Comiket 76 thread

[postman]

Here's what to expect shmupwise:

Alternative Sphere (Twilight Insanity makers)
http://blue.sakura.ne.jp/~loop/game/as/index.html

Altynex 2nd (C-76 demo version) - Siter Skain
http://www.siterskain.com/as/index.html

Arcanum Echo - Alouette Ciel
http://alouetteciel.web.fc2.com/arcanum ... index.html

Crimzon Clover
http://yotsubane.blog99.fc2.com/

Excede 3rd Jade Penetrate Black Package- Tennen-Sozai
http://www.tennen-sozai.com/eXceed3rd-BP/

Hinamizawa Bunkou ~Final Match - M3
http://m3-type.xii.jp/product/final_match/game.html

KS(?) - Purple Heart (hentai)
http://purpleheart.jp/game07/index.htm

Magical Cannon Girl 2 -Kit Station
http://www.kit-station.com/mcg2/index.html

Magi Magi - Kit Station
http://www.sirokurost.com/

Mikkus Taiken - Artsneit
http://akiragoya.sakura.ne.jp/game/mix/

Princess Drawing -
http://www.wish.sakura.ne.jp/desuno/gam ... index.html

RefRain - RebRank
http://www.rebrank.org/

Sole Sinner - Studio Steamrock
http://www.geocities.jp/studiosteamrock/

Stella Vanity (?) - Feathered Ether
http://www.feathered-ether.com/index.php

The Light You Saw - Usimitu Banana
http://usimitu.com/game/kimigamita_hikari/index.html

UFO - Shanghai Alice
http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th12top.html

Unknown - Donpachi
http://www.donpachi.jp/donpachi/index.html

Updated list - thanks Observer and also New Stage.

[LtC]

Which ones are confirmed to have a full version release? Seems like at least Alltynex2nd and RefRain are only getting trial versions at best. Well I hope RefRain will be made harder from what the C75 version was and for Alltynex2nd that they greatly tone down that ridiculous melee mode damage.

What about StellaVanity? I was under the impression that the full version would be released at c76.

[Observer]

For Stella Vanity: Well, apparently the game is far from complete?

http://stellavanity.seesaa.net/

There seems to be a chart with percentages and other info. This game looks really sick and great, worthy of the "Cave for PC" tag rather than "just another Touhou clone", which it isn't. It's more like a Ketuigaluda-himesamaPachiDaiTouHou. Or just call it Stella Vanity.

This Comiket feels quite weak so far. I do hope some hidden gems will pop up though.

Fans of Arteseneit might be happy to hear there is a hentai Raiden-like (it literally ripped off the shuttle/gates opening menus) 360º shooter coming for PC. Found it on newStage, also for Comiket apparently:

http://purpleheart.jp/game07/index.htm

Looks quite interesting and the mechanics involve locking on stuff and releasing guided laser missiles. It reminded me a lot of CyBattler.

eXceed 3rd looks and plays nice, much better than the original but is nothing to write home about and the yelling vampire/demon/whatever little girls are starting to get increasingly annoying. lol at the attacks with the names of metal bands. "Here, have some DIMMU BORGIR!"

Same deal with Arcanum Echo. The pastels and pretty colours are nice and dice but the voices are incredibly annoying after a while. The beat mechanic is like DoDonPachi's chaining but you have to use a melée weapon to counter enemies and you can carry your chain across stages. But half of the music is pretty much a Touhou rip off and there seems to be a lot of Visual Novel-like content... I do hope there won't be many interruptions between stages.

Siter Skain is Siter Skain so gotta expect a bunch of Ray Force tributes and references to Kamui/RefleX and dozens of spaceships, pew pew and barrages of laser missiles.

Alternative Sphere... No demo of this one yet. Another colourful bullet hell I guess? Those bullets on the screenshots bring me memories of Karous and Radirgy.

Touhou is Touhou so you know what to expect. It's the silliest of the series yet the one with the most interesting mechanic as it forces you to actually move a lot across stages to pick those pesky ships.

As for RebRank, I do hope they polished RefRain a bit more, it was quite buggy and the first boss was a joke, you could even destroy it as soon as it popped up if I'm not wrong.

Wondering, what happened to Sora?

And, wtf Ruminant's Whimper, start making the successor of Hellsinker already...

[Kaspal]

scarce shmup list there... but there's still hope there are some more stuff.

i know that the creator of Gensou Shoujou its gonna release something at C76, its a hori shmup.
murasame (the creatr of hitogata happa), is gonna release something too

i REALLY hope that 7 servants blade gets released AT FINAL-F-ING-LAST, its been like 5 years since the 1st demo came out, and so far, only alphas and more alphas every comiket.

well, thats all i can remember right now... but now that we talk about it, when is C76?... i know is now, in Aug. but what date?

[EPS21]

August 14-16 iirc. Some developers don't release/open up their goods on the initial day, so might the 2nd or 3rd day.

Not that that matters at all except for attendees, but will find its way on the internets at most a few weeks.

[Kaspal]

August 14-16 iirc. Some developers don't release/open up their goods on the initial day, so might the 2nd or 3rd day.

Not that that matters at all except for attendees, but will find its way on the internets at most a few weeks.

next weekend huh?... ok, i'll keep that date marked... i wanna play the full version of UFO and some others.

[lgb]

I'm gonna be funny here and throw out that the SWR expansion is also coming this Comiket. No English subtitle is lol.

[undamned]

Excede 3rd Jade Penetrate Black Package- Tennen-Sozai
http://www.tennen-sozai.com/eXceed3rd-BP/

I'm thinking anything with a chick on the cover and the word "penetrate" in the title is bad news.
-ud

[BIL]

^I'd be more worried about the alleged "black package" myself.

Also, here's hoping for some good progress on Alltynex 2nd. Still very fond of the last demo SS released. I do hope they cut down on / give the option of toggling those in-boss cutscenes, though.

[Zeether]

Alltynex2nd is STILL a demo? Good lord.

[Cthulhu]

If any doujin shmup makers decide they want to go with online sales, I'll be interested. If it's downloadable demo only but the real game is only for sale in a few select brick and mortar stores that you can't get to if you don't live in Japan, like usual, I refuse to give a damn.

[Kaspal]

Alltynex2nd is STILL a demo? Good lord.

taking into account that it took like 7 years or so for Siter Skain to release the full version of Reflex (it was called reflectin back then), and its been like 5 years since i 1st heard of 1 servants blade, and he's still releasing demo after demo in every comiket, dont be surprised if Alltynex comes in full version in 5 years.

[lgb]

If any doujin shmup makers decide they want to go with online sales, I'll be interested. If it's downloadable demo only but the real game is only for sale in a few select brick and mortar stores that you can't get to if you don't live in Japan, like usual, I refuse to give a damn.

And why exactly should Japanese doujin cater to westerners?

[Cthulhu]

If any doujin shmup makers decide they want to go with online sales, I'll be interested. If it's downloadable demo only but the real game is only for sale in a few select brick and mortar stores that you can't get to if you don't live in Japan, like usual, I refuse to give a damn.

And why exactly should Japanese doujin cater to westerners?

They don't have to. At all. It would be nice for the Japanese shoppers too (when I lived in Japan, it took me over 2 hours one-way to get to a place that sold doujin games), but they don't have to.

By the same token, I don't have to be interested in things that are incredibly inconvenient to obtain. Why should Westerners cater to Japanese doujin developers?

[lgb]

They shouldn't. At all. No one cares if they do or don't because it hurts no one except maybe the westerner in question.

[postman]

Added a few more to the list.........

[Aru-san]

The unknown one can be translated as "The Donpachi of Haruhi Suzumiya".

[adversity1]

There's also the Wakabayashi Akira doujin manga...

[Observer]

Arcanum Echo got reviewed at 4gamer.net. The more I see it, the more I am starting to dislike it... Shame on me. Perhaps the game is meant to be played at the highest difficulty but the character art is just so blatantly focused on the fanservice and the lack of nose in most characters is a bit disturbing.

And what a crime to see a Haruhahihuruhuhahi thing (never watched so I don't have the slightest idea of what this is except that its fans are, apparently, quite scary?) taking over the Donpachi name...

For RebRank, a quick translation seems to reveal that the new trial will have 4 stages. I hope that means the game will be longer than Samidare. Also wondering what kind of Extra Stage they'll make, if it has an Extra. Hoping to see a true, massive shooter crossover after the disgrace of Rayging Blues.

And any ideas on what is this thing?

http://yotsubane.blog99.fc2.com/

More pew pew coming.

Now we need that Ketsui clone for PC one day comes out. It says "Processing" now... Or maybe I'm reading wrong and that was there long time ago.

Yes, this one: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4968371

One can dream

[Ed Oscuro]

soem crappy doujin castlevania thing

Not a shooter but look at those patterns (also the lolis!)!

[Ghegs]

soem crappy doujin castlevania thing

Not a shooter but look at those patterns (also the lolis!)!

Tried out the trial...it was pretty cool, actually. Might get that.

On a somewhat related note, I'm starting to wonder how much longer the japanese can stomach all these generic lolis in their games...as opposed to generic spaceships, of course.

[ZOM]

soem crappy doujin castlevania thing

Not a shooter but look at those patterns (also the lolis!)!

lol @ tohouvania
lol @ Scarlet Symphony (yes, that's the name of the game)

Anyways, Gameplay wise it looks good enough to try out... I'll download now.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Heres another news site to browse over called Tenka Seiha.
Among other games it mentions a shmup called The Light You Saw by Usimitu Banana, from the vid it looks nothing special
http://blog.seiha.org/2009/08/thumbing- ... 6-catalog/

On an other page it mentions a couple of bullet hell run and gunners called Sanakai and Mystic Chain which look really good.
http://blog.seiha.org/2009/08/comiket-7 ... u-edition/

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Also theres this touhou type which looks half decent Hinamizawa Bunkou ~Final Match, it's a Higurashi no Naku Koro ni fangame by the circle M3.
There's a demo available http://m3-type.xii.jp/product/final_match/download.html
with the full version been released at this comiket. EDIT: i could be wrong about that fact

[Danbo]

So when can we expect to see Touhou 12 around? Might as well give it a bash and see how it is...

[Kaspal]

tomorrow at noon you might see it around quite a bit....

[TerminasluT]

What the hell is up with this comiket? so far only Touhou12, MagiMagi & Arcanum Echo showed up. Anyone with more luck finding others?

[CStarFlare]

soem crappy doujin castlevania thing

Not a shooter but look at those patterns (also the lolis!)!

the gameplay graphics are pretty bland but those character illustrations are fucking awesome

Reimu especially

[Observer]

Yes, I'm surprised nothing else is showing up. No luck so far. It's not giving me a positive overview of this Comiket. It seems most devs went to sell remaining copies of their older games more than anything else.

I wonder whatever happened to the hentai Raiden-like 360º shooter...

And RefRain. I hope it's less buggy than the C75 version. Or Alltynex2nd.

[Danbo]

re : toho 12

systemwise its the best yet... got rid of the stupid power/bomb thing from 10 and 11 in favour of standard bombing system (a small mercy being that you keep any surplus bombs you had when you die) and what the fuck, the UFO system is actually rather satisfying to play. you at least get a slight amount of choice in what to go for and hell theres probably like 8 extra lives up for grabs if you just go for all reds all the time... pattern wise the gimmicks return, not quite as offensive as th11 though but still not great. bosses 3 and 4 have some stupid giant bullets which i just really don't like, lots of the attacks are rather chaotic which kinda throws out the one appeal touhou games have which is pretty patterns. still cant remap keyboard controls, bah. extra mode is fun but rather easy, beat it first try...

graphics are same as ever, nicely polished and crisp even if the background is still that flat 3d flythrough of whatever. music, uh, its touhou music so naturally 5 billion nerds are gonna go crazy for it but off the top of my head i think i liked boss 4 music and that's about it.

summary : its toho. add some farkin ground targets to this and you might approach a pretty good game. certainly better than 10, better than 11. also perhaps i have recently become neo but i find i can counterbomb rather often in this game