Death Smiles: Countdown to North America Invasion

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:12 am

Any idea who the dancing goon trio were? That was uncomfortable to watch as clearly they were the only ones into it.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:17 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
Cosplayers were too young to have visible boxes.

BEST.
So, even "the Old one"?

GaijinPunch wrote: EDIT:
Fun facts:
-The theme song might be worse than (I can't believe I'm saying this) Pink Sweets & Muchi Muchi Pork.

i like MMP song

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:14 am

GaijinPunch wrote: -The theme song might be worse than (I can't believe I'm saying this) Pink Sweets & Muchi Muchi Pork.

Anyway, I'm kinda liking the game so far, definitely wanna see more

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:32 am

I never got to hear the pink sweets song. I'm kind of sad

Yeah, the song is pretty bad. They should have just made Thriller the official theme. Or, god forbid, they could use Namiki's music.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:46 am

Zebra Airforce: You can hear the background of it in a video on my site. Go to omake->commentary->AOU SHow Report. It's in there.

I fucking fell asleep. Man, what a great nap. Videos are just now finishing crunching. Should have them up in like 30 minutes or so.... you whores.

hermosaguy · Post by **hermosaguy** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:50 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Zebra Airforce: You can hear the background of it in a video on my site. Go to omake->commentary->AOU SHow Report. It's in there.

I fucking fell asleep. Man, what a great nap. Videos are just now finishing crunching. Should have them up in like 30 minutes or so.... you whores.

Hurry up! I need to take my car in tomorrow so I need to get some rest! I can't sleep till I check them out though.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:33 am

Well, they're not small... still uploading.

hermosaguy · Post by **hermosaguy** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:43 am

Yikes! I'll probably catch them first thing in the morning. Thank you for getting the footage, I'm sure it will make the day of many people!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:17 am

Report Pics & vids on the following pages. Enjoy.

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:42 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Report Pics & vids on the following pages. Enjoy.

Nice commentary

The sound has a repetive background noise, is
this an artifact of the conversion or was there some interference ?

rtw

Shinichi Chiba · Post by **Shinichi Chiba** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:45 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Report Pics & vids on the following pages. Enjoy.

Nice work Gaijin ! Death Smiles looks a little too easy , patterns seem very predictable , still is cool . WTF is Cafetellia WAKO ??

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:53 am

nice report GP, dling the vids now.

i hope you nicked a healthy chunk of those flyers

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:01 pm

Were those real flyers, or just copies as per usual?

Fu · Post by Fu » Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:08 pm

I didn't follow all of the topic, but what does mean the choice between each stages ? I think it's the rank but...

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:18 pm

Thx for the report GaijinPunch!

This is looking really good. I'm quite a fan of the danmaku concept, but even though it's not danmaku this game looks really promising to me. I hope it does get really hard when you choose high rank (because it looks kind of easy on the videos). Art style is really nice, horizontal and multi direction... just great ideas.

But hey, I still don't see what's wrong with Progear that is not wrong with this one. What did Ikeda consider flawed in Progear and how did they cope with it in Death Smiles ?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:27 pm

Were those real flyers, or just copies as per usual?

No, they are all real flyers (hi quality glossy, unlike the Pink Sweets ones they passed out when you and I were there way back when). I only got two though... remember, I didn't have a lot of time. Now I'm hearing there was an auction where a DOJ:BL poster sold for 8000 yen. I gotta go punch myself in the balls a few times.

What did Ikeda consider flawed in Progear and how did they cope with it in Death Smiles ?

Nothing, they just said it was more work than they anticipated. Kind of showed him that yoko & hori are two totally different things. From what I've read, the only game he really comes down on himself on was ESPRade.

evil_ash_xero · Post by **evil_ash_xero** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:50 pm

Hmm...just took a look at that video. Looks interesting. The graphics look very good, and the character designs, while definitely very loligoth, look pretty good.

It reminds me a little bit of Sol Divide(which I didn't like), but i'm sure it'll be enjoyable at least to some degree. I hope it's great, since Jun is back, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. I'm also very glad that it's not scrolling in the opposite direction, as some speculated.

I'm glad Cave are doing something different with this game. They have been sorta in a safety zone for a few years now. It's time to do something more bold.

s/m

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:56 pm

rtw wrote: Nice commentary The sound has a repetive background noise, is
this an artifact of the conversion or was there some interference ?

rtw

Shit. It was my stupid camera. I'll recapture them later w/ better sound so you can hear the annoying song.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:13 pm

Thanks much for the from-the-source info, GP.

A handful of things I noticed in the Windia vid you posted -

It looked to me like using the lock-on weapon lowered your score item stock, but using a bomb didn't seem to have much of a penalty, if any at all - sort of an unusual setup for Cave, but I guess it kinda sorta made sense, as score attackers will still have a harder time than 1CC players.

I imagine that the thing that sounded like "Smile-ku" in the background was the awful theme song you speak of? Is it a requirement for every new game released to have something like that made for it, or what?

The arrow warnings seemed easier to see in your vid, and, to my pleasant surprise, more numerous than I'd thought (including at the "dropping ogre part"). What are your thoughts on that - did the game throw a lot of cheap deaths at you, or did it seem mostly fair?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:33 pm

If you guys here something that sounds like little kids saying "Death Smiles"... that's exactly what it is. They had some special shit for the youngsters in the booth over where they had to scream it into a microphone.

henry dark · Post by **henry dark** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:37 pm

Thanks for uploading the videos. I tried to get time off work to make it down myself, but couldn't in the end, alas.

The sprite looks enormous though. Still, looking forward to the location test.

Post by **undamned** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:42 pm

Thanks for the vids, GP. Just dl'd a couple and I'll watch them in a bit...!
-ud

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:57 pm

Thank GP!

oxtsu · Post by **oxtsu** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:41 am

#1 game of show, on day 3 (#2 on days 1+2), says Amusement Journal poll
http://www.am-j.co.jp/column/45amshow/data03.html

[edit] Also, not surprisingly, Manabu Namiki is on sound detail.

tekneekz · Post by **tekneekz** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:32 pm

dam nice vids, look at the detail on the face on the ground boss and his boulders in the cemetary level lol, nice.

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:52 am

RyanDG wrote:More images and videos from Kobayan -

http://www.kobayan.jp/event/2007_am/am2007.htm
http://www.kobayan.jp/event/2007_am/douga/death-01.wmv
http://www.kobayan.jp/event/2007_am/douga/death-02.wmv

That last video was so totally not cool. The amateurish cosplay dance just gives an impression of an amateurish crappy game.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:56 am

That last video was so totally not cool. The amateurish cosplay dance just gives an impression of an amateurish crappy game.

Yeah, the quality of the cosplay always reflects how good or bad the game comes out.

HeLGeN-X · Post by **HeLGeN-X** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:22 am

Dave_K. wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:Partially in an effort not to make this another "it's just you thread".

It's definitely not you
Secretly hoping its a precursor to ESPRade. Maybe a sexy young Miss Garra to boot!

That would especially tantalize my taste buds.

Post by **undamned** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:14 am

Got to watch the higher quality video, GP! Nice work!
-ud

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:12 pm

doctorx0079 wrote:
RyanDG wrote:More images and videos from Kobayan -

http://www.kobayan.jp/event/2007_am/am2007.htm
http://www.kobayan.jp/event/2007_am/douga/death-01.wmv
http://www.kobayan.jp/event/2007_am/douga/death-02.wmv
That last video was so totally not cool. The amateurish cosplay dance just gives an impression of an amateurish crappy game.

oh my god wtf was that dance indeed T.T