DoDonPachi dai-ou-jou [PS2]

[gameoverDude]

That boxart is sweet.

It's rather nice of Arika to include that replay DVD at no extra cost on top of the normal 5800 yen.

The announcer in DDPDOJ seems a bit reminiscent of the original DonPachi one... that could be great.

That one from the first DDP was too quiet, IMO- with little else besides "bomber", "powerup", and "Just a couple more shots".

[Chojin]

Originally posted by Geruto
The sugoi just confirms that DDP-dai-ou-jou will feature an extra DVD with replays froms japans best players.
Out april 10th for 5800 yen!

April 10th eh. *Marks calender*. Excellent.

Now all I need are some release dates for the Raiden Fighters ports on the Xbox(Please tell me they've already announced them and I just missed the post telling all) and I'll be...I dunno, happy.

[Ryan]

Talked to SevenForce and asked him about the Huge Laser..here is what he said.

"You need the Hyper item, which is separate. You earn those by getting good chain counts, when one "meter" fills up, you get a hyper item, when you push the bomb button, you activate it. You get an extra level of power and more hits per actual hit.

If you have more than one hyper when you activate, for example, if you have three hypers when you activate, if you shoot one shot at something, it's 3 hits."


Look at the second level movie, you can see the player STARTS with +5 hypers! So every hit gets him a 5 hit combo.

[Click_Stick]

New info. here:

http://dynamic5.gamespy.com/~shmups/...pic.php?t=1031

Glad to see you can save your own replays. But what's this about Death Label?

[Bonestorm]

Originally posted by Click_Stick
New info. here:

http://dynamic5.gamespy.com/~shmups/...pic.php?t=1031

Glad to see you can save your own replays. But what's this about Death Label?

Maybe it's like the saturn mode on dodonpachi (extra level or two).

[Mode7]

It's sounding like a super-difficult revision of the game. Double hibachis and the like.

[J2d]

The Arika page just got four new videos, download heaven

And I love that cover.

edit:
Are two of those stages (1 and 2) the Death label mode perhaps?
And whats going on 2.32 into stage 2? Never seen that attack before.

[Click_Stick]

Originally posted by J2d

And whats going on 2.32 into stage 2? Never seen that attack before.

Great, thanks J2d! As usual, disgusting videos. More disgusting than the last... I feel my brain starting to seep blood. But I'm really enjoying this music more and more [especially that of video 006.]

It looks like the player decided to use a bomb on the boss... Looks like this game will make even the experts reach for the bomb button.

[J2d]

I have to say that I'm a little disapointed in stage 4 and 5, they look so grey and boring. Sure the action is there in spades but compared to stage 2 and 3 they just lack colour and something special.

And the music on stage 5 brrr...

But other than that it's all systems go, I hope the highscore thread will push me into giving it a 100+ hours of solid gameplay

[BER]

Originally posted by J2d
Are two of those stages (1 and 2) the Death label mode perhaps?

Those last two videos show the original version's second
round stages.