jae

i believe in you, you can do it! although if you want a backup plan in the meantime, i guess you can just click the "related games" button on someone else's game that you enjoy playing. but that's not as fun.

i forgot to mention it in my original post, but the "recommendations for chessplosion" page even gives me way better recommendations than itch.io's personalised "recommendations for you" page, which tells me to play a game that ive already played, and a huge pile of games that aren't even remotely similar to the sorts of things that i play. maybe itch.io's personal recommendations are bad for everyone, or maybe i permanently messed up my recommendations by buying one of those huge bundles of games a few years back. who knows?

zeroranger is one of the few games on that page that i havent played yet, but im sure ill like it a lot! im a big fan of shmups in general and i dont know any details about the game's narrative framing other than that everyone seems to love it, so im looking forward to playing it and finding out

sorry for asking a follow up question to a two week old comment, but im curious: what is it that makes you prefer this game to other shmups? is it the story, or would you still like the game if you just played the levels from start to finish and saw a short story scene at the end like a regular shmup? i live in a bit of a shmup fan bubble so im not used to seeing games in the genre suddenly blow up in popularity like zeroranger did, and im curious about where the popularity came from.

(in case youre worried about spoilers: i bought zeroranger a few days ago and played through the entire story mode including the hidden boss at the end, but i didnt play white vanilla mode and i didnt clear the entire game in a single credit)

i didnt even know that was an option, thanks for pointing it out! it just helped me find some games on itch.io that i previously assumed were steam-exclusive, like danmaku unlimited 3 and thumper