Joker Jun- Is he back at CAVE?

evil_ash_xero · Post by **evil_ash_xero** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:52 pm

I've been playing a LOT of shooters lately on MAME, and importing(it's bliss!), and i've noticed that I preffered CAVE games when Joker Jun was doing the designs. I have ESP Galuda and Ibara, and other than the the cool character designs for Ibara, I find the overall designs to be lacking(comparatively). I remember when I got Galuda, and was quite pleased with it's easier gameplay, and then popped in DDP DOJ and was like "wow, this looks much better", even though I don't like that game(too hard for me).

Is Joker Jun working at Cave again(I read something like that), or is he still gone? His design work for ESP RADE, GUWANGE, and PROGEAR(not to mention the DDP games) was just wonderful. Guwange was practially a work of art, design wise.

Also, am I giving him too much credit? Did he do the ships and background designs, or just the main characters?

s/m

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:54 pm

Cave's newest game has him signed on as a designer apparently so probably

evil_ash_xero · Post by **evil_ash_xero** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:56 pm

That's great. In terms of design, he's probably the best guy i've seen in shooters.

s/m

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:11 pm

He is a good artist, but his last good designs were in Guwange when he was drawing more than children.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:27 pm

He's probably hired freelance. I don't see them keeping him on full time.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:46 am

All of Cave's artists and musicians are hired freelance, right?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:13 am

TWE wrote:All of Cave's artists and musicians are hired freelance, right?

They are now. Junya Inoue was a full-time employee back in the day though.

SuperPang · Post by **SuperPang** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:36 am

Who did the E2/Futari art? Really liked that. Way better than other post Joker Jun Cave art. MMPs cab art is ugly as hell.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:54 am

The artist is Haccan:

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

I really like Tomoyuki Kotani (Ibara, Pink Sweets) as well.

http://styleos.nobody.jp/

They're both up there with Joker Jun, imo.

Muchi Muchi Pork's art really is complete shit and unworthy of the Cave label though (to the point that it makes me not want to play the game). Looks like it's something by Milestone.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:39 pm

Kotani Tomoyuki is the bomb diggidy. He needs to put out another book. I probably like Joker Jun the best, but he gets a bit loli-crazy. Probably from working at home too much.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:11 pm

I love all the Cave artwork from Mushihime-sama onwards. I actually like MMP's artwork a lot as well, I guess I'm in the minority there!

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:36 pm

TWE wrote:I love all the Cave artwork from Mushihime-sama onwards. I actually like MMP's artwork a lot as well, I guess I'm in the minority there!

I like MMP's artwork as well

CIT wrote:I really like Tomoyuki Kotani (Ibara, Pink Sweets) as well.

http://styleos.nobody.jp/

He also did Mushihimesama

rtw

Post by **Icarus** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:08 pm

TWE wrote:I love all the Cave artwork from Mushihime-sama onwards. I actually like MMP's artwork a lot as well, I guess I'm in the minority there!

Thirded. I quite like MMPork!'s art, it has a goofy flavour to it.
If anything, Cave have always had good artistic sense. (More than some companies.)

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:16 pm

rtw wrote:
CIT wrote:I really like Tomoyuki Kotani (Ibara, Pink Sweets) as well.

http://styleos.nobody.jp/
He also did Mushihimesama

rtw

Pretty sure he did Mushi & Ibara... and they got someone else for Pink Sweets.

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:19 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Pretty sure he did Mushi & Ibara... and they got someone else for Pink Sweets.

Akira Wakabayashi is listed as Chief Designer.

rtw

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:22 am

TWE wrote:I love all the Cave artwork from Mushihime-sama onwards. I actually like MMP's artwork a lot as well, I guess I'm in the minority there!

I like it too.

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:25 am

what did you guys think of the sound effects in that one? : P

Yeah- I personally don't like the style of some of the newer stuff- but I don't neccearily think it's bad- It's just out of the norm of what I am used to seeing in my shooters. Call me crazy- but fat chicks flying around can't beat laser-beam weilding helicopters/spaceships of death! Call me a big kid, but I'm having trouble getting into MMP and such.

With that being said- I hold a strong curiosity for the next Cave game..especially since I heard it being compared to a 'hori guwange' at one point...lolis or not that would be pretty neat.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:45 am

MMP artwork really cool. Fun and unusual

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:49 am

MMP artwork really cool. Fun and unusual

it's ok in the game but i wouldn't hang it on a wall or put an effort to aquire more of it.

oxtsu · Post by **oxtsu** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:45 pm

rtw wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:Pretty sure he did Mushi & Ibara... and they got someone else for Pink Sweets.
Akira Wakabayashi is listed as Chief Designer.

rtw

That was for in-game stuff.

Styleos handled the character art for Pink Sweets as well.

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:46 pm

oxtsu wrote:Styleos handled the character art for Pink Sweets as well.

Absolutely correct

On the next screen it says:

Character Illust

Tomoyuki Kotani

rtw

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:52 pm

since no one has posted it yet, here is the link to joker jun's site

http://www5.airnet.ne.jp/jokerjun/index.html

edit: last one i heard of anyway, looks like it hasn't changed since i was last hear a couple years ago...

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:40 pm

It actually got the first update in 10 months on 08.16, for which he apologizes. He also does say, "I am now working on a game", although he says "TV Game" which usually denotes a console title, not arcade. I still think he's referring to Cave's upcoming.