Another trailer for Wanted. I think this has too many production values to be a Simple game but the silliness an police woman fetish outfits definitely feel Simple.
https://youtu.be/9w4r9aOqlhA
@âChopemonâ#p82536 Looking like a game that's headed towards a Games that launch at $60, will soon discount $20, and in 10 years be $60 again. Looks fun!
@âconnieradâ#p82540 YES
I recently played that EDF Wing Diver shooting game spin off thing.
That is the absolute definition of a Simple series game. Very short, no real reason to replay as it is so basic, very cheap and reuses loads of assets.
I think it reuses assets. It isn't made in the same engine as EDF and things look off. It is made in Unity and either the team made their own assets or time/intent didn't allow them to recreate all the materials to match.
Anyway, very Simple Series.
New trailer for D3's Samurai Maiden: https://youtu.be/_jThVL674KU
One of my Christmas traditions that has been established over the last few years is to play PS2 and PS2-like games during my Christmas holiday and since this is coming out in December, I am going to play far too much of it.
It certainly looks like it has Simple Series gameplay. 99% of the enemies seem to stand around and just let you hit them and in one part of the trailer you sure can see the camera clipping through an enemy during a finishing move or something. Can't wait.
Was revisiting this thread last night while I had the Steam sale open in another tab. I realized Iâve played or owned at least half of the games mentioned in the thread so I went and blind-bought Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae. I wasnât sure how to parse it at first beyond it being a bit of a budget hack and slasher, but then I got into the upgrade menu and started getting pulled into racking up 100+ combos. It's great!
As an aside, I really love the Steam Deck for picking up and playing games like these. It feels a lot easier to sink 30 minutes here and there into something like this, or something like Ace of Seafood, when it'd feel like a whole _thing_ to get a game started up at my desk, on my laptop, etc etc.
Samurai Maiden came out on Dec 1st and I went to Yodabashi Camera to get the physical version. I have played a couple of hours of it and it definitely feels like a Simple series game. Which is to say a PS5 game feels like a budget PS2 game.
Enemies stand around waiting for you to hit them with a sword that feels like wet pasta. SFX and hit anims are both weak. Turning these up and adding some hit impact pausing would probably bump this from a 5/10 to a 6/10.
Your companion hangs out next to you at all times but doesn't fight until you charge their meter and activate their ability then they go back to just hanging out. Abilities are often fiddly to use.
The graphics are quite nice and the character texture and material work especially are really nice. It is made by Shade who made the very definitely mad paedo Bullet Girls games. This does (so far) not treat the characters as abhorrent loli fantasies so that's something at least.
Comparing it to other D3 bangers, this is no Onechanbara Z2 Chaos but is perhaps better than the PS2 Onechanbaras. D3 might not be using the Simple series label anymore but this is Simple series without a doubt.
Bumping this just to mention Xbox got its first ever Simple game todayâD3 made a big push onto X360 with EDF, Onechanbara, etc but nothing truly Simple until now (and even then, itâs a straight port of a Switch game, but letâs try to savour the moment) https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/the-deluxe-pack/9PPD179372S9
I assume it isn't actually as spicy as the age gate suggests
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I feel like Kwaidan should be in the modern lineup. It's been talked about a bit before on the forum but its whole aesthetic, clunky movement, and "made by one person"ness makes it an excellent contender.
https://youtu.be/WHAwi6ecUEM
ABSOLUTELY
Hi gang, just wanted to loop back around and catch up vis a vis re: Wanted: Dead as a modern Simple series game.
It isn't.
It mostly reminds me of MindJack. Now before you say "Chopemon, isn't that 4/10 junk? Are you saying that Wanted is 4/10?", let me say that MindJack is not 4/10. That game has a genius mechanic hidden behind unpolished gameplay and boring character design (despite the cyber gorilla). I think it is a 6/10 Insert Credit game. I don't think Wanted is an Insert Credit game but I do think there is some close to genius combat flow in there that hasn't been realised due to overly long out of animations for most combat attacks, repetitive enemies and brutally unfair damage when you get hit. If the combat team had been allowed more time on the combat, it could have been really special.
Anyway, one of the trophies is possibly a Simple series reference if you ignore all other uses of the word in other media and think about Onechanbara daily.
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The very Simple Series looking game Ed-0: Zombie Uprising from D3 is getting a full release in Japan on July 13th. It has been in early access on PC but I donât play PC games so it essentially doesnât exist yet.
https://youtu.be/RvDUfLGnm4A
I have nothing to add in terms of games but I canât resist an opportunity to show off the physical copy of Ace of Seafood (Insert Credit Simple Series #1) I imported before they started selling it digitally.
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One game this premise makes me think of is One Finger Death Punch. At first glance it seems like a sort of throwaway flash game with some lazy stereotypes, but once you actually get into it there is something immensely satisfying about its gameplay loop.
Essentially it's just a game where enemies come at you from either side and you have to press either a left or right button to attack them in the correct order, however they carry that simple idea to extremes. You get weapons, power-ups, skills and loadouts, boss battles, different enemy types and there is a surprising amount of room for strategy and mastery. There is a very long campaign style mode with a bunch of different challenges and difficulties, as well as other modes like survival. There was a sequel too, but it didn't capture the magic of the original in my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azizOlEV2Uk
Last night I played Kanjozoku. Shout out this post for putting it on my radar https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/94-lets-construct-a-modern-simple-series-lineup/66
It is extremely cheap on the UK PSN so I picked it up. It is a game about Japanese street racing, in the vein of the Shutokou Battle series. It is very Simple Series.
https://youtu.be/pKaE96Kg1OQ
You drive around a looping highway, completing race missions (drive 5.2 km in 1 minute etc etc) and occasionally out run cops. You can also go into smaller stages that require more drifting. You earn money to tune your car and buy new cars. There is no guided progression, no objective, no AI cars other than the narcs and the console version doesn't have the PvP of the PC version. The only real thing you can use as an objective are the trophies. The cars handle fine and it has more realistic drifting than something like Ridge Racer.
It is fine. It is pretty enjoyable for ÂŁ1.50 or whatever I paid for it. If you want something that reminds you how good Shutokou Battle is then I can recommend it.
Some negatives:
This is very Simple Series and should definitely go on the list.
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@âChopemonâ#p113694 The menus are hard to read and I sold my car by mistake
Reading this caused me to do a spit take because A) I didn't quite expect it, and B) this is one of the most Simple Series things ever.
Simple „110 Series watch https://www.dlsite.com/home/work/=/product_id/RJ01055381.html/ 
There's a trailer on the store page but it won't embed, so have this stream archive that I haven't watched:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3VsLSyIZY8&pp=ygUw5a6f6Yyy44OR44Ov44OV44Or6YeO55CD5ouz44K544Op44OD44Ks44O85bGx55Sw
The dev's previous game is on Steam, so I wager this one won't be relegated to dlsite forever:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574330/_/