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Credit feeding is fine Like how else were you supposed to actually practice hard parts of games you were going for the 1cc on back in the day before save states I can only assume the people talking shit on credit feeding have never seriously trained for a proper 1cc

I bump the speed down on some of those shmups onnthe Capcom Classics Collection. Who tf was supposed to beat Legendary Wings?

Yeah, I've never been very into arcade or at all into speedrunning because I'm very sloppy, but there's two games that clicked for me (Metal Slug 3 and Castlevana HoD Boss Rush) and perfecting those was an absolute blast of a time. I cannot imagine being an "arcade fan" and not liking trying to 1cc.

speedrunning was likely invented as a way of enforcing an arcade like structure onto console games so its not shocking that ud notice a parallel

modern shmups will do a great job of accommodating all those styles. like ZeroRanger, you work to unlock more 'credits' the longer/better you play. you can skip to each level for practice... but full 1CC is still the ultimate prize. same rules of progression can apply to any arcade game really.

most people i know who credit feed arcade games are trying to eventually get to the point of 1cc and track "how many does it take me to beat the game" as their progress, not everyone's a fuckin barcade guy

and i'm not really dogmatic about any of this, just speaking to my experience as to what i've enjoyed getting into shmups. i dont think its bad if a game doesn't work like this though its definitely making it harder for me to learn cho ren sha lol. but i think these are all open design questions

I'm imagining what roguelites would play like with a free continue mechanic and smiling serenely

and like critically re-evaluating the way continues are handled isn't invalid either, how games handle punishment shapes how the game is interacted with