Hardest Shmup?

[ExedExes]

Last Resort (Neo Geo)

All I really need to say.

[foxhound1022]

Last Resort (Neo Geo)

All I really need to say.

I seem to have trouble with this also. The pace of it just seems kinda slow, and your ship seems to move waaay slower than all the other shit going on.

[noiseredux]

Last Hope sucks.

[DocHauser]

Image Fight is a bit more manageable with some memorisation and a lot of save-state practice, particularly on the bosses. There are some sweet safe-spots that make several of the bosses trivial to beat. I think I've made it to Stage 6 on one credit; I reckon I could beat the first loop if I put my mind to it. You'll want to keep your destruction % high as well; the penalty stage is brutal.

[brunoafh]

Hellfire is very ball stomping. It's mostly hard because it punishes you so much for taking hits though. It's the hardest shooter I've played on the Genesis if nothing else.

[Hazerd]

Are "Bullet Hell" a sub-genre of Shmup, or do people consider "Bullet Hell" just a super hard Shmup?

Personally i think games classified as "Bullet Hell" should be a new genre, while a Shmup is more something you can sit back and enjoy?

[Menegrothx]

Some one who plays more shmups can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under impression that a major part of the bullet hell genre is bullet patterns, which makes the game a subgenre, and not just normal shmups with more projectiles flying at the screen.


Though there are games that focus more on just being really hard and having the screen full of bullets, rather than designing interesting patterns that are both challenging and visually beautiful

[noiseredux]

Are "Bullet Hell" a sub-genre of Shmup,

yes.

"Bullet hell" (弾幕 danmaku?, literally "barrage" or "bullet curtain") is a shoot 'em up in which the entire screen is often almost completely filled with enemy bullets.[12] This type is also known as "curtain fire",[22] "manic shooters"[7] or "maniac shooters".[23] This style of game originated in the mid-1990s, and is an offshoot of scrolling shooters.[23]

[BoneSnapDeez]

^ eeeeeeeeekkkk!!!!! What game is that?

My colorblindness makes bullet hell shmups tough for me. So much shit on the screen and I can't always distinguish foreground from background, enemy projectiles from power-ups, etc. That's part of the reason I prefer old games with a black (space) background.

[noiseredux]

^ eeeeeeeeekkkk!!!!! What game is that?

A fantastic one!

(Mushihimasama Futari.)