by pierrot Sun Sep 30, 2018 9:46 pm
Yo, anyone interested in talking shumps on these here boards, again?
I haven't been playing shooters nearly as much over the last few years, which is borderline criminal considering what I own. Anyway, I've been feeling like playing more recently, and had a hard time stopping while playing Espgaluda today. I don't remember this game being so good. What gives? I really never got into Espgaluda, or Espgaluda II in the past, but playing Espgaluda again, now, was really satisfying. Am I just forgetful? Have I become so out of touch with shooters over that period of dormancy that even something like Espgaluda feels extremely fresh and invigorating? I really enjoyed not dealing with chain, and it's a lot of fun to harvest gems for converting screen-fulls of bullets into gold bullion. I'm using Tateha, because I prefer her extra regular shot damage in her Kakusai. I haven't quite been able to get through the second boss, yet, though (I'm doing single credit runs). Made it to his last segment, on my last attempt, but I made a really terrible error, trying to chase down one of the power ups I lost from a death right before. I was pretty close to an extend, too--. I will hopefully give it some more runs in the next few days or so. It's interesting how the UI overlap between Espgaluda and Mushihimesama make it seem kind of like they were developed concurrently.
Even though the artwork for Espgaluda is a little iffy, I got kind of sucked into the gallery in the PS2 port. It's a pretty nice gallery mode.