This is the highlight of my day.

Or, rather, this has been the highlight of my days. Warning Forever is a lightweight little game that has made a slave out of me. Thanks A LOT, Toon.

The Cliff's Notes version: It's a shooter. After playing it a while and seeing myself pull off amazing dodging, I think it's more of a bullet hell shooter (where the actual "hit box" that can be struck is very very small compared to the size of the player ship). But it's all BOSSES. Well, one boss that continues to evolve based on how to attack it. On the site they have a "map" of boss forms. It's a little small, there's a bunch more "intermediate" names they use. If you attack from the front, the boss will evolve with more defenses in the front. If you get clobbered by homing missiles, the boss will learn to put lots of homing missiles and to spend it's "xp" on missile upgrades. Here are the boss names as on the map, and I'll put a cute little kitten, er, asterix, next to the ones I've seen.

The Pure Heart*
The Muramasa
The Phoenix*
The Berserker
The Scorpion
The Asura*
The Hekatoncheir*
The Hammer Head*
The Ise-One*
The Infinity+
The Armageddon
The Catastrophe*

I've seen two out of the four "final" forms. Don't know if they're really final, though. You know those crazy Japanese. I keep trying to figure out the patterns to make all of them appear. Some of them just happened by me playing. Asura and Ise-One are the only deliberate ones I tried to see.

Asura's kinda cool. It's kind of like that hindu elephant god with lots of arms. Like a spider of weaponry. <3

It took a long while to figure out how to see Ise-One. I just like the icon: a CIRCLE of HATE. And it's as hard as that description sounds. But it was amazing to see 4 lobes of concentrated armoring folded into itself with weapons tucked in every nook and cranny and then power shielding turn on and then it starts SPINNING it's hatred on me... ahhhhh.... beautiful. <3 x2

Wanna see Ise-One? Click it, bitches:

I WAS going to download Adobe Premeire to toy around with video editing again, but now I'm going to figure out how to get the latest DirectX installed on Windows 2000 and use it with the FREE Visual Studio they offer. The latest DirectX requires XP or higher. Woe is me.

P.S.
Quick edit at 2AM in the friggin' morning. I just saw The Infinity. :D
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