BATSUGUN Saturn Tribute Boosted

The remix boosted music tracks are amazing. I always appreciate when devs add the extra hud info to the left and right sides of the screen. There's lots of options to tinker with like difficulty, stage select, ships, power ups, save/load, rewind, original/arrange/remix boosted music, and even a slow motion mode, (unfortunately with that it caps the FPS to 36 for some reason, which is tough on the eyes). Wish that would get fixed somehow. I played on easy and its still challenging. The bullet speed is a touch too fast for my personal taste and unfortunately can't be changed though. Achievements are pretty good too, although I wish there were more.

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City Connection's Saturn Tribute line tends to get a bad rep, but honestly the three I own thus far, this one included, have been holding up on my setup much better than expected. That said, this is my absolute favorite due to very informative widgets (even if the placement might sometimes seem a tad weird), excellent mix-and-match music options including a killer Boosted Arrange of the entire soundtrack, and leaderboards that are properly configured and show a sense of learning from the mistakes made with Layer Section. This is what got me into Batsugun, and I'm very proud to say that it still holds up exceptionally well. You earned this one, City Connection.

The Port is fine, Considering the Saturn version is over 200 dollars, It is very close to the original. Which i am a fan of. Although, i would say this version is easier/neutered because the older versions doesn't have options. I would wish for more screen space. I'm not too much a fan of remixed music, but the good thing is that they provided the three versions so you don't have to have the remixed music on. It also seems that i'd complete what would be an achievement, the achievement wouldn't unlock. Some bug I guess? or is it version specific? im not really sure. Pick this up on a sale as well.

作为一个打飞机爱好者，这个游戏第一次玩大概是在99年左右，有这个游戏的游戏厅不多，由于能力有限也打不了几关，枪林弹雨却能很神奇地躲过子弹，当时也不明白是为什么，后来街机的回忆就全给了模拟器，再然后就是看到上Steam又买了正版，其实也就是官方模拟器。 Steam上这游戏有两个，本作是复刻土星上的版本（之前我甚至不知道这个版本），并且画面更好一些，设置选项更多一些，价钱也更高一些。 对于像我这种40岁以上的人来说，玩这游戏的意义更在于怀旧和补票，买来之后其实也不怎么玩，收藏的意义更多一些。

Sorti à l'origine en 1993, [b]Batsugun[/b] est le dernier shmup developpé par [b]Taoplan[/b], un studio mythique responsable de titres cultes comme [b]Zero Wing[/b] et [b]Tiger Heli[/b]. Batsugun est souvent considéré comme le précurseur du [i]"manic shooter"[/i], sous-genre très popularisé par le studio Cave (fondé par d'anciens employés de chez Taoplan après sa fermeture en 1994). Dans cette version Saturn Tribute, le jeu revient avec un mode rembobinage et une OST remasterisée - entre autres. L'émulation est globalement bonne et je suis très satisfait de le redécouvrir sur Steam, bien qu'il manque une galerie d'archives et autres bonus.

NB to potential Steam Deck players, especially dock users: after selecting a version and going through the intro text, my screen would go black yet audio was fine and the game responded to controls. This was new behavior and other Saturn Tributes presented no issues. I tried different compatibility layers, disabling cloud saves and reinstalling but what ultimately worked was playing the game handheld, where it appeared fine, making it to Screen Settings, and reverting them to default (if you're navigating blind, Screen Settings is 6 taps down on the root menu when you press Back, then tap up once to highlight Default). Changing all these values again afterwards hasn't broken anything so far. Anyway, as I dealt with that I considered asking for a refund and buying Bitwave's release instead but that's no longer necessary. I just have Bitwave's V-V (60 FPS mode on native Linux) to compare to, another Toaplan shooter from the same year, but City Connection's Batsugun on Steam feels only a hair laggier with V-Sync off and uncapped framerate on the Deck. That a basic human like me can perceive a difference at all may already alarm some. Everyone cites [url=https://twitter.com/kimagreGaming/status/1663741785154404352]Kimagre's test of this version[/url] which records an average of 5.5f latency on Windows 11 with a 1080p60Hz display, surprisingly faring worse than PS4's 4.91f and Switch's 5.28f in his setup. For perspective, that's 5.5*(1/60)=92ms. Example controller latency like an Xbox Series pad wired on Win11 adds a mean 6.25ms according to Gamepadla. For a hypothetical average consumer that's right under 1/10th of a second total. Decide for yourself what that means to you. My main controller runs GP2040 and doesn't even register 1ms of input lag so I'm sure that factors into my opinion. I'm not aware of any empirical lag tests for Bitwave's V-V or their Batsugun. As a final note, Sairyou honed his recent world first SDOJ Inbachi clear on the 360 port (4-5f delay) before accomplishing the feat on the more responsive PCB (2f) in two more weeks. The main merit to Boosted and what I suspect is a cost driver is the new soundtrack. This seems to be a little trend in contemporary rereleases that are fuller priced, such as TAKEx0FF's Deathsmiles I・II having the Gomaotsu Respect Arrange which can even be purchased separately. Why City Connection doesn't offer the same for Boosted is beyond me. Changing BGMs is a small way to keep new credits fresh which I realized playing Raiden III x Mikado. You can't assign any track to any stage like in Raiden III so I can't set Shinji Hosoe's Geo Frontier everywhere, however you can pick which arrangement a stage will play. A nice change I don't see mentioned much is the extended score in Special. Many great players have historically counterstopped the arcade 8 digits, so it's thoughtful to add room to distinguish themselves further. There's already a few scores above 100 billion in the rankings. I'm completely ignorant as to whether Bitwave Batsugun does the same as it's not mentioned in the promotional materials or reviews I found. A definite con is that the practice mode for Special only allows you to start on a loop which is, alongside a single save state, minimally adequate but also arbitrary and lazy. Even bomb count is static. Bitwave's V-V, on the other hand, is more granular to the point you can choose which checkpoint to spawn from to learn recoveries. Luckily, Batsugun is not that punishing. You respawn in place and loops get progressively shorter. For the uninitiated, vanilla Batsugun is a 5 stage 20 minute ALL clear. Building on that, Batsugun Special has 4 loops where loop X begins on stage X for a sum of 14 stages and about an hour in playtime depending on how much boss milking you do. If you read up on the level system and how to activate the secret purple pigs for EXP, you'll have a better time starting out. Either of Batsugun or Batsugun Special may not crack your personal top 10, but it's the last hurrah from a cool company that only dedicated shooter and retro fans seem to recognize despite how altogether influential their works and the people who worked on them came to be. So any way someone chooses to experience them, it's neat there's multiple viable and accessible options at all for anyone like me to get into Toaplan. Especially since the ShotTriggers port may not be out before the end of the decade, release in Japan only and won't be on PC anyway (unless...?).