Score Up To 30% Off Selected Shmups In Live Wire's Spring eShop Sale

30% discount. Sounds awesome. That is pretty much.

Bought all of them at full price and they’re worth it for that, great ports of great games.

All of these are top-notch shmups!

They're absolutely 10/10 games no one should miss, specially Radiant and Mushi. No one crafts shmups like Cave's or Treasure's anymore.

@rushiosan

"No one crafts shmups like Cave's or Treasure's anymore."

i do agree, but i think capcom, konami, and a handful of others deserve to be praised more also. i think shooter fans have a prepossession towards boutique and extreme examples (partly due to the work of those companies you mentioned) and some of the meat and potatoes games of yore are kind of left out of the conversation. UN squadron is a great game! rtype III is a great game! darius gaiden! great game! ☺️

anyway rant over. ill be trying to buy at least one of these if they are still on sale when i get paid. 👍

Love shoot em ups but hate bullet hell.

@-wc- Sol Cresta is a great game.

I have all of them already but for those that don't but like shumups, don't miss out!

....Is Mushihimesama worth it? I'm bad at shmups, especially when they're bullet hells, but apparently it also depends on the game. Like...Crimzon Clover is pure chaos even on easy and I still somehow managed to beat the game without a continue. lol

Anyways Mushihimesama would be the only I would be interested in, I also have about $13 in coins on the Switch, so...

@Joeynator3000 It is a very difficult bullet hell. But if you are a fan of the genre - I'd still get it.

@Joeynator3000 If you can do Crimzon Clover on easy then you’ll manage all of the Cave Shmups on easy too, they’re all reasonably gentle until you put the difficulty up. Highly recommend giving it a try provided you like this type of game.

I don't even know how I manage to dodge all that chaos in Crimzon Clover, lol.

I'll probably look into it, then, basically getting it for free anyways. lol

@Joeynator3000 Clover is great about giving you ways out of a jam. Imho, it is peak shootemup. Sol Cresta is forgiving at easier difficulties and Raiden IV x Mikado mix are great choices. Radien goes on sale from time to time. Sol Cresta only once since release.

@Cashews I have the Raiden games already, I grew up with that series basically, though for them I have trouble staying alive even on easy. lol

Oh, Mushihimesama. Is it that game where there's a final boss which has you dodging over 9000 bullets?

https://youtu.be/sQZuidKexBQ

@-wc- The problem with U.N. Squadron is that it's never had a release outside of its original system. It 1,000% deserves a rerelease today and if ShotTriggers handles the port, I wouldn't mind paying $40. Played that game to death back in the day.

@Cashews I was ready to buy Sol Cresta on release until I saw the $40 price tag and $10 day one DLC, plus a bundle for $50 (where you save nothing vs buying individually). Just checked, it only has 69 reviews on Steam in over a year and is at 76%, not that great at all. And to my knowledge, it has never gone on sale on Switch.

I believe you when you say it's great, but I feel like whoever is doing their marketing needs to be retrained.

@Joeynator3000 I'd recommend Mushihimesama just for the theme and soundtrack. But it's also a very fine shmup with multiple options and modes, so I'm sure you'll get on fine with it. It's my personal favourite Cave shmup.

@Kilroy Sol Cresta is absolute garbage. It's a terrible shmup. Not even close to worth that price.

If it didn't have the platinum name on it, no one would have ever talked about it, even in the shmup community. It's awful.

In the Shmups Forum's most recent annual poll of the Top 25 Shmups of All Time:
Mushihimesama was voted the #8 best shmup of all-time
Radiant Silvergun was voted the #12 best shmup of all-time
DoDonPachi Resurrection & ESPgaluda II were both honourable mentions.

@-wc-

Here are the most popular shmup developers, accoring to the Shmups Forum's most recent annual poll of the Top 25 Shmups of All Time (by # of games in the top 25):
8 - Cave
3 - Treasure
3 - Taito
2 - Raizing
2 - Psikyo
2 - Irem
1 - Toaplan
1 - Konami
1 - Famibe no Yosshin
1 - Yotsubane
1 - System Erasure

You'll be happy to know that Darius Gaiden was ranked the #9 best shmup of all-time.

@MontyCircus darius gaiden was great, and g-darius too, but the other darius games are......debatable

Ika and RS are great too, good job on those....2 games

Battle garegga is great, batrider is pretty good too, good job raizing (soukyugurentai is actually raizing's best game)

Cave - dodonpachi, esprade, dangun feveron, ketsui, daioujou, espgaluda, mushi, futari, saidaioujou, deathsmiles, espgaluda 2, THE HITS JUST DON'T STOP COMING

that's what makes cave the best. The other guys made great ones too. Cave just made SO. MANY. BANGERS.

The other great shmup devs just fall short in the sheer volume of work. Cave pumped out classic after classic after classic, non stop

@Joeynator3000 Mushi is not that hard! "The hardest boss of all time" in all those crazy videos are from the ultra difficulty mode, you do not have to play that! No normal human being plays that *****! We play original and maniac!

Play original normal mode like a normal human being, and you'll have a great time!

If you can beat crimzon clover on novice, you can play mushi. CC on novice is not free, it's not easy, that's an actual game.

Mushi has a bunch of novice modes too, and they are as good as CC, actually challenging but approachable

Mushi is waaaaay simpler than CC too, you just dodge and shoot and bomb when you get scared

Mushi is the best shmup to start with! The steam and switch ports are awesome, there are tons of different modes with incremental increases in difficulty, and the gameplay mechanics are really easy to understand, way easier than CC

@Pupuplatter I enjoy it in the same way I enjoy Silvergun. It is a novel way of playing a shmup - so I disagree.

The price is too high though. I waited over a year for their first sale on it a few months back and got the price I thought it was worth.

@MontyCircus

thanks for the info! i guess im not terribly plugged into the scene online, but speaking from a more casual perspective, i rarely see my favorites mentioned.

especially the capcom stuff! i know its not as hardcore but they made some great stuff and deserve to be recognized

ps - darius gaiden was a completely forgotten game for so many years, its surprising it got #9! but it deserves it!

Well I tried the Mushi game...sighs At least I basically got it for free, I guess. Even on the easiest difficulty, I'm just continuing like crazy, it isn't fun, it's frustrating. Sometimes bullets slip right by me and other times I just die at random.

I'll just stick with Crimzon Clover, it's more fun. -.-

I really enjoy Capcom's ProGear and I see it talked about sometimes. People said it was worth the price of that specific CAS1 bundle alone. I agreed until I got to stage 3 (I think) where it's mostly vertical movement. That difficulty spike is quite high (or I haven't figured out a good method to approach it yet).

@Joeynator3000 maybe give mushi a couple more chances, and try the novice modes

in general, in the shmup community, and me personally, crimzon clover is considered to be significantly harder than mushi. Like, CC arcade mode is waaaaay too hard for me and i can 1cc mushi on maniac. CC novice mode is definitely harder than mushi novice modes too.

or maybe difficulty is just totally in the eye of the beholder

@-wc- true shmup fans never forgot darius gaiden

STG never die

@Kilroy Progear is a bit messy, it's not the best cave game, it's a little weird

If you are playing in CAS, choose the JP version of progear. The EN version had jacked up difficulty to get more quarters, the JP version is a bit easier. Still gonna be a spike on stage 3 though.

@Pupuplatter I'll have to try that out, thanks!

First attempt on the JPN version went well. I like to limit myself by not having infinite credits and only do the initial limit of 9 (default difficulty) and Stage 4 is what I was thinking of regarding the difficulty spike. I managed to get to the boss of S4 with two credits left and beat him (vs the EN version where I almost never even reach him), but holy crap, was he hard.

This is enough encouragement to try to beat the game now (doubt I'm ever 1CCing though)