I have been spending some time in the last few days tinkering with RetroArch shader presets, something I'm new to.
I've found one I'm quite happy with now, and I christened it with a couple of play-throughs of Harmful Park.
I know it's a fave on here and it's one I've dabbled with before myself, but it really clicked for me last night. It's such a lovely little game. The overall look of the art and humorous details throughout are great, but I love how well-tuned the gameplay is, too. There's something really quite addictive about trying to build up and hang onto your individual power-ups, and then deploy the right one at the right moment for maximum destruction.
I like the fact that it's pretty easy, too. I find I just don't have the energy a lot of the time to give other shmups the focus they need not to get killed constantly and just end up credit-feeding. On 'Easy' mode, this feels very well balanced and paced to me. I enjoy the breaks in between intense bullet dodging sections.
Really excellent. And it's great that we can understand the cutscenes now thanks to the fan translation - it's a fun, silly story!
I've found one I'm quite happy with now, and I christened it with a couple of play-throughs of Harmful Park.
I know it's a fave on here and it's one I've dabbled with before myself, but it really clicked for me last night. It's such a lovely little game. The overall look of the art and humorous details throughout are great, but I love how well-tuned the gameplay is, too. There's something really quite addictive about trying to build up and hang onto your individual power-ups, and then deploy the right one at the right moment for maximum destruction.
I like the fact that it's pretty easy, too. I find I just don't have the energy a lot of the time to give other shmups the focus they need not to get killed constantly and just end up credit-feeding. On 'Easy' mode, this feels very well balanced and paced to me. I enjoy the breaks in between intense bullet dodging sections.
Really excellent. And it's great that we can understand the cutscenes now thanks to the fan translation - it's a fun, silly story!
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