You've probably heard of it because it's consistently rated as one of best games on the Gamecube. However, every now and then a great one comes out to a console in North America and Europe. This is a genre that lives primarily in arcades, and even then primarily in Japan because that's where the new ones come out. There's no storyline or fancy 3D graphics to get in the way of the sheer mayhem and action. There's no wussy life bars or hit points. Your ship is the tiny green one at the bottom. Commonly, the genre involves dodging intense patterns of colorful but deadly bullets, like this game here named Dodonpachi:Įverything on screen will kill you if you touch it. ![]() If you run out of lives, the game is over (no, you haven't really beaten the game if you use continues to do so. "Shmup" of course means "shoot-em-up" and stands for the genre of games where you have a tiny spaceship (or plane, or dragon, or magical human) and you have to take down about a million enemies while avoiding everything on screen except the powerups. So, why am I talking about an old Sega Saturn game? Because it's a shmup, that's why, and a darn good one too. This is the last of MANY bosses in Silvergun, and he's easily the hardest. This guy legitimately tries to kill you he is absolutely no joke. ![]() Here's a picture of the boss, named Xiga: This is the message that pops up right before the final boss in the amazing Shmup by Treasure, Radiant Silvergun.
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