Awesome run, been playing this the last couple of days and loving it. The graphics and sprite work are insane, it may be one of the prettiest 2d games ever. Though I really do think this game would benefit so much from being able to lock your shot direction like in Shock Troopers, but that’s just a nitpick. Glad that it plays great with an arcade stick.
Been playing through this in the last couple of days and could not agree more. I love what they did with bringing this series back to life but some aspects of it are quite baffling. 2 player being locked being a story clear feels odd and no stage select boggles my mind. By FAR the most painful thing is the no lock on though. I feel like the majority of the difficulty comes from not being able to line shots perfectly while enemies do their thing. I get that this was very deliberate as a design choice but its still painful. I feel like I'm fighting the game, not the game's difficulty half the time. Having gone back in the last couple of months to replay similar shooters from the Arcade Collection series that allow for all this and more in terms of control schemes really hinder this game. It's a hard one, on the one hand I'm so impressed with what they did considering the small team behind this but on the other - there are some things here that really need fixing.
@@iconoclast575 It's wonderful they did something so that those of the Switch audience can get a version of Pocky and Rocky that fits their hardware and makes the most of the graphics and sound. I still have my PS version of "Harvest Moon: Back to Nature," and it made me later appreciate "Stardew Valley" when it came out.
What a great game! I played the SNES original. The game is full of interesting Japanese mythology and figures and good music (I'm glad they left it quite untouched, it's just in higher quality) as well, I like that!
I used to really dislike the "Underworld" level... then I realized one day when I accidentally dodged out into open air that Uzume is flying, so she actually has full, free movement during sections like 24:30 and 25:45 and doesn't have to worry about falling off ledges and stuff... Between that, the triple mirrors, the Shimenawa, the Magatama's hitboxes and her shot-types, I think she may very well be the game's resident broken-tier character.
Cutscenes my way: Beggining: Long ago, monsters threatned the Seven star spirits into madness. However Pocky wanted to put and end to this and calmed them down! Days Ago, Rocky the racoon ran to Pocky's shrine he said... 0:47 Later that day... Whispy Woods: no running from master Dark Matter
Yeah, red is typically my mainstay. Green isn't bad though, especially in stages 2 and 4. I usually only use blue for specific areas. It works pretty well on the hands & spiders in stage 3.
@@iconoclast575 the wild guns remaster, ninja warriors remaster don't have issues on either of those systems. So ye, its a no brainer to own these compared to what a usual snes cartridge goes for
on stage 5, what`s the deal with the change of characters?, what`s the condition?, at first it always changed to ikazuchi but now it always changes to hotaru
Depends on the exact type you're looking for, but there's a bunch. The Ninja Warriors Once Again (or The Ninja Saviors in America) and Wild Guns Reloaded are two other SNES remakes from the same developer and they're fantastic. There are newer retro style games like Streets of Rage 4 and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, and another recent beat 'em up that I really liked called Final Vendetta. PS4 has tons of shmups as well. ESP Ra.De, Ketsui Deathtiny, Mahou Daisakusen, Psyvariar Delta, Caladrius Blaze, Raiden IV & V, Kyukyoku Tiger, Cotton Rock 'n Roll (or Cotton Fantasy), Deathsmiles I & II, Battle Garegga... and a lot more. For some other side scrolling games, there's an Assault Suit Leynos remake that's pretty good, and Inti Creates are consistently good at making retro Mega Man/Castlevania style games with the Gunvolt series, Luminous Avenger (my favorite), Bloodstained, and Gal Guardians. But yeah, there's plenty more, that's just some of the ones I like off the top of my head.
Ironically, the demon "Astartoth" from a game that is clearly based on Shinto is more accurate to Satan if he's a seraphim as people claim, closer to a biblically accurate seraphim turned evil (although there's nothing in the bible about Satan being a seraphim), than 99% of portrayals that are explicitly stated to be Satan.
I loved the SNES version when I was a child in 90s. I have fully viewed this video and story looks more deep than original, but I don't like the fact that Pocky's memories missed. I am not sure if gods erased her memories or if when you return to the normal world, your memories in overworld are automatically erased. If gods erased her memory, they shouldn't. She worked hard and acted as a heroine, so she didn't deserve to take her mind manipulated.
The 3000 coins build up over multiple playthroughs, successful or failed. So you could game over 30 times on Stage 1 while managing to grab around 100 coins each attempt to unlock Extra Easy and its infinite lives.
It's available digitally on the Japanese eshop and PSN stores, you just need a Japanese account for them. You can order a physical copy from import websites like Play-Asia or amazon.jp, or wait for the American release next month.
It differs quite a bit indeed, the story is expanded, the stages different later in the game, new enemies it seems too. Makes the first game seem like the future battle against Dark Mantle (minus Sayo-chan's death), and this a follow up to it. Yet at the end, there's now no more evil, and Sayo's mind is wiped, seems like that doesn't leave the door open much for sequel. Perhaps the second game gets a redo too, maybe fix the names changed in the original sequel, like Momotarou, instead of Captain Peach. .
It's a "Final Fantasy 7 Remake style" remake. As in "it tricks players into thinking it's a remake, when it is actually a sequel." Pretty ballsy, but I do like it. IMO, it's better to have a new game than to retread old ground.
@@BknMoonStudios Thank god, there are actually people who understood Final Fantasy VII "Remake" being a sequel and the term "Remake" a meta/narrative thing.
Still shots and no acting? US also censors that lady in pink boobs while $30. I'll stick with werewolf princess Kaguya at $5 even if only one player. Edit: $27 amazon physical sale and code for 2 player lol best we can do, meh why not. I even saw full price with stickers
Funny part is 21:50 jiggles about in US version despite her smaller portrait boobs. I did hit my wall at level 3 but I did get the game with stickers bundled. Will quit given easy mode is unlocked and 2 player code won't have story.
