Homura 2 in development

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:08 am

Skonec's update this month, poorly translated via Babelfish, confirms work is underway on Homura 2.

Skonec wrote:Hereafter new product development and come into the market plan

Ho Moo Ra 2 (HOMURA 2) the shoe thing it is a condition which is entering into production planning of game.

Don't recall seeing this previously confirmed...

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:27 am

Great news!

Homura is an excellent game. I wonder what hardware the sequel will be on. Type-x again?

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:03 am

I hope they put in a red blood option. That green stuff is just screaming to be turned red.

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:11 am

The good news just keeps coming in. This will be a hell of a year.

Post by **system11** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:28 pm

Acid King wrote:I hope they put in a red blood option. That green stuff is just screaming to be turned red.

I keep hoping someone will discover a cheat to turn proper blood on - I'm SURE I saw it with red in initial promo screens.

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:18 pm

bloodflowers wrote:
Acid King wrote:I hope they put in a red blood option. That green stuff is just screaming to be turned red.
I keep hoping someone will discover a cheat to turn proper blood on - I'm SURE I saw it with red in initial promo screens.

Yeah, the loketest videos showed a ridiculous amount of red blood spraying around as a reault of the Stage 1 boss' defeat.

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:18 pm

Has anyone heard anything about this? WTF is Skonec doing these days?

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:29 pm

icycalm wrote:Has anyone heard anything about this? WTF is Skonec doing these days?

Yeah, its been over a year already!

bloodflowers wrote:
Acid King wrote:I hope they put in a red blood option. That green stuff is just screaming to be turned red.
I keep hoping someone will discover a cheat to turn proper blood on - I'm SURE I saw it with red in initial promo screens.

Sorry for the thread necromancy. I'm sure this is possible, by simply ripping the CD to an ISO image, finding the hex address of the green blood value and changing it to red, then re-burning the ISO back to CD or run via HDLoader. Finding (then patching) that hex location/value in the ISO image is the only challenge. Maybe we could pool some money to get some hacker to look for it?

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:36 pm

Dave_K. wrote:Sorry for the thread necromancy.

Well, technically it was me. And I spent five minutes looking for thread so as not to make a new one, and anyway that's what we are supposed to do, right?

Dave_K. wrote:I'm sure this is possible, by simply ripping the CD to an ISO image, finding the hex address of the green blood value and changing it to red, then re-burning the ISO back to CD or run via HDLoader. Finding (then patching) that hex location/value in the ISO image is the only challenge. Maybe we could pool some money to get some hacker to look for it?

This seriously has to be done.

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:09 pm

lol..call me an ass- but that was one of my bigger gripes with the game, actually. Being censored makes me feel like a kid with a parent covering my eyes on a 'bad part' of a movie. That's no good : P

sideshow · Post by **sideshow** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:00 pm

I thought Skonec was developing Psyvariar 3 but Homura 2 is still great news.

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:02 pm

As far as I am concerned Homura 2 is better news than Psyvariar 3, but anyway where did you hear about that? A link would be greatly appreciated.

sideshow · Post by **sideshow** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:04 am

Actually I have no proof about Psyvariar 3. Its more of a rumor that I heard from somebody in these forums.

I just played through Homura on Normal mode and although very enjoyable, there is only 4 levels. If I play on a harder difficulty are there extra levels?

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:41 am

holy shit I had no idea about this announcement

imagine my surprise when I found out how old it was..

wonder if it's still a-go or what.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:13 am

shinsage wrote: wonder if it's still a-go or what.

Judging from the year and a half of silence on the subject, the game has probably been canned, unfortunately. I'd love to see it though. I too thought Homura was a solid game.

sideshow · Post by **sideshow** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:25 pm

The Shinobi TATE hack and slashing you do in the game is fun. If only they can improve upon it and allow maybe a stronger attack if you hold the button down longer. Also they should implement more fireing weapons and allow more upgrades. The biggest problem with the original is that its VERY short. The sequel better have at least 7 or 8 levels.

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:37 pm

sideshow wrote:The sequel better have at least 7 or 8 levels.

Or what? You won't buy it?

I don't mind short and sweet games. It's basically a price issue. People complain about short games because they just spent 60 bucks on them. If they were 30 or 20 or 10 bucks no one would complain.

But you can't judge the quality of a game on its price/longevity ratio. After all, if a game gives you 10 enjoyable hours you can't blame it for not giving you 20.

At least these are my thoughts on the subject...

What Homura DID fix though, is the annoying shortness of the Psyvariar stages, which always end JUST at the moment where you've built up a good buzz... So it's not the overall game length which bothers me in Psyvariar, but the way that game length is divided between individual stages.

sideshow · Post by **sideshow** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:53 pm

That would be cool to see a shmup have 20 levels and have save point systems along the way so you dont have to play through all 20 levels on 1 sitting.

I would buy Homura 2 if it only had 4 levels just because I find Skonec's works to be very enjoyable. I am disappointed that the high doesnt last long. Yes, Psyvariar and Homura are short and sweet like you said.