GENETOS

COMPATIBILITY: Windows
LENGTH: 5 Generations + 5 Mini-Stages on last gen.
LANGUAGE: ENG - JP
DIFFICULTY: Walk on the park on lowest (Beginner), Hard+ on highest (Creator)
PERSONAL RATING: ★★★★☆ - Four stars for uniqueness
DOWNLOAD: Click
OFFICIAL SITE: Click
CONTROLS: Arrows: Movement - Z: Shoot X: Bomb - L-Shift: Sub-weapon & Move slowly - L-Ctrl : Move slowly

People asked for something more unique, I give them something unique. You can say this a Shmups "museum". Basically you start out with a Space Invader clone, then make up your way to the modern type of shmups, Bullet Hell. The game adapts to your playstyle: Play agressive? The game gives you blades for point blank kills. Die to much? The game gives you "overclock" to slowdown bullets. Average player? Common laser shot for you then. I found this game way too easy, no only the adaptable gameplay makes it easy, also the ludicrious amounts of resources this game gives to you. On hacker difficulty for example, you start out with ten lives.

WARNING: Fastfowarding replays may cause desync. Don't fastfoward at all! SUMMON skill makes the replay desync.

Replay: Click (Hacker difficulty). Can't say much, only that I got some stupid misses on generation 3, and as always last boss went terrible. But hey! The game thought that I did well enough to give me an S+! Here I showcase one of the most impresive ability of the game, Summon. It basically lets you summon the bosses from the game to help you! - Replay desync, sadly :(

Since the other replay went out of sync on last gen, here's another. Last stage on Free mode, Creator difficulty, standard weapons, 0 starting lives: Click.

With this being said, I changed my mind. I going to try to make a giveaway for every spotlight. The Requirements this time are:

  • Post a replay of yourself clearing the game (GENETOS), this can be done in any difficulty.
  • It should be a .orep file, containing the date when you did it, any other file will be ignored.
  • It should be uploaded in a trustworthy host. If MyWot doesn't show perfect green on the site, it will be ignored.

DEADLINE: 16/06 - Deadline met.

Once you did this, and I checked that it was a valid rep, you'll be invited to a group with the giveaway posted on the forums as a private link.

When the giveaway ends, everyone in the group will be kicked and you will need to provide a new replay on the last game presented.

Opinions and feedback are highly appreciated!

Hope you all have fun!

Best Regards.

10 years ago*

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I played this game in the past a little and didn't really liked it, but i credit fed through it. Maybe playing serious is more interesting, i'll try it again. Edit: i think i just played on easiest that's why i didn't liked it, because it really gives insane amount of resources. I played it again and 1cc'ed on standart user, not gonna upload it, i'll try to 1cc on harder difficulty.

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I finished the game on hacker difficulty but when i watch replay it desyncs on last stage even without fastforwarding, i watched your replay and it desyncs too. Anyway here's my replay maybe it won't desync for you.

10 years ago
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Yes, my replay is out of sync too I noticed. It seems that the Summon skill makes replays go desync, not fastfowarding like I thought. Such a shame :(. Do you think you can do last stage on Free Mode? Just start on last gen and upload a replay. This is to keep things fair, sorry :( (Shouldn't be a problem for you tho).

10 years ago
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I played the whole game on hacker again and this time replay doesn't desync even if you fastforward link.

10 years ago
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Good work! Thing is that it wouldn't let me invite you to group (I select invite to group and it doesn't appear), this happened to me before. Add me, I invite you, and later unfriend me if you want, it's the only way to bypass this problem :(.

This happens with kicked members only, I going to add the notice to the post.

10 years ago
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Hell yeah, I remember this one! I'll try to record a 1cc later.

10 years ago
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1cc Normal. If I knew it would go so easily, I would have chosen a higher difficulty.

10 years ago
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I think Hacker would be what is considered "normal" in other shmups, this one give you too many resources. Invited

10 years ago
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Yeah, I forgot it gives you that many lives.

10 years ago
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Normal,no bombs used. A few questions though: I got a shield after some evolution which I couldn't find out out how to recharge,and I suspect it doesn't at all. Also, how exactly does damage reflect work,and is it possible that abilities I gain in later stages overwrite abilities I got earlier?

I got orbit for shooting,circle,cross and burning bombs,and laser,overclock and counter for specials. Any tips for unlocking the rest? Do I have to play on higher difficulty to unlock them,or is it something else?

10 years ago
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Invited, I don't know. Only skills that I got where: Orbit, Graze and Normal for Shooting; Circle and Cross for bombing; Summon and Laser for Special. I think some go for score, others for gameplay style, and others by obtaining secret objects. And yes, skills overwrite previous if possible.

10 years ago
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Since my other replay went out of sync on last gen, here's another one of myself doing last stage on Free mode, Creator difficulty, standard weapons, 0 starting lives: Click.

10 years ago
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Here's my replay: download. Programmer difficulty, Orbit shot, Circle bomb, Counter sub-weapon.

Game was fun and final stage had epic feel to it. Visuals for stage 4 were a little epilepcy-inducing but I got used to it on the second run. First time I reached final boss I died without scratching its HP and wondered what I did wrong. Had to look up in the net that I had to fill my own evolution meter instead of depleting its HP.

10 years ago
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Invited.

10 years ago
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Have a bump.

10 years ago
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It keeps crashing on me. =S

My guess is crappy sound driver / midi bug, as it's dmsynth that crashes. And I had such a good run with some spinning thingy around the ship.

10 years ago
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Never happened to me, maybe this may help you (it's for Hotline Miami, but it seems to be the same problem)

10 years ago
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Yup, it seems to be a Windows 8 bug. sighs

Anyway, I had a VM with Windows XP and ran the game on it. Here's the replay.
I got soooooo distracted on this game.

10 years ago
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Desync on last stage :( (due to summon), can you please redo it on Free mode?

10 years ago
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Last Stage

I had deleted it, but I checked the... help thingy and it showed F3 as mute mode. Mute mode "fixes" the crash, as sounds ain't just muted but disabled. =D

Replayed on easy, made a free play of last stage.

10 years ago
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Added you, since I can't invite you by normal means, I need to use the "Invite friends" option.

10 years ago
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This is a bump. No, really. :D
Gonna try the game now. ^_^

10 years ago
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This is indeed a bump.

10 years ago
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Clicky. :D
Ok, that was actually easier than expected. Didn't stop me from dying a ton of times on Generation 3. XD
I'm still not sure how that deflecting field thing works but it definitely saved my ass a couple of thousand times. I guess the game decided I suck so much it replaced the laser with slow-mo on the last evolution. ^_^'

10 years ago
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Invited.

10 years ago
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This game sure is cool. I love how the genre progresses. Hacker 1cc. Going to try creator later.

10 years ago
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Invited.

10 years ago
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Its a contest for a Giveaway, your tittle is misleading (free bump)

10 years ago
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Deadline met. Thanks to the participants. Next one should be coming tomorrow, hopefully.

10 years ago
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Closed 10 years ago by nwod.