#shmup
#shmup
By: Omar (@siegarettes)
There’s always room for improvement. That’s the philosophy behind Pentavera’s shoot-em-up, Hangeki. Eschewing the typical complex scoring systems of the genre, Hangeki grades you on only one thing: how fast you complete the stage. To get through each of the ten stages you’ll be given a host of weapons, with more unlocking as you gain experience and level up. It’s a curious mix of a traditionally Japanese dominated genre and the Western progression sensibilities that have become popularized by the Modern Warfare series. It’s an approach that’s apparently intended to create more of a sandbox approach to completing stages and remove the high knowledge requirements of scoring systems, multipliers and secrets that are involved in modern shoot-em-ups.
