This Wednesday: Triggerheart Exelica comes to XBLA

"Wasted efforts making this game; people don't like to pay for software that humiliate them by filling the screen with deadly projectiles..."

You're not a Shmup player, are you? For us strange dedicated hardcore shooter fans, this is more or less ideal.*

*Custom soundtracks make the music tolerable.

1. The last video for this game was turned on its side, check that post.

2. I suppose you've never heard the terms "bullet-hell" and "bullet-curtain"? Schmup fans tend to love such games, as do our Far Eastern friends. As far as I'm concerned, they play no better than that name sounds.

"Wasted efforts making this game; people don't like to pay for software that humiliate them by filling the screen with deadly projectiles..."

Speak for yourself, since Japanese people have been eating the stuff up since 1993 or so. Just look up some footage of Batsugun on Youtube.

@Yourself:

1: You're not making sense. The graphics in the video clearly isn't rotated; score numbers are easily readable for starters. The game shows a tiny gaming area with huge sidebars which are nothing but a giant waste of space. Hopefully there IS an option somewhere to actually rotate the game, like with Ikaruga (which I didn't like, but at least it had the option for fullscreen gfx).

2: Yes, of course I've heard the terms, but last I checked this wasn't japan. I know of no large followings of such games in the west, and developing purely for japanese XBL market isn't going to make anyone rich... ;)

Just so we're clear, this is the video I was talking about. http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/23/triggerheart-exelica-screams-onto-xbla-on-february-27/
As in "last video," "check that post."
I expect this is evidence of the option to rotate the game, similar to Ikaruga. If you're curious as to why the numbers are sideways as well, it's because the idea is that the (idiotic) player can turn the TV on it's side (if he wants to break it).

So, your complaint is that the game is too much like a japanese-style shooter? You do realise that it IS a japanese shoter, and that actually getting a release outside of japan (and localised to boot) is a pretty nifty thing for those who enjoy these games? It'd be like complaining that Mass Effect is a terrible game because you don't get to summon pokemon. Just because it isn't a genre you like, doesn't make it a bad game.

@yourself
Or, they own a monitor on a swivel-mount.