Unless you want to spend so much time getting good that you can beat the entire game in one try you will end up wasting your money. The YouTube videos and searches I did you see if there were checkpoints were misleading. You can get checkpoints at the first few levels but once you get bast those you have about 4 hours of play you have to beat without dying.

Everyone saying that if you've never played a shump this is a great entry into them. I honestly cant see why considering to actually beat the game you have to burn hours to learn all the patterns. Level 1 souls runs with a club or Bloodborn no upgrade level one is actually easier than this. It is not a good entry level game. It is unique with story but unless you have time to sink into it you will never beat it. If the reviews I read didn't make me think it was more story driven than it is and that there were consistent checkpoints I would have not bought the game. It's wasted money. So i'll listen to what people say about their other game and steer clear.

It's a shame that I spend just .3 hours too long on this game before realizing I don't have time to waste on it to get good enough to beat it. It doesn't have enough depth to do that for me either. I can't even refund it now. Just Delete it.

>>716526787 (OP)
>getting good that you can beat the entire game in one try
Isn't that the entire point of SHMUPs?

Is this a shoot em up? 4 hour stretch sounds like dogshit.

>>716526787 (OP)
>you have about 4 hours of play you have to beat without dying.
What the fuck are you smoking?
The 1cc of both loops doesn't even take 1 hour.
Checkpoints can be used to start a stage on the loop version, even absolute shitters can beat the game and final boss without ever trying to 1cc.

>>716526787 (OP)
uhh no, you need to just start at the final boss with all the "retries". Beat the final boss without spending more than one, and then boom you can spend all your lives on the true final boss.

People who refuse to play games with real consequences are unable to appreciate true art in video games

>>716527214
>Checkpoints can be used to start a stage on the loop version
Well until you die to the final boss and get your save wiped

>DUDE it's a SHMUP (OLD HARDCORE GENRE THAT ALL MY TRANS SPEEDRUNNER FRIENDS LOVE :3) but it's also META like UNDERTA- NO WAIT TOBY FOX IS A CHUD, I MEANT LIKE IRISU SYNDROME WHICH IS MEDIA APPROVED BY MY TRANS FRIENDS

2 hours from start to finish, and this is after a power outage mid-run send me from like, 2-2 to 1-3

>>716528089
how many trannies do you genuinely think even just know about shmups

>>716527920
If you can't clear the final section with 8 lives then I don't know what to tell you.

>>716526787 (OP)
you can level select and retain all your progress

not playing this cause i just really dont like color scheme. it sounds like it has some cool ideas but my tism cant get past how ugly it looks.