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It's Fun to Lose (Feat. Zetto and Bibulous)

It's Fun to Lose (Feat. Zetto and Bibulous)

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This week is a special episode all about Sky Ballet games!

Games Mentioned: Just check out the wonderful TWG Shmup Google Doc

Recommendations:
Bluzo: Watch Gundam, Any Gundam
TK: Use your PSP as a media player
Bibulous: Miles in Transit on YouTube
Zetto: TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part III, Dispatch, The Filmography of Akira Kurosawa

  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (01:13) - Community Updates
  • (03:43) - Channel Highlihgt: Genre Platform Chat - Sky Ballet
  • (04:26) - Main Segment: Sky Ballet!
  • (04:32) - Sky Ballet has always been there for us
  • (05:21) - Bluzo Revolver: Double Shmup
  • (07:25) - Bike Bibulouz: The Beginning
  • (09:15) - Vocabulary Term: 1CC - One Credit Clear
  • (10:27) - The Fighter Who Wanted to Become... ZettoRanger
  • (12:50) - Vocabulary Term: Euro-Shmup (Derogatory)
  • (14:28) - Is ZeroRanger a good place to start?
  • (16:46) - Vocabulary term: Credit Feed - Pump credits into a game with no limit to complete it.
  • (18:04) - Shmups: The hardest genre that wants you to get better
  • (20:53) - Great Bullet Hells Steal
  • (21:33) - Favorite Shmups
  • (21:45) - Bibulous: ZeroRanger
  • (22:02) - Bibulous: Cho Ren Sha 68k
  • (22:57) - Are Freeware Shmups common?
  • (25:22) - Zetto's Favorite: ZeroRanger
  • (25:48) - Oh you didn't catch that?
  • (25:55) - TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part II
  • (28:13) - Traditioooooooooon Tradition
  • (30:29) - Moving on to Birdcage
  • (32:42) - TirdKage? Is this anything?
  • (33:19) - Vocabulary Term: Bullet Hell: The entire screen is death
  • (34:31) - History Lesson: Batsugan
  • (35:34) - TK has it backwards
  • (36:20) - Back to the Cage
  • (43:56) - Birdcage influences: Radiant Silvergun
  • (45:11) - A tangent about Ikaruga
  • (46:31) - Talkin' 'bout difficulty
  • (49:05) - Are there good stories in shmups?
  • (49:28) - Drainus
  • (50:10) - Touhou (Danmaku specifically)
  • (50:40) - Games by CAVE
  • (52:51) - One Hell of a Google Doc
  • (56:29) - It's Fun to Lose
  • (57:14) - There are many ways to play. Don't be intimidated
  • (01:00:14) - Recommendations
  • (01:00:21) - Bluzo: Watch Gundam, Any Gundam
  • (01:02:03) - TK: The PSP is a good video player, actually
  • (01:03:56) - Bibulous: Miles in Transit on YouTube
  • (01:05:51) - Zetto: TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part III
  • (01:07:29) - Zetto: Dispatch
  • (01:08:23) - Zetto: The Filmography of Akira Kurusawa
  • (01:13:28) - Outro
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