Like I said before. It took 12 years for someone to actually beat one of the DoDonPachi games. TWELVE YEARS! Because the genre can be so insanely difficult esp certain label games. It's a genre everyone can play but very few can master.
This is not a one-off occurrence either. One took 7 years another took 10. Everyone can play Ikaruga but less than 100 probably truly mastered it. Border Down and Battle Garegga punish you for playing well so the games become almost impossible so people who mastered those games figured out when to strategically die to make the game ease up for the moment. Tho I mostly talked about bullet hell not all the most difficult games in the genre are bullet hell. Some are 16-bit era shmups. Gaiares is pretty tough. Not enough people esp here experienced this genre enough but it's one of the most fun yet infurating but rewarding genres.
Bite my shiny metal cockpit!
