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.

Sine Mora for XBLA

From what we saw on the in-game stages, the graphics are in high quality, so high in quality that G.Rev games on Xbox 360 are put to shame like that. The explosions and smokes are stunning so are the water splash effects when destroying enemies on the water. However, speaking of game storyline, you can see some giant enemies wiping out the city in a huge blast as we already saw in the game launch trailer for example. This is freaking epic but nowadays, storylines in shmup games are not important like that anymore. The most important thing is the gameplay in modern shmup games and what’s modern is the firepower of  your fighter as well as the number of projectiles that can be seen on the screen. But wait, is there a reason not to put in the fireworks like portion of the destruction when destroying an enemy like particles for example? Classic or today’s CGIs in movies, we can see the fireworks like destruction anyway when something big explodes. Now, about the developer company, one of the companies is located in some other country that the characters don’t seem to speak the common language we use to know.

So here’s the list of improvements needed for Under Defeat HD.

• Large splash effects in Stage 2
• The screen should turn orange upon destruction of the bosses.

Compared to Sine Mora which was recently released in March 21st, it seems that G.Rev had done a great job on Under Defeat seven years ago for the arcade but for now, there will be DLCs for Under Defeat HD. Hmm, a new air unit probably like a different helicopter or perhaps a fighter plane. Other than the DLC for Under Defeat HD, it seems that the developers of Sine Mora had done a great job on the graphics like that. The storyline and graphics to me are kind of epic so are the cutscenes that don’t make this game a 2D shooter anymore.

We’ll get more information after I get the full version of Sine Mora sometime later.

Under Defeat HD (Remastered Blog Post)

There’s the upcoming Under Defeat HD that will come with one more shooter for PS3 and Xbox 360 this year so I can’t guarantee if we can play that peacefully without those threats that are approaching our globe. Will the graphics look like those from Strania?

Under Defeat HD Update: The graphics are re-enhanced just like Mamoru-kun Has Been Cursed on the consoles. The Xbox 360 version will be the same as the Playstation 3 version. These two versions will feature a true widescreen mode just like the previous game on the Playstation 3.

Got the Xbox 360 in June 2nd

This should be surprising but it may be viewable a lot if we talk about various Cave games. From that time, there was the Microsoft IT event which was known as Microsoft Student TechFest. This took place at the auditorium of the polytechnic and we were briefed the respective decent Microsoft technologies. So we know the new features of Windows Live Wave 4 and the latest version of Microsoft Office. You know, I had used OneNote for probably personal projects that are good instead of crap. Other experiences included Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker and Windows Live Writer in which nobody mentioned about Windows Live Writer. For Windows Live Movie Maker, it is not what we want to see like this because it’s completely different than its predecessor or the third-party video editor programs. Hell, you can screw this in favor of a video editor that is capable of rendering the 60FPS video. After all, I have the Nico Nico Douga account for uploading videos nobody does just like in my YouTube account. There were videos of my tricks I performed in video games like Gradius Galaxies and Sonic Heroes. Other glitch I performed unexpectedly was in Gradius IV in which I went through the dead-end in the high speed stage. That dead-end surely has smaller hitboxes between these boxy tiled things and that means they are not connected, leaving the rest of the stage to be connected or merged. Think about modeling two boxes without merging them that there are gaps going on. This happened while I was playing Gradius IV on my PSP. Back to Windows Live Movie Maker, I obviously used that program to post certain remixes to YouTube and Facebook respectively. Lastly, for Windows Live Photo Gallery, I may decide not to use it as it takes up so much resources and long to load up. So Microsoft OneNote is kind of useful for you to take note in schools, work and other kinds of briefings but other Microsoft Office products are underrated. After these introductions, there was some lucky prize winning and I was one of these lucky winners in which I won the Xbox 360.

Unfortunately, there were few flaws that screwed up the event. First is some bloody spoilt brat-ish song that was executed during the 10 second posing part but too bad that the prizes were not that major for answering the questions and doing those special parts as well. Second flaw was the unnecessary 10 second posing part in which you had to feel some musical beat like a dance or something. Also, you had to strike some poses on the stage. Why that song I mentioned was a brat-ish was that it’s because it is nowadays performed by that spoilt musical pop brat from Canada.

A Day Later

Then I had to buy certain games like Dreamcast Collection and Xbox Live Arcade games from the store after looking for games I wanted. It might be because those people had already bought those games or maybe the retailers discarded them as if nobody but me might want them. What I bought for Xbox Live Arcade was the 1600 MS Points card and after getting the trial version of those XBLA games, I used that card to get the full version of G.Rev’s Strania and holy cow, that was really hard.

Conclusion

This prize winning part took damn long like a waste of time but the real time-waster was the 10-second posing part. I guess that we had no choice but to keep on staying on the IT events at all time until we were dismissed. This is probably the screwed up IT event at the end, having to include that song or that 10 second posing part should not have been parts of the events whatsoever. Then there’s Kinect Adventures in which I never touched at all as I’m pretty shy to use that Kinect technology to play with it so I played a bunch of Xbox Live Arcade shmup games to surprise my foreign friend that I have the game console. After all at this rate, I may end up becoming the arcade gamer but I suck ass in fighting game genre. DAMN, what kind of controller was that from the console? Its sucky communication with controls got my ass kicked when I tried out the trial version of KOF 98 UM.