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selenne wrote:holy fckin shit.

BlackFox898 wrote:that was just unfair! how many quarters did he put it lol.

inky wrote:There are games where it actually takes skills to win - this one barely even qualifies. Sure, the boss looks tough and all but I think it takes away the fun of actually trying to win by actively dodging and shooting rather than shooting as many bullets as you can while you still have enough quarters left. Sure there are some scenes where the guy could actually dodge the bullets but most of them are close to, if not impossible altogether.

Sacchin wrote:If it can be beat, it's obviously possible and fair. I haven't played a challenging video game since nes. I'm impressed, this requires real strategy. Not only that but it lets you continue in the middle of the fight. With enough lives/continues it's easy if you think about it. Aaaaaaaaaaand this person is playing on "Ultra Mode" which is the hardest.

By the way this game, Mushihimesama Futari, is going to be released on the xbox 360 in Nov 2009 in Japan.

Da_Realest wrote:

Sacchin wrote:If it can be beat, it's obviously possible and fair. I haven't played a challenging video game since nes. I'm impressed, this requires real strategy. Not only that but it lets you continue in the middle of the fight. With enough lives/continues it's easy if you think about it. Aaaaaaaaaaand this person is playing on "Ultra Mode" which is the hardest.

By the way this game, Mushihimesama Futari, is going to be released on the xbox 360 in Nov 2009 in Japan.

It's not fair if you have to die to get through some parts. There were some parts where it was simply impossible to do anything but do as much damage as you can before you die. A player shouldn't be required to die in order to get pass certain parts. Any developer will tell you that's poor game design. Also, since you aren't free to move most of the time, there really is no strategy. Just hold down the fire button and watch the 3 or 4 dots that get close to you and do your best to weave in between them.

Sacchin wrote:

Da_Realest wrote:

Sacchin wrote:If it can be beat, it's obviously possible and fair. I haven't played a challenging video game since nes. I'm impressed, this requires real strategy. Not only that but it lets you continue in the middle of the fight. With enough lives/continues it's easy if you think about it. Aaaaaaaaaaand this person is playing on "Ultra Mode" which is the hardest.

By the way this game, Mushihimesama Futari, is going to be released on the xbox 360 in Nov 2009 in Japan.

It's not fair if you have to die to get through some parts. There were some parts where it was simply impossible to do anything but do as much damage as you can before you die. A player shouldn't be required to die in order to get pass certain parts. Any developer will tell you that's poor game design. Also, since you aren't free to move most of the time, there really is no strategy. Just hold down the fire button and watch the 3 or 4 dots that get close to you and do your best to weave in between them.

This is why it's called "Ultra/God Mode" because it's super hard. It's not poor development, it's supposed to be THAT hard.

Original Mode
Maniac Mode
Ultra Mode aka God Mode (Must be unlocked)

Original Mode - Yes it looks hard, but by no means close to impossible, especially if you play alot of these types of games and there are tons.

This game is extremely famous/popular and even has figures of it. Newest was June 2009. Do you think they'd do that for an intentionally impossible game? Nope!

http://www.goodsmile.info/detail/eng/2346/Reco.html

Da_Realest wrote:Again, any developer will tell you thats its still poor game design. There is nothing difficult about making impossible odds for the player. Most individuals not in the gaming industry will look at this video and go, 'thats a hard game' but someone knowledgeable in the gaming industry will probably just look at this as a big joke. Using cheap tricks such as Rubberband A.I.(predominately seen in EA games)or impossible odds to make your game challenging does not make your game hard. Being the hardest difficulty is no excuse for it. There are plenty of games out there where the game is challenging because of excellent programming and game design, not because a few individuals were too lazy to overcome a few mental hurdles and decided to cut corners.

So maybe we're just looking at it from 2 different views. Yea it's a hard game, but when I look at it from a developers point a view, it's not hard at all, just poorly designed. It takes a lot of practice and testing to make a game genuinely hard.

About the game being popular... It's no different than Rocky being Philly's hero...

It seems the developers of this game were more focused on making designs with their bullets than debugging their game...

Reise wrote:I don't consider a game difficult if it's just memorizing patterns.

I consider that being cheap.