Not at all :(. I tried playing it like a 2D VO:OT. Picked good long rang characters and tried to trap people into damage or hit quick attacks while they’re launching their attacks depending on character.
that shit looks raw as fuck, these need to get released domestically for fuck sake… i’m itching for something new to get my jukes on.
Bought Hitogata Happa off PSN today. Really enjoying it…kinda. It’s fucking hard!
I can’t even get past the first level on normal difficulty. I am not used to the idea of losing a life to bomb something, it goes against every rule I know about shooting!
Akai Katana is region locked, so either grab a J360 or start praying for a localization.
I think it’s about time I got to work on the former, though for some reason I kinda expect it getting a domestic release.
on which system? might as well get the data now so that I’ll know what I’ll be buying next week.
Yep. I’ve pretty much done the same thing. Learned which attacks I have and spam the hell out of them. It took me all the way to the end on normal, but the last guy has MUCH better shit to spam you with. We’re talking combo into oldschool Shin-Shoryuken strong. I figure I’ll cut him down tomorrow after some rest.
Congrats. :tup: yes, that shit is hard. You’re gonna have to put some serious practice down to get through that one. get used to watching when that meter that slows the bullets down runs out. It’ll usually happen at the WORST time if you don’t get used to when it is best to turn it on. You’ll get it. Just keep on it.
Dammit. They better make a local release. Why they gotta make it tough on people? Can’t we all just get shot?
-Starhammer-
You need to use the suicide attack in this game in order to do enough damage + switch out the next right doll for the right situation. For example some doll can slaughter a boss in mere seconds if you get in close. You get enough money back in most cases to buy a new doll from the doll you bombed. So bomb away!
After many tries I took a break to kinda reflect on what I wasn’t doing right. I went back to it a few hours later and the whole thing started falling into place. I was dodging every pattern on the first level no problem, then I get to the boss. I blew off his arms no trouble, but that final pattern kicks my ass so hard! All I can do is hang back and shoot, and with the default doll the shot doesn’t do a whole lot of damage. I think what I am doing wrong is my eye is looking around my character instead of straight ahead where I should be bombing. I will sleep on it before trying any more with it. Such a hard game, but nothing I can’t handle with a lot more failures.
Just a follow-up to my own post, shmupmame is broken on x64-win7 machines right now. No word on the cause.
Ketsui, DDP3, ESP.ra.de, Espagaluda are all working in MAME, though there are some sound issues. I was hoping mushihime would be available but I can’t find it, sad.
Apparently the roms went public at Christmas. Thanks Santa!
Strania releasing on XBLA March 30th worldwide. Trailer was linked on the previous page, but here it is again.
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Looks damn good, can’t wait.
Thanks for the repost Nikkos. I missed that the first time around. BTW, I love that av. GITS forever!!!
AWYEAH. Just one more reason to buy the 360 next month. Looks like my wallet will end up taking the most shots of all in the end. 
-Starhammer-
I used to play a top down shooter in the arcades and I can’t find the damn thing anywhere. It was anime style and had a magic theme with a girl riding a broom-stick and I think I remember a dude in a suit of armor. Anybody remember this game at all?
Edit: Please excuse my ignorance here. This isn’t a genre I’m familiar with at all and I haven’t seen the game since the mid-90’s.
This looks so sick.
We are getting shot the fuck up so much in 2011!
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The Empire Of Ammo Continues It’s Great Expansion!**
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Getting hype for shmups on a TATE setup is sooooooo hard when people are asleep… 
Hitogata happa:
the first level isn’t actually that hard but its (imo) pretty hard for a first level since you only get that 1 doll. once you get to a shop you can buy other dolls with other shooting patterns (missiles, swords, tons of cool shit!) and that helps clear stages/do damage easier. the starting doll is actually pretty decent for boss fights since it does a lot of “suicide” damage and its really cheap, so you buy a few dolls for clearing/damaging and a few of those starting ones for crashing.
i like that game because youre not under that much pressure to not get hit 
scrubby i know!
After this practice I can do that first stage with my eyes closed. Dismantling the boss is easy enough, its finishing it off I have trouble with. I can’t bee too patient about waiting for an opening because then I might run out of time and the boss goes berserk.
It really does sound like it, and when I read the Wiki, I thought for sure one of the games in the series would be it, but not this time. =( The big thing is that the game I’m trying to find was a top-down, not side-scroller.
Nice man, though you might want to adjust your resolution on the 360 or something, unless you intentionally made it stretch like that. Make sure you have it set to 720p or 1080p for that monitor. Just my own little nitpick though.
Also, just to answer a few questions you had during the vid: You activate the hidden path automatically if you pick Power mode, and you use the bomb button to change between normal and powered up modes (since you typically have no bombs in Power mode).
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