If you’re well-versed in the medium, though, ask yourself this: how many shooters have you played with consistent, meditative storytelling throughout? Plot is often cast aside in favour of arcade-style point systems or clumsily executed in that the player has to conduct some research before even playing the game. Similarly, how many shooters have you played that featured no spacecrafts or cutesy anime gals? These are undying tropes that rear their heads in half of the genre, I’d wager. While there are always shooters like Parodius and Cho Aniki there to challenge the genre norms, even these tend to be over-the-top comical approaches or satires of the genre that acknowledge the medium’s tendencies; not straight-up “games” that just so happen to have a defiant vision.
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