Playing: Shoot the Bullet

Posted by Castypher on Aug. 19, 2010, 11:21 a.m.

You know me, so you'll probably know that this is yet another Touhou game. What can I say? It's a fun, hard shoot-em-up. I used to hate shoot-em-ups until I found this series/franchise. But it's got some good, addicting music, okay graphics, awesome bullet patterns, and a real feeling of hell.

Anyway, in Shoot the Bullet, the concepts of a shoot-em-up are changed drastically. Instead of firing bullets to kill enemies and bosses, you instead TAKE PICTURES of the boss and their bullets ("shoot" as in photography, moron). And when you take pictures of bullets, they disappear, like something your bomb would do.

You'd think it'd be a pretty easy game, right?

HELL NO.

I'm glad it lives up to the Touhou level of difficulty, and it's considerably easier to progress through the game. To fight specific bosses (or their patterns), you don't have to play through the game every time. You can start on a specific level. It's a little more casual except for the fact that THE ACTUAL GAME IS TERRIBLY HARD.

So now when I rate shoot-em-ups as far as difficulty, there's:

- Easy

- Medium

- Hard

- Extreme

- Touhou

That is all.

Now on a different note, I just went to my job training the other day. It was fun stuff. I now work at my university, which means a little money during my spare hours, and best of all, work experience in the computers field (screw you Cesque).

In that regard, school's starting next week, so I won't be by 64Digits as often as I have. But I'll still swing by.

Comments

Cesar 14 years, 2 months ago

Ikaruga is an obscenely difficult Shmup as well. Where's the neighborhood shmupper, Serprex, when you need him?

Castypher 14 years, 2 months ago

I know, he pops on Messenger every once in a while, but never answers.

I've never played Ikaruga, but if Kairuga's mechanics aren't original, then I'd say the concept is pretty tough to master.

Cesar 14 years, 2 months ago

Kairuga is based on the first level of Ikaruga. The easiest level (by far).

Go search some videos. It's really hard to master the fucker.

F1ak3r 14 years, 2 months ago

I miss serprex too. =(