Giga Wing : #2

New High Score: 6,1834,64817680 - Stage 5 - Ruby

So playing ends today for Shooting Game Tournament Week #5 (actually, about a half hour from this posting). Throughout the week, I wasn't too thrilled with the game. I even had to switch back to using my Saturn pad because I wasn't skilled enough to handle all of the weaving on the stick.

Since I was using Ruby, it was a fast ship, and this game required a lot of maneuvering to collect those medals, so I felt so much more comfortable playing this game with a pad than a stick. I guess when it comes to sticks, they work a lot better for tap-dodging and pixel-perfect, precise movements against a screen full of bullets (given that your ship's speed is slow enough to allow such adjustments).

As for dodging via weaving past bullets, I am just not skilled enough with the stick yet to achieve it at the same level that I am with a controller. As for controllers in my opinion, I seem to excel at weaving through hordes of bullets like a madman (at the expense of my thumb after a few hours of it), but tap dodging is less precise, and a lot of times, causes me to die. But the kind of controls you use does not make you a better player. Whether you're using a PS2 pad, a Sanwa or Seimitsu stick, hell, or even a keyboard, it all comes down to how skilled you are with what you have. Use what you got! I must say, though, everything has its drawbacks. I am much better using controllers most of the time, but they do give me some major blisters.

Going back to the game, I managed to nearly double my score in the end. Compared to the top ranking scorers on the board (80+!), it's actually quite a shitty score, but I'm proud of it, nevertheless. This is the best I've ever been at Giga Wing, and it's my own personal victory. I'm satisfied that I gave it my best tonight and managed to break past my old score, which I was having so much difficulty reaching for some reason. Dying for the 20th time on level 1 while collecting those damn medals was becoming frustrating.

I've never liked GW that much, but after spending more time with it tonight, I have to say that I enjoy it a lot more. As for getting back to it in the future...no. I'm done with the game for a while.