Oh YeahPyongyang wrote:Alpha trailer arriving April 25th!
Hype! Will try not to be wating for to much, don't wanna get disappointment!
Is there a particular reason to order from Play Asia over direct from Hucast?Stevas wrote:Are the likes of play asia likely to get any of the REs of this?
All very good points, it needs more tanks and enemies in general I think. I hate to say it because I'm not a scanline snob but I think it needs them.Pyongyang wrote:I think it looks brilliant (for alpha status). Personal points I had with the video though:
- Looks too slow. Needs to be more 'in your face'. A fast moving ship, like Star Soldier, with some decent scrolling pace.
- The cluster bullets look like they've been lifted straight from Fast Striker. They don't suit the game 'look' at all.
- The dynamic backgrounds look amazing but obviously need work. Right now they feel like gifs tacked on.
- The main pink bullets still look like orbs and not distinctive enough.
- The music is almost there, just needs to lose a bit more of the 'euro' edge to it.
- Some vapor trails behind the ship engine (like mirage waves/heat ripples) would look good.
- The boss fight needs to feel more manic, more reckless, maybe some speed lines or some sort of effect like that might help?
Just some initial thoughts but personally I think it's shaping up to be a brilliant Winter 2013! Can't wait for my CE to arrive!
but it's a genuine 31khz game, so running it on a tri-sync cab wouldn't give you the classic 240p scanlines either.I hate to say it because I'm not a scanline snob but I think it needs them.
The transparency wears off after the first craft is destroyed - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWS2TBKi4w#t=00m38s. It is called GHOST Blade - so the transparency may indicate some special attack mode.z0mbie90 wrote:also the ship looks almost invisible, but it's alpha so maybe it's that.
Sounds cool to me actually, besides that it needs more bullets and enemies that are easy to add imho.ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:The pics looked awesome; watched the video, was not impressed. Reminds me a bit of DDPSDOJ, but with a Pink Sweets-esque ship. The only thing I like about it are the backgrounds; the enemies look boring and/ or like nothing specific, everything moves too slow, not enough bullets, most bullets look really doujin-ish, and the music has that sickly sweet generic j-trancey vibe. I know it's an alpha, but if things keep moving in that direction it looks like it's going to be a real snoozefest.
Yeah like colorcycling, except actual colorcyling probably wouldn't fit the prerendered graphics.Stevas wrote:For me, the water kinda ruined the look. I realise it's an alpha, just saying.
Not sure at the moment how best to solve that. Even static would have looked better. Maybe a less pronounced, almost imperceptible level of movement would work better.
I've thrown up too, after watching that weird, twitching ocean water. They could have gone for an SNK/KOF style animated background and made it look far better than that. This game looks little more than a bland, European DDP ripoff. Between this and NG Dev's repeat failures to make something worthwhile, I'm not so keen on keeping the Dreamcast development going if it's just stuff like this. I realize the video is just a beta, but it just looks like a DDP clone, and probably doesn't control as well to boot.lilmanjs wrote:They have thrown up an alpha video of gameplay. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWS2TBKi4w
Oh wow It's you again. You hate all games that are in Alpha state, well I remember you from the Neo XYX thread. Nevermind.trap15 wrote:If your game looks like shit, you shouldn't be attempting to show it off. Even if it's in alpha. Wonder why I haven't publicly shown anything of my CPS2 game? Because it looks like shit right now.
