Crimzon Clover

The Nesica version is coming to PC as Crimson Clover: World Ignition, and it will be in English.

Video here
:D Day one damnit. Hopefully it's going to Steam with no 3rd-party DRM, or to Playism.
GOTY 2014? This is it.

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Originally Posted by Rancor @ shmupsforum

New modes, new ships, achievements, updated graphics, online leaderboards, tate/yoko support. I'd say that it's better in every possible way.

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It's coming to Steam. Tain and I were all over it on Twitter.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

It's coming to Steam. Tain and I were all over it on Twitter.

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Great. Shouldn't be too much longer if they said Spring 2014. I'll be searching my Steam client daily for CC until it's there.

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Originally Posted by shmups.com via Twitter

CrimzonClover's Steam version: achievements, leaderboards, training mode, 7 languages confirmed. May release.

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Japanese Link

Well established on Steam, Degica will be publishing CC. There should be no need for a Greenlight waiting period. The May release isn't 100% definite but I think there's a good chance we'll see it before the end of the month.

I keep reading this thread title as "Crispin Glover." This game looks awesome, but I think I want Kurisupin Densetsu more.

6/6 is the date as shown on CC's Steam page.
Two weeks and it's here. :D There's also a 3 min time attack mode, beside Boost, Original, & Unlimited.

"Watch your enemies crumble in fear as you turn the tide and fill the screen with your own hellacious rain of firepower!"

Awesome

And the price will be $9.99. Very good.

Here are some changes on the Nesica version, posted by ZeeL at the Steam forum for CC. No clue why ZeeL said "not what we'll have in the Steam release most likely", since CCWI & the arcade one look 100% the same from Steam's pics.

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Originally Posted by ZeeL (Steam discussion forum on CC)

Recap of changes since vanilla game
Ok here's a quick list of the changes i've noticed on the NesicaxLive for those interested and that have played vanilla. Be aware that this is for the arcade version and not what we'll have in the Steam release most likely.

-New ship : Type 3 very straight shot, very fast and somewhat delayed laser lock. Type 1 and 2 are still here and type Z has to be unlocked (by keeping your progress on a Nesica card on game centers at least). It takes roughly 4 million stars to get it i estimate.

-4 game modes : Time Attack ( intense caravan like stage with ♥♥♥♥load of enemies, unlimited lives and 3 minutes to score as high as possible).

Boost mode : By far my favorite and it seems really popular in Japan. It replaces Simple mode but with a sick twist : Your break Gauge keeps growing until you enter break mode automatically. From that point, it gets nuts ! You stay in break mode (no double break tho) until you die or bomb. Rank and bullets speed increase all the time. Oh and yeah...suicide bullets :) A lot of them ! The more you stay in break the more you score. Intense !

Original and Unlimited : Both are still there but with modified patterns, some more enemies etc. Scoring routes are pretty much the same as before but way harder to execute because of the next points ;)

-Break gauge increases slower. Especially on type Z. Exit the nearly instant refill of double break by point blanking enemies with type Z. From what i've seen, type Z gauge grows at the same pace as other 3 ships.

-Break time is shorter. Not much to say here ^^

-No more score extends ! You now get extends with stars (yes still somewhat related to scoring ). from memory : 100K, 250K, 450K and the last (never saw that one ^^) at 750K.

-No extends on stage Bosses. You can get a 1up item on mid bosses but only if you don't have any life left !

-New items on (mid) bosses : We now have a total of 4 items to choose from :
Extend (see previous point for conditions)
Stars like before
Energy : can help in boost mode a lot. Kill the boss at full rank, bomb when the items appear and then go back to break mode by getting the energy and thus lowering the rank.
Bomb Recover : The small separation on the break gauge now increase each time you bomb. Meaning that after a while it will be very long to fill the bomb gauge. That's where this item proves helpful.

- Shield is now WAY shorter : By far the biggest life sink on my first 15/20 credits on Nesica. From a roughly 3 seconds of invulnerability shield when entering break mode and maybe 2 seconds when break ends, we now have something like 500-800 ms of shield. No more time for a safe double full lock while swimming in bullets. Really REALLY hard to get used to when you're used to vanilla. This is for me the most important point with break gauge fill pace that makes the Nesica game way harder.

-Several other non gameplay related changes : game is now beautiful, more polished visually. Plenty of new enemies, patterns etc.

EDIT : Forgot to mention that the multiplier is now doubled : x12.8 max :)

So this is a rough list about what i noticed after something like 150 ish credits during my stay in Japan in April. Tons of fun. Really. If anyone has other stuff to add feel free to do so i'll try to implement them on my list.
Be aware one more time that it's the changes on NesicaxLive version NOT the one we'll play.

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I just bought it and played for about 105 mins by Steam's count. Sure, the scoring is WAY higher thanks in part to the new 12.8x multiplier cap. The break mode shield is definitely shorter and will take a bit of adjusting if you've played the vanilla CC a lot. In stage 2, look for a huge battleship to appear during the stage that wasn't there before. Graphics are generally a bit improved from the original.

If you use an arcade stick, the need for Joy2Key has been eliminated. Regularly $9.99, CCWI will be $6.79 until June 13th (or $9.79 if you buy the deluxe package with the soundtrack).