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Message: [QUOTE="Evaccaneer Doom, post: 100363, member: 41573"] The reason many don't have much of a story is mainly due to how they were originally meant for the arcades and how because of this, people stick to that same model. Despite this, there are a few that break that mold. Ginga Force and Natsuki Chronicles actually have a story, Donpachi has a series wide story that loops from Daioujou to Resurrection infinitely, R-Type has a shit ton of lore surrounding the Bydo, Thunder Force since 2 has had a story about stopping the Orn that canonically ends at V (VI takes place before), Graze Counter is about stopping a supercomputer that has trapped numerous people in a game, the Esp Ra De series (the two Espgaluda games are the other games in it) are about experimenting on humans to achieve the perfect being and how that is very much not a good thing to do, Ketsui is a post WWIII power struggle (sorta like Akira) where Evac just sells nuclear weapons like candy, etc SHMUPs with interesting stories ARE possible, in fact many of the well known ones do, it's really just the mindset that a lot of people have that they shouldn't from what they're used to. Many of them not being officially translated doesn't help either, because a lot probably don't know Blast Wind is a re-telling of Noah's Ark. Theoretically, you could have a story based shoot em up game to revitalise the genre, bonus points if it's half RPG like Undertale or a Metroidvania like Rabi-Ribi. The revitalisation of Roguelikes is proof. And also yeah Touhou stories are messy. Especially the newer you go, I find the earlier games have very short and sensible stories but the further you go, the more complex they get, the more vague they get, the less sense it makes. Currently, we're on 19 and 19 is a sequel to 17 and still there's a lot of confusing shit between the two. [/QUOTE]

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