Broken Thunder pics

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:55 pm

postman wrote:http://shootthecore.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... l-vid.html

No sooner said............

Now that's what I call super service

Stage 2 anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi5F1ha2nMg

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:15 pm

The bosses seem a little bit unimpressive, but I like the Cave-esque bullets they spew in the middle of the fight. Not as solid as TFV, but not sucky either. I just would have loved to see more shooting love being poured into this release after the beauty that was TFV on Saturn. Being a PC, it wouldn't have been too hard to pull off some more impressive effects.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:34 pm

Wow it looks awful. 40 or 60 Euros for this PD game? No way.
Thanks for saving my money!

Want to see what good doujins look like?
Read Postman's article:
http://www.tigsource.com/features/doujin-shmups.html

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:36 pm

Hmm, I am not impressed by the vids at all.
The clouds in the second stage are all nice and stuff, but the first stage looks bland to me.
Also the bosses at first glance are unimpressive indeed.
The music however seems to be "right on" and I am wondering already if I shouldn´t have preordered the LE instead (or if it turns out to be horrible the OST).

Specineff wrote: Being a PC, it wouldn't have been too hard to pull off some more impressive effects.

Agreed, but with those minimum specs to keep in mind you shouldn´t have expected anything better looking than Scramble anyway.

Ah well, I´ll wait for the first play impressions (Ghegs?) before I start worrying. Guess it´ll be at least 10 days before I receive my copy...

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:41 pm

Super Laydock wrote:Agreed, but with those minimum specs to keep in mind you shouldn´t have expected anything better looking than Scramble anyway.

*cough* Kamui

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:43 pm

Ceph wrote:
Super Laydock wrote:Agreed, but with those minimum specs to keep in mind you shouldn´t have expected anything better looking than Scramble anyway.
*cough* Kamui

*cough* Irony

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:44 pm

Why was the first boss designed to look like it's sporting wood?

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:47 pm

Super Laydock wrote: *cough* Irony

Sorry, the detector was not switched on.

Free demo of Kamui here

Free copy of Cho Ren Sha 68K here

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:48 pm

not too bad... for FREE GAME

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:53 pm

I must say I liked what I saw so far though judging by the videos the game looks clearly doujin which is not really a problem if it would be one of those "download it and unlock the full version after paying 10$" kinda thing. Am I right that there's also no free demo available at the moment?
Well, too bad. Keeping in mind the speed with which doujin beat em ups end up on torrent I'll play the waiting game then...

nem · Post by **nem** » Thu May 03, 2007 7:14 pm

LOL @ the first stage boss.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Thu May 03, 2007 7:18 pm

That's what happes when you spend 95% of your resources on the opening video, menus and music

Gungriffon Geona · Post by **Gungriffon Geona** » Thu May 03, 2007 7:50 pm

for the love of god, me and my freind could design and implement better bosses than those in no time short. they didn't even animate them!

Kron · Post by **Kron** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:01 pm

Wow, I wasn't prepared for that. Its got a construction kit vibe about it

Looks awkward and underdeveloped.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:03 pm

Yup. Mediocre considering the detail that went into A3, Guardian's Knight, Deep Purple and the Guardian Core in TFV. Good thing this is just a doujin and not officially a TF game. It's not like programming for Windows is that hard, is it?

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:16 pm

They certainly had good reasons for not showing us any gameplay videos

Actually, when you think about it the whole thing seems to be nothing more than a pretty lame attempt at milking Thunder Force fans.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:21 pm

Ceph wrote:That's what happes when you spend 95% of your resources on the opening video, menus and music

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:04 pm

Thunder Force IV has better graphics.

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:13 pm

Thunder Force II had more impressive weapons.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:16 pm

btw, this game cost 0$ and locks better

http://www.wankichi.net/eeff/screenshot.html
http://www.wankichi.net/eeff/download.html

also, there is #3 edition
http://www.wankichi.net/eeffsh/
for only 15$.

only one problem - no Opening movie

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:16 pm

Broken Thunder has more characters to it.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:49 pm

Super Laydock wrote:Broken Thunder has more characters to it.

More characters but less character.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:25 pm

JoshF wrote:Thunder Force II had more impressive weapons.

And better looking explosions; those are weak.

And since when was Thunder Force about bullet-manic bosses?

I'll pass unless this get's a really cheap console release.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:33 pm

Ceph wrote:More characters but less character.

Nice.

Yeah I wasn't expecting too much out of this game given it's background. Maybe they should just make it free after six months or something

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:41 pm

Ceph wrote:*cough* Kamui

You said it.
It's safe to say it's money better spent on the full version of Kamui versus Broken Thunder, no question at all.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:10 am

this makes me sad....

Nate · Post by **Nate** » Fri May 04, 2007 2:41 am

Strider77 wrote:

this makes me sad....

Yeah, me too. The level designs are saccharin. The bosses are retarded. The game does not do the music justice - weird, I never thought I'd say that. I DO like that big sword weapon the ship has, though. That could have been good in a real game!

I feel like I need to play some real TF just to cleanse myself of this awful feelin'.

makopico · Post by **makopico** » Fri May 04, 2007 2:48 am

I am Japanese.
It was not a thing that satisfactory was able to be done though Broken Thunder was
bought.
The unfinished article was sold in a dignified manner.
All Japanese fans are disappointed.
Broken Thunder is correct and excrement game though a trivial game is said, "KUSOGE-(Excrement Game)"
in Japanese.

makopico · Post by **makopico** » Fri May 04, 2007 2:49 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-C1WCct6Bk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi5F1ha2nMg

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Fri May 04, 2007 2:51 am

Looks like someone didn't read the top of the page