Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi ~ TYPE-B/Panzer Jager ~ 1-ALL

Ketsui is hard, but Ketsui is fun. My first 1cc of Ketsui! And if not counting doujin/indie STGs like Touhou, my first proper arcade STG clear as well! I started playing Ketsui around August this year, which is around the time I wanted to properly learn and practice shmups like these rather than just credit feed and call it a day. Was quite a brutal journey, but the game was also just so much fun, I really enjoyed just making progress bit by bit until I could get farther in a single credit, and even go beyond that in a single life. Feels very satisfying to finally accomplish this! And I'm not even done yet, since I do want to take on the Omote loop next, and even the Ura loop after. This run went way better than I expected, with the exception of nerves kicking in towards the elevator section in stage 5. I had a lot of lucky dodges too in particular with stage 3, I was really tempted to bomb a few times too after killing the midboss, but I wanted to see if I could actually reach at least Omote loop. Shame I messed up a lot in stage 5, but hey better than just getting a game over from there near the end! In the meantime, I will take a bit of a break from Ketsui, and I hope to get a clear with the other STGs I've been juggling around with, in particular Armed Police Batrider, DoDonPachi and Hellsinker. Also AIN are the first three letters of my name, Ainny.