It's over, CAVE is dead... or maybe not...

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

what in the fuck

[BIL]

Looks like a very poor shump

Laughable

what in the fuck

These are gonna make for some great box blurbs

[spmbx]

Needs a $1500+ exa version

[Jeneki]

I take it this is mobile only? I'm not sure how this even plays unless it auto aims for you.

It worked ok as a twin stick shooter on 360.

[CloudyMusic]

Yes, it's a mobile game. Basically, anyone who liked Gothic wa Mahou Otome might like this, but probably nobody else here will.

[davyK]

Someone mentioned Nintendo earlier. I'd be interested to see what they would make of the genre actually. Their takes on 3D shooting (Splatoon) and vs fighting (Smash) are well crafted and interesting.

They aren't a company for pushing the shooting mechanic though - at least not so much now. Their toy making history has quite a lot of that - they used to make light gun games with physical targets. They even had a duck shooting game that projected images of the targets onto a wall.

They created early examples - Sheriff aka Bandido is a an early arena style shooter that i remember enjoying in the arcade. Their attempt at a straight up shmup - Space Firebird - was a flop (those cabinets were converted to Donkey Kong) but if Nintendo do one thing really well it's learn from their mistakes and successes.

They would come up with something interesting and worth playing that's for sure.

[sven666]

..didnt they make a very similar mecha/military-nopantsu-arenashooter about a year or two ago? I guess it sold well?

[qmish]

After update of website
https://www.cave.co.jp/

I don't even understand what exactly Cave does nowodays

Looks like, other than smartphone games, they do some unrelated business

[Udderdude]

I don't even understand what exactly Cave does nowodays

Mock you with their very existence.

[banjoted]

On the History tab they say this for 2019:

"Established capable Co., Ltd. as a consolidated subsidiary and started multi-channel network business"

And this for 2020:

"Cave becomes the managing company and establishes a smartphone game production committee (name undecided) with TV Asahi Co., Ltd."

Doesn't exactly scream 'New Mushihimesama', does it?

[qmish]

Ok, i tried google translate.

Live streaming service
New entertainment in response to the times.

Cave's new challenge, the live streaming business. In response to the times and social environment, Cave will provide new entertainment that users demand.

[spmbx]

Cave will provide new entertainment that users demand.

Is that synonymous for pedo-style visual novels with a cameltoe here and there?

[qmish]

You forgot about online-only gacha with microtransactions

[BulletMagnet]

...administered by an obnoxious VTuber influencer constantly begging for Likes and Subscribes.

[donluca]

So that's what Hell looks like (when you remove the bullet part).

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

jesus fuck just let Cave die...

[To Far Away Times]

...administered by an obnoxious VTuber influencer constantly begging for Likes and Subscribes.

Every day we stray further from God's light.

[evil_ash_xero]

That was worse than what I was expecting.

[Nate123]

not sure if new but looks like the dvd super plays for death smiles and aki shin are now on youtube for free https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... SvgGaWNQh6 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... nd7riR5vnJ so thats a thing

[Nate123]

..didnt they make a very similar mecha/military-nopantsu-arenashooter about a year or two ago? I guess it sold well?

they did it tanked and died in a less then a year looks like this is just a reskin like gothi is

[KAI]

HERE WE GO AGAIN MOTHERFXXXXXRS!!

Cave is closing their smarphone games branch
https://gamebiz.jp/news/345609

Cave to Dissolve Smartphone Game Production Committee, an Equity Method Affiliate, as of Today Due to Difficulty in Earning Profits from Games in Development

Cave Inc.
Cave.
2022.03.18 15:13

and apparently letting a 3rd party handle their ""new smarphone game"" (totally not the 2hu one)

[BulletMagnet]

What do they even make aside from smartphone titles nowadays?

[BrianC]

What do they even make aside from smartphone titles nowadays?

Not money

[Udderdude]

CAVE in the grave. Fuck it. Put them out of their misery already.

[BIL]

What do they even make aside from smartphone titles nowadays?

Not money

You got some jokes Brian

[Steven]

They are likely making money from licensing deals with exA-Arcadia. I just went into BEEP last Sunday and there were a few Akai Katana EXA Label ads there, as I guess that's their newest thing or whatever.

[Bassa-Bassa]

Videogames were never the only subject of Cave's business.

[Sumez]

CAVE in the grave. Fuck it. Put them out of their misery already.

Every page of this thread since 2013

[Rastan78]

What do they even make aside from smartphone titles nowadays?

In 2021 they launched a live stream fortune telling service called sen sen.

https://www.sensen.jp/
Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and you'll find the Cave logo.

So tell me, Kagla, is a DDP 2-ALL in my future?

Spoiler

[Steven]

Sad that CAVE is reduced to this, although I've no idea what the hell "this" even is and I doubt anyone outside of CAVE or exA-Arcadia does either. At least they still kind of exist. Their financial stuff is actually on their website and very easy to access, but that stuff is above my Japanese reading level. Hopefully someone cool like Yuge-san or M2 or Hamster buys the rights to their shit when they officially die so that proper home releases actually have a not-zero chance of existing in the future.