History GameBreaker / ShootEmUps

* In the mobile game ''Gun Bros.'' by Glu, there is the obscenely powerful heavy gun called the Kraken. It is a ridiculous combination of [[ MacrossMissileMassacre ]] and [[ WaveMotionGun ]] in one package. When shot, it shoots loads of homing missiles. As you shoot, the gun begins to quickly overheat. All is lost until...wait...it shoots a gigantic laser beam that vaporizes anything it touches. The gun does not stop firing missiles even WHILE firing the laser. However, there is a price to pay. Quite literally. Originally when the gun was released it was 1400 War Bucks.(currency you spend real cash on.) The maximum package currently offered is 710 War Bucks for $99.99. Which means this thing at one point was a little over $200. If you thought that was bad, they've updated it to cost a staggering 3499 War Bucks. Do the math...yeah. Holy shit indeed.

* In the mobile game ''Gun Bros.'' by Glu, there is the obscenely powerful heavy gun called the Kraken. It is a ridiculous combination of [[MacrossMissileMassacre]] and [[WaveMotionGun]] in one package. When shot, it shoots loads of homing missiles. As you shoot, the gun begins to quickly overheat. All is lost until...wait...it shoots a gigantic laser beam that vaporizes anything it touches. The gun does not stop firing missiles even WHILE firing the laser. However, there is a price to pay. Quite literally. Originally when the gun was released it was 1400 War Bucks.(currency you spend real cash on.) The maximum package currently offered is 710 War Bucks for $99.99. Which means originally this thing was a little over $200. If you thought that was bad, they've updated it to cost a staggering 3499 War Bucks. Do the math...yeah. Holy shit indeed.

** ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' brings in [[NinjaMaid Sakuya]] as a playable character, and she is, by and large, one of the easier characters to clear the game with; her normal shot covers the screen, while her focused shot locks in on enemies, and her bombs (depending on the shot type) have some of the longer invincibility times in the game. And she gets ''four'' per life, compared to Reimu's three and Marisa's paltry ''two''.

* ''Touhou'' fangames aren't immune to this either. ''Marine Benefit'' gives us the [=MarisaB=] shottype, which fires piercing lasers, has high power, and has the [[WaveMotionGun Master Spark]] bomb. This has appeared in canon ''Touhou'' games while being considered a generally bad shottype, but in Marine Benefit the game is practically made for it, with a ton of fairies that are nigh-unkillable to most other shottypes because they stay behind other fairies - and killing them gives the player H items, which both lower the point of collection and give the player more bombs to use, and playing as any Marisa shottype increases the value of H items. Since ''Marine Benefit'' (unlike canon ''Touhou'' games) doesn't have a {{cap}} on the number of bombs you can stock, it is quite possible to get enough bombs that they literally go off the screen...by the '''stage 3 boss''', thus allowing the player to turn the bosses into a joke just by spamming Master Spark. It doesn't hurt that "high power" here is defined as "second highest in the game" (when the highest falls firmly under AwesomeButImpractical and is the difference is barely noticeable). And just in case this wasn't broken enough, all of the final boss' spellcards revolve around summoning the same {{mook}}s that [=MarisaB=] is killing nigh-instantly.

*** The troper writing this would like to point out weapon set D. The main weapon is a [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Gun]] that can OneHitKill many enemies, the secondary is a hard hitting bazooka that does [[ForMassiveDamage massive damage]] against bosses and stationary objects, and the lock-on weapon is the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Heaven's]] [[KillSat Laser]], which is absurdly strong, never misses, and reloads stupidly fast, making things that need a lock-on utter push-overs.

*** The troper writing this would like to point out weapon set D. The main weapon is a [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Gun]] that can OneHitKill many enemies, the secondary is a hard hitting bazooka that does [[ForMassiveDamage massive damage]] against bosses and stationary objects, and the lock-on laser is the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Heaven's]] [[KillSat Laser]], which is absurdly strong, never misses, and reloads stupidly fast, making things that need a lock-on utter push-overs.

* The Thunder Claw and Binchou Laser in ''Twin Cobra 2''. The red and blue weapons needs ungodly ButtonMashing to make them not piss-weak, whereas the Thunder Claw has an '''huge''' spread and doesn't need rapid fire to be powerful. The Binchou Laser doesn't need ButtonMashing either and it kill things really fast.

* {{Strikers 1945}} II brought the world the F5-U Flying Pancake and the Hayate. The F5-U wasn't strong but the main gun spread a little, had homing lasers, and it was quick enough to evade many attacks in the game. Also, it's charge shot consisted of a laser that could kill many enemies in little to no time. The Hayate wasn't as fast, but compensates for its lethality via attack drones that home in and whittle enemies down to nothing.
** Then there's the P-55 Ascender, unlocked via cheat code. Again, not the fastest, but compensated for its decent strength and ludicrous special attack. It homed in on enemies, charged quickly and could hold the maximum nine specials--when other planes had at the most five specials.

{{Game Breaker}}s in shoot-'em-ups.

* {{Strikers 1945}} II brought the world the F5-U Flying Pancake and the Hayate. The F5-U wasn't strong but the main gun spread a little, and it was quick enough to evade many attacks in the game. Also, it's charge shot consisted of a laser that could kill many enemies in little to no time. The Hayate wasn't as fast, but compensates for its lethality via attack drones that home in and whittle enemies down to nothing.

** ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'': [[LivingToys Medicine Melancholy's]] "Sweet Poison" card is an immovable [[PoisonedWeapons poison cloud]] that can slow down opponents; when pitted against the computer, the AI is programmed to duck around enemy shots, so throwing out several of these shots in their path will result in some... interesting situations. See [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0cklHcF2o0A here]] for an example.

* [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] GameBreaker of sorts: The Boundary Team in ''{{Touhou:}} Imperishable Night'' is by and far the easiest of the teams to beat the game with, with their homing attacks, smaller hitbox, and extremely long deathbomb timer (which was already quite long for a ''{{Touhou}}'' game to begin with). The characters that make up the team? The main character of the series, and the second BonusLevelOfHell's boss from the previous game that can control boundaries (Read: Able to [[RealityWarper manipulate damn near anything she pleases]], be it Dream and Reality, Motion and Stillness, Life and Death, or pretty much anything that could be conceived of as having a boundary whether or not it makes sense in real life.), is older than [[FantasyKitchenSink Gensokyo]] itself, and has a very capable shikigami to help with her attacks. Yes, [[SuperpowerLottery the plot power there is as great as implied]].

* [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] GameBreaker of sorts: The Boundary Team in ''Imperishable Night'' is by and far the easiest of the teams to beat the game with, with their homing attacks, smaller hitbox, and extremely long deathbomb timer (which was already quite long for a ''{{Touhou}}'' game to begin with). The characters that make up the team? The main character of the series, and the second BonusLevelOfHell's boss from the previous game that can control boundaries (Read: Able to [[RealityWarper manipulate damn near anything she pleases]], be it Dream and Reality, Motion and Stillness, Life and Death, or pretty much anything that could be conceived of as having a boundary whether or not it makes sense in real life.), is older than [[FantasyKitchenSink Gensokyo]] itself, and has a very capable shikigami to help with her attacks. Yes, [[SuperpowerLottery the plot power there is as great as implied]].

* Fire Shark has the [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Firesharklv4_3301.jpg flamethrower weapon]]. At maximum level, it fires out '''''SIX''''' streams of deadly fire in a spread (initially). The 4 side flames then proceed to sweep the sides AND back of the player, decimating most mooks they touch via massive damage. Not only that, it's the only weapon to hit behind the player character (there WILL be enemies coming from behind at times). Small wonder why the game is called FIRE Shark...
* The hidden Slave fighter in ''Raiden Fighters''. It fires shots that spread out in front of it, which fire very fast and are capable of doing large amounts of damage, particularly at point blank. Moreover, it has a small hitbox, and if you choose the Judge Spear variation of the Slave, you not only can move absurdly fast, but you also have the Judge Spear's super-powerful bomb. On the ''Raiden Fighters Aces'' compilation, the Slave dominates every single online leaderboard, save for ship-specific leaderboards.

* The Spread Gun in ''{{Contra}}''. Since it fires five shots at a time, you can destroy quite a few bosses with ease just by firing point-blank. And most other enemies only need one shot anyway. If you're a component platform player, the jig is up once you have this weapon.

** The 'Marisa Bugged/Broken' glitch from ''Mountain of Faith''. Put simply, due to a mishap in the game programming Marisa B does absurd damage firing unfocused between 3 and 4 power. By absurd damage, I mean killing bosses ''before their bullets even approach Marisa.'' If you can get through the stages with a decent amount of power this makes clearing the game an absolute joke. The reason this is going here is that if it's an accidental glitch you would expect a patch - the game's been out for over a year now, and no fix.