Radirgy de Gojaru!

[ACSeraph]

Yep, it's too bad too, because if they had say, put each of the four attacks on its own face button, put the sword on R and ABS on L the game would be immensely improved. The way it is it's too difficult to make use of every weapon effectively to maximize your score.

[MathU]

Damnit Klon.

[M.Knight]

you have 4 attack types (3 shot patterns with regular sword plus one weak shot pattern with strong sword). selection is done on the touch screen, or by cycling through them with the Y button. both are inconvenient. (if you wanna switch to strong sword quickly to clean up a stray bullet, you either need to mentally compute the right number of Y presses or use the touch screen button, hence my comment...)

That looks like a very strange control scheme and I have no idea why they went with something like that. It is still better than being forced to use the touchscreen to switch weapons a la Nanostray but ACSeraph's solution is a no-brainer.

[M.Knight]

Sorry for the double-post, but there seems to be a scoring contest organized for this game, as a new page opened up on the official website.
http://klon.co.jp/product/RadirgyDGJL/score.htm
It would take place from March 10th to the end of the month.

[glitch]

超アナログ! lol. guess they didn't really think this through during development. ^^;

somehow that whole site is in a colloquial type of japanese that i don't think i've ever heard anyone under 70 speak.

is it wrong if you enjoy a company's good vibes too much to down-rate their shoddy eshop game?

[Damocles]

Every time this thread shows up I smile a little. Simply because I see the title and think Radirgy de Gojira!

That would make a much more awesome game.

[KAI]

Dat poster. At least they have creativity.

[Oniros]

Here's a lenghty videoreview, pretty scathing. Seriously, what were Klon thinking?

[neorocker]

At least they have creativity.

I'm not sure where you're seeing the creativity of a poorly appropriated meme as an advertisement. You are being sarcastic, right?

[KAI]

NO.


Awful review.
"I don't like techno=music is bad"
"Radirgy NOAH was better than the original"
"Karous looks bad"
"Radirgy de Gojaru, a score attack game, it's nothing more than a score attack game"
"Don't buy these games"
Thank god this guy doesn't have too many subcriptors.

[ACSeraph]

Yep, crap review, but the game still fails in the face of serious shmup player criticism, if only because the control scheme ruins a concept that actually had a ton of potential.

I've already kind of moved on from Gojaru, and I doubt I would have if there had been just a couple very minor changes. It's just... unfortunate. Always makes me sad to see a good game ruined by small, foolish, easily fixable design flaws. But hell would freeze over before they patched in better control options.