Death Smiles coming to X360!

Region locked Japanese games

 

I haven't seen VERY much anime, but from what I've seen, I like Hayao Miyazakis stuff the most. Most of the other stuff feels too...juvenile for my tastes, even though his movies are movies for families and children and stuff.

I don't know what it was about Digimon that I liked, I think I liked it partly because it wasn't overly kiddy like Pokemon.

Now, as for Evangelion, I liked it up until episode 16 or 17, and the last 10 episodes felt really rushed and were really freaking pessimistic. I'm still interested in those new movies they made though, the ones that redo some episodes and stuff.

 

Yeah that's cuz they ran out of money

 

You'd probably have been better keeping that to yourself. I played the game because it was a horizontal scroller which are not so common these days plus it's got some fantastic boss characters in there. I couldn't give a shit about the main character. It's the bad guys that I love.

I agree with you on that one. Stuff like that doesn't do anything for me apart from make me get off my arse to switch off the TV :lol:

Yakumo

 

Play all Rank 3 and go to the Canyon. It's easily top of the Cave's middle tear in terms of difficulty.

The graphics designer Junya Inoue has had a huge fan following starting pretty much with ESPRade, although his work in the games field goes back to Toaplan. While this is way too loli, he didn't design just the charcters. He did the enemies, illustrations, everything.

Don't judge it on it's cuteness. It's good... and mean if you want to play for score.

 

Na, just swap hard drives (or rather, take the hard drive off the console I played last and put it on whatever console I'm about to play).

Works fine for me.

 

How much was it? same as our price?

 

Well, I play the whole game on rank 3, which is tough but not too bad. Especially with Florett.

But I tended to either choose just the last stage if I wanted to complete the game. I have not ever done the canyon stage and then the last stage. Even though I can do the canyon stage it gets a couple of lives from me and I do bomb alot and use some little glitches on the mid stage boss...

So yeah, it is pretty hard if you go for the canyon stage. I would just like to see a rank 4 or 5 for all stages on Black Label.

But yeah, not so big on the Loli style but I think overall the graphics and design are spot on. Anyway I am pretty sure we can all think of a ton of shooters with girls in them. This is nothing new really.

 

I got it off Ebay. It was around $300 once all was said and done.


Sold my Wii to buy the JP 360... actually. Best. decision. ever.

 

niiiiiice... that sounds like a good idea...

 

The Die! Cave Matsuri version had Level 99 for each level. Suicide Bullets from the get go. Painfully difficult. High scores were over a bil and a half, and people only had the two days to play it.

My only complaint about the game is ramp up in difficulty from stage 3b to the Canyon. Suicide bullets go WAY up, and of course, the layout of the stage is painfully difficult. So many times I aced it up to the Canyon, only to die 5 times on the stage. Lots of controller smacking.

 

If I was going to balance the game more I would have the canyon after the last level. So as the ending screen after the last boss plays out you get a message like -

There is still something left to defeat . blahblah Do you want to go get your arse kicked?

Then you could play the canyon stage. Because the canyon is so much harder than the last stage on the highest rank, it seems crazy to put the canyon before an easier stage!

Plus I really wanted the secret boss to be maybe 2 or 3 small enemies running around you and no bombs.

BTW are there any vids of the cave matsuri version going around? I missed it like a mug

 

Nope... not that I know of. I tried to get some but my camera was busted.

 

I played it yesterday at Shibuya's Game Kaikan on level 1 and reached the 4th level boss with Florett without using bombs. I'll play today on level 2, the game is gorgeus.

 

Credit to postback

http://cave-game.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/09/post-11c9.html

Seems that Cave will port it (or maybe they only like X360 XD), so there's still hope to see a good port, not like Dodonpachi Daiuojou's one.

 

1: That's pretty old news that Cave was doing the port (and publishing... something they've never done).
2: Dodonpachi Daioujou redefines "great port". (ESPGaluda, the other done by Arika, redefines it again by giving better extras). The two above are what ports should strive to be. Indiscernible gameplay from the arcade, plus really worthwhile extra modes. Mushihime-sama and Ibara on the other hand (both ported by Cave) are sub par at best. We would be far better off with Arika doing these. Cave have proven many times that they are not a good console developer.

 

Is this game at all related to the Cotton series? Looks nearly identical...

 

Absolutely not. The only thing they share in common in the horizontal shooting factor.

The blog has been updated:
http://cave-game.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/10/post-5a83.html

Apparently they're high-res-ifying at least some sprites. Hopefully all, or it will suck, of course.

 

Yeah, Espgaluda and Dodonpachi Daioujou (it's a shame that X360s one is worse that the PS2) ports are great. Didn't know that Cave ported the other ones. And just seen the update and the hi res ¿golem/ cyclop/monster? looks awful :-( . Maybe I'll end up getting the PCB because I like this game a lot.

 

Why does it look awful? It's the same model rerender in high res to match the 360's output. PCB is dropping pretty fast though. I suspect you can get one for $500 in the next few months. Mega Black Label just came out.

Re; DOJ

Aaah, I thought you were bashing the Arika one. The DOJ Black Label port is by 5pb, and so far, we've only seen videos that look pretty horrible. Hopefully it's just a shit transfer, but we'll see.