Saturday, June 15, 2019

Vritra obtained

Vritra is one of the indie shmup games that started on mobile before getting PC release via Steam. It's alsos one of the games that will be coming to the arcades based on the PC release and the arcade release will have the arranged soundtrack, announcer and of course, multiplayer support. The mobile version has like three stages and that's that and the PC version adds two additional stages, additional weapon-types and additional enemies.
The Boost feature is one of the important aspects of the gameplay that is useful for survival in the game in higher difficulties. Well, that's a Boost-To-Win title in a nutshell released 7 years ago with MUGEN Vritra to follow on mobile 4 years ago. At the time the game was released, there was bare information about it until the PC release increased the attention. Needless to say, the game is difficult and there's no continues in the mobile version whatsoever and I don't know if there's a TLB out there in this version or not.
The Free Digest version takes portions of all stages from the full version and assembles them in one whole stage but that is more or less a demo version.
I'm not going to show the gameplay video of the game being played in Normal or Hard difficulty for mobile version. Instead, I had plans for making and posting one of the game being played in Very Hard difficulty but the furthest portion of the game was somewhere in Stage 3 which is the final stage and that stage is also the final stage in PC version as well so the plans were like scrapped or something. In the meantime, here's the gameplay video of MUGEN Vritra from my YouTube channel.

Monday, June 10, 2019

Tetote X Connect for arcades

I don't know if I'm going to have a mixed or bad impression about the upcoming Tetote X Connect from Taito that will be coming out in the arcades this year after seeing the preview video of the gameplay in action from 4Gamer's Official YouTube Channel. It's quite concerning to me when it comes to the gameplay concept like who's going to it when it comes out sometime this year? Also, the location test will be taking place late this month as of this writing.
From the game's official website and Wikipedia article, it mentions something like Ballroom Dancing as the implemented concept technology-wise but this kind of dance is more difficult to replicate than the standard dance that is doable in dance games using the Kinect. Is the partner character doing all the spinning for you when you're holding that Hold Note without release? Well, that's my imagination as I don't know if there's a special Hold Note like that or not. I also don't know if the body turning is recognizable by the Kinect or something. Will that count as a miss if you don't turn your body around to the Body Turn Note?
Then, there's what going's to turn the others off, the game where you dance close to the screen with the partner character like you're doing Ballroom Dancing. The game uses touch screen feature along with some technology that detects your posing. There may be times throughout the song where you're supposed to strike a pose and even before the song starts, there will be calibration tests that require that you strike poses as well. It's kind of comparable to the Yankee Doodle/Patty Cake minigame from Project Diva F series on PS Vita except that the on-screen arrows/circles are not on-screen notes whatsoever in that minigame.
I don't know if there will be people doing the Ballroom Dance in the arcades to whatever Groove Coaster song that is playable in Tetote X Connect or not. As of this writing, there's the preview video from 4Gamer's YouTube Channel of Taking Off by Sato which you can play in Groove Coaster in the arcades, mobile or PC.
In Fit Boxing for Switch, you're doing the boxing moves to the beat according to the on-screen notes and the vocal guides by the coach, INDIRECTLY using the Joycons. You don't need to play that close to the TV or the tablet unlike the upcoming Tetote X Connect where you have to play close to the screen as it uses touchscreen for the notes.
You know what else is controversial? The usage of GP system similar to the one in Sega's Border Break and you have the options to go for higher amount of GPs for more credits. In fact, I don't know if there's a Continue box telling you if want to continue the game or not that brings you to the Main Menu screen. By continuing, I mean inserting additional credits and answering "Yes" and then selecting the amount of GPs.
As of this time, it seems that Arcade Heroes already had an article about this upcoming game although things seem to be quite deep for me. Taito will have a livestream on the day the location test takes place.

Even if the game comes out in the arcades, I have no plans to play it as there may be concerns about how gross I can be if I play it.