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"Worst On Switch" list (startrek.website)
submitted 3 weeks ago by RavenFellBlade@startrek.website to c/shmups@lemmus.org
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I've seen a lot of "best of" lists, and they almost all come down to a three-way brawl between DDP DOJ, Mushi, and Crimson Clover.

What I'm curious about is the list of games to avoid. I've already run into one or two.

I accidentally bought Red Raptor thinking it was Red Death because I wanted all of the Project Starship games. Red Raptor is... not good. At least not so far in the half hour I put into it. It feels like somebody made a euroshmup by hearing one poorly described and from screenshots, but without playing or watching one in motion. Also, Q-Yo Blaster. I got it after reading AzorMX's "Greatest Switch Shmups" article on it. Sounded like fun, but... I can't recommend it at all. It looks like an old Flash game, in the worst way. Like it's built with old, low-res Clipart taped onto somebody's freshman Computer Science project.

So, having that experience, what other games do you strongly recommend avoiding?

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[–] RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I always loved Mr. Heli at a local campground. They had Mr. Heli, R-Type, Raiden, 1943, and Boogie Wings. For the longest time, I thoight I had imagined Boogie Wings because I couldn't remember the name and nobody else seemed to know about a shooter where your plane has a hook and you can jump out of it to highjack other planes. They had a few other games I hadn't seen in an arcade before, either, like Kickle Cubicle.

[–] pasdechance@jlai.lu 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lots of quarter-munchers! When my local arcade was open it was very focused on fighting games, and I spent a lot of time watching people play those. I have no recollection of ever seeing a shmup there.

[–] RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this place didn't really have any fighting games at all. Had a few pinball machines, all the stuff I mentioned, a Crystal Caverns machine, Missile Command, Joust, and a light gun shooter that didnt have any artwork on the cabinet and I really dont know what game it was, but it was Western-themed. Honestly, a pretty big arcade for a campground.