[Mantiskilla]

Its time for another update shooter fans. Ether Vapor Remaster is now available through the official website or through various PC download sites (see below) but not on Steam yet. Here's to hoping that it will make it on there along with eXceed games which still have yet to surface. A great price for a pretty cool game however. If you like games like Raystorm mixed with some Thunder Force you'll really enjoy this one.

Homepage
http://ethervapor.com/

Impulse
http://www.impulsedriven.com/

Gamersgate
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-EVR/ether-vapor-remaster

[AweOfShe]

Digging the look and vibe of that one. Still didn't end up grabbing eXceed yet, since I was waiting for the Steam release, but at this rate, I might just grab eXceed and Ether Vapor off Gamersgate instead.

[Mantiskilla]

Well at long last for people who wanted to play eXceed on Steam. It's now available for $10 and you get all 3 games.

[Xefi]

Originally Posted by Mantiskilla

Well at long last for people who wanted to play eXceed on Steam. It's now available for $10 and you get all 3 games.

*bought*

thanks for the updates, Mr. Mantis.

[Polly]

Originally Posted by Mantiskilla

Well at long last for people who wanted to play eXceed on Steam. It's now available for $10 and you get all 3 games.

Huh, didn't even know that was happening. Have a friend who'll probably want these, so I'll just send them over to him as a nice surprise.

[Akaimizu]

More recently, I went to try some new Cave stuff I haven't tried yet. On iOS, I recently got Bug Princess 2 Black Label Edition. Definitely fun, but boy I didn't remember how easy their typical Normal level is. First time I played, I got right to the ending. So now it's time to kick up the difficulty and get those patterns down for some insane scores. Interesting they really present the story of these two siblings; a bit more involved (or serious a plotline) than what you'd expect in a shooter. Particularly with all the crazy bosses.

[amtalx]

How are the iOS versions of shmups? The purist in me refuses to believe there is enough accuracy in the controls to do more than push through the game like a battering ram.

[Akaimizu]

The accuracy isn't a problem. Cave perfected touch/slide controls a long time ago. You can pretty much move with pixel perfect accurracy. Firing is automatic, but you manually do the bombs/special abilities (depending on the game). There is no issue weaving through bullet patterns on touch screen. Nor is there an on-screen stick you have to deal with. Touch and hold your digit anywhere on the screen, and the ship moves with it, precisely.

Works fine on a phone or touch, but I prefer the iPad, of course, because of the screen real-estate. That alone guarrantees the best visual. Plus the screen size is very satisfying that close to you. Still, you actually can easily forget the control method, and just get into playing as if you're the ship itself. Because, in a way, you are. It moves precisely with your finger movement, and you can do that without thinking. And that's all that really matters for pure shooting goodness. If there was any disconnect from that, I would've actually had trouble with this game, or the other Cave or Taito shooters on the system.

Still, if you go to something like Konami's Otomedius Excellent, or anything with more of an old-school shooter difficulty; going back to Cave is like a walk in the park. Then again, Cave is more about giving you opportunities for fantastic scoring multipliers and the like, and less about difficulty making it to the end. Then again, screen filled madness of slower moving bullets I always felt was way easier than the fast bullets designed to actually aim for you, approach.

[Xefi]

Akai Katana for the Xbox360 is now only $22.99 on amazon. For all you SHUMP fans, dont skip out on this gem.

i just bought mine already.

http://www.amazon.com/Akai-Katana-Xb...d_rhf_gw_p_t_4

[Mantiskilla]

Time for another update. In some GREAT news from a week or so ago CAVE is possibly looking at releasing Dodonpachi Saidaioujou (newest one currently in arcades) on 360 for both Japan and western markets at the same time. Lets hope this happens for sure

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/09/24...-and-the-west/

In other news Ether Vapor Remaster is now available on the Steam store for $7.99. A great price for a pretty darn good shooter, but you can download a demo if you want to try it out first. Highly recommend picking this one. If you haven't seen it in action here is a video I had uploaded awhile back as I own the retail version. Getting Steam version anyway for english text reasons.

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