KetsuiPachi Worth Playing ?

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antron wrote:Is it correct that ketsuipachi is not available as DLC for the Japanese 1.5? But Black label is?

What about the PAL/USNTSC Resurrection? any DLC (or plans for some)?

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Correct, ketsuipatchi is only available on the BL boxed version, probably added as a sweetener.

For PAL you have v1.51 and BL already out as DLC, from what I gather ketsuipachi is the only thing missing which RSG say they currently have no plans to release for PAL.
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O. Van Bruce wrote: Too much talk about gameplay...
You are forgetting the experience the game provides and the feelings it can convey.
Talking about ketsui, for me it's the last true shmup setting made by CAVE: chars are real heroes, everything is plausible
So you enjoy these games but not for reasons related to playing them?

You want the story to be plausible (none of Cave's plots are by the way), and it needs to have real heroes (you haven't read the ending of ketsui). I think you should go for books and movies as a hobby instead of shmups.
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Bee Cool wrote:
O. Van Bruce wrote: Too much talk about gameplay...
You are forgetting the experience the game provides and the feelings it can convey.
Talking about ketsui, for me it's the last true shmup setting made by CAVE: chars are real heroes, everything is plausible
So you enjoy these games but not for reasons related to playing them?

You want the story to be plausible (none of Cave's plots are by the way), and it needs to have real heroes (you haven't read the ending of ketsui). I think you should go for books and movies as a hobby instead of shmups.
You read only what you want, i play shmups mainly (and not only) for the feeling, the experiences they provide. Part of it is the story, another part is the music and of course, another part is the gameplay. What I was stating is that too many people focused only on the broken scoring system of Ketsuipachi when there are other factors that count on A GAME (not only shmups).
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O. Van Bruce wrote:Talking about ketsui, for me it's the last true shmup setting made by CAVE: chars are real heroes
I don't think killing thousands of innocent people is really very heroic.
Unless you have a serious problem with security guards.
They were soldiers, they know part of their job is the possibility of dying. What I liked about the chars of Ketsui is that they would die even if they destroyed EVAC industries.

Well, the whole game concept (music, art, plot, etc. even those chip sounds :p) is what makes a good atmosphere
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O. Van Bruce wrote: You read only what you want, i play shmups mainly (and not only) for the feeling, the experiences they provide. Part of it is the story, another part is the music and of course, another part is the gameplay. What I was stating is that too many people focused only on the broken scoring system of Ketsuipachi when there are other factors that count on A GAME (not only shmups).
People focus on the scoring system because that's pretty much all that matters if plan on getting serious with a game. It's hard to keep caring about setting and music when you're on your 100th run with a game.
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antron wrote:Is it correct that ketsuipachi is not available as DLC for the Japanese 1.5? But Black label is?

What about the PAL/USNTSC Resurrection? any DLC (or plans for some)?

thanks
Correct. The PAL release is nearly identical to the Japanese 1.5 release; the only difference is 1.51 is paid DLC rather than a first-run bonus, and Black Label is available at launch rather than being a month or two later down the line. Both regions have Black Label as a DLC mode. Japan also received Black Label as a standalone disc release, which is the only form Black Label Arrange (the so-called "Ketsupachi" mode) is available in.
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I like Ketsuipachi. Therefore, Ketsuipachi is worth playing. :p
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Ketsuipachi is very worth buying. I care nothing for regular Black Label but BL Arrange still manages to be my personal favourite flavour of DFK.
RNGmaster wrote:My problems with the TLB are the same as the ones I have with the TLB of many modern CAVE games - there are attacks that are literally undodgeable without bullet cancelling.

The development thread mentions that theoretical perfection should always be possible. With most modern CAVE TLBs, there are some attacks that you can't dodge no matter your skill level, and that's always struck me as a huge problem.
I agree with you mostly, but HiVAC, Ketsuipachi's TLB has been no miss, no bomb, no hyper cleared.
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Naut wrote:Ketsuipachi is very worth buying. I care nothing for regular Black Label but BL Arrange still manages to be my personal favourite flavour of DFK.
RNGmaster wrote:My problems with the TLB are the same as the ones I have with the TLB of many modern CAVE games - there are attacks that are literally undodgeable without bullet cancelling.

The development thread mentions that theoretical perfection should always be possible. With most modern CAVE TLBs, there are some attacks that you can't dodge no matter your skill level, and that's always struck me as a huge problem.
I agree with you mostly, but HiVAC, Ketsuipachi's TLB has been no miss, no bomb, no hyper cleared.
Any videos of that?
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Holy shit. Forget what I said, that is absolutely amazing.
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Naut wrote:Edit: Erppo found it. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm15670428
someone care to post it in another site that is NOT nicovideo with the registering requirement??
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It's really not all that hard to register. I go on there to look at replays some of which are better than what is found on Youtube or superplay.co.uk.
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O. Van Bruce wrote:They were soldiers, they know part of their job is the possibility of dying.
That doesn't really make murdering them okay. I don't think most of the workers at EVAC industry would have been soldiers anyway.
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Age of Kings wrote:It's really not all that hard to register. I go on there to look at replays some of which are better than what is found on Youtube or superplay.co.uk.
i dont have a problem registering, since i have basic knowledge of japanese, but its not cool to register on a random site which you probably wont ever visit again, just to watch a single video.
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Kaspal wrote:
Age of Kings wrote:It's really not all that hard to register. I go on there to look at replays some of which are better than what is found on Youtube or superplay.co.uk.
i dont have a problem registering, since i have basic knowledge of japanese, but its not cool to register on a random site which you probably wont ever visit again, just to watch a single video.
I have absolutely no ability to read written Japanese and I watch videos on Niconico Douga all the time. It's way, way bigger than "a random site".
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O. Van Bruce wrote:
You read only what you want, i play shmups mainly (and not only) for the feeling, the experiences they provide. Part of it is the story, another part is the music and of course, another part is the gameplay. What I was stating is that too many people focused only on the broken scoring system of Ketsuipachi when there are other factors that count on A GAME (not only shmups).
Do you understand that STGs are probably the WORST games if you want to have a story? If you want the music so much "play" an OST, if you want story so much play a different genre. To say that you dislike a Futari because of its story makes me think you don't actually play these games.

Saying you do something for the "experience" isn't saying anything besides you play them to have fun. I hope everyone here plays games because they enjoy the experience, otherwise I wouldn't call that a leisurely activity. If you're not enjoying the "feeling" of playing a game, it's probably because it isn't fun for you. But regardless saying you play a game for fun isn't really a statement about the qualities of a game now is it?
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Kaspal wrote:someone care to post it in another site that is NOT nicovideo with the registering requirement??
"Somebody care to waste hours of their time so I don't have to waste 30 seconds of mine??"
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You can use this site to watch nico videos if you don't want to make an account: http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http:// ... sm15670428
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Naut wrote:
Kaspal wrote:someone care to post it in another site that is NOT nicovideo with the registering requirement??
"Somebody care to waste hours of their time so I don't have to waste 30 seconds of mine??"
"Should i STFU and GTFO if i dont have something usefull to say to a honest request?"
Seriously dude, not everyone wants to create an account just to watch a video.
iconoclast wrote:You can use this site to watch nico videos if you don't want to make an account: http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http:// ... sm15670428
Thanks, RNGmaster gave me that link b4, and i DID find it usefull and handy.

StarCreator wrote:
Kaspal wrote:
Age of Kings wrote:It's really not all that hard to register. I go on there to look at replays some of which are better than what is found on Youtube or superplay.co.uk.
i dont have a problem registering, since i have basic knowledge of japanese, but its not cool to register on a random site which you probably wont ever visit again, just to watch a single video.
I have absolutely no ability to read written Japanese and I watch videos on Niconico Douga all the time. It's way, way bigger than "a random site".
its not that nicodouga is a random site, is just that since i dont go there often (i've been to that site 3 times in my entire life!!), i dont find the necesity of registering there, specially when all i wanted to do today was watch a single video and am not planning on comming back there again in ages!. So no, i didnt say "random" in a derogatory way... i think you get the point now.
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Kaspal wrote:
Naut wrote:"Somebody care to waste hours of their time so I don't have to waste 30 seconds of mine??"
"Should i STFU and GTFO if i dont have something usefull to say to a honest request?"
Seriously dude, not everyone wants to create an account just to watch a video.
Seriously dude, in the time it took you to write these three shitposts you could have registered and watched the vid.
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https://secure.nicovideo.jp/secure/regi ... ion=common

lol, what? Nicovideo's registration is in English now? What's the problem then? I thought he was honestly complaining since the registration has always been in Japanese.
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Elixir wrote:https://secure.nicovideo.jp/secure/regi ... ion=common

lol, what? Nicovideo's registration is in English now? What's the problem then? I thought he was honestly complaining since the registration has always been in Japanese.
This is news to me. I honestly thought it was still all in Japanese that didn't machinetranslate very well. Thanks for the heads up. :D
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Kaspal wrote:its not that nicodouga is a random site, is just that since i dont go there often (i've been to that site 3 times in my entire life!!), i dont find the necesity of registering there, specially when all i wanted to do today was watch a single video and am not planning on comming back there again in ages!. So no, i didnt say "random" in a derogatory way... i think you get the point now.
I just think a site which happens to house a good 70% of an entire country's creative output is worth checking out rather than vehemently refusing to even take a look at it.

Besides, the way you put your original request:
Kaspal wrote:someone care to post it in another site that is NOT nicovideo with the registering requirement??
...isn't going to elicit positive responses. If you're so against registering (and again, you're just missing out at that point), you could have easily found one of the many ways to bypass registration on Google. Just sayin'.
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Paradigm wrote:
Kaspal wrote:
Naut wrote:"Somebody care to waste hours of their time so I don't have to waste 30 seconds of mine??"
"Should i STFU and GTFO if i dont have something usefull to say to a honest request?"
Seriously dude, not everyone wants to create an account just to watch a video.
Seriously dude, in the time it took you to write these three shitposts you could have registered and watched the vid.
by the time i wrote the last 2 "shitposts", i already had watched the video thanks to the link given by RNGMaster.
StarCreator wrote: I just think a site which happens to house a good 70% of an entire country's creative output is worth checking out rather than vehemently refusing to even take a look at it.

Besides, the way you put your original request:
Kaspal wrote:someone care to post it in another site that is NOT nicovideo with the registering requirement??
...isn't going to elicit positive responses. If you're so against registering (and again, you're just missing out at that point), you could have easily found one of the many ways to bypass registration on Google. Just sayin'.
lets just say that im against registering on sites for a simple thing like watching videos. it's true that i might be missing out a lot of things, but again, it's not like i put nico douga as my principal resource for vids... actually, i kinda avoid watching superplays and stuff... not because i dont like them, but because its not my thing.
Elixir wrote:https://secure.nicovideo.jp/secure/regi ... ion=common

lol, what? Nicovideo's registration is in English now? What's the problem then? I thought he was honestly complaining since the registration has always been in Japanese.
like i said i have basic knowledge of japanese (i studied it for a year), so it was never about not being able to read the registering forms... it was about NOT creating an account just to watch a video, but still watching said video.
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Kaspal wrote:i kinda avoid watching superplays and stuff... not because i dont like them, but because its not my thing.
What in the world could this mean? If it's "not your thing" then wouldn't that be the same as not liking it?

You are asking for a link that doesn't make you register, but by doing so you are making other people go out of their way to accommodate your inanity. You gave some of the worst excuses I have ever heard for not wanting to register which basically boils down to you being a lazy yet demanding shit-poster.
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Bee Cool wrote:
Kaspal wrote:i kinda avoid watching superplays and stuff... not because i dont like them, but because its not my thing.
What in the world could this mean? If it's "not your thing" then wouldn't that be the same as not liking it?

You are asking for a link that doesn't make you register, but by doing so you are making other people go out of their way to accommodate your inanity. You gave some of the worst excuses I have ever heard for not wanting to register which basically boils down to you being a lazy yet demanding shit-poster.
c'mon now! ... not being my thing != not liking/enjoying them!!
and i asked for another link since i didnt know there was a way to watch a video from that site w/o registering (and its not always obvious that you can watch them somewhere by just pasting the link, method that i didnt know of til now), i did not force no one to help me (and im thankful with those who did help me), and i dont think that makes me lazy... now, my question is, is such a sin to not register on a place and ask for help on another? cuz all i see is a bunch of posters ganging up on me for such a stupid thing!...

you dont like me asking for help on the matter? IGNORE MY POST!
you dont like me not registering on nico douga for whatever reason i have, SO WHAT? DOES A KITTY DIES BECAUSE OF IT? DOES IT BURNS YOUR PAYCHECK OR SOMETHING?

c'mon! i've watched superplays when i've felt like doing it, but i've registered in so many places for so many silly reasons, and i've got so much spam because of it, that i AVOID registering in a place unless i HAVE TO, and registering on nico douga its not a life changing matter for me, so no, im not registering there, even tho the reasons exposed by StarCreator are pretty sound!... now, someone gave me a link in which i can watch videos from that site w/o registering, and i thank them for that, it wasnt that difficult, and i didnt have to register, and i watched the video and enjoyed it, so if you dont like my ways, your problem, but stop calling me names just for a honest request...
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Guys pls help me I'm too lazy to register, its a serious problem!

No I won't ignore your shitposts.
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Both of you, STFU already. Moving on.
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Bee Cool wrote:
Do you understand that STGs are probably the WORST games if you want to have a story? If you want the music so much "play" an OST, if you want story so much play a different genre. To say that you dislike a Futari because of its story makes me think you don't actually play these games.

Saying you do something for the "experience" isn't saying anything besides you play them to have fun. I hope everyone here plays games because they enjoy the experience, otherwise I wouldn't call that a leisurely activity. If you're not enjoying the "feeling" of playing a game, it's probably because it isn't fun for you. But regardless saying you play a game for fun isn't really a statement about the qualities of a game now is it?
I'll assume you are just trying to troll me, so i'll give a simple message:

I never said I disliked any of the shmups cave made, in fact I love playing Mushihime more than Ketsui. I was just talking about story and music...
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Ketsuipachi > Ketsui
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