Iwanaga

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:24 pm

What do you get when you cross Alien Soldier with a liitle bit of Cave style bullet hell, throw in a Cabal style crosshair and dress the whole thing with Guwange style atmosphere?
IWANAGA by Buster! Definitely worth checking out.

http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/techwin/dat ... wanaga.lzh

Source: http://indygamer.blogspot.com/

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:41 pm

It's Abuse...with more bullets...

*shrug*

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:59 pm

@Damocles

Have you really played it longer than a couple of seconds?
The whole play mechanics (weapon switching, bullet blocking, dashing) are basically Alien Soldier all over the place. Abuse was 360-degree mouse controlled run and gun. Day and Night.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:29 pm

I really like the color scheme. Looks solid graphics wise. I'm going to check it out later.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:25 am

GOOOD. I waiting for this game ~6 mounts O_O"

UnscathedFlyingObject · Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:58 am

I wish I could play with a pad. This game is awesome, and I don't mean by homebrew standards. It plays great and the graphics put a lot of commercial games to shame.

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:50 am

@UFO

http://www.electracode.com/4/joy2key/Jo ... ersion.htm

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:52 pm

I played this a couple of times since it hit the web but I'm still puzzled by the scoring/ powering up system. Seems you have to switch weapons constantly in order to balance the amount of orange and blue powerup cubes. If you balance it right the cubes you receive after blowing up an enemy get bigger which is vital to life energy and time limit.
Anybody out there who has more info? I'm really slow in learning score mechanisms in Japanese shooters/run'nguns

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:50 pm

Guess everybody figured out the scoring/ powering up mechanism by now. There's a quite impressive run through hard mode (split in four parts) on you tube that should prove how good this game is.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NyX6RJJBaFs

Funny, I have the feeling that if this would have been released on the Genesis/MD in 95 with the Treasure logo on it many people would hail it today as a classic...

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:44 pm

Necronom wrote:What do you get when you cross Alien Soldier with a liitle bit of Cave style bullet hell, throw in a Cabal style crosshair and dress the whole thing with Guwange style atmosphere?
IWANAGA by Buster! Definitely worth checking out.

http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/techwin/dat ... wanaga.lzh

Source: http://indygamer.blogspot.com/

You rock; thanks so much for posting this!! This game is awesome!!

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:49 pm

Necronom wrote: Funny, I have the feeling that if this would have been released on the Genesis/MD in 95 with the Treasure logo on it many people would hail it today as a classic...

Yep. Same thing with the Red Star.
;(

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:26 pm

Necronom wrote:Guess everybody figured out the scoring/ powering up mechanism by now. There's a quite impressive run through hard mode (split in four parts) on you tube that should prove how good this game is.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NyX6RJJBaFs

Funny, I have the feeling that if this would have been released on the Genesis/MD in 95 with the Treasure logo on it many people would hail it today as a classic...

I like this game quite a bit. In fact, I think I'll make a video of it and put it up on youtube!

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:37 pm

Glad to see that people enjoy the game. I think it really deserves some attention. Finished it on easy today and working on normal now. I wish it had a pause button...
@MrMonkeyMan
So you're not the guy who uploaded the hard-mode run on youtube? Think his nick is mrmonkeymans. Kinda confusing

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:53 pm

Necronom wrote:Glad to see that people enjoy the game. I think it really deserves some attention. Finished it on easy today and working on normal now. I wish it had a pause button...
@MrMonkeyMan
So you're not the guy who uploaded the hard-mode run on youtube? Think his nick is mrmonkeymans. Kinda confusing

No, no. It is me. I was just joking around. Notice I've also got some of my Ketsui videos up there and some other junk.

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:25 am

Ah, OK. Nice run, helped me to understand how to play it properly, thanks for uploading. Damn, I really wish this thing had a pause button...had to stop a couple of runs because the phone was ringing

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:33 am

Necronom wrote:Ah, OK. Nice run, helped me to understand how to play it properly, thanks for uploading. Damn, I really wish this thing had a pause button...had to stop a couple of runs because the phone was ringing

F1 = Pause

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:46 am

Oh! Thanks

Guess I didn't try the F-keys...

Fu · Post by Fu » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:39 pm

I can't play because I have an error message. Can somebody help me ?

eight · Post by **eight** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:53 pm

To me something weird happened. I started to play, then the screen darkened slowly and faded out, right into the menu. Wow, great game!

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:22 pm

@Fu
Is it a DirectX error? Are you using Vista?
If so, try running it in XP compatibility mode.

@eight
Something similar happened to me also. Game started, then faded to black, right into the ending. Reconfigured my pad and now it's gone...probably a bug or something.

Fu · Post by Fu » Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:38 pm

Yes it's a DirectX error, like if he says that I need DirectX 5 at least. I have the latest and I use XP (Media Center).

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:08 pm

@Necronom:

What other shooting games have these guys made?

Enhasa · Post by **Enhasa** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:19 pm

Hey, I got redirected here by Necronom. Once again, I am a MrMonkeyMan fan, nice vids!

P_HAT wrote:
Necronom wrote: Funny, I have the feeling that if this would have been released on the Genesis/MD in 95 with the Treasure logo on it many people would hail it today as a classic...
Yep. Same thing with the Red Star.
;(

QFT

dave4shmups wrote:@Necronom:

What other shooting games have these guys made?

If you look at the site, there are two other games. Saru is just a little tech demo-ish thing that probably isn't worth your time, but Vacant Ark is awesome just like Iwanaga. It's my favorite doujin game that for some reason nobody has seemed to play.

Zeether · Post by **Zeether** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:02 pm

Um, I'd say this also plays like Sin and Punishment too...

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:08 pm

This game is just ridiculous. I did give it a test run however, so I can't say much but... wow. It is EXACTLY that mesh, crosshair included. Hang on, can you control the crosshair with the mouse?

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:37 pm

LGB wrote:This game is just ridiculous. I did give it a test run however, so I can't say much but... wow. It is EXACTLY that mesh, crosshair included. Hang on, can you control the crosshair with the mouse?

No, you can't...and you don't have to. It's not "Abuse".
The trick is to know where to position the crosshair right before you have to use it. It has a nice frantic flow if you can get into it

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:34 am

i need play this game some more ;-D

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:47 pm

Nah, I just flipped through the thread, I saw "mouse" and I had to ask.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:52 pm

Free bump!

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:57 pm

Theres a feature on this in this months Retro Gamer magazine. Only one page long though so didn't buy it (it costs $10

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