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hey1230 (the guy behind Mecha Ritz) and some of his friends are making a new STG in collaboration with former Konami composer Motoaki Furukawa--it's called Momoiro Underground and they released the first footage just now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zbboMyxi9U

They're looking to fund the game via a Japanese crowdfunding site called Makuake; they're asking for 1,000,000円 (around $10,000 USD) with a prospective ETA of February. (It's another STG Builder game, so don't expect a console port.)

https://www.makuake.com/project/momoiro/

The campaign's set to run for a couple months and I suspect they'll probably scrape over the line.

Do you like what you see?

Count me hyped.

Looking sexy.
Do I see an hori euroshmup updated with more modern jp STG mechanics ?
Seems like there's a lot of parameters, some I don't recall seeing together like health bar and rank. Wat.

Really excited to see the Makuake campaign begin! I've been seeing the WIP screenshots on Twitter and can't wait to see more gameplay footage with the music behind it.

Whoa, do I see multiple arms extending from the ship? I wonder how well those control, this could be very interesting. Looks like it's going to be a worthy entry in hey's portfolio.


...or Animal.

Well, that was quick. Momoiro Underground's campaign has already reached its goal with 59 days to spare!

Looks amazing.

I don't know if anyone's still following this but it was completed right on schedule and the initial physical release (and soundtrack) will be released at Tokyo Game Music Show at the end of the month.

Looks fiddly but fun. I'm excited.

Mad respect to whoever over there thinks these games are worth a bit. It made double its goal.

Reminds me of Eco Fighters off the cuff; hopefully a demo and/or digital release are in the works so more folks can have a crack at it.

Nice to see this finish in good time; I had gotten used to shmup projects turning into all but vaporware.

This game has a ton of style. Had no clue it was that far along to be finished already, usually just kept track with Motoaki's twitter.

Now...can someone pick me up a copy...?

Furukawa's selling physical copies of the the game from his online store, as well as the OST and official documents book: http://music-msart.com/index.php#MGR-0001

How can I get one copy please?

Does anyone have an educated guess on if it'd be worth getting this and hoping it runs in Wine on OS X? I'm without Windows these days...

This is the post I've been waiting for, thanks! Edit: Actually seems to be Japan only atm.

/still want a copy... help?

Would love to try this. Game looks dope, cover is dope.

Anyone come across impressions of the game anywhere yet?

I know there's some full runs on youtube but I don't want to spoil everything.

Hopefully a digital release isn't too far away.

So... has anyone here actually played this game yet? Game looks interesting, to say the least.

I bought it but haven't played it yet, HEY's been working on 1.01 for a little while so I'm waiting for that to drop.

There are a few different playthroughs on YT but there are so many routes and other bullshit that a lot of it is hard to parse.

How did you buy it? Damn near every online shop they put it on seems to be japan shipping only, or at least unclear if they ship overseas.

Xaerock has been playing it a lot and tells me its pretty dope.

Very wacky (not just visually), but very good.

I had someone send me a copy. It'll definitely get a digital release before too long but I don't know that it'll be translated from the jump.

Is this game released digitally yet?
If not, has anyone heard anything about a digital release?

No Digital release yet, but it seems you can import from this shop finally

http://ovs.akbh.jp/products/list.php?tr ... 3%E3%83%89

Shipping is quite expensive though

There were issues with signing up to order it when I first posted the link, but I was able to successfully order it from this site about a week ago and received it today. Shipping only took 11 days which was surprising. Still no word on an english or digital release yet.

I bought this game this April. I bought it from Rakuten using Zenmarket. Total cost was ￥8,598 (the game and the book were ￥5,400), and I have waited total of 11 days - Buying using Zenmarket took a day, Shipping inside Japan took 5 days, Zenmarket took 2 days + Sunday to send the package.

I loved the game so much that I started making a guide for explaining basics. I am sure this will help others assuming how the game plays.

Sadly I just saw Hoamaru's tweet regarding to a crucial bug. It affects the score so I am worried the amount of people interested in this game would decrease by a lot. And the response from the official twitter account was not sounding any hopeful...