[1CCs/ALL Clears] Singularity Strike, Skies Of Strife, Geometry Siege 2099, Elemental Exogear
7'Nother 4 SHMUP Creator games that were released. Expect dumb deaths at points, seems to be my bloody specialty. Also, recent OBS updates just decided to break all input overlays I used, so no more input views, they just freeze up when out of it.
Singularity Strike Thoughts:
Another RUOK joint, which means GenAI art, not much of a challenge and is heavy on story nobody will care about. Like, Stage 1 is the only scoring stage that will shower you with lives, everything else won't be as high. The extra score at start of stages is because the game commits what I'd describe as classic "Shmup Creator jank", as the shootable triggers during cutscenes and in the menu give you extra score, I swear the only game I saw not do that was Side Shotz during its tutorial (and that one is EXTREMELY GenAI reliant), is it seriously that hard to give 0 score value to targets that aren't supposed to give you score?
https://ruok2000.itch.io/singularity-strike
Skies Of Strife Thoughts:
Side-game to promote the developer's AVN. It's kinda dull, despite being mostly a dad-game. The bit odd scoring is a quirk with the engine itself, because when there are no active enemies, the chain multiplier just freezes until there is an active enemy, so the scores get all weird. Another thing about the engine is that the shadows casted by the player craft, it messed with visibility a bit during the second stage boss, then again the craft kinda blended a bit into the background at points, so make of that what you will.
https://crosstalk.itch.io/skies-of-strife
Geometry Siege 2099 Thoughts:
RUOK, abstract visuals and music sampling stuff like B.I.G., MVC2, Castlevania, Silent Hill 2 and more (his abstract music is always a highlight). It's just a short boss rush of 10 bosses, which once again showers you with lives, because "no-miss to keep the multiplier for bigger scores, bombs don't reset it." Again, being scared of challenging people, get rid of 1UPS, bombs, the HP system and have only one life.
https://ruok2000.itch.io/geometry-siege-2099
Elemental Exogear Thoughts:
Pretty solid game that I randomly found (some weird glitches like the one at 39:20), which was made by @davidbuckingham8046. This one I did struggle with a bit back then before picking it up again recently, because what messed with me are two things: the ship's hitbox being at the absolute bottom, so out of my vision, what would happen is me falling back into a bullet like a nimrod. The second is that you can't go completely to the sides, there is an invisible barrier on both sides, which seem to be the same size as the HUD at the bottom of the screen.
https://to-far-away-times.itch.io/elemental-exogear
00:00 - Intro
00:07 - Singularity Strike
16:18 - Skies Of Strife
27:50 - Geometry Siege 2099
31:39 - Elemental Exogear