Raid over the River moves to DS

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:33 pm

http://www.revo-europe.com/news.php?nid=9264 (news)

http://www.revo-europe.com/news.php?nid=9266 (screens)

A couple of screens are included. I think it's still a bit too soon to tell how this turns out, but so far the screens look quite a bit nicer than Nanostray. It mentions a Wii version will be forthcoming as well, although work on that will not start in earnest until the completion of their current project.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:39 pm

What`s that glowing blue dot on the ship? The hitbox? Actually, those screens remind me a lot of Nanostray. And Nanostray wasn`t bad because of the graphics - the graphics actually could make you believe it was a good game. The gameplay sucked bad. There was a time I badly wanted a proper handheld shmup, so maybe this one turns out to be it. But to be honest, I am a bit bitter on this topic. Wait and see!

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:45 pm

Yeah, Nanostray must have been the first shooter that I ever honestly hated from the bottom of my heart.

Those few screens are already reminding me of Nanostray.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:57 pm

Iridion 2 was nice though, and while being a handheld and a shmup fan, I realized over time that an DoDonpachi pocket edition will never happen.

On the other hand, didn`t Cave make conversions of their shmups for cellphones? I saw Progear on a cellphone as a screenshot once, iirc. Hello? What about the good old GBA then? Who wants to play shmups on cellphones over Gameboy damnit?

On the other hand, things are going to change a bit by the PSP.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:14 pm

Well, this looks very different from the Wii screenshots showed some weeks ago.

This looks like a proper vertical shmup. And notice how you seem to control a DRAGON at some point.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:40 pm

FrederikJurk wrote:On the other hand, didn`t Cave make conversions of their shmups for cellphones? I saw Progear on a cellphone as a screenshot once, iirc.

Along with ESPRade, DDP, Mushihime-sama, Dangun Feveron and Guwange. And all of them are completely unplayable.

I would strongly argue that the bullet-hell environment does not work well on a small screen.