SHMUPs!

[Benny The Miraj]

You may or may not already know that I prefer shooters that involve human pilots

Personally, I generally prefer everything else, to be honest. I never understood the whole "Playing as a human is more fun because you can relate to them more" concept. I actually prefer playing as other things because they're LESS like me. ...But I guess that's just separate opinions there.

Like with most genres, my favorite SHUMPs have HUGE bosses, generally more organic looking ones as opposed to robotic ones. ...I'm not a huge expert of SHUMPS though. I do recall playing Parodius a lot. It's a spoof of the Gradius series that has a LOT of playable characters. I've played the first three games, but I've yet to play Sexy Parodius yet. There might be more, but I only remember the original, the two SNES games and Sexy Parodius. I thought the fact that the SNES ones had so many characters to choose from, each with their own powers, was kind of cool. I especially liked playing as Ran the cat (I think that was his name) in the second one for the SNES.