Trophy thoughts

[FocusDR]

Love the name, Yuki! Game looks pretty fun and interesting  

[Drag-On-Detritus]

 

2 hours ago, FocusDR said:

Love the name, Yuki! Game looks pretty fun and interesting  

 

At this point in time I'm finding your modus operandi difficult to stomach. Trophy thoughts threads made with no substance in the OP is nothing new, but I've never seen them spammed to such an extent & to top it off, the tiny amount of 'content' is often delivered with wrong-information that makes me think you didn't even do 2 minutes of research. Off the top of my head you said Star Hunter DX looked like it didn't require concentration (when it requires absolute concentration), Panorama Cotton looked like a 'cool reboot' (it's a port not a reboot), Galaxy Shooter might be a twin stick like Blastful (when it looks more like a shitty grindy vertical scroller like I, AI & Stellatum) and now this game, which is VR, which you don't appear to have.

 

Don't mention the fact Yuki is a bullet hell VR title from the pixel ripped developers, because surely someone who actually did some research will come along to actually contribute some actual information right?? [insert dumb looking emoji here]

 

I might have liked to talk about some of these games but it's a deterrent when I see such a horrible excuse for an OP because I don't think the onus should be on the posters to contribute anything of substance & doing so is enabling behaviour I consider disagreeable. I think if someone programmed a spam bot to make these threads that would result in a better quality of information in the OP.  Furthermore you haven't added 90% of the games you've made a thread about so why make the threads?

Do you think you could do 2-5 minutes worth of research on a game before spamming a trophy thoughts thread with no content in the OP? It would be really nice to click on a new game I'm interested in & not have to see another trophy 'thoughts' anti-thread from the spongebob spambot. I'm feeling that more & more lately. I don't know why I'm bothering to write this to someone who's level of awareness is so low they explained stacking to someone with thousands of platinums but it's become impossible to sit idly by. I'd implore you spend the time you'd spend on trophy thoughts threads to educate yourself a bit more about your hobby or at the very least tone it down. It's the wrong amount of excess.

[GothGirlMaxine]

10 hours ago, Drag-On-Detritus said:

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Have an upvote for the effort you put into this. 

[MrBeens]

I love this developer and the pixel ripped games, but I'm concerned about this one, because the 'starfox' segment of 1995 was my least favorite bit of the game.  Has anyone played this?  How close is it to that?  Is it any good?

[iriihutoR84]

This was too hard for me in the end. I finished 5/6 chapters and had a lot of fun up until I unlocked everything and reached the final chapter. It just becomes too hectic with insane amounts of bullets and also things blocking your view. I'm also not a fan of roguelike structures where you have permadeath and have to play long stretches of easy gameplay to get to where you died. After being forced to replay chapters 1-5 a dozen times to get to chapter 6 it had gotten old sadly. 

 

It would have been a great game if it had a casual mode or even more upgrades to make things easier but it stopped being fun when I had upgraded everything and kept being forced to replay the early chapters. 

 

I'm not sure if it was a good of me to unlock absolutely everything since some of those upgrades are really useless and you don't want them to appear. Maybe I will delete my save one day, replay the game and only purchase the good upgrades if possible because I did have a great time with the game. 

[fullthrottlenine]

What I'll say about trophies is that the trophies are fair. This game is likely lower budget, so I don't think the devs could add all the ones that they would've wanted. For instance, you can earn enough currency to collect all 25 out of 25 power-ups, but you don't get a trophy. The charms aren't numbered in the same way, but if you purchase them all there's no trophy. I'm not sure that there were any secrets to find. However, the trophies that you can earn are probably the same ones I would've chosen, too, if I were one of the dev team.

 

The trophies are for level completion (of which the immediate Intro. level completion gives players some enticement to keep going) and for beating the game five different and progressively more difficult ways (i.e., trophies for each new Bladewing/firepower-style, from beginner to intermediate to advanced). You can 100% the game, but there's no platinum. I get it. Personally, I like platinum trophies, but I was in it for the challenge of trying a new style of game I'd never played before and to master it. I also liked the developer, ARVORE, which made the Pixel Ripped games.

 

As to how long it took me to 100% the game, I'd estimate about 7 hours. After I beat the game with one set of Bladewings, I could do a full run on my first try with each of the other four sets at about half-an-hour per full playthrough. If you're like me rather than someone talented who can pick up Yuki and beat the game on your first try, by the time you're good enough to beat the game, you will only get better at beating it no matter which style you use. You'll have the skills at that point. It was the buildup of multiple runs to earn all the power-ups and charms, and to master evasion and figure out boss patterns, that took most of my time. That's why this game is called a roguelike - you progressively improve and earn currency to purchase helpful power-ups or charms with each new run. So, I'd say about 4 hours for me to "git gud" and earn all the power-ups and charms, and 3 hours for me to go on each of the game-beating runs.

 

Regarding what I'm like as a gamer, I'm a shmup (shoot-em up) noob (haven't played Gradius or Lifeforce since the NES gen, and I barely played those games anyway) and probably an average gamer who does beat all his games. I guess what I'm trying to say is, I didn't beat this game and get all the trophies because I'm gifted. No. I did it because I was determined. If you're determined, I believe you can learn to improve and eventually prevail, too. Check out my other thread for some tips to guide you.

Edited January 14, 2022 by fullthrottlenine