Eden's Eclipse

[BulletMagnet]

Don't think there's an existing thread for this one, but for any unfamiliar this is the latest project by x.x gameroom, who has done a bunch of freeware shmups over the years and more recently released their first paid game, covered here.

In any event, there's now a demo out, which at this point is just the first stage (no options menu, etc.), but it's there for anyone who wants to see where the game is currently at.

[To Far Away Times]

x.x gameroom does good work.

This is the same guy behind Blue Wish Resurrection Plus.

[Kiken]

If you're using an X-Box 360 compatible joystick/pad:
Y: Auto-fire
A: Shot
X: Special Shot
B: Bomb

The four directional inputs map correctly to the joystick/d-pad.
A will confirm selections at the menu.

[clippa]

it's there for anyone who wants to see where the game is currently at.

I put a video on youtube the other day if anyone wants to just look instead of playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfCba5kvJU

It feels amazing already! Does he do his own music?

[BulletMagnet]

Seems the demo has been updated, though I haven't tried it myself yet.

[BulletMagnet]

Demo updated to 0.6, including a second playable character, whose special weapon gimmick I'm having a hard time figuring out.

[Faith]

Sorry to resurrect this thread @_@"...

...but does anyone know, does the dev (X.X Gameroom) actually post updates anywhere regarding the status of Eden's Eclipse?

Demo (1.0.1 (still "under development)) was released early 2023.

Seems like we haven't had an update for a while.

X.X Gameroom is super awesome and really been looking forward to this release!

Hopefully, like Blue Wish Desire, it will be a paid release; because they really deserve it for making top-tier STG's.

[DoomsDave]

yeah on twitter - https://x.com/xxgameroom

[Faith]

Oops sorry missed your reply!~ I tried to check the twitter when I saw your post but stupid website wanted me to login to see anything (I don't have acc).

I tried again today and now it shows but no posts from the author it seems.

Eventually found their YouTube, latest video seems to be from November 2023 but I had not seen it before.

It is video for Eden's Eclipse Stage 2!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXf2hTD8Ehk

Looks really good!~

[CStarFlare]

Going from his Twitter feed, he may be more or less done with Original and has started working on Heaven mode now. Since I assume stage graphics and enemy placements are a large part of the work, he's reasonably far along.

[Faith]

Thank you!!~

That is super great news! I think if Original is the base, then Heaven should not take long to add and balance.

But I fear Hell will take a lot of time to make hardcore players happy.

Also, for Blue Wish Desire anyway, the TLB is locked behind Hell (& no-miss) criteria, so the TLB may also still need to be worked on.

Accel probably won't take much time to add, since it is just Original with double bullet speed. Maybe just a few weeks to play test that mode should be enough.

But this gives me hope that maybe we will see this game by this year or early next year?

[Faith]

RELEASED!!!~

O______________________________O!~

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4616 ... s_Eclipse/

[Faith]

Just for info there seems to be bug where you need to press "d" instead of "s" to reach in-game pause menu lol. ReadMe says button is "s" and for this developer it was always "s" with every other previous game... but somehow it got changed to "d" with Eden's Eclipse?? Maybe bug? Anyway hope this help anyone else who also wonder how the f to pause/restart lol >.<!!!~

[PC Engine Fan X!]

RELEASED!!!~

O______________________________O!~

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4616 ... s_Eclipse/

Wow, now that's a huge smile right there, my dear. Will have to give it a spin on the ol' Steam Deck and see how it plays.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Slinky]

Damn. This is good news!

[PC Engine Fan X!]

The Eden's Eclipse stg is a mere 128.00+mb d/l and does boot up on a Steam Deck without a Proton booter necessary. However, if you try to enable tate, it results in a "black screen" issue. It does play just fine in yoko mode with the usual obligatory 60fps framerate going on during a gaming session.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[nogden]

The Eden's Eclipse stg is a mere 128.00+mb d/l and does boot up on a Steam Deck without a Proton booter necessary. However, if you try to enable tate, it results in a "black screen" issue. It does play just fine in yoko mode with the usual obligatory 60fps framerate going on during a gaming session.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Thanks for the info PC Engine Fan X! Very helpful as usual

[Faith]

Wow, now that's a huge smile right there, my dear.

Haha yes! Was really looking forward to this game for long time >.<"... and so, so happy with it! Every year we get new game from x.x will be a good year!! Bless their heart!~

[DietSoap]

does boot up on a Steam Deck without a Proton booter necessary.

So it runs natively on Linux? That's neat. Still deciding if I would really play this game if I bought it, but it does look great.

[AntiramDSR]

Does he do his own music?

music in Eden's Aegis was from Cyber Rainforce and it is superb... hope he's involved again

https://cyber-rainforce.net/2018/01/10/english-terms/

isn't this the perfect shmup-theme?:

https://youtu.be/uKseCTkKZGo?is=CIdP06JJF5E1kmqQ

[CyberAngel]

>autobombs have to be earned ingame
>Touhou 10-12 continue system

Welp, this is where I stop following this dev. It was a nice run.

[Faith]

>autobombs have to be earned ingame

o_o"... you know... we get more resources now... because of this new system?

In past (Blue Wish Desire, Eden's Aegis, so on) if you use Auto Guard, and you get hit, it deplete bomba from stock. At that point... bomba is just a HP bar!!

In Eden's Eclipse... the Auto Guard, once charged up... if you get hit... it only remove shield... not any bomba stock.

And this game still give exactly same amount of bomba stock as previous one.

Faith not understand why anyone would complain about more resources... when solution seem to be to learn to reflex bomba properly like so many other STG lol. The new Guard system is good!

And speaking of learning new system..... you know you can recharge Guard Gauge to get your shield back quite fast?

Most of your Guard Gauge refill will come from yellow gems from cancelled bullets when you kill an enemy with Hyper... and some large air enemies spam so many bullets (even on Original) that you can refill Guard Gauge by almost 50% on a single well-timed cancel!!!~

>Touhou 10-12 continue system

As far as Faith can tell... Eden's Eclipse gives infinite continues lol x_x"... and continue putting player back at start of stage is not a big deal since if you dying that much, you really should be learning stage properly. You still get 3 lives on continue when game put you back on stage start... which is enough even for St 5. Anyway none of these are hardly unique to this game ~_~"... weird to fault it like this lol.

And technically... you get MUCH more than 3 lives O_O"... because of your new Guard/Shield system... that charges separately from all other resources lol.

The only stage with slow Guard Gauge replenishment (because of not that many bullets from huge enemies) is St 1... even from St 2 you already get some huge juicy cancels from large aircraft!!

[CyberAngel]

Without autoguard the bombs tend to get used way more frequently in a preemptive fashion, especially if you don't know the stages and patterns yet. Or not at all, wasting all their potential usefulness. So no, even if the shield it gives now is separate from bombs, it makes your survivability way worse. I can't get autobombs nearly as frequently as I'd want - only managed to get 1 or 2 per stage, and not getting hit when you have it only stalls the work you have to put into getting the next one. Doesn't matter how easily you can get them by exploiting the system because not everyone's into scoring from the get go.

Of course, you could just treat the game like it has no such system in it at all. But it feels like quite a whiplash when ALL other games by the same dev (besides Green Wind) had proper autobombs, creating an expectation of having that when playing their games.

Putting aside that such continue system has no good reason to be there and brings no benefits to the game, it actually could've been done much more reasonably - by restarting you at a checkpoint like practice mode can, instead of always at the very start. And the game's actually pretty tough - I've done one run on Classic, first gameovered on stage 3, intentionally restarted stage 4 and almost flipped my table upon dying right before the boss. Doesn't help that the stages have definitely gotten way too long.

In short, I'd love to study and practice the game, but it was made to be surprisingly newbie-unfriendly for some reason.