Top 5 Raizing SHMUPS 

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Sounds like a surfer dude..maaaaan

It is fun to play but I can never fully understand the racing mechanic and how to go faster.

@@Robin-ie3ns It's based on how high up the screen you are. The closer to the top, the faster you go.

@@philmason9653 Thanks for replying! Good to have that confirmed, although I can be right up the screen and finish last lol Maybe just not enough up the screen.

You're damn right it is!

It's Sorcer Striker, not Sorcerer Striker

Thank you! There are plenty more in the works ;)

I’d love a Batrider release - here’s hoping M2 STG make one. I made a Japanese PSN account mainly so that I could buy the M2 STG ports that weren’t on PSN here. So far I’ve bought every port with every bit of DLC they released, either on PS4 or Xbox Series X, so maybe they’ll come back to Raizing again in a year or two…

Thank you :)

Thanks! Yeah, it's definitely apples to apples when comparing Garegga's and Batrider's awesomeness.

I sort of do. I have around 5 or 6 other Top Shmups lists. You should check them out if you haven't already :)

Exact opposite for me. I've got pretty good at Garegga, meanwhile I still feel like a newb when playing Batrider. Soukyugurentai lands in the middle, but somewhere closer to Garegga.

@@wigglesarcade8261 I'm pretty new to most of the Raizing games so I haven't sank in as much time with those as I have Cave and Psykio games. There all pretty damn stellar! The rank on Garegga just slaughters me of course, so I put in some research to figure out the game lately. But then I got sidetracked by multiple other shooters lol.

That rank system really put me in my place when M2 ported it to PS4. I thought I was pretty good, but holy crap some people are machines in Garegga! But the Raizing library is mostly fun as hell, even games like Kingdom Grand Prix and 1944 Loop Master that didnt make the list. Even Brave Blade has its merits despite not being that great overall.

@@wigglesarcade8261 actually I think 1944 is the best in the 1942 series! 🤣🤣 I have been trying to finally get good at shooters for the past two years or so and jumped into Battle Garegga thinking that was a good starting point. Definitely got smacked down hard. Crawled back to Cave games after that! Looking forward to checking out the mahou daisakusen series too though.

@@wigglesarcade8261 Brave Blade is actually their best shmup by far : shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=66798

Yeah and the great thing is that all the arrangements (from arcade to orchestral and in-between) that they brought together on the M2 STG port are enjoyable in their own way, making it fun to swap between them on repeated playthroughs, too.

Dimahoo was my number 6. It looks and sounds incredible, it just barely lost out to Battle Bakraid for gameplay reasons. It's still awesome though and I love playing it.

Yes, some were, but also from Toaplan.

@@wigglesarcade8261 ahh no wonder why i found similiarities of the final stage of Batrider and 2nd stage of Tatsujin.

@@wigglesarcade8261 No, common miscomception. Raizing is ex-Compile mostly

Thanks man, appreciate it.

I LOVE every OST from those games you mentioned. If I ever do a Top SHMUP soundtracks some of those games would likely end up in it. But yes, I'd still consider Garegga's soundtrack to be better.

@@wigglesarcade8261 To each his own. ;) Garegga is an awesome game no doubt, I just don't think it's OST is better than any other in the shmup genre.

Imo, Skull Fang: Kuuga Gaiden OST is the best ever. I discovered it 3 months ago and I play it (the OST) every day it's just too damn awesome.

Just change to glowing bullets in the options

I really appreciate that! Yeah, just playing Batrider and Garegga will quickly make you realize how mediocre most other shooters are by comparison.

I'd say the PS4 for sure given how much easier it is to play and also M2 did an excellent job porting it. It also has many customizable options the Saturn version doesn't. The Saturn version also has load times between stages, which isn't a big deal, but it's a minor issue that makes the PS4 port better.

@@wigglesarcade8261 Yeah probably should go for the PS4 version. I heard it has an option to make the bullets easier to see. I have some color blindness and it'll be a problem with those standard colors, I can already tell. Well, I guess it's off to Ebay for me to get a physical copy lol. Trying to 1CC Radiant Silvergun in the meantime though!

PS4 version is great. Theres so many options such as changing the bullet colors.

Oh man, I love that Radiant Silvergun goal. Love, love, love that game!

How so?

It's the way you end your sentences.

@@heinquist4632 I appreciate the feedback. Will work on that in my next video.

@@wigglesarcade8261 I hate to jump on this but I feel if you could vary your pitch a bit it would help. Your videos are really great but I can't listen to your voice because you use the same cadence for every sentence.

@@shakesquire84 I'm trying to figure out what to do about this. I read off a script for each video and my cadence is based off reading it out loud. I've been working on trying to make it more organic with how I normally talk. However the reason I write scripts for these videos in the first place is because my speech is normally occupied by ughs, umms, and likes, as well as natural pauses I have while speaking. It seems like enough people really don't like the way I talk to where I'm considering just not doing narrations at all, but I plan on getting a better feel for this later on. For now, I'm trying to work on my cadence, my vocal fry (which I have a little in my normal speech, but it's 5x worse in my videos), as well as drawing out vowels at the end of my sentences. I have very little experience presenting or script reading prior to making youtube videos and its admittedly an area I struggle with. I will continue to work on it and hopefully it shows in my future videos.

Agree

Jesus Christ, sir please take a chill pill

@@opaljk4835 sorry. No

@@EliteScentsOnly you don’t have to apologize to me, I don’t care that you’re a jerk