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Great news guys! The PSN store just updated, and they've added the Gundemonium Collection! It's a package of the games Gundemonium Recollection, GundeadliGne and Hitogata Happa - all for $19.95. You can also buy them seperately for $8.50 each. So, there you go, three new shmup games available in one go.

I don't often play this type of game, but they look like fun so I just bought the collection!
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I've been playing Gundemonium Recollection today, it's pretty tough but lots of fun. I've managed to finish it on the easiest difficulty (the last boss was tricky). After a fair few attempts, I've even managed to make it to the last boss on the difficulty up from that, but I'm stuck for now.
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[Jahanzeb]

thanks for getting the thread rolling!

Gundemonium reminds me of Death Smiles, flying maids who shoot stuff...and it was also in Touhou

Guess flying maids are taking over shumps! personally, i prefer ships/helicopers/mechs or some kind of war machine

Which reminds of a little game called. Bangai O Spirits on the DS. I completely forgot to mention it because it isn't a traditonal scrolling shmup, its more of a free roaming action title with some insanely creative shmup elements, like kicking a large soccer ball at a swarm of enemies. A great blend of action, puzzle and shmup elements.

Really good game, I archived it on PALGN a while back, and you can easily find it in stores. Really worth a shot for shmup fans who want to try something really fresh and unorthodox.

http://palgn.com.au/nintendo-ds/15782/bangai-o-spirits-review/
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[mrcool37]

These games sound awesome, thanks for letting us know, $19.95 for 3 games sounds like a good deal.

Who here has bought them? Whoever has them, if they don't mind, I'll add you to my friends list when I turn the PS3 on next for some scoreboard mayhem.

Starcraft II has completely ruined any chance of 1cc'ing any shmups anytime soon. I was getting heavily stuck into Mushihimesama Futari 1.5 a couple of weeks ago and can now reach the final stage on most playthroughs, so I'm edging ever closer, but I've probably lost it all now that I haven't played it for a little while.Then again, there's not half as much stuff to remember as Ikaruga, so it shouldn't be too hard when I fire it up again to get back to where I was.

Parents hitting up Thailand on Thursday, gonna try and get them to send me back a Japanese 360 console, so hopefully I can give Ketsui a go in a few weeks time.

Not really feeling the new horizontal shooter you posted Jahanzeb, I've always had something against horizontal shooters, I'm much better doing slight flicks of the controller left and right, rather than up and down, which is what's needed for the horizontal shooters.

[Jahanzeb]

[Quin]

My housemate picked up that shumup pack, said that now he was enjoying Demon Souls, he needed something else to spank him, or something.

As someone who played Touhou for a while, Gundemonium isn't really that strange.
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[sEiFeR]

DoDonpachi is coming to the iPhone soon. Don't know how well this will translate. Nothing worse I could think of then using on-screen d-pad for a SHMUP.
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[EnriqueOrgazmo]

I've been playing Ikaruga....its so hard!! I can't even kill the boss on chapter 3, and I am currently stuck on chapter 4 where I run out of continue credits (sitting on 4 or 5 total credits). Guess I'm just bad at this type of game

On the plus side I absolutely love the design of the ships, and I bought the model kits for Ikaruga and Sirasagi (not actually in the main game, but in the background story, its the ship the protagonist piloted and got shot down before he piloted Ikaruga).

[Bev]

Been playing Espgaluda II Black Label on 360. Still trying to work out all the mechanics (and for all the different modes!), but so far it's a pretty solid game. Awesome soundtrack too.

I should have a review up by next week
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[mrcool37]

[EnriqueOrgazmo]

Thanks heaps for the tip!! Staying in the upper left quadrant...yeah that makes sense!! Wonder why I never thought of it lol?!

Here are the links for the Japanese modelers that made the ships:
http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/13bspec/ISEYA/ikaruga/ikaruga.html
http://www.abiraun.com/gallery/sirasagi.html

Both of them also made Eboshidori, which is the first level boss in Ikaruga (that cool alien looking humanoid thing with the japanese style armor). I think 13B Spector's version is better though, the lines and details are so sharp.

Slightly off topic, but an extra artist I recommend checking out is Sparrow. He's very famous for scratchbuilding videogame space ship models, and he also scratchbuilt Anubis, Jehuty and Vic Viper from the Zone of Enders series. Definitely worth checking out!
http://homepage2.nifty.com/sparrow2/

[mrcool37]

So I downloaded the Gundemonium Collection....I don't really like it.

Everything is oversized and too big. Your character is massive, yet has a small hit window which isn't even displayed on-screen, which is really annoying. Hate how it just shows the heart icon every now and then. And circle and square at the same time for some special mode? That is the most retarded two button combination you can possibly have with the ps3 controller, and they ibncorporate it into a bullet-hell shmup, great. And the game has the world's slowest bomb as well, it's basically useless.

The game reinforces my hate for the Playstation controller as well, the concave analogue sticks are too hard to use for precision flicks.

Had a couple of goes and reached the second level boss, so I still have a bit of work to do. I'll keep at it and have a few more rounds, but playing this just makes me want to fire up Mushihimesama or Espgaluda II instead.

[Ciel]

[mrcool37]

Convex was the word I wanted, damn year 10 science and your concave/convex lenses.

So, to reiterate, convex analogue sticks suck balls.

[Jahanzeb]

[slapshakle]

Speaking of 360 shmups, 2 more releases from Cave this year.

DoDonPachi Daifukkatsu 1.5
Pink Sweets and Muchi Muchi Pork double pack

More info here.

Awesome.
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[Jahanzeb]

DonDonpachi = yes

Pink Sweets Muchi pork = O_O...-_-
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[slapshakle]

Oh yeah, I completely blanked about this game coming to XBLA soon;

KOF Sky Stage

This achievement list went up on x360a the other day too. Link.
Kinda surprised it doesn't have a 1CC achievement.
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[Jahanzeb]

A KOF shmup

NOW ive seen everything....
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