Post(s) tagged with "dodonpachi"
A Little Bit on the First Footage of Saidaiohjou Side: Cave are location testing their latest and maybe last shoot ‘em up, DoDonPachi Saidaiohjou. Here’s the first footage of the game. I’m happy to see a traditional Cave shooter rather than something like Akai Katana.
A Little Bit on the OMG It’s a New Arcade Shmup Side: Just when you thought Cave was ready to - uh - cave, they announce that their mystery game, DoDonPachi Saidaiohjou is indeed a new arcade shooter. The game will be location tested in the near future and hit the arcades at some point later in the year. Hopefully there will be a 360 port, but I don’t think we’ll hear anything about that for several months at the least.
Source: andriasang.com
A Little Bit on the iOS Side: So here it is: the trailer of Cave’s newest iOS shooter. If it looks familiar, that’s because it is. It’s a port of 2002’s DoDonPachi: Dai Ou Jou. The game is super challenging - I think I’ve only gotten to the fourth level boss - so you better buy insurance for your iThing before playing this and throwing your phone at the wall. It will be out next month.
Source: andriasang.com
A Little Bit on the Shmup Side: What’s this? A Cave shooter is getting a physical release in North America? Yep. Rising Star, who published a PAL version of DoDonPachi: Daifukkatsu are expanding to North America and their first gift to us is horizontal shooter, Akai Katana Shin. This is Cave’s weakest shmup in a while, so I’ll be more than happy to buy this release rather than the real deal Japanese version.
Source: siliconera.com
A Little Bit on the DoDonPachi Side: Cave, who may or may not be getting out of the arcade and console shmup scene, are teasing a (presumably) new entry into the DoDonPachi series of bullet hell shooters. I was under the impression that Daifukkatsu was supposed to be the final major entry into the series, but I could be totally making that up. So hopefully this is a sign that Cave isn’t actually dead to me.
Source: cave.co.jp
A Little Bit on the Warm Neck Side: It’s a shame that shipping charges from Cave’s official US store are ridiculous because they’ve got this Dai-Fukkatsu scarf just in time for bullet hell to freeze over into winter.
Source: japan-shops.com
Region Free Cave Release on the Way
We non-Japanese got burned when Cave region-locked DoDonPachi: Dai Fukatsu. But it seems like they had a way-too-late change of heart. In November, Europeans will be able to buy a kind-of-region-free and enhanced version of the game, according to Rising Star. Named DoDonPachi Resurrection Delux, this version will feature a handful of extras and a soundtrack. The Black Label and 1.51 versions of the game will be available as DLC.
The best part of the news for us Americans is that the game will play perfectly fine in a US 360. It will not work on Japanese consoles though. I’ve still got the original version sealed, sitting on my shelf. I’m sure I’ll get a Japanese 360 sooner or later. But in the meantime, this version is pretty tempting.
Source: shopncsx.com
Cave Trying an Unconventional Shmup Next?
After a rough translation from Engrish to English, it seems like shmup kings, Cave, will be making a shoot ‘em up that will take “a slightly different form.” Granted, all of Cave games are pretty unique, especially the wacky ones like Dangon Feveron. Hopefully they won’t stray too far from their tried and true formula. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Source: cave-game.cocolog-nifty.com
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