Gothic wa Mahou Otome: Sassato Keiyaku Shinasai!(CAVE ios...

[S_Fang]

why is ikeda even still there

I thought I'd read that he'd set up shop at a different company a little ways back...maybe they had him back just for this project, sort of like they did with Joker Jun at one point after he'd left.

Consulting then? Showing them where some Deathsmiles code is tucked away on an old hard drive?[/quote]
That would explain why a korean game company managed to make Bug Princess Duel with Futari's code.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Lol you must be joking. There is no way they handed over the code. Graphics only.

[-S.L-]

this is lame.

[KAI]

Shooting RPG

CAVE is still dead...


Soundtrack release never

[Skykid]

Doesn't look inspiring at all. As soon as those lolis started hitting the usual squeak-squeal pitch I hit mute.

It might be mildly amusing and I trust Cave not to make something outright terrible, but RPG makes me think there's going to be some rinse-repeat milking involved, and if Ikeda's not there... one can only hope I suppose.

[Cagar]

Ikeda is all over it, I think he's the designer or some shit.
There's literally a framed picture of Ikeda in the game's webpage

[Skykid]

Ikeda is all over it, I think he's the designer or some shit.
There's literally a framed picture of Ikeda in the game's webpage

So is he officially still employed at Cave, or on freelance duty?

[Shepardus]

Were these screenshots on the site before, or were they just added with the PV?

5
6
7
8

something something HP

[jepjepjep]

Ikeda is all over it, I think he's the designer or some shit.
There's literally a framed picture of Ikeda in the game's webpage

So is he officially still employed at Cave, or on freelance duty?

His name is still listed as a director and member of the board on the cave website. If he left, there would be press releases since it's a publicly traded company on the Japanese stock market.

In a related note, I just came across an old interview with Cave CEO Kenichi Takano, who was one of the founding members of Toaplan and a former arcade programmer. Back in 2002, they were focusing their resources on mobile games, specifically trying to make old-school shooter type gameplay work on mobile platforms.

TAKANO - No, I am really not thinking about that. A little while ago I was debating if we should deal with 3D . . . but now I am concentrating on how we can draw the players' attention and make them play the games that are simple in creation and design. Considering network play, 3D technology is still an obstacle that needs to be overcome. So now the most important question is how can we allow users to play simple games within the network. Because of that question we placed our energy and resources towards cell phone content.

ARCADIA - Well, those thoughts are certainly reflected in Arcade Alleys, right?

TAKANO - First, we created Arcade Alleys to provide the place. Next, we utilized that place to expand the idea of Let's play between arcades and cell phones via a network!

ARCADIA - So your main purpose now is to connect cell phones and arcades together.

TAKANO - Yes. In addition, concerning the current communication situation, I think that the older titles are much more suitable in this environment versus the latest games. I would like to revive the play that existed 40 years or so ago.

[Squire Grooktook]

40...years ago?

[BulletMagnet]

His name is still listed as a director and member of the board on the cave website. If he left, there would be press releases since it's a publicly traded company on the Japanese stock market.

Hmm, I might be confusing him with Asada.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

99% of this forum won't even go to the trouble to give it an actual chance so you'll never know. Just like Don*Paccin, and you'll probably miss out on one of the best ever iOS games ever (again). Meanwhile me and Cagar will be loving it until I post spoilers and he gets all stressed out lol.

[S_Fang]

99% of this forum won't even go to the trouble to give it an actual chance so you'll never know. Just like Don*Paccin, and you'll probably miss out on one of the best ever iOS games ever (again). Meanwhile me and Cagar will be loving it until I post spoilers and he gets all stressed out lol.

I would like to join, but I don't think that my Android device can handle this, as well the lack of knowledge to download apps from japanese's servers.

[Cagar]

99% of this forum won't even go to the trouble to give it an actual chance so you'll never know. Just like Don*Paccin, and you'll probably miss out on one of the best ever iOS games ever (again). Meanwhile me and Cagar will be loving it until I post spoilers and he gets all stressed out lol.

Ahahahahaha exactly.
This is 100% accurate of what's going to happen.

Also the spoilers didn't affect my playing (lol) but one thing did:
The world map was a somewhat realistic map of the earth, and when entering each country, there was some short npc dialogue, most likely about the country you're entering. I was almost purely playing to get to Finland and see what they say about it (though I'm pretty sure that it would've been related to santa and snow), and when I got there, I didn't screenshot the dialogue and just skipped it by accident without thinking

[Special World]

99% of this forum won't even go to the trouble to give it an actual chance so you'll never know. Just like Don*Paccin, and you'll probably miss out on one of the best ever iOS games ever (again). Meanwhile me and Cagar will be loving it until I post spoilers and he gets all stressed out lol.

I would gladly play it if it were ever released here. Same with Donpacchin.

[Teufel_in_Blau]

99% of this forum won't even go to the trouble to give it an actual chance so you'll never know. Just like Don*Paccin, and you'll probably miss out on one of the best ever iOS games ever (again). Meanwhile me and Cagar will be loving it until I post spoilers and he gets all stressed out lol.

I'm not a tech guy and the tutorials to obtain the Japanese version and make it work on my android phone were just too much hassle for a phone game. Sorry, I'm sure that they are good, Ikeda can't do no wrong, but honestly... we are talking about phone games...

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

99% of this forum won't even go to the trouble to give it an actual chance so you'll never know. Just like Don*Paccin, and you'll probably miss out on one of the best ever iOS games ever (again). Meanwhile me and Cagar will be loving it until I post spoilers and he gets all stressed out lol.

I'm not a tech guy and the tutorials to obtain the Japanese version and make it work on my android phone were just too much hassle for a phone game. Sorry, I'm sure that they are good, Ikeda can't do no wrong, but honestly... we are talking about phone games...

Well everybody's gotta sit on a toilet sometimes.

[qmish]

why just can they make em available in every store? no one asks to translate them

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Maybe ease up off the crack every once in a while.

[trap15]

Because that's effort and money that won't be worth it.

By the way it's super easy to get other region iOS applications, poor android sadboys Kappa

[qmish]

Did they pay to google/apple for keeping app for sell in every region? Dont think so. Just lazy mazafakas dont wanna press "worldwide" button

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

I'm sure there is an Apple rule where you can't sell games that rely on reading Japanese outside of the Japan store. Even if that isn't the case, they would be email bombed for the remainder of their lifespan to translate it at least to English if they released it as is outside of Japan. With Don*Paccin style constant updates, they would have to have a translator there pretty much full time. New stuff to buy or win pops up every single week and has tons of Japanese text with it.

It's not worth talking about because we know it's not going to happen. For ios users if you can't make yourself a Japan account to download it, I mean, exactly why can't you? I know the learning curve at first is going to be a bitch since it's RPG stuff in Japanese, no argument there, but as far as downloading the app, what exactly is stopping you?

[qmish]

I'm sure there is an Apple rule where you can't sell games that rely on reading Japanese outside of the Japan store

I've seen japanese only games, for example one of Wizardry titles and Shin Megami Tensei 2 & If, all available in my non-jap appstore.
Though yeah, i understand your statement about "customer support" problem.

exactly why can't you

Ain't jap account needs jap credit card?

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

No, and you can find people to buy you Japan prepaid Apply money cards too if you need to actually buy something. Watch my tutorial:

http://youtu.be/QUPnEfFG4YI

[qmish]

Hm. Thanks. Anyone did the same for androiders?

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

I've never looked into it since I've never owned an Android but Google can find it if it's out there.

[d3vak]

I read on the Don*Paccin thread that some Android users got to download the *.apk file but they'd still get a message about the game not being available in their countries...Did that get solved or are we Android users doomed?

Maybe we won't be able to even get the *.apk for this game either.

[Cagar]

With closer look, this looks much, much simpler and shmupper than donpaccin. There's a straight up score-ranking bar at the top and a HP-bar at right.. doesn't this seem pretty simple? Also there's no any other characters than the 5 in the trailer, and im starting to think that the game is solely based on using and leveling them only. This seems really interesting to be honest, my official hype status is now: Online

Edit: Nevermind, there's more than the 5 chars. I thought that they were some sort of costumes/upgrades/alternates as first... still, seems odd to have the voice actors presented only for the 5 uhh.. main characters?

[Mills]

My bad for not finding this thread before posting.

[Mero]