Blast Wind: Cool or Crap?

[superdeadite]

So I was cleaning the closet and found my copy of Blast Wind. I'd forgotten about this one. So I played it through and quickly packed it away once again. I've seen a lot of love for this one, buy I just don't get it. It's just very "meh" to me. I like the music, big sprites, and tons of parallax, but it's just boring to play. I think part of it is that the backgrounds look really thrown togheather, no idea what half of them are supposed to be. Plus they scroll a lot faster then you actually move. The speed difference doesn't sit right with me possibly.

Anyway what's your take. And I'm a bit drunk now if you can tell.

[Yart]

OMFG YOU DON'T LIKE IT?!

I'll buy it from you! I've been waiting for the day that I could own this masterpiece!! I flipping love it, especially two player co-op on Very Hard! If you don't want it, GIMMIE!! ;D ;D ;D

But seriously. If you ever do decide you don't want it, can I have first dibs please? It's a shmup I've dreamed about owning for some time now.

:/ Don't play it on Normal though. First time I ever touched the game I one credited it (and unlocked Free Play) and I only bombed once in the entire game... when I remembered there was a bomb button on the very last boss in the game.. It's only fun if you amp the difficulty.

And yeah, the music is a little low and gets muffled by the sound, but the game itself has some style. I like how you can touch walls, and when you pick up a powerup you turn all invincible and blow up stuff around you for a few seconds. Totally awesome! A pumping experience in my book!


EDIT: Wow... wow... just wow... what the crap?
K like you being drunk, I wrote this when I had one hour of sleep.
...dang...

[thaleees]

I'm a graphics whore so I'd probably like it.

[Yart]

The colours aren't very vibrant however. Very pale. If you gotta have a good colour scheme, look elsewhere.

I find some of the sprites, while detailed, look like some older DOS games when people were just starting to experiment with VGA.

I suggest looking at screenshots. It's not the prettiest shmup. At first the game actually hurt my eyes! (But it is fun!)