Guwange love & why aren't there many others of its type

[mnneurope]

any of jp ppls to translate whats this text about?
sry didnt know where to post this q
thx

[Imhotep]

no forced scrolling but Valtric is fantastic in my book.

[chempop]

Undeadline and Twinkle Tale are both really good on megadrive (pricey though). I like ShockTroopers a lot too.

Never played those Pocky and Rocky aka Guardian Angel games (or w/e they were translated to?)

[atro]

Pretty much has been said already.

Elemental Master and Outzone masters the genre imho.
Shock Troopers is also a top game, but for some reason Ninja Commando feels more like Guwange than ST.

Nobody talked about TAD Heated Barrel ahah!
Not that it's that great, but it's definitely in the same genre.

[_rm_]

No love for Fixeight???

[atro]

No love for Fixeight???

Not really like Guwange, but these two are also pretty cool games.

Fix Eight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czEAtD-tn1w

Mercs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ccxUtM0ro

EDIT:
Oh and I definetly second Elemental Master as one of the best games of that kind. It is more like Guwange, in the sense of a "normal shmup", so autoscrolling.

Oh, and then there is also Undead Line, which looks similar to Elemental Master. But I haven't played the game yet, so I don't know how good it is.

There you go

[320x240]

Everybody mentions Knightmare but seem to forget about Hinotori, which was released only a year later by the same publisher.

I guess being on the MSX2 made it less popular.

[Necronom]

Wow, Nitro Ball looks insane! Thanks for bringing this up, Odius!

And yeah, I too love Guwange and always wished for a sequel...maybe a little more towards strange cyberpunk meets feudal Japan, like the Afro Samurai anime:-)
One can always dream...

[qmish]

If anyone has this (oh, went for $240 on ebay before i even saw it)



Could you tell me more about contents?

What exactly artwork from Guwange/related to Guwange does it contain? How much of that overlaps "Cave Shooting History" artbook?

[_rm_]

I do have this one (it's great ) but i'm still looking for Cave history book, so, i can't tell you about the overlaping question, sorry.

[gray117]

When total carnage bombed on release I feel that pretty much killed the western arcade top down run and gun for a while... That and everyone began chasing street fighter money until the world became about polygons.

... And though it's kind of critically acclaimed now, I don't think guwange did very well commercially... Presume never did any favors for anything similarly themed.

[qmish]

I do have this one (it's great )

Does it have enemies art? Non-bosses? Those creepy heads from level 3

[Doctor Butler]

I just wish it got a physical release on 360, instead of the XBL port.

It's so fucking good, omg.

[_rm_]

I do have this one (it's great )

Does it have enemies art? Non-bosses? Those creepy heads from level 3

I've only opened it once, it's so mint that i'm afraid to look at it

If i don't forget i will take a look at it during weekend and grab some "crappy" phone pictures. But yes, i remember some enemies art, at leat some bosses.

[qmish]

That would be interesting, thanks. And yeah - be careful with it - as you are proud owner, you are responsible for keeping it in a good shape

[_rm_]

As promised, here are a couple lousy photos i took:

[Shepardus]

Damn that looks nice, I can see why you're concerned about keeping that in top condition.

[CloudyMusic]

Wow, awesome. I'd love to see more of those concept sketches.

[Strikers1945guy]

Where is the fellow shmup community member with his Guwange tatttoo (s)?

[Stevens]

That was Nash 87.

I really wanted to see it finished. It was some fine work.

[_rm_]

Glad you guys liked it. I choose only a few, especially where the "head" is shown as qmish as asked

[_rm_]

Wow, awesome. I'd love to see more of those concept sketches.

I really like those too, and there are a few more pages just with concept art.
There are a couple pages where they show sketches and a toy of the "cat/spider boss", it's a really cool book. I wish i could read it,lolol.

[qmish]

Thanks for pics, _rm_. Really tasty, the book.

now i hope i'll have some $$$ when it would show up on ebay/yahoo again =/

[qmish]

^ This is from Akira manga, right? Correct if wrong. Anyway, just saw it in random japanese blog as possible inspiration source to Guwange-sama.

[Cee]

Where is the fellow shmup community member with his Guwange tatttoo (s)?

Nothing says cringey man baby with identity issues like a computer game themed tattoo, ergh.

[Sumez]

Nothing says cringey man baby like the need to put out random unprovoked insults like that...

Apart from being a video game, Guwange is just stylish beyond belief. Possibly the prettiest of all Cave games, even though that is saying a lot.

[Shepardus]

I think the game could really do with a higher-resolution remake, it doesn't do that concept art justice. Great visual themes but a lot of the detail gets lost in the 240x320 resolution, and it doesn't look quite as sharp and crisp as CAVE's more Toaplan-style spritework such as Dodonpachi.

[qmish]

Nothing says cringey man baby with identity issues like a computer game themed tattoo, ergh.

Actually "computer game themed" doesnt really means a thing here; because games, like cinema, are composite media, where sub-objects like music, graphics etc. might be viewed completely standalone, outside of host.

So it doesnt matter that drawing of Oni is taken from some digital game if it's good enough separately.

[MaXXX]

"Hey thereeee, whats that tattoo?"

"What's a Goo Wang? What's a Smup? You're weird, go away. Eww!"

[Cee]

Nothing says cringey man baby like the need to put out random unprovoked insults like that...

Apart from being a video game, Guwange is just stylish beyond belief. Possibly the prettiest of all Cave games, even though that is saying a lot.

Are you an adult with video game tattoos? and what is the correlation between guwange being stylish and some identity chief getting it tattooed on his ball sack or whatever? I'm one of those weird guys that just you know plays the game instead.