Which should i buy?

riffbear · Post by **riffbear** » Wed May 21, 2008 12:09 pm

Ok im finally going to cave in and get a cave pcb.
But i need help in choosing.

Ibara pink sweets?

Death smiles?

Espgaluda II?

Or Ketsui ?

Help me choose!

Shmups i enjoy are..

Mushihime sama on ps2
Do don pachi on ps2
Radirgy
Gleylancer
harmful park.

Post by **spadgy** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:07 pm

My experience on your chosen PCBs isn't authoritative, as I happened to have played the other Cave PCBs a lot more, but I've spent some time with ESPgaluda 2 and it's incredible. Really rewarding and more accesible for me than Ketsui was.

Not too disimilar in feel to Mushi either. Scoring and stuff are different of course, and even the system with the controls, but the 'atmosphere', if that's a fitting word, and the pace is pretty close..

Please don't savage me Cave elite! As I said I'm no authority...

Bigsasquatch · Post by **Bigsasquatch** » Wed May 21, 2008 4:25 pm

Agreed..... Galuda II is also probably the cheapest option right now....

( sadly its the only one from the above list I own as well.... )

BIG S

budloc · Post by **budloc** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:02 pm

same for me, the only game i have from this list is ESPGaluda II, this game is incredible, one of my favorite Games ever.

As it's the cheapest of your list, if i were you i'd go with this one.

Bigsasquatch · Post by **Bigsasquatch** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:21 pm

also.... no need to rush in with the mega expensive titles if you are just starting to get into Cave stuff.....

There are loads of shit-hot games at the cheaper end too....

Consider;

-Galuda
-Ra.De
-DDP
-Ibara

All can be picked up for a fraction of what you listed above and all represent excellent challenge in their own right.....

BIG S

firestorm · Post by **firestorm** » Wed May 21, 2008 6:14 pm

cave?
Death smiles?
Espgaluda II?
Ketsui ?

or

raizing
Ibara pink sweets?

just for fun

Death smiles?

deep score system

Espgaluda II?
Ketsui ?

scoring by skils no medal/combo or somthing like this

Ketsui ?

scoring by leveldesign learn where to collect items
and where to use the,

Espgaluda II?

if prefer this order for scoring

ESPgaluda 2
Ketsui
Pinks Sweet
Death Smiles

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Wed May 21, 2008 8:58 pm

Espgaluda II every time.

Don't buy Pink Sweets.

glitch · Post by **glitch** » Wed May 21, 2008 10:03 pm

riffbear wrote:Shmups i enjoy are..

Mushihime sama on ps2
Do don pachi on ps2
Radirgy
Gleylancer
harmful park.

how come the first ESPgaluda is not on that list?
cause if you dislike that one, you'd dislike number 2 even more.
if you prefer mushi and DDP (DOJ?) over ESPgaluda, you'd probably be better off with Ketsui.

that said, ESPgaluda 2 is a gorgeous masterpiece with the most ingeniously brilliant system in danmaku history if you ask me, i'd probably choose that one alone over those 3 others together.

Pink Sweets is great fun if you play for just that: fun. the system is pure alchemy though, unless someone figured it out recently. eretsua and i recently hypothesized that it might actually be a 2-player game. so far, our testing of that hypothesis has been inconclusive and awesome.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed May 21, 2008 10:35 pm

...you have Gleylancer?

Get Sol-Deace/Sol-Feace. Fun to put time into.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed May 21, 2008 10:44 pm

glitch wrote: Pink Sweets is great fun if you play for just that: fun. the system is pure alchemy though, unless someone figured it out recently. eretsua and i recently hypothesized that it might actually be a 2-player game. so far, our testing of that hypothesis has been inconclusive and awesome.

Its pretty much all figured out now. The multiply mode after 5th extend was intentional (not a bug) giving you two options for 1CC: low rank approach or high rank approach, there is no middle ground. It was fun to figure out, but not really ment for those who want to "just blow stuff up". Maybe in 2 player that is more fun.

riffbear · Post by **riffbear** » Wed May 21, 2008 11:04 pm

Ok guys im going to go with Espgaluda II then!
Thanks a heap!

Who could you highly recommend worth purchasing from?

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Wed May 21, 2008 11:28 pm

Yes, avoid pink sweets and death smiles.
If I were you, I'd go for Esp II. Bloody fun at a reasonable price.

riffbear · Post by **riffbear** » Wed May 21, 2008 11:32 pm

Fenrir wrote:Yes, avoid pink sweets and death smiles.
If I were you, I'd go for Esp II. Bloody fun at a reasonable price.

What is a reasonable price?

So far it seems it is $700 new..

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:05 am

Out of those four I'd get Deathsmiles or Pink Sweets.

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:15 am

I've only played EspGaluda2 and it's off the hizzy. But anything from Cave is probably good.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:16 am

riffbear wrote:Ok guys im going to go with Espgaluda II then!
Thanks a heap!

Who could you highly recommend worth purchasing from?

if you're patient, wait till one pops up in the trading section of the forum

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:17 am

since my head is full of it I'd definetly vote for ketsui, and i also think you will have most fun with it.

Why?

It has an interesting/easy to understand chain system, the patterns are as awesome as in no other game, the music is epic (as the whole game is), and the atmosphere (war, future) is just exciting.

@EOJ: PS will be definetly the wrong choice, since kinda noone has fun with it.
Its just too hard to have with it for a long time, and soon you reach a barrier that cannot be broken anymore.

ForceDevice · Post by **ForceDevice** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:28 am

I haven't played any of these four, but Deathsmiles interests me more than all the other 3 together.

Not that it matters anymore though. Have fun with Galuda II.

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