Some say you’re only as old as you feel. Shmups Skill Test says you’re only as old as you shoot! Shmups Skill Test is a clever way to evaluate your shmup skills in the form of a "gamer age". Challenge and unlock shoot-’em-up-based minigames in a gauntlet of shmup nostalgia goodness.
Awhile back, I read somewhere that as you age, your reflexes and hand-eye coordination become increasingly worse. This could happen as early as your 30s(!). To be fair, the source was a random person on an internet forum, but it got me thinking... and worrying. As of this review, I'm 35 years old, and I'm not quite sure if I'm ready to be put out to...
I kind of feel like I was tricked in getting this. Shmups Skill Test is definitely a bait title for a game.
Shmups Skill Test consists of a number of mini games all involving shoot 'em up game play. You play these mini games, get graded on your performance, and at the end, are given your 'shmup age'. With younger meaning you're a better shmup player....
Warioware meets Brain Age all in a shmup. One second you're blasting an army of tanks, then you're dodging through some really aggressively spinning scenery, then you're... shooting cans into a recycle bin to save the Earth?
Complete about a half dozen of these challenges and you'll register a score and get an insulting shmup age of 57 or something,...
Shmups Skill Test was first released in 2007 for Arcade (Sega Naomi board) and later ported in 2009 to Xbox 360 as part of the "Shooting Love 200X" collection, which brought together beyond this game other three: "Minus Zero", "Trizeal Remix "and" Exzeal ", all of them developed by Triangle Service (japanese developer founded by a former employee of...
Just a quick warning, if anyone buys this game, DO NOT USE FULLSCREEN, it raises game speed by a ridiculous amount where if I tappes left on the D-pad once on my controller, I would go flying across the menu. Everything works fine in windowed mode.
