Parfait Station: the shmup MMORPG

dai jou bu · Post by **dai jou bu** » Thu May 19, 2005 10:54 pm

I do not lie.

Here's avideo, courtesy of Insert Credit.

I hope it turns out like it should in the video and doesn't kill my graphics card in the process of trying to run the game with minimum details.

kong · Post by **kong** » Thu May 19, 2005 10:58 pm

It looks more like a mmo neocontra or red star than a mmo shmup. Just my opinion of course.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Thu May 19, 2005 11:01 pm

It's not a shmup obviously, but it does look like it has pretty good potential to be a fun shooter. Then again, Senko no Ronde doesn't look too great to me, so maybe I'm just intrigued by the MMO part of it.

5parrowhawk · Post by **5parrowhawk** » Thu May 19, 2005 11:05 pm

Looks like it's closer to the Desert Strike/Robotron idea of a "free-roaming" shooter than a strict shmup. Also looks like fun.

Well, we'll see, I guess.

dai jou bu · Post by **dai jou bu** » Fri May 20, 2005 1:42 am

It's kind of hard to have forced scrolling backgrounds, especially in the context of an RPG. So moving around in a Smash TV/Robotron-esque environment is the closest thing to mixing both genres together I suppose.

Shmup or not, I'm definitely curious about how this will turn out, especially the PvP aspects of it.

Edit: just realized they called it MMOG, not MMORPG, but judging from the videos, it looks like they still have some MMORPG concepts there anyway.

More Editing: Looks like they call it an MMOG on their site, but the promo video mentions RPG elements. I'm going with the latter because the promo's more recent.

D · Post by D » Fri May 20, 2005 12:41 pm

Reminded me of Cannon Spike