In the last couple of years I’ve been really into Shmups. Why? I really enjoy a challenge.
Coming off a rhythm game kick I needed something else to get good at, to keep that competitor in me happy. Bullet hell games are all about the score you end up with so it was a natural thing for me. After looking around for a while I kept hearing two names. One was Cave, who makes some of the best games in the genre and the other was “Dodonpachi”. I was looking around for the Dodonpachi games for a while but kinda gave up when I couldn’t find a PAL edition (I’m still not sure if there are any). But then on November 4th, 2011 they released Dodonpachi Resurrection Deluxe Edition in Europe and I was stoked! Not a region free Japan release but a real European release. It didn’t get a North American release but the PAL copy is region-free. The Japanese copy isn’t so remember that North Americans. The game itself is very Cave-like. You fly a ship with a small hitbox in the middle and try to avoid a whole lot of bullets. This game is prime example of a bullet hell shooter. I hadn’t played the other games in the series so I didn’t know a whole lot about the story, up until when I beat the game and apparently I’m a time traveler. I tried reading up on the story but it really doesn’t matter. No one buys a shmup for the story, right? There`s some giant anime girl wallpapers in this game. If that`s what you`re into. The game features the same options as the other games in the genre. You can zoom, change backgrounds and rotate the screen if you got a fancy rotatable monitor setup. The controls feel spot on and works great with an arcade stick. The main problem I have is that the hitbox is impossible to see. The other cave games have a much more prominent hitbox and I have no problems playing a higher difficulty on those. This really doesn’t have a difficulty setting except practice so the hitbox is a big issue. Some might say that’s what makes this game more difficult then other but that is not the right way to do it. Make it more difficult by implementing harder enemies not by handicapping the player. Otherwise, this game is pretty much flawless so if you want a good shmup on the 360 you can’t go wrong with Dodonpachi Resurrection.
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