Ginga Force for Xbox 360

The only way to buy this recently released game will be from Games On Demand or perhaps online as the game is in Japan only but we're glad that it is region free. Speaking of Games On Demand, I already bought Eschatos from it last year in which the creators of Eschatos made Ginga Force. The effects, shots and other stuffs are somewhat similar between these two games and especially for the sound effects and the way you get the 1UP.
What's even better is that you get the full voice acting support for the gameplay and cutscenes but one of the inferior things about this game is the opening. How is the opening made out of in-game graphics, that's kind of bull-crap compared to other shmups that have true animated openings such as Otomedius Excellent and Trigger-Heart Exelica Enhanced? At least, those two games have the true animated openings but for this game, the developers should have collaborated with the company that has the ability to make a true anime-like opening. Also, you can notice the lack of the boss destruction sequence. Sure, you're capturing the criminals in this game according to the concept and the storyline but later on, you get to encounter the craziest antagonist of all who's trying to summon his own space fleet or whatever to wipe out the fictional Seventier. It was fine with some energy that powered Seventier until he corrupts it for unknown reasons and it's up to you to stop him in further parts of the game. This is where the real disappointment comes in after defeating him when it comes to the lack of the boss destruction sequence like what's so difficult like that when the whole game is in full 4:3? At least for Strania, the whole thing is seriously big, the explosions, the bosses, the enemies, etc but this one surely supersedes Eschatos graphically although the whole graphical quality doesn't seem to be quite enough. Lastly, is a bunch of mini-training simulators to deal with but how are those fun anyway?
The release date? Well, to a surprise, it was released in Valentine's Day last month and it was also when the Lunar New Year days were still on-going but too bad the developers didn't seem to prepare anything for that special day other than the game's release.

My Top 5 Wordpress blog posts of last year

Welcome to my top 5 Wordpress blog posts of last year. So here are the following top 5s blog posts of this year in my Wordpress Blog:

• Dodonpachi Maximum and Saidaioujou OST CD - There was an update for Dodonpachi Maximum which included an additional stage, updated Ketsui boss battle BGM, more sound effects and other gameplay tweaks. It also included the Easy Mode in case you find the game as hard as balls even in Normal Mode difficulty and above. The bonus songs in the CD are the arranges of the original Dodonpachi and the image song of Dodonpachi Saidaioujou. This year in Spring, you get to hear the Xbox 360 exclusive BGMs in the Xbox 360 port of Dodonpachi Saidaioujou as well as to see the opening and play as the new Xbox 360 exclusive character. Damn it to the Xbox 360 shmup openings, they look as simple as ever with the gameplay videos as part of the opening. Maybe the opening sequence to today's shmups is unnecessary anyway while the ending sequence may be optional depending on the game like escaping from the exploding enemy fortress with your spaceship.
• Dodonpachi Saidaioujou OST CD Update
• Eschatos Arrange OST DLC and Patch - Eschatos may seem to be great but the DLC is somewhat tremendously ignored as if people prefer the fan-made arranges instead. There are other updates that allow Tate mode for Judgment Silversword and Cardinal Sins as well as other patches for this game as well. Stay tuned for this February as Ginga Force will be released from the same creators of Eschatos.
• Soreyuke Burunyanman for PC and PSP - The PSP version has the extra stage which is already ridiculously hard after the last stage and the third playable character is replaced entirely with a different character to make this game a 17+ compared to the PC version. However, these changes were already too late as things were already controversial between this and Galgun on the Playstation 3 which also had the DLCs taken from this game. However, the text is somewhat too small like that on the PSP version and there are more slowdowns than usual. The Playstation Vita port can fix a thing but it cannot be the same for the contents and graphics that this kind of port will not happen. I imagine that the Playstation 3 port will have even sharper graphics but the third playable character should be taken from the PSP version. You know, you're better off with other games instead of this and Galgun.
• Calendar App for Windows 8 - Well, I've been using Windows 8 ever since the Developer Preview phase and this year, I may be using Windows Embedded Standard 8 Release Preview which may expire in April compared to Windows 8 prototype versions which may expire this month. What happened to the Metro apps? Well, as I'm still using the Release Preview version, the apps are not functioning anymore like it's a COMPLETE SHAME on Microsoft like that for making this operating system a major development disaster compared to its rival mobile operating systems whose apps are still as functional as ever. If not for the stupid Desktop stuff for tablet users, if EVERYTHING is metro-ized which includes EVERYTHING on desktop mode and Metro mode and if NOT for other bugs, it MIGHT have been a better operating system in the first place.

Stay tuned for more video game contribution stuffs of two years ago, last year and especially next year which may mean games released two years ago, last year and next year will be contributed. Unfortunately, this is already taking me beyond last year to complete the contribution like I still have yet to finish remixing the songs from the games released this year so you get to notice even more of these remixes I'll be doing this year. Lastly, you can click here to see the complete annual Wordpress blog report of this year.

Ginga Force for Xbox 360–Delayed

The original release date was supposed to be August 30th but it was delayed for game quality improvement. They might have plans for this game to be part of Xbox related event in Japan that will be taking place in late August and early September respectively but the opportunity was ruined when the game was so buggy to the developers at this moment.

Ginga Force, the secondary game from the creators of Eschatos, has the similar graphical, gameplay and audio concepts which may be equal to similar development concept but this time, the whole gameplay takes place in 4:3 horizontal format while being a vertical shooter similar to Strania on XBLA. The character concept however is kind of different than Strania and there will be scripts located at the top right of the screen. If there’s voice acting, good for us and that’s how the character concept should be followed with various criteria, not like Strania which has a lack of Opening and Ending animated sequences as well as lack of scripts and voice-acting. How can Eschatos be a retail disc game when the file size is pretty damn small when downloaded from Games On Demand? It should be more like a Xbox Live Arcade game instead even though it contains two additional games.

The storyline takes place in the future beyond our star system and the technology is very futuristic in fiction. One of the keywords is IPv12 which is kind of funny to me like the whole humanity has spread all the way out of our star system to explore the newer systems for similar planets to live on with future technology. Other than the character concept, story concept and gameplay concept, there will be additional stuffs coming in from the developers in the future so stay tuned.

Ginga Force for Xbox 360

Eschatos for Xbox 360 may seem to be successful after Judgment Silversword and Cardinal Sins but from some social networking site like Twitter, I stumbled upon the new game from the creators of Eschatos. It is scheduled for August 30th release and it is another shmup game for Xbox 360. Other than this, there’s no other information so call this blog post the rumor.

Eschatos Arrange BGM Pack DLC Update

We’ve identified the soundtrack for this DLC by another video we already discovered. It features the Area Set BGMs, boss battle BGMs, Option Unlock BGM and so on. In addition to these tracks, there are also two bonus tracks. One of them is Point of No Return Special Arrange and Stellar Light with Vocaloid. However, you’ll have to take note for Stellar Light Vocaloid arrange that it is using the Vocaloid that is not from Crypton Future Media. I may expect one from Crypton Future Media to do the singing after hearing that in the PV video as if things can be better like that. Speaking of Point of No Return Special Arrange, it seems that some arranger must have heard my arrangement or something which was done last year and he made some arrangement that sounded even better. Out of my soundtrack arrangement of Eschatos, it appeared that Point of No Return is likely to be the best one. While the Arrange BGM Pack DLC was already out in April 25th, we’ll have to wait for May 10th for the soundtrack CD to be out for sales.

Eschatos Arrange OST DLC and patch

The sale of Dodonpachi Saidaioujou and Maximum OST had already begun today and while I was still contributing remixing stuffs for various Cave shmup games including Dodonpachi Saidaioujou, there’s another update for an existing shmup on Xbox 360. That is the DLC for Arrange OST of Eschatos. Take note that this arrange OST is different than the bonus arrange tracks you hear on the official OST CD. This DLC has like 14 tracks arranged including the bonus tracks. Also, there’s some track that uses the Vocaloid technology just like Mamoru-kun has been cursed on Playstation 3. In addition to the DLC, there’s a patch that fixes other stuffs and finally enables the true TATE mode for Judgment Silversword and Cardinal Sins so that you can play those two games on the vertical monitor, be it the arcade cabinet but then, you can still see the wallpapers as the Wonderswan’s resolution seems to be different.

The original soundtrack for Eschatos must be way too damn interesting and especially for the Sega Genesis like music composer, Yousuke Yasui, in which there are tons of arranges of the songs from this game. The famous songs from this game will be Silver Lining and Survive for instance. Props to that composer for this Genesis-like tunes, and the arrangement contribution is the same for Mamoru-kun has been cursed.

Bullet Soul 1 Credit Clear and Eschatos Time Attack

This one’s an optional article to post into as the videos don’t seem to be receiving lots of views. It was a luck that I managed to 1 Credit Clear Bullet Soul with the first character, Yun. There’s no way you can adjust the game settings such as number of lives, difficulty level, etc. However, the downside is that I failed to reach the requirements needed to access the second loop.

For Eschatos Time Attack mode, I was lucky to clear it with less than few seconds left. I guess that I should try harder next time but for now, I may still have to complete Judgment Silversword as well as Cardinal Sins. I already completed the Normal Mode of Cardinal Sins but I missed out some of the boss phases in the final boss battle. The battle ended like that without going into those phases. Also, I still have to complete the Original and Advanced modes of Eschatos as I still haven’t got past them.

Eschatos obtained

Well, two more shmup games that are on Games On Demand to go and we’re off to buy something else. Seems that the Time Attack mode can your first step to going further to clearing the game if you can make it on time. Sure I took like dozens of hits from the enemy attacks in that mode but still, I made in on time. Also on Cardinal Sins, my first grade started with B which was as kind of great to me with C being okay by the way but D and E are shitty grades and you don’t want to receive those, right? For Time Attack mode, I managed to clear it with less than few seconds left like I nearly ran out of time for real.

Eschatos on Games On Demand

It’s Eschatos on Xbox 360 again and today is the day of its Games On Demand version release. How catastrophic the name of the game is? You can take a look at the game story yourself. It takes place in the 22nd century and the catastrophic invasion has come to put an ultimate end to everything in this globe but it’s up to you to stop them in order to save the day and the global future.

Originally the last year’s release, this one is another region free shmup game from the creators of Judgment Silversword and the Wonderwitch tool. I had like wonderful interest on this game last year as this was something I should take a look at instead of that useless invasion Sci-Fi movie I talked about that was rumored to take place last year.

Now let’s imagine this. There’s some evil organization combining the solar power, nuclear power and the weather power, and all of the sudden, the catastrophic project is complete and the organization is ready to strike. There are organization induced tornados everywhere that burn the shit out of everything and make every place radioactive that no one can stop it. It may be up to some hero to save the day but then he ends up in the danmaku battle that no one else has ever seen against the mastermind who possesses these three powers. At this point, the whole area may already be turned into craters by then and the sky has already become a cloud of fire. Perhaps I may suspect that my wailing enemy from my secondary school days is behind those disasters that may be somewhat real to happen.

This kind of eschatology is freaking scary. Stay far away from all the disasters.