 to be very hard at all?