Guwange 1cc Guide and Commentary (Mister FPGA) || How to Play Shoot Em' Ups!

[@TheSamuraiGoomba]

I just want to say that these are my favorite kinds of videos that you make. Informative 1cc commentaries of games are not too common on youtube.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

I'm really glad you like them! They are a little more niche than reviews and such, but I think they are important and tend to be useful for people in the long run.

[@TheSamuraiGoomba]

@@TheElectricUnderground Yeah, I saw in one of your videos you said they get fewer views and less attention. I figured I should stick up for my favorite part of your content. A lot of youtube videos are very transient and tied in with popular sentiments of the era where they were made. Entire channels become irrelevant as culture shifts. But 1cc commentary/guides are always useful within the arcade gaming scene. Maybe 100 years from now, future generations will rediscover guwange and wonder how the hell to beat it. :p

[@FFTHundoCommunity]

Excellent commentary, Mark. Guwange has been one of my favorites for years, specifically because it’s so unique. Really wish Cave experimented more (when they still made games), because while Ketsui and the Mushis and the Donpachis are incredible, there’s really nothing else quite like Guwange, specifically the bodyguard mechanic of the spirit.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Yeah I think guwange brought a lot of cool ideas to the genre that should be picked up and continued

[@LMNsama]

Very nice comment as always. :) If I'm not mistaken, You didn't speak about two things: 1) the bomb can be rotated around your player by keeping the bomb button pressed and moving your lever in different directions. Maybe you don't need it? 2) when using your ghost, something that disorient new comers, is that you can move freely your ghost in all direction, yes. But your player will move slowly (as you explained) in ONLY 2 directions. left and Right. You can not go up or down with your player while directing your ghost. I think this is why people feel uncomfortable at first because they think they can dodge slowly in every direction while using the ghost, but no. Only Left and Right.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

oh yes two great points!! I sort of mentioned the no vertical movement in passing but would have been good to clarify that more for sure

[@don5139]

I've been playing a ton of Guwange as of lately including other Cave shumps on retroarch on a modded Wii U. Absolutely loved it! Top shmup for sure. Your channel is one of the best/chill shmup channels out there. Keep it up dude. Great content and commentary !

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Thank you so much my dude!! I m glad you enjoyed the commentary :-)

[@realmchat6665]

NullObject is bringing us the Cave goods on MiSTer - not all heroes wear capes.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

damn right, he's doing god's work.

[@ninetendopesaitama2107]

+1 the MiSTer devs are really making an important job in preserving old hw and give us these presents. Arcade games as accurate as arcade pcbs.

[@TetsuoIronMan]

Love this game. One of my first Cave games. “Guuuuh-waaannnnge”

[@TheElectricUnderground]

I love saying it that way ha

[@1CCJAM]

I’ve always loved the aesthetics of this game, but the shiki shot is so awkward and unsatisfying that I never get hooked enough to attempt a clear. You have some great tips in this video that might help people like me get over this barrier. Thanks.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

yes once you get the hang of the shiki, you will really enjoy it!

[@nicolasadjignon1336]

Guwange is also one of my favorites. Gameplay is awesome and the atmosphere is really unique.

[@SxGaming3390]

Much needed indeed, this game kicks too much ass, literally.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

glad you enjoyed it! Yes guwange needs more love and attention :-)

[@sirgarrote]

Fantastic video. Just started playing Guwange and your clear explanations at the beginning have been incredibly helpful.

[@CardfightVanja]

Great commentary! My favorite CAVE game outside of Ketsui. I've always found the boss patterns in this game to be most reminiscent of Ketsui, particularly the final boss. It's funny you mentioned spiritual successors, I'm finishing up a hybrid puzzle shmup right now but the next thing I want to tackle is an idea I've had that takes heavy inspiration from Guwange. PS Full chain commentary when?? ;)

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Yeah guwange is a gem! 💎 I d love to do a full chain rub someday! Still gotta get back to ddp first though

[@bills__________]

omg this is so helpful. i LOVE this game but suck at it and never really understood how to use the ghost effectively. PS i'm super happy with the t-shirt :)

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Glad to help! Yeah it s a tricky game to learn at first, but really fun. Also thanks for supporting the channel with your shirt!

[@js200gb]

I learned a lot! Thanks for making these. I just watched your Radiant Silvergun 1CC the other day. You make me want to go for the clear myself. Keep it up!

[@TheElectricUnderground]

mission accomplished!

[@mcmcmify]

Came out the same year as giga wing, notice the similarity there? Guhwang, Giga Wang? Can't be a coincidence just look at the bullet reflectin.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

it is really interesting how naming conventions and such seem to overlap during certain times. There must be something in the water ha. I wonder if there might be some meta reason more games were coming out with g titles? like if they notice a gap in the shelf space where G is ha. Stuff like that can have funny influences.

[@mcmcmify]

@@TheElectricUnderground can you get xoxak on the channel since you're famous now?

[@ninetendopesaitama2107]

Enjoyed the game without knowing what to do on MiSTer. Good to know the mechanics. It looks amazing and i liked the whole artstyle. Cave goodness.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Yes guwange is such a cool looking game, I love the setting and the BLOOD!

[@ninetendopesaitama2107]

@@TheElectricUnderground Yeah. Its funny to have in a shmup. Vandal hearts is another game where i enjoy the blood. Without gloryfying the violence. Just as part of the artstyle. Also playing on the ps1 core on MiSTer.

[@then1533]

Another great entry in your burgeoning (hopefully!) seties of Cave ( and honorary Cave-likeCrimson Clover)shmup guides.These are awesome and I use your Ketsui guide and bible vids alot. The Esp da re guide is also great.Never could get into Guwange but I may have to try again after studying this guide at some point in the future.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

yes I def plan on making more guides coming up. My next will be sin and punishment! Such a cool game

[@n051de4]

best shmup ever. come to steam already pls.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Yes it needs a new port on modern stuff, the 360 port is kind of rough

[@Bo_Knows_Tecmo]

I wasn’t aware that this is on Xbox one backwards compatibility. Going to pick this up. It seems to be on sale right now.

[@themblan]

This game is absolutely beautiful.

[@gurriato]

I've always liked Guwange. It's an evolution on the Bio-Ship Paladin formula just like that game was to Missile Command.

[@chrismoon2961]

Please make more strategy guides like this!

[@TheElectricUnderground]

I shall! Sin and punishment is next!

[@ghoulsarefree]

Great summary of the weird systems of this awesome game and some helpful tips I'll have to try on the final boss. Actually I would like to hear a more advanced guide where you describe some of the other stages/bosses in the same level of detail as the Baby / Lord Guwange. I've been playing the game for a couple months now and still can't get consistent on Stage 4/5 or boss 3, even with planned out cancels and bombs.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

yes at some point I plan on playing the game for score (later down the line) and I would love to do a chaining guide for it

[@Mingodough]

A pocky and rocky game in this style would be cool. It’d work since it’s already a top down run and gun so it’d feel natural

[@TheElectricUnderground]

that would be a cool crossover, I kinda hoped pocky would play like this game when I first saw it, but sadly not

[@jockel9502]

To quote the amazing xoxak: GOO WANG the thing that really pisses me off about this game is stage long, game long chaining.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

the uber chain (that's my name for it) is a divider for sure. I like it for the most part, but I agree it should pause during boss fights, that way the game could have avoided all the dumb boss milking strats

[@bananaphone9900]

You can fire the bomb 360° if you press and hold the bomb button after you fire it. You can also collect items by shooting them with your ghost

[@krissymarklewis1793]

I really like this game, mainly for the art style and it's a bit different.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

yes there's nothing like it! really fun too

[@REDLINE.FGC1]

Love these kinds of videos, great resource for getting people into the genre, and over that initial difficulty hurdle. How do you find the emulation accuracy of Mister compared to shmuparch?

[@TheElectricUnderground]

They seem super close! I couldn't tell any difference. Their might be one (outside the sprite on the worm) but nothing stood out :-)

[@jasp2003]

Is the XBLA version okay? Also do you ever play Shmups with an arcade stick? Have you done a video on controllers?

[@TheElectricUnderground]

The 360 version is passable, but don't get the xbox 1 backwards version (too much lag). I always play on arcade stick actually! I have some vids on arcade sticks I will link: kzbin.info/aero/PLMDuVHl1iOH_LGaLc2DBP9NHs6V8uzLPb

[@jasp2003]

@@TheElectricUnderground Thanks!! I just bought an arcade stick! watching now!

[@evanseifert8858]

The name of the game is three syllables. Goo-wong-gay. I'd also love to see another game that picks up on some of the unique ideas this game has. Slowing down bullets within a certain radius seems like the perfect premise for a Shoot the Bullet sort of game.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

yes I always learn the correct way to say the game, and then a month later get mixed up again and forget ha. I'm cursed with these japanese titles. Such an awesome game though and I'd love to see more shmups follow it's mechanics

[@tita4359]

Actually it’s more like goo wahng geh. Ppl think the E sound in Japanese is pronounced like ayy but no, it’s eh. If you see anything spelled with ei, then that’s pronounced like ayy. For example if it was guwangei Also the ahh sound in Japanese sounds more like the vowel in “wok” than “long”. So the second syllable wang would have the same vowel sound as in wok

[@TheReki007]

Guwange and esp.rade = style

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Absolutely!!

[@Zenon00007]

❤️🔫

[@adrianacosta8868]

Ive been looking for this game for ever i forgot the name holy shit

[@guybrushthreepwood3054]

Anyone has tips for video settings (Mister + LCD)? I find graphics looking somewhat ugly, washed out, smudged, plus i have awful flickering when continue menu appears. Also, is the original arcade Guwange display supposed to have scanlines (i almost always use scanline filters)?

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Get in the ini file and change the video settings to 2 I believe, which should disable v sync

[@guybrushthreepwood3054]

@@TheElectricUnderground Thanks, i checked and my vsync is already 2. Strange, i don't think this flickering happens with other games.

[@PedroFerreira-sx2gd]

Somehow i feel you are going to do a excelent 1cc guide, but i Will never manage to have those resulta. Lol

[@TheElectricUnderground]

I have faith in you, I have some helpful tactics to take down that demon baby at the end ha

[@PedroFerreira-sx2gd]

@@TheElectricUnderground @The Electric Underground lol . Don t believe on Miracles. Have you ever thought in doing a video of guilty pleasures. Mine is stagger from afega. There was a time that most of the arcades did not have shoot em Ups near my house, and the few ocasions they hád the joystick was horrible (could not do diagonals) . Yes many arcade houses did nor care about maintanance.there was a small alley that hád only cheap Pirates machines, that até leAst hád proper conditions. For a year was my fun. In spire of being average i still play sometimes. There were 3 shootemup in arcades that made enter in the gente. First outzone, then stagger and latter strikers 2 neo geo version.

[@RodniDemental]

remember playing this on xbox, i always called it goowaaynge? lol I doubt I'm saying it right xD I used to like (TRYING) to get all achievements in as many xbla games as I could, this ones's lsit was surprisingly mild for this type of genre, no 1cc runs required. But heck, why not try anyway!

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Ha yeah the xbox achievements are a bit underwhelming. I have said GOO WANG GAY for years and now I can't stop myself ha.

[@MegaDeth859]

We all know it's pronounced Genji 😅. This game has eluded me for years. Can't wait to start it.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

That's awesome! I hope this video gives a good overview to help get you on the right path :-)

[@chasepalumbo2929]

Hell yeah😎 ghost🦑

[@BknMoonStudios]

I've never played Guwange before but, from what I've seen, it reminds me of Gun.Smoke. Is this assessment correct or am I totally off the mark? I will definitely give this game a try. Gameplay looks very interesting and it has very nice visuals.

[@anthonyiodice]

Reminds me of a better Elemental Master

[@andyauthor2007]

I love cats but I'm deathly afraid of spiders, so cat-spider is just wrong on so many levels. I don't have a Mister, nor a current gen Xbox so sadly I don't have access to this game. I think I have it on my Raspberry Pi, and I think I remember trying it but it was really janky so I didn't play it for very long.

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Oh yeah stay tuned for shmuparch 8 on pi, working on it next month :-)

[@ninetendopesaitama2107]

@@TheElectricUnderground i would love to see a comparison of shmups on og hw vs emulation vs fpga.

[@yorkshirepud6676]

Good game can be used with Retroarch 2010 core.. has anyone done an English patch ?

[@TheElectricUnderground]

I don't think so actually! It would be nice to have scores that I can read though ha

[@julianseph842gamez5]

I like this game more on XBOX 360 because of the X360 Arrange mode

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Yeah arrange is cool!

[@riggel8804]

Mark (or anyone else really), you want to do a 2 player 1cc of Guwange with me on fightcade? I want to do a 1cc 2 player run of any arcade game on there. I want to upload it to my Chanel and do some commentary. I want to promote 2 player co op on fightcade....usually it's just used for 1 v 1 ass kicking but I think fightcade can be a friendly place :)

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Oh that sounds fun!! Yeah I d def do that

[@riggel8804]

@@TheElectricUnderground Do you have Fightcade setup? What do you think a good 2 player game would be? Or we could just do Guwange. I checked and Guwange does play on Fightcade. Do you know of any shooters with interesting 2 player mechanics?

[@futureskeletons66669]

GOOOO JUAN GAY I've heard it pronounced JEW WAYNE GEE

[@TheElectricUnderground]

That's a new one ha! It's one of those titles where you'll hear all kinds of funky ways to say the name. I called it Goo Wayne Jah for a long time

[@salttrader4113]

I think the issue is the walking, myself included, I always skipped it.

[@ComplekxBeats]

I call it goo-ange

[@TetsuoIronMan]

I’ll give you a few million dollars to make Guh-wange 2, I already suck at Guwange, but give me another one to suck at

[@TheElectricUnderground]

That would be awesome! Get me that money and I ll make it happen ☺️

[@garrz32]

Love this game, unfortunately it doesn't love me .

[@TheElectricUnderground]

It will in time! She is just playing hard to get XD

[@garrz32]

@@TheElectricUnderground hahhaha

[@ty-xq7bl]

atlus always makes some unique games no matter what

[@headman82]

Don’t you just hate it when you don’t know how to pronounce the name. Let’s just call this game “Gut wanker”

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Ha that s great!