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Loving these so far!

I honestly think spread and wide shots can be pretty big traps, because the shot is generally weaker, and a focus shot is better in the long term when you actually account for routing and dodging. AKA To Blue kind of has this situation where you would think AKA is better because of the spread and more straightforward bomb, whereas Blue has a focused shot and a really wonky bomb with its firing direction changing when you move; however, Blue is superior in every way, and when you account for scoring being able to angle and aim Blue's bomb provides more opportunities overall, and you just need a few plays to get a feel for it.

Love watching your progress man. Congrats on the clear and keep it up!

Batsugun is so much fun. I love the graphics and music so much.

PCB Easy is really funny, because it feels like diet PCB Normal. So many patterns have a feeling of "eh, slap 80% density and 80% speed on most of the game and manually modify maybe like 10% of it, it should work, right?" (spoiler alert, it doesn't, in fact some patterns are worse than their Normal equivalent). Anyway I am pretty sure Team Shanghai Alice exists solely because of some publishing laws where the easy way out is for ZUN to make a one man company (though if we want to be super technical, he did receive some assistance here and there, like the Windows libraries used in EoSD, or some of the graphics in PoFV). 3:56 - Nice footage of the unused levels lol. 10:35 - There's two official localizations. One for 15.5 (which sucks massive balls and isn't even finished) and one for 17.5 (which is actually good from what I've heard). These are also two of only three Touhou games officially on a console (the third one is 14.5).

i think this is proof that it's kinda pointless to follow the list. not only is it hard to evaluate difficulty but shmups can also be hard in different ways, either because of a lack of resources, tight dodging, strict routing, immense memorisation, or some combination of the above. some players can route every bomb, some can memorise every enemy spawn location, and some can dodge bullets. shmups will be made easier or harder depending on the skills you prioritise touhou is unusual in that its bosses are significantly more challenging than its stages, which is the polar opposite of pretty much every other shmup, so while touhou demands non-existent routing or memorisation, its patterns are some of the hardest in the genre. fortunately this doesn't really end up mattering since the touhou games are very lenient in terms of resources, and usually have some sort of gimmick to further aid the player such as perfect cherry blossom's borders. it's no surprise that touhou is often recommended to absolute beginners. touhou teaches you to dodge bullets, but other shmups teach you to dodge dodging

The game articles on the English fan wiki have links to the steam pages, thankfully. Still just 9 and up though, and almost no twilight frontier games.

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Great work boss

I love these videos, I've only played Touhou 1 so far. I probably should give the rest of the series a try.

randomly caught this and I like that people are jumping on the meme list recently, it's interesting to see new perspectives. I'm a pretty average player and my clears are random, but it's interesting to see some games I think are pretty straightforward, like Cotton, placed as high as they are for the 1all. I'm not really a survival player though, I play a few games to maximize my own score, and if I'm not trying to score I don't bother clearing a game, so my own thoughts kind of sit outside of the scope of the list.

Hopefully you can one day find your pants in one of these runs

I love this game so much I thought the title was a reference to parodius

Loving the series man. Keep up the schmupping!

Yeees, LookingForPants video. Nooooo, the video is only 2 minutes long.

Wooo! Congrats on completing Rank 2!

Ffs i was never notified that you uploaded. Good to see you're back.😊

Welcome back :)

True passion here

fuckin awesome to see you back! looking forward to the continuation

Glad to see you back in my feed, best of luck!

I subbed because of your amazing Click to Continue Game, but stayed for this series! Everything you do has so much effort put into it, keep it up!

Your dreams are gonna die nightmares of this

No games I have beaten in your list. I will be expecting the series nonetheless.

I love the lore dump on Perikles, interesting stuff. I'll be sure to check back on your next shmup video!

"I'm going to start from the bottom of the STG rank list and work my way up, rank by rank" same same same 1p version at 24:

Dark Souls might end up being the greatest thing that ever could have happened to shmups. Now people crave flying death.

I love that one video in and two games in, you're wading neck deep into forum drama and fretting over the lists. Definitely nailing the authentic modern shmup experience! Subbed and, as the kids say, here for it :)

Yea twin bee is hard because it doesnt give you much life and upgrades

Going through the meme lists!? Based, GL bro

this is fucking awesome

Another great video! Im excited to follow this journey. For what its worth, approach the shmups forum with... Caution. I dont recommend beginners hang out there, to be honest. Hell, i dont really reccomend anyone hang out there lol. Its not got a great reputation.

Sometimes the algorithm works... Very well-edited video! And the idea of taking on the meme list is hilarious. im in for this ride!

Welcome to the fold~!

Showing this to every burgeoning shmupper I know

The Perikles saga was quite interesting. Will be checking out the pants list for sure.

Welcome to the shmup community! I've been on the Shmups forums forever, and wasn't even aware of the STG Rank list, so I'll have to look into it. I've been podcasting about shmups for the last 5 years, and I can definitely say that while I'm still not where I want to be in terms of my skill, I've definitely seen improvement. Good luck in your training and progress!

can't say much on this list cause i've only played like 5 shmups but you'll get stonewalled by raiden fighters. game has only 2 lives and no extends, i'd put it at around 15-20. raiden fighters jet has three different routes: ALL1, ALL2 and ALL3. i'd put them at 5, 15 and 25 respectively. same same same is also impossible and even fire shark is like 20 edit: also wanna say that if you wanna get good quickly then just grind one shmup you really like. once you master that one shmup, every other game will become substantially easier. many of the best players only play like one or two shmups. basically being a specialist also makes you a generalist

I can’t wait for this series of yours to blow tf up, you’re doing great work here, fantastic editing, pacing, and dedication.

Good luck on the journey - stay strong 💪

Is this because you’re already the world leader of the s’mores game on the fire stick? 🤣 Excited to watch you shmup it up!

Congratulations on starting your shmup journey, as someone who himself recently took on a bit of shmup excursion myself, I can't wait to see where you go and what you do. Keeping my fingers crossed for the day we get to watch you 1CC Ikaruga!

Good luck on your new journey ;)

youtube deleted my comment for some reason so i'll just repost i don't think it's fair to use juju kenobi as an example. his expertise is in danmaku, while detana twinbee is a classic shooter besides CAVE games the stg rank list is not very accurate. the shmup wiki has "beginner's guide to shooting games" which includes a google spreadsheet of games for beginners

Heck yea! Subbed. Belled. Let's goooooo!