At least according to Game Nyarth, Aquaplus will gonna show “a new 2D fighting game” (???AF?09???2D???) in the next moments on his Aqua Festa 09 event.
Aquaplus is known for Eroge games… so i dont know what to expect about this, except of course more ANIMU DONJON GAMES!!11
Game Nyarth is an awesome source for those things so lets wait…
EDIT: Game Nyarth THINKS (just rumours) that this new title is the NEW French Bread (Melty Blood) game!!
I wouldn’t call Aquaplus a ‘eroge’ company. Although their flasgship franchises has been ToHeart2 and Utawarerumono (plus their offshoots) in the past couple of years, they’ve released more than enough games to the general consumer market. And even back in the Comic Party days, they’ve been known for actual innovation in creative gameplays.
Plus, I wouldn’t call most of their recent games ‘eroge’ - i.e. titles like Tears to Tiara and Megido no Oka de contain nudity and sex scenes, but they’re far from the primary focus. Just like how nudity and sex scenes don’t automatically turn movies into ‘porn.’
But yea, my main point is that Aquaplus has real potential as game developers, and I wouldn’t underestimate them at all. Although breaking into the arcade fighting games market is a significant challenge on its own. But they already found success with SRPG, so this is their next big step.
Is, indeed, a fighting game featuring Aquaplus/Leaf characters, and seems that the sprite works is like a “cheap doujin game” according to a fan of Aquaplus at the event.
Remember that this is pretty poverty stuff, the last comment i read about the private event of this game that Aquapazza was like “a very cheap Doujin game”.
Apparently, Aquapazza is produced by Examu. So it should be very promising in terms of gameplay.
Other information known so far:
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[]16:9 aspect ratio
[]Featured characters will include those from ToHeart, ToHeart2, Tears to Tiara, Utawarerumono, White Album, Routes, Comic Party
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