Played co-op with a friend on a cabinet at my local arcade, fucking loved it.
In this weird spot of having things I like about Ketsui and DDP1 but not enough of either, so I'd rather just play either of those. Also just never been into DDP's chaining, so when you take away that classic arcade-y speed and magnitude, I lose interest. And as a final addendum, I don't like the 'loli' energy that this game's cast radiates, and cave dipped even harder into this with their later games.
I can tell that there’s a perfect game here, but unfortunately I can’t access it. The PS2 version is a perfect port of an imperfect, imbalanced version of the game—White Label—while the Xbox 360 port is a shoddy, ugly port of the definitive version of the game—Black Label. Running Black Label in MAME has given me results about equivalent to the 360 version… nowhere near the optimization of the Arika PS2 port, which, I must stress, feels like PURE SEX to play, and is definitely worth checking out.
I’ve put a hundred or so hours into this for a 1CC, and am still having plenty of fun playing—the music is a big step up from DDP, the hyper system is a blast, and stage 5 is most likely the best bullet hell level ever designed, period—but until I can get my hands on some OG hardware or the equivalent (PCB or FPGA), or until a better port comes out, I feel like I’ve gotta table it and move on to other things.
I’ve put a hundred or so hours into this for a 1CC, and am still having plenty of fun playing—the music is a big step up from DDP, the hyper system is a blast, and stage 5 is most likely the best bullet hell level ever designed, period—but until I can get my hands on some OG hardware or the equivalent (PCB or FPGA), or until a better port comes out, I feel like I’ve gotta table it and move on to other things.
I used called this game Daisoujou because of that one guy from SMT Nocturne and only now, as of writing this, I'm realizing I pronounced this wrong for almost 4 years, I'm so losing my chicken tendies priviledges for this one...