It's a pretty good entry point if you're new to the Darius series, too - while the deranged Darius Gaiden remains the series' high point for me, G-Darius is where you'll find a more approachable, thrillingly ambitious take on the stately shmup complete with a dizzying number of routes and some electric set-pieces. If I had to pick just one to get you going, though, it'd be another M2 joint - more specifically, the excellent G-Darius which gets its most sumptuous outing here. Elsewhere you can find a decent port of the essential Layer Section from City Connection - a shame it costs almost as much as the Saturn original will set you back, but it's still a convenient way to play an all-time classic. Well, I am one of those pricks, it turns out, but shmups is what the wider world knows them as so shmups is what we'll call them.Īfter a few years away as it explored the mobile space with some success the legendary Taito has spun up its console operations in recent years and is well-represented on the Switch, which is a lovely thing indeed: There's been a new Puzzle Bobble as well as some exquisite history lessons from the company's past, spearheaded by Darius Cozmic Collections that have squeezed the three-screen behemoth amply down onto the Switch thanks to the handiwork of the ever-brilliant M2. I know the term 'shmup' is an unsightly thing, and I understand if it gets your back up - it does mine too, but the fact is if I started calling them 'STGs' I'd come across like one of those pricks who insists it's pronounced Moog, actually.
So there's no Ikaruga here, I'm afraid - apologies, I do love it but I'm not going to pretend to be a master of its rigid polarity-based system (when - or if - Radiant Silvergun ever makes it to the Switch you can be assured it'll be top of this list, though).Īlso, apologies. There should be an emphasis on the personal, here - there's no science here, and an awful lot of bias towards my own taste for simple, spectacular shmups rather than those with fussy scoring systems. So here's a list of some personal favourites, and a rundown of the shmups that are in almost constant rotation on my Switch.
Now it's just the abundance of classics that can be dipped in and out of at leisure - and the thing I love about the humble shmup is how immediate they are, making them perfect for short blasts.
Trick shot the incredible machine 3 plus#
Once it was the novelty of having these things on the go, plus the ease of playing vertical scrolling shooting games as intended in 'tate' mode with the screen flipped (and without worrying about permanent damage like I used to when pushing a chunky old CRT on its side to play Ikaruga as Treasure intended). The Switch is well into its sixth year, somehow, and despite some stiff competition from the Steam Deck recently it hasn't lost its lustre nor its position by my side wherever I go: maybe it's something to do with the immense library I've got on mine at this point, filled to the brim with shmups of all sizes in what's long been a speciality of the system.
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