so first thing's first: X86000 version is better than the windows version, and you're probably gonna want some kinda autofire. I use XM6 Pro-68k's built in option, but you can do whatever you want cos I'm not your dad. you can even ignore my suggestion and let your arm balloon into a hellish rod of ruby muscle and errant bone, just as koichi yoshida intended. people will wonder if it's infected or filled with saline or if you're some kinda lab experiment and maybe you'll get a chance to tell them "no, I'm just honourable" before someone calls the national guard and they shoot to kill with those long bullets that explode human heads

maybe you can even survive the first shot and amble into oncoming traffic, horrifying children and dogs and doglike children alike with your heinous appendage as vehicles swerve dramatically out of the way like salarymen about to drive into the ocean

maybe you'll escape your pursuers and find yourself in an old growth forest, the perfect resting spot for the beast you've become. your freakish arm will be a warning to others and you'll spend the rest of your years tearing bark off trees to suck down termites and carpenter worms. once in a while someone will stumble into your leafy manse and see you, but thankfully their photos will be inexplicably blurry and your existence will be deemed a hoax by all but true believers. your family will mourn the son or daughter they lost, your boss will replace you with someone they can pay less, and life will go on as it does so beautifully

in your final moments maybe you'll smile and think to yourself:

"what the fuck does curse know anyway?"

Reviewed on Mar 16, 2024


3 Comments


1 month ago

god this game's music is the best

1 month ago

the bit about autofire is real, but honestly cho ren sha having a burst/button input does it better than say, most of the late 80's caravan games from hudson (gotta sell those hudson joycards somehow!), especially if playing on a controller, it's a very different sensation with arcade parts like the really light sanwa buttons.

there's an astro city with viper: phase 1 local to me where the operators have set it to the lowest of 3 rapid fire options (they can be changed in the service menu for that game) and getting to stage 2 requires doing the classic shooting game RSI induction, its wack

1 month ago

@yagihimesama
oh for sure. arcades in my area dried up quite a while ago and I've since been spoiled by so many modern frills that I don't think I could cut it on the real bastard machines/settings at this point. this one isn't bad compared to a lot of stuff, but it's wild how alien it felt to manually hammer away after getting so used to being able to ignore that aspect/skill completely for so long