@slimerancher, oh, and if you would like to learn bullet hells better and don't mind some slightly disturbing imagery, Angel at Dusk is a great and accessible game. It has an outstanding tutorial to interactively teach you not just the mechanics, but also how exactly to pull off the required (sub)genre moves.
hook
@slimerancher @Phelpssan, a few more non-danmaku STGs that I’d suggest:
vert (T = tate support):
• Anger Force (T)
• Astebreed
• SophStar (T)
• Dragon Blaze (T)
• Gunbird 2 (T)
• Sisters Royale (T)
• Moon Dancer (T)
• Missile Dancer (T)
• Dimension Drive – weird
• Shoot1Up – weird
hori:
• Sine Mora
• Blazing Star
• Black Bird – weird
• Rigid Force Redux
• R-Type Dimensions
• ProtoCorgi – weird
• Aqua Kitty UDX
• Andro Dunos 2
• Thunder Force IV
@dinckelman, I should brave up and finish that game. I love that bug and the wonderful weird world he's in, but, boy, it can be hard.
@nonprofitparrot thank you.
Interesting. I wonder if those are about the Pokeball controller/peripheral (more likely given the time) or the in-game throwing.
@nonprofitparrot, if you have the links to the patents at hand, it would be grand if you can share them.
@slimerancher same! I have all four, so far finished only 1.
Also need to finish the last boss in Metroid Dread and finish Prime 1 in time for Prime (2, 3 and) 4.
@ngwoo, I really enjoyed the old text-based ones when I was younger. I played the original Where in the World and I think so the Where in Time. But those were early gaming days and I was younger too.
So I'm curious, but not too excited.
@slimerancher it has a demo too.