I like the Darius games in general, but its mostly for the aesthetics (especially Gaiden/G-Darius/Dariusburst).
I am very excited about the upcoming G-Darius port! Dariusburst Chronicles has an insane amount of content but disappointingly (to me) still didn't include the G-Darius style enemy capture system which adds a lot of depth compared to other games in the series, and the beams aren't big enough. Although I've sampled a lot of other Darius games (I love the music and the fish), I still think I prefer G-Darius over all of the others. Turns out it is amazing, and definitely kickstarted my ongoing love of the genre. I also want to give a mention of G-Darius, the first shmup I ever owned for a home system, bought from the discount bin at a Toys R Us because I had a friend staying over and didn't have any two player games for my Playstation. That port is pretty low-effort in general though, and I doubt MMP is anywhere near the top of M2's port pile or anything, so it will probably continue to be less loved than it deserves.įor what its worth, the M2 ports of Ketsui and Esp.ra.de have overtaken it as my go-to SHMUP- the Arcade Challenge training mode alone makes those ports worth the purchase price and I honestly prefer it to emulating with save states. Also, the 1.01 version on the 360 release makes it a much better game than the arcade original in my opinion, mostly due to making the power shot easier to use. I wish it were more accessible- I was late to the game buying my 360 copy and got it for ~80$, but I see used copies are now 200$+, and although its available digitally buying Japanese X360 games from not-Japan is harder than it should be, even though MMP supposedly doesn't need any VPN shenanigans etc.
I have a hard time suggesting it to friends because of the cheesecake fan-service factor (although I guess it is at least body positive, and I think the pig-girl designs are adorable), but it is my favorite SHMUP. It has a fun scoring system that isn't as punishing as, say, chaining kills in DoDonPachi, it is very much like Battle Garegga (another game by Shinobu Yagawa) in that it rewards you for using bombs instead of punishing you, is liberal with the extends and has those fun bullet shapes, but without the opaque and punishing rank system, and it also just literally vomits point medals all over the screen, which I have loved since the first time I played Deathsmiles. MMP is the combination of all of the things I love about SHMUPS, and one of my favorites.
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