Akai Katana [Cave, ARCADE, August 19, 2010]

brentsg · July 16, 2010, 01:01:11 PM

Quote from: Joe T. on July 16, 2010, 08:10:50 AM
That's his final attack.

I think he is still working on his hitbox.

Lunchbox · July 16, 2010, 02:55:58 PM

But, seriously, is that swimmer part of the game or just a joke?

EOJ · July 16, 2010, 02:58:50 PM

That's a Jitterbug demo the programmers messed around with when making DSIIX. It has nothing to do with this game.

retre · July 17, 2010, 02:34:02 AM

Quote from: EOJ on July 16, 2010, 02:58:50 PM
That's a Jitterbug demo the programmers messed around with when making DSIIX. It has nothing to do with this game.

Thanks to god! That character was too much Choaniki style.

Anyway, I like the character design, more similar to old DDP or Ketsui.

MX7 · July 17, 2010, 07:09:22 AM

Art direction reminds me more of a G.Rev game than a Cave game. Interesting! Really interested in seeing what the game ends up looking like. And with the way things are going, I might even get to play it at home one day

Lunchbox · July 17, 2010, 07:32:38 AM

Quote from: MX7 on July 17, 2010, 07:09:22 AM
Art direction reminds me more of a G.Rev game than a Cave game

+1

antares · July 17, 2010, 08:31:47 AM

*crosses fingers that they outsorced the graphics engine to G.Rev IF this game will have 3D graphics (I know this is very unlikely but I don't want another technical disaster)

SuperPang · July 17, 2010, 08:47:06 AM

Now theres an inspired idea

Kewing · July 17, 2010, 06:10:50 PM

Quote from: EOJ on July 01, 2010, 03:35:21 AM
UPDATE (7/15/2010): The title is Akai Katana. Official page:

http://www.cave.co.jp/gameonline/akaikatana/

Location test at HEY from July 23-26. Release in August.

Yes. F*ck yes. This is more like it.
Aside from also being in the "I want this to be 2D", if this is supposed to be a spiritual Progear sequel, I do hope it has a different scoring system; I could never get too much into the original because of it.

Also I wonder who'll be in charge of music: Namiki being the main guy(unlikely), the Basiscape team (high likely), or maybe an external composer (who knows, another IBARA-like ost by Hosoe would be awesome).

So far I'm feeling quite positive about this,if truely feels as a genuine attempt at coming up with a new and "serious" franchise. Looking forward to more details.

charlienash87 · July 18, 2010, 04:11:01 PM

the character designs look really good, especially when compared to all the loli crap lately. these characters actually look kinda dope like the ones in ketsui. let's hope there's someone who can rival Alice Blackbarn in badassness, if that's even possible

Kewing · July 18, 2010, 06:06:34 PM

Speaking of character designs, who's the character designer? Does anybody know? I really like his/her style, it has quite a "Odin Sphere" vibe to it.

lillin · July 18, 2010, 07:35:48 PM

Quote from: Kewing on July 18, 2010, 06:06:34 PM
Speaking of character designs, who's the character designer? Does anybody know? I really like his/her style, it has quite a "Odin Sphere" vibe to it.

Odin Sphere was much more cuter in design imho.
But i have to agree that the artstyle is spot on, it looks as this will be a more serious game in terms of setting/ story.
No panties showing in the first trailer and pics must mean something more serious, right?

emphatic · July 19, 2010, 05:09:03 AM

It would be really cool if the "VanillaWare" logo would pop up in the next clip we're shown.

emphatic · July 20, 2010, 07:52:13 AM

Looks 2D to me.

markedkiller78 · July 20, 2010, 08:13:43 AM

Jamma, 15k and 198,000y.

Sh3 by the sounds of things?

SuperPang · July 20, 2010, 08:18:18 AM

Well I never, quitting the publishing really did mean quitting that hardware too, for now at least. DS2 must have been costly!

I wasn't expecting this. A military shooter with 2D graphics, I couldn't be happier. 15KHz 4 eva!!!1

kernow · July 20, 2010, 09:03:16 AM

Quote from: SuperPang15KHz 4 eva!!!1

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PsychoDiver · July 20, 2010, 10:31:33 AM

Chi_Ryu · July 20, 2010, 10:45:12 AM

Ah yeah, looks rather reminiscent of Progear

Quote from: markedkiller78 on July 20, 2010, 08:13:43 AMSh3 by the sounds of things?

It'd be nice if they upgraded the hardware a bit (COUGH C'MON PUT IN STEREO AUDIO OUT ALREADY), DeathSmiles MBL and DDP DFK were straining the hardware a bit much as it was... but I guess the odds are good that they'll just run with SH3 again (would expect they've got a stock of boards, so would make sense).

ookitarepanda · July 20, 2010, 12:06:51 PM

Looks pretty cool! Is anyone here going to the location testing? Maybe I missed that in the thread...

rtw · July 20, 2010, 12:23:16 PM

Quote from: SuperPang on July 20, 2010, 08:18:18 AM
Well I never, quitting the publishing really did mean quitting that hardware too, for now at least. DS2 must have been costly!

What do you mean by "quitting the publishing" ?

Chi_Ryu · July 20, 2010, 12:42:14 PM

Quote from: rtw on July 20, 2010, 12:23:16 PMWhat do you mean by "quitting the publishing" ?

DeathSmiles II was self-published by Cave.

Who's publishing this one? Is it Annex, or someone else?

Monouchi · July 20, 2010, 01:00:14 PM

2D!!!

That is so awesome...now Im really hyped for this game.

EOJ · July 20, 2010, 02:22:54 PM

Looks interesting, but let's not jump the gun thinking 15khz = SH3. It could be some other hardware entirely.

Kaneda · July 21, 2010, 03:28:47 AM

Quote from: ookitarepanda on July 20, 2010, 12:06:51 PM
Looks pretty cool! Is anyone here going to the location testing? Maybe I missed that in the thread...

I'm going to try to go on Friday.

I wish the game were getting released a little earlier since I have the month off, but I should still have plenty of time to get excited, play, hit a wall, get bored of it, and see the master players find the bugs that require a version 1.5.

JOW · July 21, 2010, 08:14:51 AM

Fokkin awesome

Be interesting to see what approach they take to making this 'accessible' as per recent games.

GaijinPunch · July 21, 2010, 10:18:46 PM

I might go out there Friday.
Kaneda -- any desire to mosey to Shinjuku later in the evening and check out Inception? Not sure what your threshold is for crashing in internet cafes & shit.

EDIT: scratch that. I'm going to the water gun fight at midnight on Friday.

charlienash87 · July 22, 2010, 12:56:45 AM

can't wait to see this in motion. the screen shots looked super sweet

very curious to what the score mechanic will be in this one...i know cave won't disappoint, not with how much time they've put into this.

brentsg · July 22, 2010, 01:38:32 AM

Quote from: GaijinPunch on July 21, 2010, 10:18:46 PM
I might go out there Friday.
Kaneda -- any desire to mosey to Shinjuku later in the evening and check out Inception? Not sure what your threshold is for crashing in internet cafes & shit.

EDIT: scratch that. I'm going to the water gun fight at midnight on Friday.

People in the West would give a nut to go check this out. But you are going to a water gun fight?

Kaneda · July 22, 2010, 03:57:53 AM

Quote from: GaijinPunch on July 21, 2010, 10:18:46 PM
I might go out there Friday.
Kaneda -- any desire to mosey to Shinjuku later in the evening and check out Inception? Not sure what your threshold is for crashing in internet cafes & shit.

EDIT: scratch that. I'm going to the water gun fight at midnight on Friday.

I'll be at HEY from about 6:30-8:00 if you decide to drop in. Usually the queue isn't too bad Friday night compared to the loke tests on the weekends but we'll see...