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Mushihimesama Futari (2006)

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So, a couple of hours ago I purchased the DLC containing the Black Label version of Futari.

I freaking LOVE this game even more, now. Black Label is even better than the original game. It fixes some of the problems that the original version had.

For instance: Original mode. Original is now more difficult, but the big change that I love is very, very simple. In the original version, the scoring in Original made you have to glance up at the counter every 5 freaking seconds. The one thing I constantly wished they'd done was included some sort of sound effect for whenever the counter switches modes. Well, in Black Label, it does so. Thus saving my sanity.

But the real bonus here is God mode. God mode is very similar to Ultra in alot of ways. It's not QUITE as difficult as Ultra.... but it's pretty blasted close. Some things that were seriously annoying in Ultra have been fixed for God mode. For instance, as you can see, the boulders in stage 1 dont pointlessly explode into bullets anymore (which was the stupidest freaking thing ever in Ultra).

But mainly, the scoring system is freaking brilliant. It uses the same scoring as Maniac does, which is FAR more suited to this sorta mode than what Ultra's scoring system was (which is the same as Original mode, which makes NO SENSE AT ALL).

Normally, I dont like chaining-based scoring, but THIS is bloody awesome. Getting the screen to fill with those big "30000" markers is just so satisfying....

Anyway, this is a really early run. I sorta went into stage 2 not really having practiced it much at all (stage 1 I'd played alot in Ultra), so I have some particularly stupid deaths here. Every time I died it was to something I could have easily avoided....

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