Batsugun (Sega Saturn) - The Godfather of the Bullet Hell Genre 

Yup! The Saturn controller is truly the greatest 2d controller ever. I know people will make the argument with the SNES, but I always have to lean towards the Saturn. Even today, I’ll hook up a Saturn controller to my switch to play 2d games

retrobits makes a dual analog sega saturn style controller. Best of all worlds

@@ChibiKami yea I saw that. Looks awesome. Might pick one up

Im sorry but a dpad is hell on your fingers

Hell yea, brother! 🤙🏻

Ahhh didn’t know that. Interesting. Been saying it wrong my whole life lol. Thanks!

Yea it’s one of my favorites too. And yup, it’s way more friendly to newcomers. I agree, Grind Stormer is great but not for the general population lol. From my understanding, the Saturn version is very close to the arcade version with extra content. I would say Radiant Silvergun is wayyyy more in-depth with its chain attacks and 6 different weapons which is specific for each situation. Batsugun had similar elements, but it’s far off and more simple. Radiant Silvergun is by far my favorite shmup ever. It’s like a game of chess meets a shmup

Haha yea true, but I look at Steam as a large digital platform that offers everything. In terms of main consoles through the 8th/9th generation, switch probably has the best. But in terms of retro consoles, the Saturn and TGX-16 had the best library of shmups

@@VicariouslyRetro agree. PS4 however has some superior ports to important entries in a way can’t be left behind either.

@@gothamindembaum oh for sure. I don’t have a ps4 actually. Gotta pick that up at some point

Hahaha I don’t mind them, I just don’t have time for them and I never really played them as a kid. I’ve played a few that I loved like Chrono Trigger and Panzer Dragoon Saga. I just got bored with Final Fantasy series (although I still need to play the SNES ones). FF7 is a great game, just not so much my type of game. It’s funny cause I love action-adventure games like Zelda and dungeon crawlers like Hades and the Diablo series. I play those non-stop

@@VicariouslyRetro if you like Zelda-like games give Linkle Liver Story (Saturn) a go. It's a spiritual successor to Crusader of Centy (Genesis/Mega Drive)

I’ll check that out. Thanks!