Thunderforce VI announced by Famitsu for PS2 in 2008

joeboto · Post by **joeboto** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:19 am

freak is freak, indeed.

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:27 am

Ceph wrote:Speed up

Fastest speed, and don't use the power weapon.

Thank you

By power weapon do you mean over weapon ?

rtw

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:00 am

Is it called that? I mean the secondary weapon that is charged by collecting "souls", which slows you down while you use it

Anyway, the easiest way to kill that boss is to use your ")))" over weapon twice before the boss starts his special attack.

Rai82 · Post by **Rai82** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:14 am

Ceph wrote:Is it called that? I mean the secondary weapon that is charged by collecting "souls"

Yes it's called that. Btw that pic of the last boss, it's one ugly deformed baby. I can't believe he's the leader of the Orn Empire.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:33 am

Sorry, didn't see you had replied before editing my post.

Post by **Ghegs** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:07 pm

Alright, just got my 1CC on Normal. That unlocked Rynex-R and Report 3. Then I cleared the game immediately afterwards (still on Normal) with Rynex-R, which unlocked Syrinx and Report 8.

Awesome stuff. Playing as Rynex-R you get different music on some stages, the ending's totally different, and even the weapons act differently (Free Range is far less useful)...and you actually have to collect the weapons and your CRAWs.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:40 pm

Mine arrived today. I played it a bit before leaving out and all I can say is...ITS BEAUTIFUL.

I'll give further opinions when I get back home tonite to play it more in depth.

coffeejoerx · Post by **coffeejoerx** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:18 pm

Good game, in portuguese I would say: DO CARALHO!

RoninBuddha · Post by **RoninBuddha** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:34 am

while in the last boss, i encountered a graphic glitch, several times, using the "net" weapon's bomb attack causes garbled textures to appear... lol

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:07 am

I got all three ships, I played on normal. Great game, pretty to look at, good musics. It was a little easy than I thought....hmmmm. Oh well I rate the game an 7.9/10.

This game was made more like Thunderforce 5...thats what it felt like.

Masamune · Post by **Masamune** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:44 am

uh this game just gave me a 1up early on stage 1, whats going on???

Koa Zo · Post by **Koa Zo** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:27 am

Masamune wrote:uh this game just gave me a 1up early on stage 1, whats going on???

first time playing a Thunder Force?

Masamune · Post by **Masamune** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:38 am

yeah actually, hey thats cool theres a 1up on the roof of one of the buildings in the background, i thought it was arbitrary.

Rai82 · Post by **Rai82** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:02 am

Looks like TFVI works on pcsx2 emulator.

This should be a good incentive for those who don't have the console to try out the game. The screenshots were taken from a Japanese blogger. However the blogger commented that although you can play the game all the way to the ending, there may be freezing issues and occasionally forced to terminate the program.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:52 am

so there are 3 usable ships in total right.. no more? I got the game today and really enjoy it, lots of fun and looks quite nice.

pcb_revival · Post by **pcb_revival** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:20 am

spadgy wrote:Theres a sizeable shmups feature in the Edge that came to subscribers today (issue 195), plus a huge interview with Sega's Tez Okano about shooters in general, Thunder Force VI, and his favourite all time shooters (Salamander, Chorensha, Tatsujin, Darius and Space Harrier (!?)).

If your after more on TFVI, go get yourself a copy, and when I'm done at work, I'll try and post the most interesting bits...

EDIT: Spelling like an idiot!

Points of interest from the Tez Okano interview.

Depending on how well the game sells it is the first in a line of shooters - STG Project - he wants to develop new Space Harrier and Fantasy Zone titles.

Okano has worked with Treasure previously on three occasions however he did not want them to work on TFVI as he felt it would become a "Treasure" game along the lines of Gradius V - no ThunderForce soul but Treasures.

Wanted to do a arcade version but Lindbergh too expensive and Naomi not enough power.

Intended slowdown in the game.

Possible conversion of ThunderForce VI to PSP.

Wants to explore digital distribution.

Would be happy to work on XboX360 for overseas sales.

He also feels todays shooters are too manic.

clp · Post by **clp** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:33 am

just ordered my copy , looking forward to it . I hope people buy this and dont just use the " i wanna test it on emulator first" excuse , seriously how many of those people honestly go and buy the game afterward .

Observer · Post by **Observer** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:54 am

clp wrote:just ordered my copy , looking forward to it . I hope people buy this and dont just use the " i wanna test it on emulator first" excuse , seriously how many of those people honestly go and buy the game afterward .

Seeing the state, knowledge and skills required to even get the thing running plus the computer specs needed to run a game even remotely decently (and some of them won't just work fast anyway), it's just easier (and safer) to get a PS2+game and end of the issues.

I mean, I can plug the PS2 and play Espgaluda without issues. The emu cannot even run it past 12fps due to some buffer issue or something. (maybe it was fixed already who knows, however, what really makes the emu attractive is that games like Mushihime look absolutely fantastic on the comp, far less blurry and headache-inducing)

Anyway, TFVI definitely looks badass. Sadly, I'll either have to wait for an american release or save for months to get it (or get a used copy in a couple of months after the hype dies...) but this is definitely on my list.

Reinforcing the awesomeness of the boss themes.

charlesr · Post by **charlesr** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:06 pm

Is anyone else finding the graphics in this just a little on the ragged side?

For example when going through the organic tunnels and there's some round balls that when you shoot them, they turn into lots of smaller round balls, there's no solidity to it. It's like it's not showing enough frames and they are teleporting around. Lots of the fast moving stuff is giving me a similar feeling. Sorry I'm so lame at describing it. I'll have another play and see if I can articulate it more clearly.

This is where I find I was imagining it earlier

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:16 pm

Is anyone else finding the graphics in this just a little on the ragged side?

nope....

Yeah... I hope folks buy this and it does as well as a release of this kind can do. I really enjoy it and would like to see more from this guy.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:22 pm

According to Enterbrain/Famitsu TFVI sold about 67.000 copies on it's first day!

Now who ever said shmups were dead!

Still waiting for my copy though.....

sideshow · Post by **sideshow** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:12 pm

You dont need to 1cc on normal to unlock the other ships. I unlocked both ships on normal and didnt 1cc at all.

John845 · Post by **John845** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:23 pm

Would you guys say this games graphics are as impressive as Gradius V's? It being a PS2 game and all that's I'm making the comparison.

mjclark · Post by **mjclark** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:05 pm

That Orn Faust midboss music in stages 5 and 6 totally reminds me of "It's A Sin" by The Pet Shop Boys

damakable · Post by **damakable** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:17 pm

Guys, guys. Games are always better on hard mode. That's a fact. You can't review a shmup without playing its hardest difficulty...

Haven't played this one yet, but looking forward to it.

Matsunaga · Post by **Matsunaga** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:33 pm

Looks like everyone is having a good old time playing this, while I sit here waiting for my copy to arrive.. It sounds like it's going to be worth the wait, however.

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:27 am

Super Laydock wrote:According to Enterbrain/Famitsu TFVI sold about 67.000 copies on it's first day!

That's not bad for opening day (although there was a long pre-order time).

I'd be curious to see first-week and first-month sales figures too.

Anyone have sales figures on hand for other PS2 shooters like Homura and others?

Fudoh · Post by **Fudoh** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:22 am

What's the source on the numbers ? Several european sites (french & german) only quote the source with 6,700 pieces.

Fudoh · Post by **Fudoh** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:43 am

ReKleSS's Ibara/Mushihime 240p Patch works fine on TF6 by the way. This was expected as the patch did work great on Sega's Hokuto no Ken already. Here are a few pics:

Depending on the deinterlacing capabilites of one's display one might prefer 240p to the game's 480i standard.

wiNteR · Post by **wiNteR** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:07 am

Would you guys say this games graphics are as impressive as Gradius V's? It being a PS2 game and all that's I'm making the comparison.

I don't think so. It might be little difficult to compare. I feel that gradius V took a safe route with graphics. The graphics in GV are well done but still monotonous. It seemed like the graphics designers didn't want to take risk doing something they weren't sure they could do well. Still GV graphics always feel very consistent.

In TFVI, on the other hand, there are have all sorts of different environments. Some are done well but others not so much. Some of the models really need a higher polygon count. Some textures also needed alot more work. Also, generally the movement of objects doesn't feel as natural as GV. I am not so sure about my last point though as I have only played the game two times till now.

But I have to say that graphics of this game feel lot more fresh compared to GV. Maybe next game if this development team gets a high budget they can make something to behold graphically.