Unlike older SHMUPs, all of the bullets are brightly colored so that you have a fair chance to ALWAYS see them. One person I saw writing on one of the games summarized that CAVE’s style of bullet hell is “tough but fair” and I couldn’t agree more. Speaking of bullet curtains, quickly do I notice that these games share almost all the bullet patterns, ideas, and even the same basic colors to keep that consistency live and present. The laser is stronger, but makes your ship move more slowly (though this has its own advantages when trying to weave between bullet curtains). Each game gives you two firing functions-one is your normal shot with your helper units firing all manners of missiles, lasers, energy, whatever on top of it, and the other is your laser cannon (or game-related equivalent) that fires an often-more-concentrated shot. Each level has a miniboss with its own energy meter and then culminates with a boss fight. The second loop is the first five levels again in a much more manic setting.
Hell, the first thing I said when I started up Mushihimesama was, “This is basically DoDonPachi Resurrection with bugs instead of ships”, and I was very much correct.Įach game features a five-level set, and Mushihimesama is the only game of the trio that does not have the famous second loop. Akai Katana is a horizontal shooter instead of a vertical shooter like the other two, but it’s still pretty consistent with the other games. So that’s the candy coating what about the meat? Again, all three games are roughly the same. I love SHMUP soundtracks, but these are the only SHMUP games I’ve ever played where I specifically had to track down the versions with accompanying CDs to them-a success I was able to do twice that enriched this bullet orgy well beyond 11. All three games show Xbox HD quality at its godly zenith (and even the original arcade versions stuffed inside two of them show off some purty colors), while the soundtracks go beyond the SHMUP standards for melodic, fast-pumping techno rock (standards that were already pretty high to begin with) with some other chilled, ethnic flavors that compliment the experience all the more. Each one is stubbornly consistent in terms of quality, and if the usually high prices to obtain them is because their graphics department charges a pretty penny, it’s money well spent. I was lucky enough to get each one for an average of $21 ( Akai Katana was domestically released and the cheapest one I got), as having to buy all that other shit would’ve cost me a minimum of $250 on top of that.īut these CAVE shooters might’ve broken me down to do it anyway. How fortunate I was to have an Xbox 360 when this craving finally burst forward like a man who hadn’t jacked it in a week-I would’ve probably had to buy one and THEN import all this shit onto it.
DODONPACHI RESURRECTION XBOX 360 GAMEPLAY FULL
I mean that instead of making three reviews that largely say the same things and little else, I’d have a much more full review just combining them all into one.Īs I detailed in my Deathsmiles review, CAVE is pretty much the undisputed game of the bullet hell genre as it stands today, and damn straight I won’t dispute it, either. Oh wait, the new GameCola standards require me to dumb it down for you because you readers can’t find your ass in time for diarrhea. As I played them to ready them for my review and make up for my large drought of reviewing in the last little while, I had found, to some surprise, that even though I thoroughly enjoyed the hell out of each title, actually trying to review them separately would just be an exercise of redundancy. As my sudden urge to collect every CAVE SHMUP game I could reasonably afford raged on, I was able to also get my hands on the three Xbox 360 games you see above you.
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