Raid over the River for the DS video

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:36 pm

Daigohji wrote:Raid Over The River is being developed by Nibris, a Polish company.

Don't know too much about the Polish gaming scene, but hopefully they won't screw this one up.

I still feel that the Japanese are the only ones who can make good shmups.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:02 am

Nanostray was made by Shin'en, an European dev AFAIK.

jp · Post by jp » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:16 pm

Nanostray had potential... but Shin'en made a bunch of stupid small mistakes with that one. The graphics, music, level design, and the gameplay in general were superb though IMO.

Guts · Post by **Guts** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:52 pm

Shin'en are made too on GBA the Iridium series.

fl0w · Post by **fl0w** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:51 pm

Iridion.
And they're German.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:53 pm

jp wrote:Nanostray had potential... but Shin'en made a bunch of stupid small mistakes with that one. The graphics, music, level design, and the gameplay in general were superb though IMO.

I LOVE Nanostray; it's easily in my top 10 shmups! The only issue I had with the game was the weapon switching-you couldn't use the shoulder button to switch, which would've made that process much faster.

I have high hopes for Raid Over the River, so far it looks outstanding! The main shot in that video reminds me a lot of your primary weapon in Ikaruga.

Generiname · Post by **Generiname** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:18 am

I just want to type 'yes' in capital letters with an indefinate amount of exclamation marks to follow. This is what I've been waiting for. I just hope there's no touchscreen features whatsoever. There's really no need for touchscreen features in every DS game IMO.

I saw a bit of hardware recently that hooks the DS up to the TV. It's pretty crude and seemed to only display in yoko but if a better version of this comes around (one with some TV flipping invovled!) then it could be great with games like sonic rush and this one.

tiktak · Post by **tiktak** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:08 pm

And here is the trailer.

http://www.n-europe.com/media/rotr_trailer.avi

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:52 pm

While I admit that I'm excited; where are the enemy bullets???

UnscathedFlyingObject · Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:10 pm

In the HUGE gap in the middle

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Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:11 pm

http://thelastboss.com/post.phtml?pk=2148

Renamed "ROTR" ("RIDE" over the River) and apparently still in production.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:14 pm

Sounds like an exciting game, but that fuel and ammunition management "feature" bugs me.

This may not be a traditional shmup......

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:17 pm

FatCobra wrote:Sounds like an exciting game, but that fuel and ammunition management "feature" bugs me.

This may not be a traditional shmup......

Well, if the fuel is handled like in River Raid or Scramble, I'd say we're fine. After all it just means: shoot quickly at bonus pods or you die.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:22 pm

Turrican wrote:
FatCobra wrote:Sounds like an exciting game, but that fuel and ammunition management "feature" bugs me.

This may not be a traditional shmup......
Well, if the fuel is handled like in River Raid or Scramble, I'd say we're fine. After all it just means: shoot quickly at bonus pods or you die.

Annoying features or not, I think I'm going to pick this one up when it comes out. Saw the video and it looks pretty impressive.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:36 pm

Fuel management is one of the best parts of Zaxxon. Really, fuel management makes sense. You have games like Aerofighters where the guy is flying across the globe and never has a fuel issue?

ktownhero · Post by **ktownhero** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:01 pm

1) That is old
2) Nibris seems to be a vaporware developer

Nibris has all of these cool "images" and supposed "tech demos" (although that's the only one that's ever been shown for the games that they've supposedly been developing for DS and Wii for well over a year), but they never show anything real for the games. They jump on the IGN/Gamespot forums occasionally making promises that they never follow through with.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I think Nibris sounds like a great developer on paper. Their visions for Raid Over River (DS) and Sadness (Wii), are fantastic, but based on their actions over the past year or so, I have little faith that anything will see the light of day.

grahf · Post by **grahf** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:02 pm

Looks cool. Hope it turns out well.

Lawfer · Post by **Lawfer** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:57 pm

OK, another 6 months passed (August 2006 - February 2007 - August 2007)

So any news, any nothing?

moonblood · Post by **moonblood** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:56 am

http://www.dsworld.nl/artikel.php?id=3853

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:29 am

A gameplay vid. Of someone playing it ON a DS. WITH enemy bullets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXbJmLepRzs

themachinist · Post by **themachinist** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:47 am

Like someone else said, that gap bugs me.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:01 pm

the game looks interesting... except by the huge gap in the middle.

I don't know how can someone play it like that, can someone manage to keep focus on BOTH screens at the same time?

Good points:
Hitbox seems to be small
Action seems cool and the game is pretty fast

Bad points:
GAP IN THE MIDDLE.
Enemies coming from behind. UGH, in a VERTICAL shmup?

I bet we will be disappointed in the end though. Either the game will never be released, or it we will find it sucks.

lewisit · Post by **lewisit** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:04 pm

the gap-in-the-middle doesn't bother me at all - but maybe that's because i was raised on Nintendo G&W a looong time ago:

boy, those were manic (and "the gap" was the least problem i had playing 'em...)

if ROTR really makes it to the DS i would actually consider buying new hardware for me - my last console-purcase was a DC in '99

Lawfer · Post by **Lawfer** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:34 pm

moonblood wrote:http://www.dsworld.nl/artikel.php?id=3853

OMG awsome thanks, lol that gameplay video was released 1 day after I made that comment.

I seriously hope they find a publisher or something!

JJG · Post by **JJG** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:48 pm

I checked their site the other day and it hasn't been updated in a long time. So it's good to finally see another video, looks like this guy has invincibility or something.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:03 pm

lewisit wrote:the gap-in-the-middle doesn't bother me at all - but maybe that's because i was raised on Nintendo G&W a looong time ago:

Yeah, video game history comes full circle. It actually took me a long while to realize the similarity between the Game&Watch-games and the DS

(Cool, another Hamburg member!)

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:26 am

Shatterhand wrote:the game looks interesting... except by the huge gap in the middle.

I don't know how can someone play it like that, can someone manage to keep focus on BOTH screens at the same time?

Good points:
Hitbox seems to be small
Action seems cool and the game is pretty fast

Bad points:
GAP IN THE MIDDLE.
Enemies coming from behind. UGH, in a VERTICAL shmup?

I bet we will be disappointed in the end though. Either the game will never be released, or it we will find it sucks.

I didn't see too many enemies coming from behind, and I think it looks pretty solid. I think it'll probably get released; why would the developers have all of a sudden put out new gameplay footgae of this??

Special metion must go to the music, which is pretty amazing for a DS game.

K-J N. · Post by **K-J N.** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:44 pm

Here is a new interview with Nibris.

AR: Currently only the face buttons are used in ROTR, but it is stated the touch-screen and microphone will also be used. Can you please explain how these two functions will be used?

Nibris: Of course! In the menu (main menu and the one before a mission starts) and during the slow motion feature of the game, where you can draw on enemies you want to attack the most using super-attacks. Also, the microphone will be used, for example as a ‘sonic weapon’, where the attack effect changes depending on how strong your voice is.

Post by **nZero** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:48 pm

Nibris wrote:Also, the microphone will be used, for example as a ‘sonic weapon’, where the attack effect changes depending on how strong your voice is.

eight · Post by **eight** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:52 pm

Way to fuck up what looked like a promising game.