Shikigami no Shiro III

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:10 am

According to the AM Show's BBS, there will be a video only of it shown at the show next week.

oxtsu · Post by **oxtsu** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:24 am

Alfa has a lot of weight on their shoulders for this one. Here's hoping they can pull off the sort of gameplay improvements we saw from SnS I-->II.
It's hard to imagine! :)

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:01 am

oxtsu wrote:Alfa has a lot of weight on their shoulders for this one. Here's hoping they can pull off the sort of gameplay improvements we saw from SnS I-->II.
It's hard to imagine!

If they could improve as much as they did between SnS I and II, then we would be looking at a masterpiece in III.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:39 am

oxtsu wrote:Alfa has a lot of weight on their shoulders for this one. Here's hoping they can pull off the sort of gameplay improvements we saw from SnS I-->II.
It's hard to imagine!

I hope they do that too, but it would take a real miracle to pull off. Here's hoping for a miracle!

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:23 am

GaijinPunch wrote:According to the AM Show's BBS, there will be a video only of it shown at the show next week.

I wet myself.

uwfan · Post by **uwfan** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:24 am

SnS 2 completely owns! i would be happy with SnS 3 being just as good.

Kiel · Post by **Kiel** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:54 am

I'm certainly interested in seeing what changes they made/didn't make myself. I hope it turns out great.

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:10 am

Will be really looking forward to this one, after taking some time to really grab me, SNSII has quickly become one of my most played shooters as of late, and creeping slowly up the all0time rankings. I'd personally be happy if the overall design wasn't tinkered around with too much, I think the balance is prety much perfect already. Here's hoping.

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:54 am

Request to Alpha: Improve the music! If you do that I will be a happy bunny.

Oh, and release it on the DC or GC!! Thanks Alpha

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:02 am

Pedro Lambrini wrote:Request to Alpha: Improve the music! If you do that I will be a happy bunny. Oh, and release it on the DC or GC!! Thanks Alpha

it's a type-x game so it will probably get a taito PS2 port.

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:16 am

Oh yeah, forgot 'bout that! Why would it be PS2 rather than xbox? Isn't Type-x a direct x based board?

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:20 pm

I am sure everyone else in the world has seen the screenshots of this game but I hadn't so I thought I would link:

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0409/game090304c.shtml

Oh, and a "video" exclusive to Gamespot.

http://www.gamespot.com/arcade/action/s ... media.html

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:22 pm

WTF is that space ship doing in there? Isn't that top pic Gigawing 2? I'm a moderate fan of the 2nd game, but w/ the gigantic turds coming out on the Type-X, I'm extremely weary of this now. Taito is WAY off of the Xmas list at this point.

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:37 pm

Its funny as I thought it looked a lot liek GW2!

visuatrox · Post by **visuatrox** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:27 pm

Pedro Lambrini wrote:Oh yeah, forgot 'bout that! Why would it be PS2 rather than xbox? Isn't Type-x a direct x based board?

Well the Japanese Xbox market is tiny, and the shmups genre is already niche as it is. Therefore even though it would technically make more sense to port it for Xbox, they would probably prefer a bigger market (PS2).

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:31 pm

professor ganson wrote:If they could improve as much as they did between SnS I and II, then we would be looking at a masterpiece in III.

I doubt it'll be that much of an improvement, but I certainly hope it is, heh heh.

And yeah, what the heck were Giga Wing Generations screenshots doing on its page? Guess they just figured "ah, it's a shooter, they won't know the difference."

Kiel · Post by **Kiel** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:12 pm

lol @ GWG pics.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:52 pm

Fuckin' magic box

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:10 pm

From the video, it looks like Kim's back. Teehee.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:52 pm

professor ganson wrote:
oxtsu wrote:Alfa has a lot of weight on their shoulders for this one. Here's hoping they can pull off the sort of gameplay improvements we saw from SnS I-->II.
It's hard to imagine!
If they could improve as much as they did between SnS I and II, then we would be looking at a masterpiece in III.

I said the same exact thing about the Gigawing series when Generations was announced.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:55 pm

Jon wrote:I said the same exact thing about the Gigawing series when Generations was announced.

Not to go too far off topic, but I hafta say that I like a lot of what was done with GWG game-wise; unfortunately the port was pretty awful.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:07 pm

^^ Yeah, I would REALLY love to see GWG in an arcade. Too bad I live in OH.

visuatrox · Post by **visuatrox** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:37 pm

Well Gigawing Generations in my opinion has the best gameplay out of all gigawing games. The problem is just that the port had bad framerate, long loading times, and overall artistic design and music much worse than the previous games. If they had fixed those issues then they would have had a winner.

SNS to SNS2 was a huge leap in all aspects, and I guess SNS3 will be a solid game too.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:04 am

uwfan wrote:SnS 2 completely owns! i would be happy with SnS 3 being just as good.

Word!

I just wonder (or maybe hope is a better word!) if there will be a Dreamcast port of Shiki 3, like there was of 2.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:20 am

dave4shmups wrote: I just wonder (or maybe hope is a better word!) if there will be a Dreamcast port of Shiki 3, like there was of 2.

That would be very cool, but my guess is that it's unlikely. I believe Shiki 3 is being developed for Type-X, not Naomi, so a port to DC would not be trivial.

MichiyoNoShiroIV · Post by **MichiyoNoShiroIV** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:03 am

I'm sure every system will get it like 2 did.

I can only hope.....I HATE SONY.

FMK · Post by **FMK** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:06 pm

Images and video at 4Gamer.

http://www.4gamer.net/news.php?url=/new ... etail.html

http://www.4gamer.net/jump.php?http://d ... igami3.zip

Varuga · Post by **Varuga** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:17 pm

Okay, I am now excited.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:51 pm

Damn, thanks FMK. That video is REALLY promising.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:27 pm

Seems like they've got a whole bunch of new characters there. From what I could make out in the clip it looks like only Kohtaro Kuga (?), Gennojo Hyuga, Fumiko and Roger Sasuke (?) are left of the old gang. (Unless the girl in the white dress is supposed to be Sayo and Niigi has a new hairdo and dyes her hair green now.)

The green-haired girl's attack, however, bears a striking resemblance to Niigi's, although the homing shot (either a new shiki attack or something along the lines of a special shot) doesn't look familiar at all. And the girl in the white dress seems to have inherited Kim's attack from SNS2.

Anyway, this looks delicious. Consider me all hyped-up.

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