Rival Megagun Brings Competitive Shmup Action To Switch On 29th November

Nice, adding to wish list. ^^

Looking forward to it.

Looks like it could be cool.

But that side smile, with the mouth stuck on the check rather than in the correct position--a horrible trend some lacking artist created a while back that has bizarrely stuck--just put a total damper on things for me.

https://youtu.be/9j7mjngCnHk?t=44 (at 0.44)
Boy do I have those side-cheek smiles, and also when noses go straight down into mouths in nearly a straight line. That is just bad art.

The rest of the game looks good though.

Hoping the single player is good. Don’t know anyone that likes to play shooters besides me. If the single player is solid, I’ll do it

I'm on the fence about this, it looks nice, and I love these type of games, but, as is.....I'm hoping it won't be more than $10 download

A shmup with depth, upgrades and unlockables always catches my eye. The competitive aspect is unique for the genre, at least in my experience, and it doesn't interest me as much but I'm glad to hear single player is covered. I'll keep my eye on this one.

It'll be interesting to compare this to it's obvious inspiration, Twinkle Star Sprites, which will also be on the Switch vers soon.

It looks awesome! I'm looking forward to getting this on Nintendo Switch.

@impurekind Sonic the Hedgehog mouth

I've always got time for a re-skinned Twinkle Star Sprites.

@bluesdance On Sonic it looks totally fine to me because he's not human and the line is supposed to represent him simply smirk-smiling on one side of his mouth and blending into the dimple you get at the edges of your mouth when you smirk/smile--you can still perceive that his full mouth goes around to the other side of his face too but it's just closed and therefore there's no need to depict the full line--and it comes across like that perfectly well:

On these human side-cheek characters (usually seen in anime) it looks like their mouth itself is stuck directly onto the sides of the cheek, and often like they actually have a hole in their cheek. It just look bad, and kinda deformed and creepy imo.

This is basically how a generally "realistically" depicted anime human's mouth should [correctly and ideally] look in side or near-side view as far as I'm concerned:

Also, the same goes for the trend with noses that are nigh-on a straight line from the tip of the nose to the top lip: That's another visual anomaly that has become increasingly popular in anime depictions of humans, and something else I think just looks bad/wrong in most cases. You can see this in most of the images I've posted above too, even the top example of the ones where I think they at least did the mouth a bit better.

It's just not a great artistic choice at all imo, and it's really sad to see it becoming more and more used. It's like some artist in the past developed a really bad habit and then a whole load of modern artists saw it and immediately just convinced themselves that that's the way you're supposed to draw cartoon humans, without ever trying to actually study the underlying principles of art and human depiction a little better and at least drawing something that actually looks aesthetically appealing, even when they choose to break the rules (like anime artists have done with human eyes since pretty much the beginning).

I really want to play a good shmup on my switch. Anyone have suggestions on what the best one would be? Ikaruga?

@cherryghost41
Psyvariar Delta is the best coice on the Switch (currently only available in JP and Asia, but the Switch is region free and those versions support English and other languages and it will get a official western release later this month), but you can't go wrong with Ikaruga or Psikyo's best games (Gunbird 1&2, Dragon Blaze, Tengai) either.

@EmirParkreiner Thank you! I'll check these out.

@cherryghost41
Also search for "metal jesus rocks shoot em up" on YouTube, he made a list of the ones he likes the most and explains why.