It's very misleading, also because it's rooted in the past. A Japanese production can be one (Sine Mora), an European tightly conceived one cannot be one (Dropzone, Uridium). There's a very good reason Defender and Tempest are never criticized in that field.Īt the same time, if "euroshmup" is just "style over substance" it means very little. An attraction that must endure, and beat the competition always-on around. Sure, European sensibiliies were into the artsy side of things, but nothing could have prevented to have, say, Agony with the same care put into background art and style direction, AND a compelling gameplay, if only the developers had to test it to sustain the interest that a single cabinet has to generate in an arcade room. I'm still convinced *that* is the major difference here. They sure did, and that's part of what I'm trying to get at Americans had an arcade cabinet industry. In a rare defense of America, I'd say a lot of Americans at the time actually knew what they were doing. I may just be talking out of my ass here, if the majority of 'proper' euroshmup examples turned out to be British then perhaps it would be more accurate to call them Britishmups. Meanwhile in America they were establishing the groundwork for RPGs, FPSs, adventure games and RTSs, in Japan arcades were booming, in the UK they were coming up with all kinds of shit, but in the mainland you had what? Sports games? You could tell when someone had a better idea of what he was doing design-wise: Turrican 1 and 2 were pretty good under Manfeld Trenz, but after he stepped down you'd end up with Super Turrican 2 which was a glorified Mode 7 showcase.Īs a whole I'm not sure whether I should consider the UK (and maybe France) not a part of Europe just so the 'retropean' definition makes any sense. Personally I think euroshmups are endemic of a larger degenerate train of thought common amongst (pre-)early 90's European video game developers which I call 'retropean', something responsible for creating extravagant amounts of derivative garbage as a result of not having any better idea in terms of design, or as a result of the demoscene zeitgeist where everyone wanted to flex their coding muscles rather than make something fun. Obviously it's not like any shmups of note ever came out of the UK (don't worry danbo, I'm not including Scotland), though the UK certainly has been the major epicenter of innovative Amiga games, whereas good games from mainland Europe seem to be as rare as shiny Pokemon. I've been reviewing the catalogue of good Amiga games recently, and most of them are Made in UK, with the exception of artsy fartsy stuff from France and p'n'c's/RTSs from America. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Even though 'euroshmup' is used to denote shmups made in Europe designed with 'retropean' sensibilities, where depth and fun is attempted to be had through breadth, how many of these are actually non-British? Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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