Indie Shmup Steredenn Is Getting An Expanded Binary Stars Edition On Switch

Looks nice, but none of my friends are into that sort of game - so no local co-op for me.
Also there's a typo in the last sentence of the article ('Steredeen').

At what point is there too many Shmups?

You had me at "shmup".

Have this on my Steam backl... ehm library! This is the kind of SHMUP that deserves to be on my Switch

day one!

I'm so glad I didn't buy this yet.

@Nintendoforlife there's no such thing as too many shmups

@Nintendoforlife
At the point where each and every game for the system is a shoot em up, that might be a bit too much.....

for some, but not for me!

BTW, haven't played this one before, but it looks really, really good.

Some indie shoot em ups seem a bit off at times. Well a lot do actually, but this one looks just right.
Something that's not easy to accomplish.
Looking forward to playing it.

"Roguelike"

There's that word again. Instapass. -_-

Agree with above posters... there can never be enough shmups, and this one looks fantastic, despite the "roguelike" tag, which can be a turnoff, but has been known to work.

The music in the trailer was killer.

@RetroGamerAndrew hey could you recommend me some good shmups on steam? I tried looking through all of the shoot em up tags on steam but there's some 20+ pgs of shumps with most of them being released in the last 3 years. There really is an overcrowding problem when ~75% of all steam shumps were released in the last 3 years.

Actually I’m intrigued by the rebalancing. I somewhat enjoyed this on PS4 - it’s certainly my kind of game - but I hit a wall around the 3rd stage, despite numerous attempts. Felt like progress depended a bit much on the RNG of power-ups. Admittedly my skills are not the greatest, so maybe it’s just me.

@meppi64 @RetroGamerAndrew Jesus Christ you two are mad men haha. In all honesty though I do feel like there's been a larger amount of shmups than usual.

Been looking forward to Steredenn on Switch for the longest time! It’s cool and all on iOS, but there’s no substitute for that lovely screen and proper buttons!

@Nintendoforlife
Well that's more than welcome at this point in time.
A couple of years ago, shoot em ups were pretty much dead.
They got a bit of a resurgence with all those Cave games being ported to 360, but even that wasn't enough to sustain Cave to keep making arcade games. So when DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou released in 2012, it was their last and they moved on to phone games.
But that didn't turn out very well either.

So seeing the genre having quite the resurgence on Switch, as well as PS4 to some degree (at least in Japan) is a nice change of pace for us old-timers.
So yeah, seeing some new blood being injected into the shoot em up genre these past couple of years is truly a relief, especially when the games turn out to be so good.
As it seems to be a genre that should be super easy to make games in, but instead it's somehow extremely hard to get them just right.

So yeah, the more the merrier.
Let's hope the beat em up genre gets some quality games next.

@Oat
On Steam I think you shouldn't miss Raiden (at least III/IV, didn't play V yet but it looks amazing), Tale of ALLTYNEX with its 3 episodes: ALLTYNEX Second, RefleX, KAMUI (each one with peculiar game mechanics - i.e. melee combat, reflecting bullets and dual combat layers), Jamestown (classic SHMUP action, multiple ships, amazing steampunk setting), Ikaruga; as for danmakus, I'll suggest Mushihimesama, DoDonPachi, Danmaku Unlimited II & III and the 3 eXceed

@RetroGamerAndrew Cool, I already have a few of those like Jamestown as well as Ikaruga. I'll check out the other games you listed, most likely starting with DoDonPachi when it goes on sale. Thanks for the reply

I have pre-ordered this and am actually pretty psyched about getting hold of it on Thursday. ^^