Dead End City Hard Mode 1cc with commentary
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2024
- Hey, everyone!
Here's one of my hard mode clears from Dead End City. During this commentary, I share my thoughts on the scoring aspects, some score tricks, and some things that would have been great to see added to the game.
Enjoy the video, and take care! - Ігри
GG on the run, glad to see this game get featured as it's been a sleeper hit for me since it released on steam last year. I pretty much agree with your points on the final boss difficulty spike and also how punishing scoring can be with the length of the game. Fortunately you figured out how to practice bosses, I agree that it should be a standard feature to be able to do such.
For anyone that actually does want to dive into scoring, I highly recommend Highway mode. This is essentially a single stage caravan mode, but the stages are unique to each car. We had a score competition a while back and the amount of optimization possible is insane, and with the stages only being a few minutes long it's incredibly addictive trying to push the score a bit more each time.
Also funny that you mention feeling the limits of dpad vs stick, I feel the same way but opposite. Even though I've cleared some high level stuff on stick, it still feels like I'm handicapping myself vs the directness and shear speed of dpad.
Yeah, I was kind of wondering why there wasn't a training mode or something a little more direct. Being able to at least loop the boss fight was a god-send. Also, with how you talk about Highway mode, I'm super intrigued to check that out at some point! Thanks so much for checking this out, Chino! By the way, I have one of those clear blue Genesis (from a few years back) USB controllers. I haven't sampled it much yet, though I'm eager to see how the Dpad feels to me.
Great stuff, Dace! Somehow I really enjoy the scoring system. It’s simple yet effective.
Also the way the power-ups work together is very nice for playing around with survival and high risk/high reward scoring strategies.
I spend some time in score attack mode to practice the stages and bosses, which is also the reason I appear at the score boards.
I would like to see the option to solely practice bosses, therefore I appreciate your advice regarding restarting. This will come in handy.
Looking forward to whatever comes next!
Yeah, man - the game has a certain level of cohesion that really clicks with me, too! Glad to hear you're enjoying it and thanks for watching! Trust the fam is doing great!
GG Dace!
Thanks, Alvi!
amazing player 👑👑👑
Thank you for the kind words!
i played stick for a long time, but switched to an xbox one pro controller because i'm lazy and don't have the deskspace to keep my stick just sitting there. the dpad on that one is really good. disc shape (which i find to be better suited for shmups) and it's got this very clicky response that is quite nice.
I hear you on the desk space! Despite having more "high-end" sticks, my go-to is the Hori Mini for Switch. I love how it performs and the size is super nice for not dominating desk space. Glad to hear you clicked with the Xbox Dpad. I only have Nintendo Switch and the Pro controller Dpad is nice (I will never use the analog stick for Shmups at this point), though the Dpad still presents problematic situations from time to time. Thanks for watching!
We gotta get Jaimers to go to work on it!