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I also enjoy the modern essential Japanese style (Fraxy, Warning Forever, ABA Games) and arcade classics like Raiden. I've been an affectionate European player of Tyrian and Tyrian 2000 for about 15 years and I have played 3 or 4 loops of Jets'n'Guns Gold, which is an "euroshmup" by everyone's definition. They are designed so anyone who's not a chess grandmaster will not pass level 2. They try to fight for some artistic value by being original and prettily drawn.Ģ. But in the end, if you're really looking for a definition, they have only two real caracteritics:ġ. They usually are insanely difficult and frustrating for who tries to beat the game by playing it like an action game.Įuroshmups are NOT fun for any normal member of the human kind. So euroshmups are basically games that tend to give the bigger possible malus to players who rely on skill. adding difficulties in the level design and gameplay (traps and everything that requires a complete anti-natural behavior) adding difficulties to control the ship (ship control taking care of gravity or inertia, etc.) adding difficulties to destroy ennemies (limited ammo, weapon management, etc.)
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This was achieved by adding to shmups the most possible unexpected elements, and basically three ways were used to do this: So to say, a desperate attempt to turn poker into chess. So euroshmups are a (missed) attempt to level-up the intellectual interest of the genre. And this, for a genuine european mind, is the most despicable thing of all. Because it's a definition that makes the game a matter of agility, and not of intelligence and strategy. I mean, no real european man can enjoy a simple thing like that AND keep looking into a mirror with some respect for himself. This definition is far too vulgar for any european mind. The real point is that somehow, a shmup is mostly a game where you shoot things and dodge bullets.
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In fact, all the specificies of euroshmups come from what pedant people would call a "cultural thing". There has to be AT LEAST a women that sings and a black dude that raps stuff that makes no sense.įor me, euroshmups are most of all a kind of gaming spirit. Also, not all bad and cheesy dance music is eurodance per se. I have the feeling that modern euroshmups have a lot of "retro"-ness about them it almost feels as if the programmers stopped paying attention to the genre after 1990.Īnd yeah, it isn´t a very positive term, however, not every bad shmup feels like it´s a euro. Most euroshmups are on other platforms than the usual consoles, mostly computers. I really like that.Īnother typical euro trademark to me is stuff like mouse control, overpowered or weird weapons that don´t quite fit the gameplay, and especially things like gravity, limited ammo or floaty controls (when your ship still drifts a little after you let go of the button). The music has something to do with that, too, with a lot of Huelsbeck/Vangelis/Jean-Michel Jarre vibe to it. Iridion 2 for the GBA is an example for a very well made shmup that feel pretty "euro" still. Not all of them, though, but these names really remind me of that era. Iridion, Uridium, Tyrian all sound a lot like typical Amiga or C64 games (kinda like Turrican). Include details such as possible purposes or areas it could potentially fit, as well as any necessary information that must be made known about the submission.The names. Type a description of your piece of music that will be seen on the main file list. Music ports or compositions which have stood out with distinction. Is the submission a port of another song, a remix of another song or an original composition? If the submission is a Soundtrack, err towards the majority of songs when labeling this. How much of the submission utilizes custom samples? If the submission is a Soundtrack, err towards the majority of songs when labeling this. Is the submission a normal song, a soundtrack compilation, a sound effect or a miscellaneous track specifically intended to be global? Hold control to select multiple. Prefix a tag with + to require multiple (+space,+planet).