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Vagnerpegas Mars Matrix is a spinoff of giga wing

What do you mean you're not programmed to give me the information?! Lol

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@Malcolm Bentlee definitely, have been using instaflixxer for since november myself :D

With no continues?

Nah, DDP games look more ""polished"" than this. Also, other than being bullet hell, Takumi STGs aren't really the same as CAVE's game design-wise.

There's no way this is a legit run. At first I thought this could just be a Kuso clear thrown together as fast as possible without any regard for scoring, but stuff like the dodge at 20:10 is just laughable.

The point of these sorts of videos - "longplays" - is always to show off the entire game to scrubs, not teach you how to score big. If you geniuses have such good eyesight to notice a savestate, why don't you work on your scores a little? I see the ones you post are nothing special.

I'm not implying that this was meant to be a showcase of scoring or trying to shame SCHLAUCHI for their score. The problem I have is that they're not upfront about this being tool assisted when it clearly is. If they were honest about this I wouldn't even have commented. As for longplays, the website states that "A longplay is a play-through of a computer or video game, created with the intent of completing it as fully as possible, mainly for the purposes of nostalgia, preservation, and possibly as a walkthrough". While I'm not expecting a superplay, I would hope that they would demonstrate some proficiency in playing since the intent is to complete as a game "as fully as possible". I understand that this video was not intended to show how scoring works, but this run doesn't even really showcase basic survival properly since the external tools used removed the need to play the game properly. If someone created a longplay of Super Mario Brothers 3 with infinite invincibility and proceeded to just walk through enemies to the end of the game it wouldn't be an accurate representation of how the game was supposed to play, which is just poor preservation. Your nonspecific criticism of my scores just comes off as hollow and petty. I'm not sure if you were trying to insult me or be constructive, but you're going to need to be a more precise if you want me to be receptive to your evaluation.

​@@Square_Air Amen brother lol My lifelong contempt for "longplays" of arcade games comes down to exactly what you wrote. It aims to show an "as complete as possible" preservation of gameplay, yet it's always done by people with no clue whatsoever on how to play the game (also because the creators of longplays just play one after another without actually dedicating to learn a single one in depth). In this specific example, and this applies to many arcade games, the core source of "gameplay fun" comes from applying the mechanics of the game: You are supposed to reflect bullets on enemies to create more gold, more gold gets you EXP, more EXP gets you stronger shot types, more score and an extra life. This video shows you none of that, the ship is not even fully leveled up (4 of 8 levels... how is that full preservation??). The player constantly uses the emergency bomb (which a real superplayer would only use 1-2 times in the whole game, as it's not recommended even for survival's sake) and finishes the game with 175,000 EXP (you can get this much in half of Stage 1) and a mindboggling score that's less than 3% of the world record.

For real "preservation of how arcade game gameplay", check out the channel Retro Burners. They upload mame replays which are not tool-assisted and while they aren't all the best scores or world records, all of their replays are MAME replays by top-level players who really understand the game mechanics and display them for future reference when the skill and community disappeared.

The idea is to milk quarters out of people as much as possible. It's a relatively uncreative and cheap way to pad a game's difficulty when you get tired of play testing the damn thing.

While Mars Matrix is one of the hardest games of its type, it's very well doable to finish it with one credit only. This video doesn't demonstrate it very well because it features endless amounts of crazy tool-assisted dodging rather than using the bullet-reflecting special weapon in the intended way. When played properly, you can avoid most of the impossible bullet dodges.

@@Toarcade finish it with one coin? prove it.

@@EspadasYCopas just search a 1cc replay, there are numerous examples uploaded on KZfaq already