Macross Shooting Insight is an upcoming scrolling shoot'em up based on the mecha multimedia franchise Macross, developed by Kaminari Games and published by Bushiroad Games.
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You'll know what I mean if you're a Tokusatsu fan and you've ever played one of those Kamen Rider musou games or whatever. You recognize the things, the sounds, the images, and you're compelled to finish it because of that. the only problem is that the thing you're playing is bad, but that's not going to stop you buying them, in fact, you'll continue to buy them hoping, fingers crossed the next one will be good.
They will never be good.
As a piece of fanservice this is fine. It's got the ships and some of the songs... and I mean "some" of the songs in that you'll never hear the whole thing because you'll either finish a level or kill a boss long before you hear most of it. Even then, the end credits just fades the songs out, like they somehow only licensed a bit of these songs.
As a shooter it's oddly punishing on the normal difficulty, in fact I couldn't do it unless I used some of the assist features. It's mostly down to bullshit difficulty in that enemies can just spawn in on top of you and the visual noise makes bullets, pickups, and missile trails blend into one another. It's crazy how it has less clarity than your average Cave shooter. You can even make things harder on yourself as a couple of the ships feel so underpowered you feel like more enemies are flying past you off screen than dying. It's pretty long for one of these games, coming in at over an hour but there's a bunch of collectibles, artwork, and modes that all sorta feel the same, so it's all pretty thin. The game is also only in Japanese, which they've said they have no plans to change, it's one of these things that fans of the franchise will have had to have dealt with for years, but the trade off is that this has Do You Remember Love? content in it, including Minmay's song from the movie, and a worldwide release would have had to have removed that because of harmony Gold, and fuck Harmony Gold for holding Macross hostage all these years. It also looks like a cheap PS2 game, which feels like a joke to say at this point, but it kinda does. (or an early XBLA game if you want to be kinder)
Anyways, here was a lot of words on a game you'll never play or even knew existed. If you like Macross a lot, you probably already bought and played this, and probably tried to convince yourself it's good.
It isnt.
They will never be good.
As a piece of fanservice this is fine. It's got the ships and some of the songs... and I mean "some" of the songs in that you'll never hear the whole thing because you'll either finish a level or kill a boss long before you hear most of it. Even then, the end credits just fades the songs out, like they somehow only licensed a bit of these songs.
As a shooter it's oddly punishing on the normal difficulty, in fact I couldn't do it unless I used some of the assist features. It's mostly down to bullshit difficulty in that enemies can just spawn in on top of you and the visual noise makes bullets, pickups, and missile trails blend into one another. It's crazy how it has less clarity than your average Cave shooter. You can even make things harder on yourself as a couple of the ships feel so underpowered you feel like more enemies are flying past you off screen than dying. It's pretty long for one of these games, coming in at over an hour but there's a bunch of collectibles, artwork, and modes that all sorta feel the same, so it's all pretty thin. The game is also only in Japanese, which they've said they have no plans to change, it's one of these things that fans of the franchise will have had to have dealt with for years, but the trade off is that this has Do You Remember Love? content in it, including Minmay's song from the movie, and a worldwide release would have had to have removed that because of harmony Gold, and fuck Harmony Gold for holding Macross hostage all these years. It also looks like a cheap PS2 game, which feels like a joke to say at this point, but it kinda does. (or an early XBLA game if you want to be kinder)
Anyways, here was a lot of words on a game you'll never play or even knew existed. If you like Macross a lot, you probably already bought and played this, and probably tried to convince yourself it's good.
It isnt.