The Switch might be the best console for shmups since the Sega Saturn

"There are only three sports," Hemingway once said, before handily providing a list. "Bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."

It's funny, because I sometimes feel the same way about my own personal preferences when it comes to games. There are only really three genres that matter: puzzlers, driving and good old-fashioned 2D shooting. Everything else is mere frippery.

And, quite honestly, when I'm in the embrace of a shmup, smothered by floating clouds of bullets and twitching a tiny ship through impossibly large alien armadas, I could boil that down to one.

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