What is the best japanese FPS??

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yeah style over execution.

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I think this counts! I havenā€™t played a ton of them, but Iā€™m an experienced Time Crisis player in the arcades. A friend and I played Vampire Night all the way through one weekend.

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Ghost in the Shell for PSP is pretty simplistic but for a PSP FPS its a good time

I does lean into my suspicion that if arena shooters were a longer lasting thing we would have likely seen more Eastern devs take a crack at them. The aforementioned Outtrigger is a real good case for it not being the mode of interaction being the issue, but more the scope of a full FPS campaign.

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It was a very long time ago, but iirc Onslaught is interesting because itā€™s an FPS where you essentially have ā€˜Optionsā€™ - i.e little drone like orbs that float nearby to you mirroring your weapons, like in an STG.

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Calling light gun games first-person shooters is like calling every game an RPG because you play a role

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i played a lot of this in the arcades, and man, japanese gamers were really terrible at FPS when this was contemporary. I was never a 1.6 bunny hopping bawls-energy freak, but i cleaned up on those (closed) network servers. The weirdest thing to get used to was the joystick shaped like a mouse.

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29.97 full frames per second (59.94 fields/sec) because Japan was on the NTSC standard in the analog TV era andā€¦ Iā€™ll show myself out, but Iā€™m also shocked nobody already made this joke.

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the what

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there was a fixed mouse that functioned sort of like a giant thinkpad nipple mouse.
it was replaced by an optical mouse after the ledzone loctests i think, or maybe for v2.

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yeah, every time I looked at that thing I was likeā€¦ hmmā€¦

I only played it once but I looked at it a lot.

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I feel like Iā€™m playing bingo. X sort of counts??
Aside from that I think the only other one I played is Star Luster and Jumping Flashā€¦ Aside from Light gun games, of which Elemental Gearbolt may be my favorite.

I think Killer 7 should count most of all! IMHO for reinventing the genre.

Now that I know thereā€™s a game called GUNBUSTER, that implies there will be a game called DIEBUSTER.