what can i say, man? i fucking hate shmups. i wondered if system erasure could make the genre actually compelling to me the way they did with sokoban, another genre i historically dislike. turns out that the answer is no. this shit sucks, and from what i can tell there's nothing to really dig into here beneath the surface. at least it looks and sounds pretty ig!
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8/28/2025, 9:06:54 AM
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Deltatroon is a mascot-horror game. It isn't in the same field as Cave Story or Touhou Project, it stands more comparatively to Garten of Banban, Hello Neighbor, and Fights Nights at Freddy's. This is also why there is such overlap with who is a fan of the games. The gameplay itself is a secondary goal (just like the creator is with shmups who instead of playing them, watched Youtube longplays) the primary goal was creating mascots. This is why the bullet-patterns are downright awful or overly simple, it's someone imagining what a shmup is like rather than playing them himself and why nonsensical bad mechanics are in it such as grazing (which has no reason to be there) or the poorly thought-out hitbox. This is also why anyone who enjoys shmups at more than a fandom-level don't enjoy Deltratroon / Tale. Personally, they would be more enjoyable if they embraced Warioware-styled microgames instead
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8/28/2025, 9:31:07 AM
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>i dont like shmups, so i will play a game that is twice as long as usual shmups that is nothing but references to other shmups
cool
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8/28/2025, 10:19:00 AM
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>>719232283
>>719225710 (OP)
Yeah I also couldn't really stick with it, got maybe an hour into it. Had some thrills of, "wow, that's a cool powerup" and then went to play something else.
STG just isn't my thing it seems. 40 hours in Void Stranger too. Oh well.
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8/28/2025, 10:59:34 AM
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>>719230497
Why? This thread was about to rightfully fall off page 10. Why would you give a bump to the gays?
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8/28/2025, 11:38:51 AM
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>>719228836
Im the opposite, I dropped void stranger after less than an hour but I got the achievement in ZR