Tweet showing how to perform the stage 4 boss milk: twitter.com/claricedisc/status/1663492950645456899

Batsugun is a top 10 Shootemup for me, simply based on how "right" it has always felt control wise. It also has that pick up and play quality that engages you and throws you squarely into the action. Your reviews are so thorough, fair and aware that there are all kinds of shootemup players out there, who approach the genre in various ways. I always come to your channel before I pull the trigger. I'll be picking up this physical port on Switch for sure.

My fave switch shooters are still Skyforce Reloaded/anniversary . Such incredible simple fun

Man I’m glad I subbed. My shump library is coming along nicely thanks to you!

Armed Rider Batrider is definite one that I hope comes to Switch and other consoles seeing as how they(Taito) put it on the Astro mini. I want a good version of it, seeing how M2 did a good port for the MINI.

*There is only one ORDER you must KNOW:* *1 = M2 (Perfect)* *2 = Hamster (Dreams come true)* *3 = CITY CONNECTION = Know for its input Lag (6 Frames and above)*

PS4/NSW import copies just arrived in the mail today and your review couldn't be timed better. Great video! I cannot wait to dive in.

Don't have or care for the Switch but you guys always are the first and monstly only reviewer for these niche multiplatform shmups so I come to watch. :)

Excited for this one! I hope someone ports Sokyugurentai over someday

I ordered the PS4 and NSW versions 2 weeks ago from PlayAsia. Hopefully, get them soon. Ordered the Telenet Shooting Collection along with them to get free shipping. Lol

It is great news to hear that this game has a good port on the Switch. Batsugun is one of my most favorite shmups, it's my "ride or die" that I can always fire up on Mame when I don't know what to play in there. At least on the arcade version, the ship speed and responsiveness is second only to the later Cave games, and feels perfect in my hands. I can however excuse a little bit of input lag, if it's the price to play this game in bed with my Switch. Here's hoping City Connection now makes ports of other Saturn shmups, I'm thinking DoDonpachi the classic, and Battle Garegga.

I don't know how you can look at the lag and say it has "solid performance". City Connection are using the same engine to emulate this as they used for the Cotton Saturn port, so I doubt there is going to be any improvement since they will just use the same engine again on any future Saturn port.

I was hoping for a review of this game and Im glad to hear the port is decent. While I owned a saturn many years ago, I wasnt into shmups back then so didn't pick it up. Is the lag similar to their port of Layer Section or better / worse.

Am hoping for M2 Shot Triggers to port Batsugun flawlessly in one of the next Toaplan Arcade Garage titles, and grab that physical release.

I didn't have much faith in this, given City Connection's recent track record, but I'm glad to hear a good report

I just couldn’t justify getting the game for the Saturn with those prices, so I’m happy I could get a physical version for the Switch 🥳, I hope they keep bringing more of these awesome Saturn shmups to the Switch too, like HyperDuel (it’s good to dream 😂) Now if only I could solve the mystery of what Jeeno shouts when you pick his character 😅

Level ups beyond 3 gives bomb. I'm inclined to call it proto-danmaku. It's clear where Cave's foundations lie with this. Bit of Trivia: Iceman is Joker Jun's self-insert

Great review! I'm happy to see that City Connection did a good job with this game. Do you know if they have already patched the other releases (Layer Section, in special)? I have put those on hold until they fix the damn input lag. And keep up with your work, I really like this channel.

😂 Electric Underground shat on this as usual....hes telling everyone they'd be better off getting a Saturn ODE to play this. Cotton Saturn Tribute scarred him for life.

What's the input lag do you know? That what makes or breaks Shmups. Especially releases like this where it was originally designed to have 1 frame of lag. Not a good port if they can't get close.

The lag is intolerable. Really plagues a lot of ports in this genre, particularly from this dev. It's a bee in my bonnet ever since I almost abandoned shmups thinking I sucked but turns out it was the lag on my monitor and ports I was playing. Figuring that out changed my life. I'm surprised more people don't talk about that and how it creates barriers to newcomers. I just can't forgive it knowing how big of a difference it makes.

Batsugun has a great personality.

I don't mean to be rude with this question at all (as I'm just curious), but why exactly does the audio hiccup/stutter in your videos when switching gameplay clips like at 2:14 ? Like, is it a recording issue, audio problem or something with the editing? Something with a specific program or whatever? Doesn't bother me, just wanted to know Also, good to know that this port is solid (or at least serviceable enough in spite of some input lag) before importing it.

I'm so happy to have my pessimism proven wrong. Batsugun is definitely going in my next batch of imports.

Thanks for the test, i was waiting for this’one since last week when i see this port . The only question was about the input lag for me . I m hot for batsugun because i never play it well on mame , with a good sound

Does this port have a scan line filter? Cuz the game looks WAY better with one on!

Excellent review of a solid port

Excellent review keep up the great videos 👍

The question I have is: Is the original Saturn port a perfect conversion of the arcade game? Because if not, I'll just continue to emulate

Really hoping this gets a digital release here in the United States

I’ve only played this off Saturn emulation on my pc and it doesn’t emulate very well, awesome game though and think I will grab it. Great vid, I feel for you though brother, some heads on here are just cut throat sheesh, give this dude a break

Top content lad keep it coming.

I'd like see Salamander 1 and 2 hit the switch in some type of Saturn Tribute Steam Hearts Blast Wind and Terra Cresta 3D and Soukyugurentai

On the US E Shop yet?

Great review! How do you think this version compares to the Sega Astro Mini V?

I believe there is going to be a European physical release? Not sure if you can confirm this or not? Nice review 👍

after the updates it feels very responsive.

Donpachi/Donpachi Saturn Tribute would be great

Here PC release of this? And anybody know if the Ketsui deathtiny port will be on switch or pc too? Or is YUZU only option....

WAIT WHAT WHEN

Does Tate rotate both ways?

great game, not so great price, at least digital , i am a fan of the S TRIBUTE but to think this costs more than ELEVATOR ACTION RETURNS is kinda weird.

I actually played the switch version in portable mode and it’s not bad. There was a game update. So I’m not sure if this helped input lag or not. I still think giving it a 9 is too much credit. I’d say maybe eight out of ten. And since Andro Dunos 2 is the best on switch and pc, I think it deserves a 9 out of ten. Andro Dunos 2 on the Dreamcast has a lot of lag. I’d say the input lag on Batsugun is just outside the line of being acceptable. 3-4 frames is good. 1-2 may be rare and only accomplished on a pc. But definitely not possible on a console. I don’t think you covering input lag deserves any backlash. Because I haven’t seen you cover input lag in any other reviews. Yes it’s a good game. But you don’t know how to rate some of these games that well.

Ugh, went to pick this up but then I saw it was by Shitty Connection. Do you happen to know how many frames of input lag?

I got it inside mame.

After seeing you rate Andro Dunos 2 7/10 and this game 9/10. I think you got the ratings mixed up. There’s no way in hell this version deserves a 9 out of 10. Each system has six frames of input lag. That’s including the PC, which you’d think would be a lot less. But surprisingly it’s no better. And the wiki page you list in the comments is out of date. The original Saturn version is only three frames of input lag. This zebra engine is making this port remake a lot worse.And the widget things off the side of the screen are completely useless. You could play a hacked Saturn rom with an arranged soundtrack with retroarch on pc using the yabasanshiro core and it would be well worth playing than this. And you can’t even buy the game digitally here in the u.s. So the only real reason anyone would even consider buying this would be for the portability factor on the switch. And that’s it. And maybe the the arranged sound track. But that’s really the only things that really stand out from this watered down release. So I don’t foresee a lot of people buying this game. Unless they bring it out on the switch digitally for less than half the price. Therefore with Andro Dunos 2 being updated, I give it a 9/10. And this version of batsugun by city connection a 6/10.

Batsugun is pronounced "bahts-g'n".

Dude why are you not playing in TATE mode?

I'm kinda dissapointed in your review. And we all know why. I smell some sponsored bullsh*t. Another review like that and I will have to unsubscribe. Too many subscribtions and too little time. Shmup community is quite niche and small and you'd better keep the quality bar.

9/10? what about the 6 frames of input lag?... unsuscribed, you are giving horrible advice.