Here's a lovely video we received for the upcoming collaboration between Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture, Sine Mora. It gives a visual demonstration of what the difference is between playing Sine Mora at its normal difficulty and its "insane" difficulty.
Now, I'm looking at the normal stuff at about the halfway mark and thinking that I could probably manage it. Then there's a starburst that looks like it would ensure my death and you can see the insane side has twice as many bullets in it. Looks like they're keen to satisfy everyone's shoot-em-up tastes, though when is anybody's guess as no pricing or release date have been revealed yet.
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I feel your pain at this being an Xbox exclusive looks like something I would love the hell out of. Unfortunately it looks like I'm going to have to sit this one out :(
@deriq thanks. interesting gimmic.
but that begs the question... did i /really/ need to be given a reason to shoot stuff in a shmup? I mean are there people out there that just dodge everything and complete levels? nevermind, probably are.
well the same could be said of just about any action game. Anybody can just pick up a FPS and shoot shit, its the games mechanics that makes it intresting for anybobody but the most casual of gamers.
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Or am i missing something?
playtime is directly tied to how many enemies you take down (+secs.) vs the amount of times you get hit (-secs.), rather than the usual stock health.
but that begs the question... did i /really/ need to be given a reason to shoot stuff in a shmup? I mean are there people out there that just dodge everything and complete levels? nevermind, probably are.
well the same could be said of just about any action game. Anybody can just pick up a FPS and shoot shit, its the games mechanics that makes it intresting for anybobody but the most casual of gamers.