Supremely rad little (yet awesome) freeware shooter

[Frank]

http://www.tatsuya-koyama.com/software/wg002_genetos_eng.html#download

It's called Genetos and it takes you from Space Invaders to Rez in about 10 minutes. It's funny how gradually it goes from Space Invadersesque one or two enemy bullets on screen at once to complete bullet hell by the end so gradually you barely notice. It's great and worth the 25 meg download.

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

Fantastic. And I love how your ship gets upgrades if you do certain accomplishments in the game.

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

Haven't played on the higher difficulties yet, but it was pretty easy on the lower difficulties. 1cc'd on Beginner and Standard with little difficulty, will try the other ones soon. The accomplishments affecting your ship's weapons and bombs add some nice replay value. Maybe this is just the lower difficulties, but the bullet hell bits give you a bit of a deflector shield, so it makes the game pretty forgiving. Even if you don't normally play shmups, you should be able to reach the end and beat it without much trouble.

 

[Dave]

Wouldn't even load on my PC. No shooter for me.

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

I find that surprising, since the requirements are:

OS Windows 2000 / Xp / Vista
CPU Recommended 1.0 GHz or higher
Memory Recommended 512 MB RAM
Runtime DirectX8.1 or higher (Xp includes it as standard)
Graphics Card 32bit color mode at 640 x 480 screen resolution compatible
Sound Card DirectMusic compatible
Input Device Keyboard or gamepad

 

[Frank]

Haven't played on the higher difficulties yet, but it was pretty easy on the lower difficulties. 1cc'd on Beginner and Standard with little difficulty, will try the other ones soon. The accomplishments affecting your ship's weapons and bombs add some nice replay value. Maybe this is just the lower difficulties, but the bullet hell bits give you a bit of a deflector shield, so it makes the game pretty forgiving. Even if you don't normally play shmups, you should be able to reach the end and beat it without much trouble.

Other than wanting to punch you in the face for calling them shmups, I agree. I started on regular and hit hard afterwards.

Shmup is the worst God damn term ever invented for anything.

 

[Dave]

I find that surprising, since the requirements are:

OS Windows 2000 / Xp / Vista
CPU Recommended 1.0 GHz or higher
Memory Recommended 512 MB RAM
Runtime DirectX8.1 or higher (Xp includes it as standard)
Graphics Card 32bit color mode at 640 x 480 screen resolution compatible
Sound Card DirectMusic compatible
Input Device Keyboard or gamepad

After unzipping the file I click the setup file and I get an error message. It's not that my computer can't handle it, but that the file just won't load the setup. And yes I downloaded it more than once.

 

[Frank]

Shouldn't be a setup file. All you should have to do is click on Genetos.exe and it should just pop open a window for you to play it.

 

[Dave]

Okay. So the little Genetos file I clicked on threw me an error. I assumed it was a setup file.

 

[Frank]

Well, that's not right at all.

 

[Chibibar]

That is pretty cool. I got it to work on my Vista machine