Hellsinker and other ruminant's whimper's game meetup

[Giggy1188]

http://soinscribedremembrance.net/

Anyone interested?

[microfolk]

I saw it on twitter but I know shit about japanese so... Is this a fan meeting? What will they do? Present games? Things? Will Tonnor be present? Hellsinker on Steam when????

[Bananamatic]

the page looks like a suicide cult meeting

[Xyga]

Aren't they the guys who made Radio Zonde as well ? That makes two games of 14 and 12 years ago, and though I admit Hellsinker is a pretty stunning game, that's a long time for a continued cult following. Actually who knew that dev group was still around ?

Now if they'd use that meeting to announce a new game that'd be great !

[Zaarock]

Aren't they the guys who made Radio Zonde as well ? That makes two games of 14 and 12 years ago, and though I admit Hellsinker is a pretty stunning game, that's a long time for a continued cult following. Actually who knew that dev group was still around ?

It's got a pretty big following in japan, people talk about it on twitter every other day since its release. I don't think Tonnor has ever disappeared just switched around nicknames. He has been working on a mobile RPG for some years.

I saw it on twitter but I know shit about japanese so... Is this a fan meeting?

Fan meeting, shinimai who used to work for degica & some others are organizing it. It's because hellsinker's 10th anniversary is this year.

I might go if I'm in a situation where I can travel abroad in september

[MathU]

I wish Tonnor would drop another masterpiece in our lap one of these days. Shame he never finished that fighting game from a while back.

[Despatche]

Today I learned HellSinker was actually released in 2007, not 2006. More fuel for the MAME dating fire...

It'd be nice if they talk about things like Akashicverse, Imalice, Mecha Ritz, and show off any similar projects. I'd really like to attend something like that one of these days.

HellSinker was a pretty big deal in the doujin scene, and touched a lot of people on release. On that "list of influential games" that includes the likes of Gradius, R-Type, Darius, Tatsujin, Raiden, Dodonpachi, Ikaruga, and so on, HellSinker is there. When the major Touhou scoreboard is willing to take your game in when the old scoreboard fails, when there are multiple games attempting to pull its aesthetic off, and when it's being talked about on social media basically every other day, you know you've made a mark on the world. Only the likes of Touhou, Siter Skain's stuff, and Crimzon Clover are revered to such a degree.

In the West, it doesn't have the reputation it deserves because people have built up this terrible meme about it being "impenetrable". We have a fully-translated manual, a complete translation that required blood/sweat/tears to pull off, and an entire scoreboard filled with great replays, but people will never allow this meme to die. Part of that has to do with their inability to do anything without a step-by-step guide... The only thing that's "impenetrable" is the plot, to which anyone should be saying lolplot.

edit: Well, my confusion was with the 2006 date in the loading screens, because for some reason I never bothered to read HellSinker's documentation like I do with other games...

[Xyga]

Maybe there's more than one 'release' date because people got confused with the various ComiKet presentations, demos/alphas/betas etc. The first distributed playable demo was in 2004, then I don't know exactly when the full game was completed and made available, but apparently 2007 was the year they began selling physical copies, so it became the default release date whatever happened before.