Ketsui : #14
After taking over a month off of Ketsui, I decided to sit my ass down before the Astro to plug away at it again. I forgot a lot about this game and could barely make it to the 3rd stage boss, but a lot of it came back quickly. Hopefully, what caused me to get burned out with Ketsui won't come back either, since that was what I was hoping to forget.
After hours of continual runs, I was able to score 60 million again, and then just yesterday, I managed to get back to 84 million. Before, while I was getting burned out with the game, I would get this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever I died in between the first and third stage, and then I would feel like giving up, cursing Ketsui in my head as though I were having a fight with an estranged girlfriend.
So nowadays, it's all about not giving a fuck. I'll bomb if I have to. If I die with a full bomb stock, oh well. Shit happens. I love hearing the lock-on sound, and I love it when I just know that after twenty or so runs, I can feel that I actually got better.
And then I look at the Shmups High Score Board for Ketsui and notice how MrMonkeyMan completed the first loop in...a few days, and I just get depressed. Why bother?
But then again, I love hearing that Lock-On sound.
Edit: I love hearing that Lock-On sound while realistic-looking tanks and EVAC Industry-owned enemy installations explode under my unstoppable helicopter equipped with fin-funnels of death.
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