Ibara goes budget :-D Praise the Shmup-lord

GeneralWong · Post by **GeneralWong** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:58 pm

After Homura, Twinkle Star Spirits: La Petite Princesse and Mushihimesama we get another great budget release on the PlayStation 2: Ibara! I wanted to pick it up quite a while now, but everytime something held me back. But for this price (23 euro), I'm going to pre-order it. Too bad it's not gonna be under the Christmas tree though...

DDRfreak457 · Post by **DDRfreak457** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:37 am

great chance for me to build up my collection

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:27 pm

Double-ewe tee eff mate!

Oh well, at least I grabbed it cheaply enough before this news.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:57 pm

when will it be coming to the States....Oh wait...we never get anything notable, hell I bet the eskimoes have better games than us.

dementia · Post by **dementia** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:59 pm

Thanks for the news. Patience really is a virtue. Neo-Raizing love is mine this January.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:58 am

This was already posted in the normal Ibara PS2 thread a few weeks ago:

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... &start=360

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:28 am

Twinkle Star Sprites is mine!
Homura is mine!
Already got Ibara and Mushi.....all goodies!

steveovig · Post by **steveovig** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:34 am

That looks beautiful. I can't wait til the release in Japan.

RotateMe · Post by **RotateMe** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:15 am

Pixel_Outlaw wrote:when will it be coming to the States....Oh wait...we never get anything notable, hell I bet the eskimoes have better games than us.

yeah but europe gets less. i think it's like games that come from j to the us MAY come to europe some time...

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:26 am

Actually, you guys have gotten a notable amount more on the shmup front than we have this generation...don't know enough history off the top of my head to comment on anything earlier though.

RotateMe · Post by **RotateMe** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:52 am

Talked about games in generall but didn't know we got more shmups than the states... can't think of one title that we got and the states not, though, but i didn't follow that too much.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:56 am

Psyvariar, XII Stag, Strikers 1945 I & II for PS2 come to mind first..

benj · Post by **benj** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:07 am

Not to mention Homura and Raiden III.

RotateMe · Post by **RotateMe** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:43 am

See you never stop learning. Can't get homura within germany though, but after reading a review it might be worth getting from somewhere in europe... uk maybe. Why are there so many shmups released in europe but not in the states? Would have guessed the arcade scene in the states is slightly better than here... at least in germany it's near to impossible to find a shmup arcade.

Daigohji · Post by **Daigohji** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:58 am

RotateMe wrote:Why are there so many shmups released in europe but not in the states? Would have guessed the arcade scene in the states is slightly better than here... at least in germany it's near to impossible to find a shmup arcade.

I doubt that their reasoning has anything to do with arcade popularity. It's probably more that there's a bigger market for budget titles in the UK. That'll happen when full price games cost 50% more than the American version.

Europe regularly gets screwed on releases, but at least we got Shenmue II on the Dreamcast. I'm grateful for that.

As for Ibara... got

segasonicfan · Post by **segasonicfan** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:35 am

Am I the only person that thinks Ibara sucks? I've tried over and over to get into it but I find it easily to be Cave's worst game. It seems the kit prices reflect that as well, being that ECL is having trouble dumping brand new kits for $300...

Hopefully Pink Sweets is better.

-Segasonicfan

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:07 am

segasonicfan wrote:Am I the only person that thinks Ibara sucks? I've tried over and over to get into it but I find it easily to be Cave's worst game. It seems the kit prices reflect that as well, being that ECL is having trouble dumping brand new kits for $300...

Hopefully Pink Sweets is better.

Raizing is an aquired taste. If you don't like Ibara, you will absolutly hate Pink Sweets, which is also Raizing through and through.

Post by **Icarus** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:20 am

Dave_K. wrote:Raizing is an aquired taste. If you don't like Ibara, you will absolutly hate Pink Sweets, which is also Raizing through and through.

Agreed. Raizing games have a vastly different feel and gameplay style to most other game developers, and as Dave said, it's acquired taste. If you dislike one game, chances are you'll probably hate the rest of their back catalogue. And Ibara Pink is definitely Raizing styled.

In before BulletMagnet misinterpreting the above paragraph and starting another argument. ^_-

Gungriffon Geona · Post by **Gungriffon Geona** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:45 am

Must...Get... but no modded PS2... me sad.

Seriously though, Raizing stuff has really hit well with me. for the past 2 weeks I haven't played anything but Raizing games and the occasional DDP. I mean damn, they're fun at a level I thought wasn't possible.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:05 am

Icarus wrote:In before BulletMagnet misinterpreting the above paragraph and starting another argument. ^_-

@ you.

And

again.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:40 am

segasonicfan wrote:Am I the only person that thinks Ibara sucks? I've tried over and over to get into it but I find it easily to be Cave's worst game. It seems the kit prices reflect that as well, being that ECL is having trouble dumping brand new kits for $300...

Hopefully Pink Sweets is better.

-Segasonicfan

I'm not a big fan of it, but it's because I suck at it's scoring mechanism. I've never liked Raizing's scoring. The game does have really good bosses though. And ya gotta love that voice when the title screen shows up.

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:59 am

segasonicfan wrote:Am I the only person that thinks Ibara sucks?

No, actually a lot of ppl on this board have slammed it. Thanks to the budget release I may finally get to play it.

yyr · Post by **yyr** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:48 pm

I will not praise the Shmup-Lord until a home port of Galuda II is announced... (if ever)

I might pick this up, though, even though I suck horribly at it... I think I got to level 3 once.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:40 pm

According to this list, Taito has cancelled the upcoming release of an Ibara "taito best" version:

http://gmstar.com/yoyakulist.html#PS2

This info was posted today on Danmakugata: http://samidare35810101.jog.buttobi.net/index.html

Sorry guys, looks like you'll have to hunt down a copy of the original print.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:44 pm

Love Garrega, don't really care for Ibara. Not sure what it would take to make this game more to my liking. It's OK.

Of course, I didn't like Mushi either. Just having a bad run with Cave's productions lately. Personally I think they could slow down a bit.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:46 pm

I just checked Taito Japan's site, and the Ibara "taito best" version is now gone from their release schedule. So it's official. I wonder if this is also the definitive end of the contract between Taito and Cave?

MTH · Post by **MTH** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:19 pm

Great, and I was going to order that when it came out on Jan. 18th

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:10 pm

twe wrote:According to this list, Taito has cancelled the upcoming release of an Ibara "taito best" version:

http://gmstar.com/yoyakulist.html#PS2

This info was posted today on Danmakugata: http://samidare35810101.jog.buttobi.net/index.html

Sorry guys, looks like you'll have to hunt down a copy of the original print.

Which is good since the Taito Best border on the front cover looks ugly.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:27 pm

landshark wrote:And ya gotta love that voice when the title screen shows up.

You mean that ultra-manly EEEEBWWRRAAARAAAH? I love that. I could buy that game for the announcer voice alone. And Bonds voice is ace too. BUUMBAAH! Dyne, on the other hand, is more like "Bumba...???"

I don´t want to stray too much OT here, but is it true that the announcer voices were done by someone from the programmer team or something in Garegga/Batrider/Ibara?

Ketsui · Post by **Ketsui** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:07 pm

oh noes....i want that game, are you sure is canceled?

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