Official: Mushihime-sama Futari (1.0, 1.5, BLT)

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:28 am

if you would be so kind, play stage 5 in maniac and watch the 4th pattern of the midboss. Does it slowdown?

Not that I could tell.

parodius · Post by **parodius** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:47 am

Mushihime Sama Futari it is :

http://www.ami-toy.co.jp/

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:44 am

SuperPang · Post by **SuperPang** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:20 am

Insect Princess: With Two Characters

Inspired!

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:23 am

I think it's more like Two Insect Princesses/Insect Princesses Two (as in Look Who's Talking Too).

Hopefully they spent more time on it than with Pink Sweets.

SuperPang · Post by **SuperPang** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:31 am

Oh I get it

I think it's more crucial that the right people worked on it. Cave can knock up a great game in a short time with the right people.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:54 am

I'd be curious to find out what the development times have been like for each game. Back when they had one game a year or every couple years I wonder if they spent more time on each or if now they just have a bigger staff. Pink Sweets came out a couple months ago and we already get a new one next month?

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:22 pm

I wouldn't doubt that they do at least some work on more than one title at a time.

Valgar · Post by **Valgar** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:33 pm

It was said they made Progear in 6 months. They probably have two teams now.

stratos · Post by **stratos** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:19 pm

Valgar wrote:It was said they made Progear in 6 months. They probably have two teams now.

Oh... so they are simply geniuses...

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:37 pm

It's pretty clear which games Ikeda works on, and which ones he doesn't. How much actual coding he does these days, who knows.

Valgar · Post by **Valgar** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:15 pm

stratos wrote:
Valgar wrote:It was said they made Progear in 6 months. They probably have two teams now.

Oh... so they are simply geniuses...

Or they work horrible hours. Just like everyone in the videogame industry.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:43 pm

Valgar wrote:Or they work horrible hours. Just like everyone in the videogame industry.

Standard Japanese workday probably.

segasonicfan · Post by **segasonicfan** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:50 pm

Or they work horrible hours. Just like everyone in the videogame industry.

Standard Japanese workday probably.

Yeah, the Japanese work insanely long hours from what I've learned. Regardless, pumping out a game like Progear in 6 months is incredible. Thay are geniuses

-Segasonicfan

Valgar · Post by **Valgar** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:21 am

http://www.economist.com/printedition/d ... ID=4424689

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:22 am

Valgar wrote:http://www.economist.com/printedition/d ... ID=4424689

Great... I work double the national average. I need a holiday...

kotaro · Post by **kotaro** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:08 am

A japanese friend said to me that the character designer of the new Mushihimesama maybe is Haccan, famous in japan for his Graphic Novels..

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/haccan/

Helm · Post by **Helm** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:16 pm

I don't think the cover of this one is really offensive aesthetically. Sure, the rendering is very airy and flowery, and there's a quasi-sexy girl with abnormally large boobs and an overrendered skirt, but there's been worse.

And by worse I don't mean 'more naked', I mean more deliberately-marketed pictures of animesque main characters that any no-sex (not a value judgement, statement of fact: the difference between having been with a woman, and having not been with a woman) japanese teenager can... grow fond of. No blemishes, no characterization besides that suggested by the fashion design, in fact nothing especially human about them. This isn't very far from what I am describing, but at least the skillful execution sorta makes more promises on characterization than the game will probably deliver on, of course.

I don't have to be a prude (I'm not. How can I be? I'm not wearing any pants right now.) to realize that this is the marketing strategy, and I don't think one should disregard such things in the games he plays.

The old era of giant robots and spikes is just a different facet of the same thing, I wouldn't take one over the other. Genuine art direction that isn't supposed to be crowd-pleasing baseness we haven't seen in vertical shooters for ages.

MSZ · Post by **MSZ** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:07 pm

kotaro wrote:A japanese friend said to me that the character designer of the new Mushihimesama maybe is Haccan, famous in japan for his Graphic Novels..

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/haccan/

Thanks for the info, I love this cover a lot.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:16 pm

Helm wrote:I don't think the cover of this one is really offensive aesthetically. Sure, the rendering is very airy and flowery, and there's a quasi-sexy girl with abnormally large boobs and an overrendered skirt, but there's been worse.

And by worse I don't mean 'more naked', I mean more deliberately-marketed pictures of animesque main characters that any no-sex (not a value judgement, statement of fact: the difference between having been with a woman, and having not been with a woman) japanese teenager can... grow fond of. No blemishes, no characterization besides that suggested by the fashion design, in fact nothing especially human about them. This isn't very far from what I am describing, but at least the skillful execution sorta makes more promises on characterization than the game will probably deliver on, of course.

I don't have to be a prude (I'm not. How can I be? I'm not wearing any pants right now.) to realize that this is the marketing strategy, and I don't think one should disregard such things in the games he plays.

The old era of giant robots and spikes is just a different facet of the same thing, I wouldn't take one over the other. Genuine art direction that isn't supposed to be crowd-pleasing baseness we haven't seen in vertical shooters for ages.

Thank you. This is what I've been talking about in anime forums for a year and a half.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:58 pm

Valgar wrote:http://www.economist.com/printedition/d ... ID=4424689

Where the fuck are all these Americans working all these hours? I can't speak for entire nations, but after living and visitng the states for quite some time now, I can honestly say that the US portion of that is complete bullshit. I work downtown. Besides one of our competitors that also trade Asian markets and the security guards, Nobody is in this fucking building after 18:00.... half are gone by 17:00. Everytime I go back to Texas to visit friends, they all get off work at 17:00 (except for one, that works for her dad).

You can't find an office in Japan that's less than half full before 20:00. Just doesn't happen. Whether or not they're doing actual work or drinking tea, smoking, and playing freecell is another argument, but nobody goes home at 17:00. I think these days the standard is a 9:00 to 19:00 or 20:00, and then busy times having to stay to 22:00 or 23:00.

EDIT: I wonder if they average in Japanese holidays. Worth noting, there are about 20 national holidays on the Japanese calendar, and roughly 15 will fall on work days. How many are in the US? 4?

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:10 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:Where the fuck are all these Americans working all these hours?

Low wage jobs.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:11 am

Twiddle wrote:Low wage jobs.

For what it's worth, the average Japanese makes dogshit considering the time they put into work, not to mention the 1 (sometimes 2) hour commute to work.

shariar07 · Post by **shariar07** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:34 am

- Cave announced Mushi-Hime 2 for arcade, the sequel to the popular insect theme 2D shooter, the game will be coming in 2006.

http://www.the-magicbox.com/gaming.htm

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:59 am

Yeah... that's what the previous 6 pages of posts are about.

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:06 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Yeah... that's what the previous 6 pages of posts are about.

yeah rite??!?!?!? u gotta be kidding me!

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:36 am

Japanese dudes are so cool.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:21 pm

A release date for the PCB has been set! The game will come out
towards the end of October. TRY has it up for preorder:

http://www.try-inc.co.jp/

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:34 pm

For the record, the first reports of Galuda II's release date were false. Might be out, but there's yet to be a location test. :/

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:29 pm

"Where the fuck are all these Americans working all these hours?"

LOL.. you're observing office jobs. try all the shit minimum wage, retail, construction crap jobs and you'll see then....