Shikigami no Shiro III

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:42 pm

Indeed it is, it's much like the second one, but not as well-tweaked, imo. Still not a bad purchase if you can get it cheap.

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:47 pm

theres also a Shikigami no Shiro "adventure" game for PS2, weird

i think it has some shmups stages in it...

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:39 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:PC version to be released on 09.29.

Anyone pick this up / impressions?

JJG · Post by **JJG** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:44 am

I can't wait until they port this to consoles, it'll be the best hentai shooter yet!

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:36 am

I don't get it. What's hentai about this?

Dandy J · Post by **Dandy J** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:18 am

lmao...

Yeah so this game is pretty cool. Coins will vaccum if you destroy enemies with your normal shot as well as your shikigami now (but you still get more coins for a shiki kill). The hi-tension thingy and fast extends (plus being able to see via meter how close you are to an extend) create some hella cool scoring opportunities. Bombs no longer can give you a xN bonus and are only for survival (though some like Reika's allow you to clear the screen and set yourself up for a xN after the bomb stops).

Also, I've heard some people are having a problem getting past the start screen. Something about when they "hit any button to start" the game crashes. I think it was ArrogantBastard who was having this problem. Anyone have suggestions?

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:19 am

Yup, that would be me having the stupid error / issue.

JJG · Post by **JJG** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:19 am

CIT wrote:I don't get it. What's hentai about this?

Fumiko's hand gesture...

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:21 am

that's part of her character

also, if you really want to see hentai, go watch maniax or something

JJG · Post by **JJG** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:34 am

It's called a joke

The Shikigami games are not really games that take themselves too seriously. They're great games but there is a lot of humor to them.

Somewhere in the middle of Ikaruga and The Games Paradise!

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:55 am

duh why else does roger not get that a shikigami is throwing bombs for him

Dandy J · Post by **Dandy J** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:16 pm

ArrogantBastard, try chaning your language for non-unicode programs to Japanese. Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Advanced tab -> Language for Non-Unicode Programs. Someone I know was having the exact same problem and this fixed it.

msm · Post by **msm** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:04 am

Dandy J wrote:ArrogantBastard, try chaning your language for non-unicode programs to Japanese. Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Advanced tab -> Language for Non-Unicode Programs. Someone I know was having the exact same problem and this fixed it.

thanks, i had the "game exits when you press enter" problem and this fixed it

this game is a lot harder than the second one, i think this is mainly because there is no slowdown at all, there was quite a lot in the 2nd game on the gamecube and ps2 anyway. are there any options for this? (i have looked as a lot of the menu's are english but couldn't find anything so it doesn't look good

)

Post by **Icarus** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:20 am

As far as I can tell, there is no Wait Control option available. Looks like we'll have to make do without slowdown. At least the game is played at a far faster pace than the previous two, which makes it a lot more fun.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:38 am

No slowdown on the actual machine either

msm · Post by **msm** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:21 pm

thanks, suppose that's fair enough then. doubt i'll like this anywhere near as much as the 2nd one as with the fast bullets its a lot more like a psikyo game than a cave one

might try and induce some slowdown by running a shed load of other programs at the same time although if it works the slowdown will probably be the rubbish kind where the bullets jerk around

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:08 pm

msm wrote:might try and induce some slowdown by running a shed load of other programs at the same time although if it works the slowdown will probably be the rubbish kind where the bullets jerk around

No need to do that, just run it on a PII 700MHz PC with 64M RAM.

That's the computer I am using now.

Kaspal · Post by **Kaspal** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:40 pm

and its gotta run like sh!t ... cuz im runnin it on an Athlon XP 2000+, with 512 RAM and a GF5200 and runs like shit (too many slowdowns to fully enjoy the freakin game!).

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:54 pm

Kaspal wrote:and its gotta run like sh!t ... cuz im runnin it on an Athlon XP 2000+, with 512 RAM and a GF5200 and runs like shit (too many slowdowns to fully enjoy the freakin game!).

change that

Kaspal · Post by **Kaspal** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:37 am

yeah... i kinda know thats the bottle neck ... but, im not upgrading this machine EVER again. i'd rather buy a new rigg.... and im not doin it anytime soon.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:17 pm

Appreciate DVD

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:06 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Appreciate DVD

You can buy it here.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:26 pm

Don´t know if this has been mentioned yet, but there is (finally!) a trial version for PC:

http://www.4gamer.net/news.php?url=/pat ... mi_3.shtml

icepick · Post by **icepick** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:55 pm

FrederikJurk wrote:Don´t know if this has been mentioned yet, but there is (finally!) a trial version for PC:

http://www.4gamer.net/news.php?url=/pat ... mi_3.shtml

Woohoo!

... if I can even play it!

(Best/newest video card I have access to is an ATI Radeon 9000 or something like that. It's not the hottest.)

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:39 am

I downloaded it but it said the setup files are corrupted. Oh well.

KBZ · Post by **KBZ** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:42 am

wouldn't run for me either, even though it installed fine. Maybe some error with directX or my video card. Annoying stuff, booted up windows for nothing!

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:49 pm

Mine worked fine, I have a 2.5 ghz machine (500mb ram) with some generic preinstalled ATI card (the whole PC costed about 400 euro, but is only a year old or so). Make sure you have DirectX 9.0 installed.

The demo has the complete first stage (as the Shiki2 demo did too), and the first two characters from the first selection screen row as well as Kuga are playable.

I have no idea what their names are and I can´t check them now, but it´s this one girl that shoots huge rings and has a thin straight needle shot as shiki attack, the second one is a boy which fires daggers or something and has some sort of laser wand or saber as shiki attack - a straight vertical line which can also be pointed in any direction or be locked on to a certain point.

I don´t know much about the modes as I didn´t care much for the game until this demo was released, but it´s quite a standard mode you play here - no extreme mode with sucky characters like in the ShikiII demo (I wouldn´t have bought the game if the demo was my only impression of it, since they took out the coolest characters and lets you play with ones that are not very fitting in extreme mode).

It slows down at the beginning sequence (flying throuh under that bridge) and on several occasions during the first stage. Looks not very different from "intentional" slowdown to be honest, and isn´t jerky as well, though it seems not to be determined on the number of bullets but also the 3D objects (logically, as it´s my own machines slowdown).

The two new selectable characters are very pleasing already, as they move very fast during the shiki attacks, which makes quick evasive moves possible without releasing the shiki button. The laser saber boy has some sort of Kim feeling to him, a very strong attack that you can pierce into the enemies, and that girl has a nice straight forward shot and moves fast, which makes playing with her feel more shmup-traditional. I am glad that this time around things are a bit faster.

islisis · Post by **islisis** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:26 am

gameplay was too fast on my machine as well (athlon 2400, gf 4200, 1024x768)

in your video card driver settings however, if you ensure vertical sync is enabled and force your monitor display mode to 60hz (i.e. i played at 1024x768 @60hz) the frame rate seems to limit itself to that refresh rate. i'm assuming 60hz is the correct choice here, plays nicely =D

Veracity · Post by **Veracity** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:14 am

Could anyone who has this rate it for longevity? It seems quite expensive by genre standards (ie: it's vaguely sensibly priced, not bargain-bin at release). I'm not much interested in playing intensively for score, but would be happy playing with as many characters as aren't downright painful to use. I figure that should give it enough installed time to warrant an import?

On a related note, are there any annoying issues with the PC port of Shikigami 2? (Hopefully ok to tack this question on here, rather than necro'ing a separate thread.) I have it on PAL PS2, but that's unfortunately managed the impressive feat of overcoming my customary indifference to shoddy port/localization jobs. My fault, of course - should've investigated it properly first. If it's worth replacing with the PC version, I assume the apparent multiple versions are just budget label re-issues? Thanks in advance for any info.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:08 pm

If you want to try the PC Shiki 2 (or 3) there are demos for them out there...I think there's a link to the Shiki 2 demo on Shoot the Core, not sure if it has one to Shiki 3.