Oh, cool! You shouldn't have much trouble with it if you're clearing cave games, but it's a lot of fun to play for score.

@@clippa To be honest, as much as I can clear caves, I'm getting a bit of burn out and want to actually enjoy a game from time to time 😜

@@mr2nut123 Haha, I know exactly what you mean. A few breezy indie clears is a lovely palate cleanser after breaking your back beating a cave game.

Innit?! I was thinking that.

Yeah, it gets scary when you haven't got any bombs left! Finding the right weapon for that stage was a nightmare. I should have played more of freestyle first and got used to what each weapon did instead of just assuming it was a skill issue, picking up the same none-defensive weapon and doing the same thing over and over again and dying in the exact same way. Next time I'll try the x-bot though. There's a chance that that weapon powered up to level 3 might kill the enemies quickly enough that they don't get a chance to shoot much. Worth a try. That'd be much better for scoring if you could waltz around sucking up all the coins while your turrets mowed down the baddies.

Just pc at the minute, not sure about their future plans. It's on steam - store.steampowered.com/app/893900/Astral_Gunners/ and itch - satibros.itch.io/astral-gunners

@@clippa ok thanks

@@hong10ly70 Just had a sniff around on the shmup junkie discord for you and found this from the dev a couple of months ago, it looks like they're working on it "Going to reattempt self-publishing on Switch after we get the Steam release behind us but that so far has been quite a headache when we tried in the past"

Yeah, it's loads of fun. I remember the steam page going up around October 2018 and then it went into early access around two years later, so they've been working on this for a long time.

There's a hidden mechanic. Once you get 100 stars, each star you pick up after that gives you an extra life, so try not to spend anything in the shop, and then you can just tank your way through the final boss with the lives you've earned and get a huge bonus at the end of the game for the stars you've kept.

Inferno mode is loads of fun! I don't think you get too many score extends in that mode though so the last boss will probably be a nightmare for me! I'll try my best.

No, it was very easy, but the dev has fixed it now with a patch. I haven't tried it yet, but hopefully that's it sorted now.

It's a little janky, but it's lots of fun! You have to really keep your eyes open because some of the enemy bullets are the same colour as your own, or the same colour as the stars you pick up, and some of the explosions cover enemy bullets and stuff, and some hitboxes have surprised me. I try not to get too close to certain enemies. I think I'm not using the hyper enough, it looks like you might get refills during the stages if you're using them. I think I got a better score on manic first time when I was playing really badly, so suiciding to refill your hypers might be the way forward. Will definitely pick it up!

Yeah. Someone has gotten 26m on normal so there's still loads of room for improvement. I made a stupid mistake, died and lost all of my bonus points on stage 4 so I can definitely go a bit higher. Might try and get through hard mode next though.

@@clippa I'm getting vibes of RZM on Cyvern trying to reach 26million with Type-3 (1P Ferious).

@@julianseph842gamez5 Haha, I'm nowhere near that level. Got to try and do the best I'm capable of though!

Thanks man! I've gotten to 18m now. My runs are getting cleaner. No idea how people are getting 26m but I'm edging a little closer.

Scoring system is very addictive. I'm only 1.3m on first stage, and don't even know how to boost in berserk. 🙆‍♂️😄

@@karolis.burzinskas Hold the bomb button down until you start boosting. You can change it in the options so that that button is just for boost and you don't bomb at all. The bombs are pretty crappy and I think when you get hit in normal difficulty and you're boosting, you just stop boosting rather than dying so it's sort of better than a bomb in a way. You can start boosting during tricky bits as a sort of safety net. You'll be scoring more and getting those extends. I think it's the best way for both scoring and survival on those lower difficulties!

Thank You so much! 🙋‍♂️🔥🙏👌

Oh yeah. Can't wait to try that! Seems like Flesh flew under the radar for a lot of people. I tried my best to sing it's praises. Hopefully this new one gets a bigger audience!

Nicely done. Yeah, the game is really good!

It's really cool. It's like a sort of little arrange mode demake.

Yeah, normal feels like the typical indie shmup difficulty level, encouraging you to play more aggressively and push for score. I saw Jaimers playing inferno mode the other day and it looks like that difficulty brings the pain.

Yeah, it's really good. It's loads of fun to score!

I think I'll have to turn those voices off when I play the whole game, my eyelid was starting to twitch towards the end there. Yeah, it definitely looks the part. I hope they make more use of the shockwave mechanic on the other stages because it just felt like point blanking was the best strategy for most of the first stage.

@@clippa yea definitely looks like an introductory stage, hopefully higher difficulties fix that

Ah yeah, there is something very Raizing about the artwork now you mention it!

It's mind numbing to be honest. Once I figured out you could use autofire, you're just sitting at the top of the screen moving left and right for 120 seconds. I just gave up on it. The only shmup on the PCFX, Aktane said. Apparently the main mode plays a bit like an RPG with upgrades and cutscenes and stuff.

@@clippa I agree. I haven't even bothered to try out the main mission. I also gave up on this after my last score submission on the discord channel.

No idea. I don't do touhou.

Yeah, that was real heart in the mouth stuff! I think it's a lot easier with type B since you don't have to play as risky. Good luck! Expert is pretty tricksy.

Maaaate, I've told you twice already XD We're playing it for the shmup junkie weekly score contest. There are three separate ships and they each have their own caravan stage. This is the final stage/ship/week and the scoring competition will end on sunday 7th April, so if you see me upload another run of this stage before then, you'll know why.

Haha. Congrats on the win. Watching your video helped me bump my score up a lot!

Blasphemy. The game is amazing! Don't you like it?

@@clippa Yeah, I do. I do have a Demo Arcade cleqr with BraveBlade.

There's nowt left to rot! I'm gonna be fine.

We're playing it for the shmup junkie discord score contest. Will be for the next couple of weeks, I think.