I don‘t think I have expressed any interest in Yurukill in this forum despite it being one of my most anticipated games of the year. I’m a VN and STG enjoyer so yeah, sure, I‘ll take one that does both! The death game premise is indeed getting extremely tired at this point but honestly, I feel that was already the case when Danganronpa and the Zero Escape sequels were released. On the other hand it’s like, a cheeseburger, you can still make good one of those I think, or at least I'm willing to believe so.
Main issue right now has honestly nothing to with the game itself, but rather, that it got released on the very same day as the sequel to Somnium Files, exactly the one other VN I was anticipating this year. And since it's a direct sequel with established characters I already like it has won by a small margin over Yurukill, so it's going to have to wait a bit. But yeah, definitely on my to do list before the year ends.
It very much is a cheeseburger, that‘s a good description of it as both a VN and an STG – and I didn’t realize it came out on the same day as the Somnium Files sequel, even looking in on VNs from a distance that seems like a bad idea for a smaller/weirder game in the genre, especially one that‘s tied to another relatively niche genre. And @rejj I fall on the more casual sides, too, so your experience might be similar to the pretty good time I’m having – I got into the details of how the STG unlocks a few posts above, but basically you have free access to it after the second chapter in the VN, and then content continues to unlock as you progress the narrative
@tokucowboy the same day as the Somnium Files sequel
I should clarify that I was talking about the Switch physical release, which was the one I cared for (I think the game it’s been available on Steam since the en of June?). But yeah, you gotta play those VNs in bed, it’s the way to do it.
Having a relaxing evening with Aero Fighters 2 and loving it. Hey @TracyDMcGrath do you know of a term for the rotating, destructible bullets that a bunch of non popcorns fire in this series? Years ago, the roommate who I played this game with constantly called them ‘biscuits’ for some unknown reason and the term has always stuck with me.
If you are able and willing to order from Amazon.JP, it’s now Prime Day in Japan which means the special Prime Day edition of Ray’z Arcade Chronology that includes a download code for R-Gear is available for the next 19 hours or so.
All Switch and PS4 editions that start with the description 【Amazonプライムデー限定商品】 will include the download code for R-Gear. You are thankfully not forced to buy the ¥18000 or ¥25000 limited editions.
@chazumaru I’ll do a lot to get my hands on an M2 port, but even I am not going so far as to preorder something a year in advance in yen plus shipping for a prime day tie in
@chazumaru I was… actually so excited for this collection that I was all ready to order, with credit card in hand! And it ships to Canada! But then I saw that shipping would cost me ¥26,811… which, yeah, not going to happen, haha. Oh well! I‘m really curious if it’s more reasonable for folks in the States.
Thank you for pointing this out though! I guess I’ll be waiting for the eShop version and hoping that R-GEAR gets released as regular DLC someday.
@Karasu So far, this kind of special Prime Day download (ex. Game Boy Sagaia for the Darius Cozmic Collection) has never resurfaced elsewhere, but I am rather confident this Ray’z collection will get picked up by a Limited Run Games-type small scale North American publisher, in which case I would not be surprised if R-Gear came up again as a local pre-order bonus or crowdfunding stretch goal.
@Karasu Still working my way through Yurukill and the fourth STG stage leans heavily into destructible bullets; all I could think about was biscuits, so I think your old roommate might end up leaving a real cultural impact
@Karasu I was… actually so excited for this collection that I was all ready to order, with credit card in hand! And it ships to Canada! But then I saw that shipping would cost me ¥26,811… which, yeah, not going to happen, haha. Oh well! I’m really curious if it’s more reasonable for folks in the States.
Taito’s last several releases have had absurd international shipping prices until right before release, presumably as an anti-import measure. I can’t state with 100% certainty that this is another one of those cases but I suspect it’ll go down to something reasonable before it ships.
@chazumaru It’ll undoubtedly be ININ/SLG, as they’re joined to the hip with Taito (to the point where they’ve adopted all of Taito’s terrible habits re: SKUs and now apply them to all manner of games in an even worse way).
Sagaia GB did come overseas, BTW—SLG tacked it onto one particular version of Cozmic Revelation, and they didn’t even bother to localize the front-end.
Sorry for the confusion, I meant it did not become accessible later through another mean in Japan (DLC, late eShop release etc.) as hoped by @Karasu for R-Gear.
@chazumaru NP, it‘s just fresh in my mind (due to certain JP fans citing it as an example of how much easier overseas fans have it, if only…) so I figured I’d mention it.
Soooo, my newest review just dropped. I already shared it in the new games thread but feels like this is a proper place to put it too?
It’s in Spanish and I know not everyone around here can read it, but maybe you feel like giving it a go via google translate or anything similar? It doesn’t look good if I say it myself, but I’m pretty proud of how it has turned out. It’s an excellent game and I think I did it justice.
@JoJoestar I thought I could read barely any Spanish but it turns out that I could read fragments of your review. I did read it in full after translating it and it’s an excellent summation of an excellent game.