Xbox 360: Akai Katana Shin (May 2011)

[Jockel]

Maybe someone else can draw the same conclusion?

No?

[apple arcade]

Stupid Question: Who is that redheaded chick?

She is Zoe Boyle aka Trinity Ashby on Sons of Anarchy season 3.

[mesh control]

Cave are huge FX fans.

[emphatic]

Cave are huge FX fans.

Yes, their scoring systems are kinda based on the excellent show Justified.

[evil_ash_xero]

I have no clue whether to buy this or not. I think i'm going to wait until some of your guinea pigs get it.

I didn't hear many good things about it, from those who played the PCB. However, I HEAR that the one or two people who played the "consumer" version, said that it was better balanced, and that extra stage could solve it's "this is way too short" problem.

The graphics are beautiful, as are the designs.

[BPzeBanshee]

Stupid Question: Who is that redheaded chick?

She is Zoe Boyle aka Trinity Ashby on Sons of Anarchy season 3.

Oh right. Never seen that TV show before, though I do kinda see the similarities in the pictures.

[Elixir]

I don't see any similarities, but she reminds me of Lightning from FF13.

[BPzeBanshee]

Smoke weed and squint-look at both of the faces at the same time and you'll see it.

[whoozwah]

omg they're the same.

[Sumez]

Is she supposed to look like the boy or the girl?

Oh my god they are both generic anime faces without any distinctive features at all!

(nb: I'm not anti-anime and I actually dig the art for this game )

[BPzeBanshee]

Is she supposed to look like the boy or the girl?

I believe they're meant to be both. This is why you smoke weed and squint.

Or maybe he's not just referring to the pictures but the character's nature as well, in which case I can't really comment because I haven't seen the TV show nor played Akai Katana to compare characteristics.

[Sumez]

I've yet to see a shmup character with personality.

[moozooh]

I've yet to see a shmup character with personality.

It's a good thing then, isn't it? ;) You're basically Gordon Freeman in every shmup game: a silent protagonist whose personality is defined solely by his actions.

Then again, princess Reco would probably be a candidate for personality.

[Sumez]

Yet Gordon Freeman has a tendency to score really high on all those GameFAQs character battles. One of the most uninteresting game protagonists ever designed.

I just want my shmup characters/vehicles to look awesome, and that's it.

[NzzpNzzp]

I've yet to see a shmup character with personality.

Don't be brue,Ran.

Twinkle Star Sprites is basically personality overload.

[Drachenherz]

I've yet to see a shmup character with personality.

It's a good thing then, isn't it? You're basically Gordon Freeman in every shmup game: a silent protagonist whose personality is defined solely by his actions.

Then again, princess Reco would probably be a candidate for jugs.

FTFY

[Sumez]

Really?

[Drachenherz]

Really?

Really.

Link

(Btw, I got this pic on my stick... heheheh)

Mod Edit: The pic itself is also too big. : P

[Sumez]

I stand corrected...

Never really looked closer at that pic, it is highly disturbing (even if it's not unlikely)
I'm glad they decided to give her a reduction with the sequel, it seems to fit the style of the game a lot better

[Drachenherz]

I stand corrected...

Never really looked closer at that pic, it is highly disturbing (even if it's not unlikely)
I'm glad they decided to give her a reduction with the sequel, it seems to fit the style of the game a lot better

Pssst, Sumez... the pic I linked... IS from the sequel...

[Sumez]

For god's sake just shoot me! >___<
It looks a lot like the cover of the first game, didn't notice it wasn't the same.
Where exactly is the image taken from?

[Drachenherz]

For god's sake just shoot me! >___<
It looks a lot like the cover of the first game, didn't notice it wasn't the same.
Where exactly is the image taken from?

Google...



On a serious note: I think the images are also available at cave's homepage, but I'm not sure about this.

[chempop]

I've yet to see a shmup character with personality

^hasn't played enough Batrider, Gunbird, or Shikigami series.

Akai Katanas art is nicely done but incredibly generic. I much prefer the weirder side of CAVE illustrated in Galuda, MMP, PS, and even <gasp> Deathsmiles...

[Zeron]

I am a bit confused here


So HD visuals are exclusive to the 16:9 SHIN mode,the 4:3 original game is lowres visuals only?

[dan76]

I hope so.

[spadgy]

Me too!

[Sumez]

Isn't SHIN mode exactly the same as the original/arcade mode, EXCEPT with the extra stage, HD graphics and 16:9 aspect? (let's not consider slowdown emulation at this point) - in that case it would only make sense to keep the original mode exactly as the original, including the graphics resolution - like they did with DeathSmiles.

[drunkninja24]

Isn't SHIN mode exactly the same as the original/arcade mode, EXCEPT with the extra stage, HD graphics and 16:9 aspect? (let's not consider slowdown emulation at this point) - in that case it would only make sense to keep the original mode exactly as the original, including the graphics resolution - like they did with DeathSmiles.

I'm pretty sure some of the game mechanics are changed as well.

[Aliquantic]

We don't really know the details, and with another mode (Zetsu) announced it's a given one of them at least will have different gameplay (it'd mirror DSII quite nicely too)... but if I can read Japanese correctly there's a stream planned in the future, so we can put a rest to idle speculation soon

[peace4myheart]

Stupid Question: Who is that redheaded chick?

She is Zoe Boyle aka Trinity Ashby on Sons of Anarchy season 3.

It's not Zoe Boyle, but Molly C. Quinn. She plays the character Alexis, the daughter of Richard Castle from the show, Castle on ABC.