Drainus - Ridiculous Mode 2-ALL 1cc Clear + Full Story (Fresh Save/No-Restarts)
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2024
- So Team Ladybug just shadowdropped a new game, and it's actually a shmup.
You might know Team Ladybug for games like Touhou Luna Nights and Record of Lodoss War.
They're known for their insanely high quality pixel art and overall quality, and this game is no different.
Someone on that team apparently really loves shmups, you can see tons of references to classic shmups and you can feel a great sense of respect for them.
Just on a glance you can see inspiration from Gradius V, Gradius Gaiden, Darius Gaiden, Progear and Fantasy Zone. Hell there is even a Gradius III cube rush reference thrown in there. They know.
Just like their previous games, this game boosts insane pixel art and oozes quality.
Game system is all about absorbing bullets while using the i-frame mechanic.
This meter drains while you use it and refills when you're not.
Absorbing bullets charges your reflect lasers and fills your energy tanks and bombs. You can use these energy tanks to buy upgrades in the pause menu.
The gameplay reminds me of IKUSAAAAAAAN! at times where you just want to absorb as many bullets as possible while abusing the i-frame mechanic as much as possible.
Ridiculous is the hardest difficulty in the game.
Patterns are significantly buffed and you die in one hit, normally getting hit makes you lose power and you only die after you lose all your power.
In the 2nd loop enemies shoot tons of red bullets too, so you actually have to dodge a lot. Red bullets cannot be absorbed, though bombs give a few i-frames you can use to bypass red bullets.
Ridiculous mode is easily the best part of the game.
For upgrades you want to upgrade Guard asap since more absorbing = more powerups.
After that you want a shield and eventually Emergency Power-up to compliment it.
I don't even buy weapons until stage 3 but for weapons you just want to get the most powerful and expensive ones.
After that you want to jailbreak slot 1 so you can put the x1.2 attack EX slot in there.
For the 2nd loop you want to save 27 tanks so you can immediately buy the new 2nd loop weapons and shield. I think you generate less energy tanks in the 2nd loop, so you mostly want to get everything done in the 1st loop.
Dying is pretty bad in this game because you lose all your power.
You're basically unable to kill anything in this state, so chaindeaths will happen or worse.
The Emergency Power-up bomb is the best way to recover in this situation, if you have a bunch of bombs stocked up you can recover most of your power on the spot.
Unfortunately the game doesn't live up to it's full potential and is ultimately broken.
The game has super wacky balance and Story Mode has infinite patterns. Things don't time out, so you can just milk for score and powerups forever, making this kind of a sham. Some power-ups are also super busted while others serve little purpose. Combining the Emergency Power-up Super Bomb with the shield is a super broken combination, as soon as your shield breaks just pop one of these and you'll get it back immediately for basically infinite shields.
Now here's the thing: there is actually an Arcade mode that HAS TIMEOUTS.
The fact that Arcade mode fixes some of these issues but not Story mode is maddening to me.
So just play Arcade Mode then right? Unfortunately Arcade Mode is limited to Hard Mode only, and Hard mode is unplayably easy. If Arcade had Ridiculous this would be perfect but alas.
The Arcade mode in concept is really cool btw. It even has an attract screen with 'insert credit' and it's really authentic. You can also only access the pause menu once per stage and the pause menu has a timer now.
This game would be incredible if it had just a few tiny tweaks and it's a shame really.
Maybe EXA will pick it up and make a true arcade mode that nobody will be able to play.
I guess a no-death clear wouldn't be that much harder, but it's kinda obnoxious to try this on a game that's super long like this.
Buy the game on Steam here:
store.steampowered.com/app/19...
Did a different Ridiculous clear on Twitch with commentary as well:
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00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Stage 1-1 - Planet Halpax
10:40 - Stage 1-2 - Lunar Railway Mazzaroth
23:24 - Stage 1-3 - Planet Chammatter
30:02 - Stage 1-4 - Battleship Kharlal
41:14 - Stage 1-5 - Kharlal Mobile Fortress Exterior
49:16 - Stage 1-6 - Kharlal Mobile Fortress Interior
1:00:38 - Stage 2-1 - Deja Vu Planet Halpax
1:07:36 - Stage 2-2 - Deja Vu Lunar Railway Mazzaroth
1:14:44 - Stage 2-3 - Deja Vu Planet Chammatter
1:21:16 - Stage 2-4 - Deja Vu Battleship Kharlal
1:32:12 - Stage 2-5 - Deja Vu Kharlal Mobile Fortress Exterior
1:39:22 - Stage 2-6 - Deja Vu Kharlal Mobile Fortress Interior
Ending & Credits: 1:47:38
Some funny scuff in this run.
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Weird to watch the absorb without hearing 'ENERGY MAX'
A fellow Ikaruga chad, I see
When a fan-dev values Gradius more than Konami ;-;
Also, two words to sum up this playthrough:
*I N F I N I T E P O W E R*
As if Konami could care about anything anymore. Perphaps Yu-Gi-Oh, but only because it gives them money.
Three days after the game drops you have a 1cc on the hardest mode. You’re a fcking wizard, champ.
You are crazy for actually playing through this mode legit ha. I've been smashing my head against the wall. One death and you are in for a rough time, even with the recharge item. GG's my dude!! This was super helpful to watch for my review ha.
Izumo's sprite with a gun is kinda powerful.
I think it's funny he felt the need to point the gun at the camera
Well damn! With all the cross references to _Xevious, Space Invaders,_ and the _R-Type_ series in Stage 5 alone, and the whole time traveling storyline being reminiscent of _Gradius V..._ Talk about it being a love letter to shmup history! ❤
Don't forget Ikaruga's entire shtick of absorbing certain enemy shots to charge a counter attack.
Waterboarding would have given me less mental pain than watching you hoard 30+ energy tanks and never buy more bomb slots with them 😭
He just built different.
All shots, no bombs
had no idea the patterns were infinite. that's *really* busted. overall though the game looks awesome and it's fun to play even if it's on the easier side and there's exploitable mechanics
Amazing 2-ALL run, Jaimers. I would love to try the game
hey Jaimers, there is a new bullet hell shmup that was released today by an obscure Japanese game developer, its called TUKIYONO and its on Itch io. it has a scoring mechanic that is simple yet fun to execute. I think you might enjoy it. the guy who created the game, nizakashii, has a really cool top down shmup called NEKOTOSAKANA which I cant recommend enough. I don't know the guy but his games are really fantastic.
Hmmm
Doubt
I really like the plot. I believe it is one of the first games where the 2nd loop is essential to the story.
Also, the influence of Gradius is real, even the TLB strats, lol (it may be an exploit, but after all these CAVE games we'll take it)
I also see influences of R-type 3 (1:42:28 5th boss), Darius Gaiden (3:39 Zone B/C), Raiden II (28:26 first boss), Parodius (42:51 Giant Lady. 46:48 Gokujou, Extra stage & Stage 4 Crazy Core Boss), Metal Black (6:25 boss intro), Giga Wing (the barrier system, polycore = medallion)
I do wish the reason for why the second loop even has to happen was less infuriating.
All it would've taken for me was to not have the player character go "I'll spare you, obviously unhinged, evil person because my sister whom you just shot for disobeying you wouldn't want that" and it would've been perfectly fine.
Zero ranger also did the two loops thing for narrative purposes. It's a fairly common trope of the genre :)
Don't forget the Gradius-style Options at 25:43.
46:56 What's your reference at those bosses?!
This game looks awesome! Can't wait to play it on Switch.
Nothing more satisfying than tanking a planet buster then sending that destructive energy right back into that bastard’s face.
keep in mind, not only LADYBUG, was involved in th e development of this game, but as you clearly saw in the credits, there is another indie game developer called PEPOSOFT, those are another indie dev legend, who created Minishoter RS Delta. No doubt why this game was so inspired with so much shoot'em up creativity 😎🎮🕹
Your skill is otherworldly! You should really make a guide on how to play shmups for all of us noobs out there.
I’m in love with the way this game looks! It’s a shame to hear that the Ridiculous mode is broken, but on the other hand, the fact that something so long and story-focused looks genuinely fun is, well, it’s a pretty good sign of where the genre might be going.
I will say that I don’t understand why the score and the shop currency needed to be separate from one another, though. It just seems economical to combine your systems like that, plus it encourages the casual to engage with scoring mechanics… but with infinite milking on the table, I guess it’s a blessing in disguise in this case.
I like how when both of them went back in time, Izumo solved the MC's problems for her.
How exactly did that happen? I understand that the fake-Layla plot meant that it didn’t matter that Irina interacted with her differently than in the first loop, but what else happened?
Sick
DESTROY THE CORE!
I know you say the game is boringly easy but for someone like me this game is still brutally difficult. And I'm not exactly new to shmups. Hard Story felt kinda easy for a shmup, not too easy not brutally hard. Taking it into arcade hard I immediately died in the first level. This game is no joke.
EDIT: it occurs to me that this was 1 year ago, and the game may have only had the equivalent of story hard in arcade. Within this context, I can totally imagine the game being stupidly easiy in arcade mode. It seems, however, they added in the equivalent of ridiculous since you've last played. It's definitely brutally hard. Now if only they added an extended version of this too.
Having read the description, you think Team Ladybug will update the game to v1.1 so Arcade mode is available on the Ridiculous difficulty as well?
Also, I've said this before, and while I know nowhere near as much about Shoot'em ups as I do with metroidvanias, I insist: everything Team Ladybug touches, becomes gold.
And how did you cross the door without disintegration after the dragon stage?
I’m on the final boss first play through - This is how the game is meant to be played. Its kinda harder than any gradius ever on this difficulty but also a bit less punishing. I’ve lost count the number of times I have had to defeat a gradius boss or boss run with a nothing more than a single speed up and a blip gun.
Jaimers, will you ever try Hellsinker or Akashicverse?
Definitely want to try Hellsinker at some point at least!
@@JaimersSTG Can't wait for your run in Hellsinker. It became my favorite STG ever and I can't believe something like this existed inside the doujinsphere
OPERATION NOVA GUST
MISSION 1
BOSS 1: SANADA YUMIKURA
MISSION 2
BOSS 2: IONA SORAI
MISSION 3
BOSS 3: DATE MASAMUNE
MISSION 4
BOSS 4: KATAKURA KOJURO
MISSION 5
BOSS 5: ITSUKI
MISSION 6
BOSS 6: HONDA TADAKATSU
MISSION 7
BOSS 7: MORI RANMARU
MISSION 8
BOSS 8: TOKUGAWA IEYASU
MISSION 9
BOSS 9: FUMA KOTARO
MISSION 10
BOSS 10: AZAI NAGAMASA
MISSION 10.3
BOSS 10.3: AZAI MICHIKO
MISSION 10.49
BOSS 10.49: CHIHAYA KISARAGI AND SHIZUKA MOGAMI
MISSION 11
BOSS 11: HOJO UJIMASA
MISSION 12
BOSS 12: UESUGI KENSHIN
MISSION 13
BOSS 13: MATSU
MISSION 14
BOSS 14: HINOMORI SHIHO
MISSION 15
BOSS 15: M-JASMINE
FINAL MISSION
FINAL BOSS: MISAKA NEPTUNE
MISSION OPERATION COMPLETE
NEXT OPERATION TO BE CONTINUED
How do you manage to get so many lives?
Wait. Is it true that if you hold longer than the full green circle, the target lasers get stronger? I thought the powers of green lasers always peak at green circle. Hence I let go at full green circle for invincibility.
From watching the play through, the green lasers only get stronger at full green circle when held longer. Going to give another run.
I think that's the case yeah, sometimes you do mad damage from big charges.
I was also releasing right at full circle and going back to absorbing to do another full circle right after. I thought doing several ones was better than charging more. I was doing it wrong all along? lol.
It looks like if you hold the drain after you get the full green circle, the shot power doesn't increase, but it does keep going to hit more things, or circles around to hit the same things again. So you're kinda both right.
I realize now when deciding to try 1ccing a shmup this one is a terrible choice because there is not a single practice mode as far as I can tell.
1:02:45
play Burst Out from Darius Gaiden over this, literally the same energy
This game reminds me of Ikaruga, in a way.
About time Team Ladybug made something other than the same exact Metroidvania over and over again (watch through their games in sequence if you don't believe me).
I want to buy this game on Nintendo switch
Luna Nights and Record of Lodoss War took their sweet time to come to the Switch, so although I believe your desire will be satisfied, you might have to wait.
@@kirimusse Ok. I got Splatoon 3 on my list buy anyway.
This game is the worst shmup ever made, it will take you 30 minutes to kill a boss if you even loose 1 power up.
Someone's never played gradius
@@Chloroxite Unless you have save states, Gradius is mostly something best left in the past.
Git gud