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

[Special World]

is this actually a thing yet

are people actually playing this game

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

It's not out yet. It comes out in the middle of April, 16th I believe. They are just posting teaser stuff every few days like info on stages and characters.

[Special World]

Okay, haha >_>

Originally I thought it was "day after Valentine's day," then that got redacted to (I think) "sometime in February," and now here I am, actin a fool. Thanks for clarifying.

[S_Fang]

The site has benn updated with new informations about the gameplay and the characters' story, as well the guest-star presence of Deathsmiles' Rosa (only if you pre-registered).

And at last, the game will be released early on April 1st and, according the Twitter, is not a lie. I'm sorry IKD, but you're anythong but an angel, especially after that TouhouPachi game.

http://www.cave.co.jp/sp/mahouotome/

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

What's TouhouPachi? If you're talking about DonPaccin that means you didn't play it.

It is 3-31 in Japan now. I think I've just pre-registered on the website, used the email associated with my Japan ios account. So considering the time in Japan there is like 13 hours left to pre-register or else you'll never get the special character. Hope that's all I had to do. Here is a gmail translation of what I got back:

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"Gothic magic girl" is the Secretariat.
Pre-registration of "Gothic please contract magic maiden ~ quickly! ~" Was completed.

This time the top pre-registration, Thank you very much.
Until delivery start we will wait a while now so I need your help.

If you have game delivery will start, and We will guide you the benefits code along with the delivery start of the notice to your registered Whats here e-mail address.

The future "Gothic please contract magic maiden ~ quickly! ~" Thank you.


※ This e-mail I have been automatically distributed from the distribution dedicated address.
Even if you reply, it is not possible to check and answer. Please be forewarned.


"Gothic magic maiden" Secretariat

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▼ official site
http://www.cave.co.jp/sp/mahouotome/

▼ official twitter account
https://twitter.com/mahouotome_info

▼ Co. Cave official website
http://www.cave.co.jp/

[S_Fang]

What's TouhouPachi? If you're talking about DonPaccin that means you didn't play it.

I'm refering to this:
https://youtu.be/nEtUY19BfHA?t=27m3s

[SapphireDensetsu]

What's TouhouPachi? If you're talking about DonPaccin that means you didn't play it.

I'm refering to this:
https://youtu.be/nEtUY19BfHA?t=27m3s

That's just a silly fan game.

--Sapphire

[S_Fang]

What's TouhouPachi? If you're talking about DonPaccin that means you didn't play it.

I'm refering to this:
https://youtu.be/nEtUY19BfHA?t=27m3s

That's just a silly fan game.

--Sapphire

I know about it, this is where I made my joke about IKD.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Well it's about to be noon on April 1 in Japan and I still don't see it in the store. Whoever gets it first post pics and...

[monouchi]

Downloading.
Entered the code in the email before start.

Death-Garuda.

[Jenseits]

Bust-waist-hip measures for the characters

[trap15]

Holy fuck it's terrible. There's no way Donpaccin was worse than this.

[Jenseits]

You think so?
Too early for conclusions. But you're first sending out some hate. So congrats
Atm I'm having fun figuring out what is happening there at all

First clues:
-"Color coded" stuff like donpaccin (Black>White, Red>Yellow, something like that...)
-Loli GETS instead of robos (well...........)
-Buying crystals for some kind of perks, buying lolis, etc. Probably you'll run out of energy like in Donpaccin...

So lots of similarities so far.
What i definitly like more is moving around horizontal and vertical...

[trap15]

To quote from IRC why it's terrible:

<trap15> well, for one, fuck touch screen controls
<trap15> apparently donpaccin was just left/right, which I imagine works much better
<trap15> but this is full screen movement
<trap15> the UI is enormous at the bottom so it's hard to position your thumb to work decently
<trap15> the shot change thing is dumb and basically impossible to use
<trap15> your best bet is to find one char and use it for the entire stage because fuck switching
<trap15> the boss battles are gimmicky shit garbage
<trap15> the fire rate is really fast, but you're limited to like 3 shots on screen
<trap15> and it fires basically all the time

[Jenseits]

So you had a conversation with yourself and everybody agreed that it sucks?
I'm not even surprised
I prefer having fun trying to find out if there is some fun hidden inside the game and if not > so be it.
Hating is bad for my karma.

[Cagar]

Donpaccin with more focus on shump-gameplay, with combos & point-blanking scoring?
WAYYYYY better than what i expected, fuck yes!

[cave hermit]

You know I'm actually interested in playing this:

Thing is I'm assuming you have to make a Japanese iTunes account, and I already hate making new accounts domestically as it is...

[Cagar]

<trap15> well, for one, fuck touch screen controls
<trap15> apparently donpaccin was just left/right, which I imagine works much better
<trap15> but this is full screen movement
<trap15> the UI is enormous at the bottom so it's hard to position your thumb to work decently
<trap15> the shot change thing is dumb and basically impossible to use
<trap15> your best bet is to find one char and use it for the entire stage because fuck switching
<trap15> the boss battles are gimmicky shit garbage
<trap15> the fire rate is really fast, but you're limited to like 3 shots on screen
<trap15> and it fires basically all the time

-It's a mobile game, you get used to the controls pretty fast
-No, donpaccin movement was much more annoying, and you get bonus-score for point-blanking so...
-The game slows down if you don't press anything, allowing you to switch easily
-Boss battles are .. wait, don't tell me you were expecting just a normal shmup with a bunch of characters?
-Your firing rate is limited because it's an RPG. You start weak, obviously

[Oniros]

Will my code only work for the iOS version? Or will I get one for Android too?

[Cuilan]

I really like the look of this game (yeah, big surprise right?), but I unfortunately can't play it due to the lack of a smartphone/tablet. I'm hoping it eventually gets ported to a dedicated gaming system, preferably one that I can connect to my tate-able TV. It seems like there's a good foundation here for a console-specific arrange mode, one that would hopefully replace the point-blanking with grazing and tone down/remove the grindy RPG stuff, and make it play more like an arcade release. Can't complain about point-blanking with the way the game is now though, since it probably makes the most sense for a game designed with touchscreens in mind. On a more shallow subject, the character art is cute, but I think it would have been nicer if the character art had been done by Joker Jun again (and more like Deathsmiles 1's art style rather than 2's).

[S_Fang]

I really like the look of this game (yeah, big surprise right?), but I unfortunately can't play it due to the lack of a smartphone/tablet. I'm hoping it eventually gets ported to a dedicated gaming system, preferably one that I can connect to my tate-able TV. It seems like there's a good foundation here for a console-specific arrange mode, one that would hopefully replace the point-blanking with grazing and tone down/remove the grindy RPG stuff, and make it play more like an arcade release. Can't complain about point-blanking with the way the game is now though, since it probably makes the most sense for a game designed with touchscreens in mind. On a more shallow subject, the character art is cute, but I think it would have been nicer if the character art had been done by Joker Jun again (and more like Deathsmiles 1's art style rather than 2's).

Not want to be the obnoxious guy, but is anything but wishful thinking, unless Cave manage to get so much money out of it to aim to the PC platform.

[Cagar]

Soooo am I the only one playing this?
Currently at Level 32 and I'm loving it.
The game gets reeeaally fun when you get a grip of the system and are skilled enough to change the element for each group of enemies. It gets hectic, there's always stuff to do with little to no chances to breathe.
It's really CAVEish and fun. The game-feel is excellent for a mobile game to be honest, the different shot-types feel good.

Also a random help note:
You don't have to point-blank enemies, you have to just "mark" them with the circle around you and then kill them.
You can increase the radius of the circle and the radius of your (invisible) gem-collection area by spending the white diamonds in the.. statue menu. You don't unlock those options right away though, I think

[Ikazu-san]

Does it have different sliders for BGM/sounds/voice volume? This is important.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Edit... Just got it to play, had to do a hard reset on my iPhone to get it not to crash.

So good so far. It reuses a lot of DonPaccin ideas. The only things I don't like so far is that it's in Japanese and when enemies swoop underneath you where your thumb is.

[Jenseits]

I place my thumb way underneath.
I think it is meant this way. The character doesn't move to where your thumb is. It is an "indirect" control scheme.
Works quite good.

I'm Level 40 and don't have a clue when or where i get to play new levels.
There are the 4 worlds and the "daily" world. Nothing more...? Hmm...

[Cagar]

Oh shit I got a rank 1 in a stage.
Also, what I'm doing when I ran out of content, I'm trying to get S and S score & combo ranks for each stage. (which i've already done for easy and normal, now working on hard)

[pentarou]

Does it have different sliders for BGM/sounds/voice volume? This is important.

Menu > Settings (メニュー > 客種設定)


BGM
Effects
Voice
AP recovery notifications ON / OFF

Plays a lot like their other iOS games. I'm enjoying it.

[Ikazu-san]

Ah, thank you. I'm Android user, so obviously I can't check it yet.

[guigui]

Same here, waiting for android release, and hope that we'll be able to get it in EU.
Also, a bit afraid about the japanese barrier, anyone with the ability cares to translate some mains menus and explain what it is all about ?
Would be really appreciated.

[S_Fang]

On Dengeki Online there is an article about the game, its mechanics, story and characters (with the measures, also).

In Japanese, but is better than nothing:
http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/029/1029122/