Does Dangun Feveron intimidate you????

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:37 pm

Davey wrote:I'm not saying everybody needs to love its flamboyancy, but the game gets written off without being given a proper chance.

Bah, Feveron's not flamboyant...it's on the wacky side, for sure, but it's got nothing on something like Parodius...heck, it doesn't even feature a giant disco ball as a boss or anything like that! Yeah, the music's "out there" and the "dancing guys" and the announcer add to that feeling, but when you get down to it you're still a fairly regular ol' ship shooting fairly regular ol' mechanical baddies...when I first heard of Feveron and booted it up the first time, I was actually expecting a much wackier presentation than it turned out to have. Maybe I'm just weird...

Stormowl · Post by **Stormowl** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:39 pm

The music in Dangun Feveron doesn't intimidate me. But if Cave hired Daft Punk to do the soundtrack to Dangun Feveron 2, i'd probably shoot myself.

Darkcomet72 · Post by **Darkcomet72** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:51 pm

Hey, some music is better than no music, right? (wrong).

Stage 3 has the best music in the game, in my opinion. I'm not terribly fond of the soundtrack myself.

Still, I wouldn't close myself to some music just because it's Techno, Disco, Country, or even Hip Hop, I care more about the composition of the music, and how well it's choreographed. Nothing hits me harder then that spine-tingling feeling that comes from a good song; compare that with the adrenaline beats often found in many shmups, and you'll see why shmup music is some of my favorite music ever.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:20 am

I own DDPDOJ, and I have a MUCH harder time with that game then the times I've played Dangun on MAME. Dangun does intimidate me somewhat (I've never played a Cave shmup that hasn't!), but not as much as some of their other shmups.

Perhaps that's because I like the regular and "saw" shots in Dangun better then the similar type weapons that are in the DDP series.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:02 am

BIG wrote:[
That's the beauty of it,you sad,sad little man.

On the serious tip,I dig Feveron lots,probably one of my favorite shmups of all time. Call me crazy,but yeah,I think it's ACE!

And no,I am not intimidated by those crazy spinning little cyborg dudes..

BIG-

Bah. I'll stick to the Strikers series. Much more fun.

WarpZone · Post by **WarpZone** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:52 am

The game is fairly intimidating at first, especially because of its speed. However, after more play time I actually found it to be very playable and intuitive- I can't imagine playing on anything other than Speed 4 now. Normally I tend to like slower ships (I couldn't possibly use the orange one in DDP), but Feveron's bullet patterns are a lot less congested than in most Cave games, so a slower speed usually isn't necessary.

I was coming close to a 1CC last year but finally took a break. The 5th boss was just too much, and I couldn't get there reliably. To those more interested in distance than score, ignoring disco men after you get the extend isn't a bad idea. I still couldn't resist bombing to save them though, and usually ended up short on bombs when I needed them most.

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Personally, I love the game's disco theme and soundtrack. I can see where it's not for everyone, but I think it gives the game its own identity. Most shmups have terrifically banal overall themes, and often the ships, evil empire, aliens or whatnot have no relevance whatsoever. That's all true of Feveron as well. The thing is, the game knows they don't have relevance, and seems to be an intentional parody of just that. Since everything's a bit tongue-in-cheek, its use of a spaceship motif feels justified rather than bogus.

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:58 am

there is even a free 10th spot in the ranking in my thread.
like warpzone, the 5th boss was too much for me, maybe one day..

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:29 pm

The disco theme is intentional. the game was supposed to be an anniversary game to celebrate ten years of Tatsujin/Truxton, but ended up being a parody of Toaplan/Cave style. Since they wanted to give it a retro feeling, they thought to make the design a parody of the ultimate "retro period", the '70s.In short, it's the equivalent of Parodius for the various Tatsujin/Pachi games

it only lacks disco penguins to be complete

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:35 pm

BulletMagnet wrote:
Davey wrote:I'm not saying everybody needs to love its flamboyancy, but the game gets written off without being given a proper chance.
Bah, Feveron's not flamboyant...

Yes, perhaps I should be more careful with my words. If I start using "flamboyant" for Feveron, I would be at a loss for words when describing Cho Aniki.

OptimusPrimeX · Post by **OptimusPrimeX** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:57 pm

Randorama wrote:The disco theme is intentional. the game was supposed to be an anniversary game to celebrate ten years of Tatsujin/Truxton, but ended up being a parody of Toaplan/Cave style. Since they wanted to give it a retro feeling, they thought to make the design a parody of the ultimate "retro period", the '70s.In short, it's the equivalent of Parodius for the various Tatsujin/Pachi games it only lacks disco penguins to be complete

Weird how it was supposed to be an anniversary game to celebrate Truxton. Especially that Truxton was a Toaplan game, and not all of the members went to cave .. am i correct?.. Sorry about the nub question, but how much longer was Toaplan in existance after some members went to Cave. Or should i say when did Toaplan go down, and/or did mostly everyone go to Cave?..

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:09 pm

Ok, the boss music is good. And level 3's music is perfect for it's style, I just don't like it.

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:25 pm

OptimusPrimeX wrote:
Weird how it was supposed to be an anniversary game to celebrate Truxton. Especially that Truxton was a Toaplan game, and not all of the members went to cave .. am i correct?.. Sorry about the nub question, but how much longer was Toaplan in existance after some members went to Cave. Or should i say when did Toaplan go down, and/or did mostly everyone go to Cave?..

No, but Tsuneki Ikeda and Satoshi Koyama worked on Tatsujin, to my knowledge. Toaplan did bankrupt before the AOU show of 1994, if i'm not mistaken, Cave published DP in 1995. No overlapping, i think. Other companies with Toaplan staff are (were?) Gazelle and Raizing (only Shinobu Yagawa, i think), It is said that Takumi had some ex-Toaplan guys at the beginning (probably Masahiro Yuge, the Tatsujin musician, and someone else). Please read the intro of my Batsugun and DonPachi STs for some additional infos

Aside that, the bomb is also a parody of the Tatsujin bomb (i.e. disco fever instead of a giant skull

).

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:38 pm

Let's see... Cave bullets at Psikyo-on-three-powerups speed, a bit more than I can handle.

japtor · Post by **japtor** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:48 am

its easier to score with the cat (uo-poko). course, its much easier to die with the cat too. and cat double play is always a nice challenge. then again i never tried double play on a keyboard though, or anything other than on my cab for that matter.

as for speed differences between pcb/mame, its been a while since i played either, but i didnt have a problem adjusting to one or the other when i was playing. other than uo-poko at least, a bit harder to control when playing on a keyboard.

and the dangun soundtrack is one of the greatest soundtracks ever.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:20 am

There are 2 shmups which really kick my ass badly... one is RSG, and the other one is exactly Feveron.

I have trouble getting past level ONE, and never beat level 2 on this game...

And my score always sucks.

Only played on Raine though, and in a slow computer...

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:28 am

color me bold cuz im ready to get my feveron!

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:51 am

Randorama wrote:The disco theme is intentional. the game was supposed to be an anniversary game to celebrate ten years of Tatsujin/Truxton, but ended up being a parody of Toaplan/Cave style. Since they wanted to give it a retro feeling, they thought to make the design a parody of the ultimate "retro period", the '70s.In short, it's the equivalent of Parodius for the various Tatsujin/Pachi games it only lacks disco penguins to be complete

I can definitely see that in the game, before I even read this Feveron screamed Toaplan and more specifically Tatsujin/Kyukyoku Tiger 2 Plus to me (the latter made by other Toaplan cast-offs). The game also screams, "Whatchu want knucka," from time to time which is intimidating.