I think I may have to play ZeroRanger at some point. I'm not especially good at shmups, but I also said I wasn't especially good at Sokoban and I still beat Void Stranger
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zeroranger is like, incredibly approachable by shmup standards - it's decently tough, but you build up a near-permanent stock of continues through play and you can restart at the start of any stage you've already seen. if youve got to the end of void stranger, you've absolutely got the kind of discipline for the journey of self-improvement that is ZR - they're very similar like that as Samsara Simulators™, just swap 'knowledge' for 'skill'
there is a moment at the very end in which for Plot Reasons you can choose to stake your save file on one last true final boss fight (which is overall easier than the normal final boss, the stakes are just a lot higher) but it honestly isn't that bad - you only really lose your continues stock and stage select progress, and if you've managed to get that far you'll probably end up surprising yourself at how fast you can get back to about that point, because zeroranger does a VERY good job at giving you the time to get good at the shmup it offers
"Samsara Simulator" feels like an appropriate term for Void Stranger
anyway this sounds like a glowing recommendation to me
it is the most glowing recommendation. this is the Sun of recommendations. if you look at it too long you will get eye damage from how glowing it is. i genuinely cannot recommend ZR enough, i was mid-hyperfixating on it when i learned void stranger was a thing and coming out and absolutely lost my mind all over again. it is not all-encompassingly Every Kind Of Video Games Maybe the way void stranger gets, but it's so incredibly tightly focused on being a top shelf shoot em up and shmups happen to be System Erasure's home turf. it's their now-over-a-decade-long labor of love (development started in 2009, iirc?) and it shows it in every corner, i feel
very separate experience from @gull's comment here: i'm not good at shmups either, and i was not good enough to beat zeroranger and put it down some fraction of the way through the game. but even so, i thought the experience was totally worth it. there's a lot of cool things about it that you can get even if you end up tapping out.