u/OldschoolGreenDragon

I played the start of the demo, hyped, eyes dialated and delighted by the quality of the gameplay and art. I unlocked the White and Black Mage Stands, er, Visions, whatever.

Then the fake questionnaire and gameplay of FF1 showed up. And I unlocked the FF1 mascot as a Vision. *Oh no. OH NO.*

I finally watched a trailer and it had a Cloud Stand, a Squall Stand, Sephiroth (who is probably a Stand) and am quite disappointed. Why couldn't Resonance be its own thing and stand on its own two feet? Why did they think that this game needed everyone's favorite sword waifus to make money?

And lets say those protagonists actually spoke to tantalize their fans? What are they gonna do? Babble about "Darkness," using as many words as possible to say absolutely nothing like in Kingdom Hearts? Is this everything fans dream of?

I played a lot of Touhou in college, I 1CC'd a couple of games on the Normal difficulty. My favorite CAVE game is Akai Katana (not that I'm good at it for similar reasons.) I 1CC'd Deathsmiles (without doing any Lvl 99s.) I beat ZeroRanger (all of it.)

But the fuss over the bad Dodonpachi game made me pull it out of my backlog and I remember why I don't play it. As early as Stage 2, everything I know from other Shmups goes out the window except for my hitbox.

In other games, when playing defensively, I focus my eyes on the negative space between bullets and find "lanes" to move through. I lead direct bullets.

But in this, I can't find lanes. There's layers upon layers of bullets coming at me from different directions and I can find no negative space in one color without being hit by the other.i

How do I not die in a CAVE game?

I finished the tutorial, completed two solo missions, got to Level 2 and that was the end of that. When I try to join public games, I immediately get kicked. My armory's melee weapons have seemingly vanished, create Public games that nobody joins, and I have no clues going on.

How do I get some weapons in my armory? How are people joining public games?

Signed: the Rook who did it for you and got first dibs in the Pinwheel.

I'm out of town visiting for a class, a class which I intend to graduate tomorrow, but I have no good internet in my hotel.

Are there any gaming LAN places that I can reach my Steam account? I'm missing Marathon Season 2 in this hotel...I think I earned my Friday LAN session!