DoDonPachi Resurrection

Great game, terrible port. DFK is a wonderful game but there are so many technical issues that I can't recommend buying this port. Here's what I encountered personally (on Windows): - Replay desync: Desync destroyed my first 2-ALL 1CC replay. - PC freezing: The game soft-locked my entire PC when switching between full-screen and windowed modes. Unplayable with multiple monitor setup. Alt-tabbing out is a death sentence. This happened on multiple computers. - Screen tearing despite V-Sync enabled. - Bullet slowdown feature isn't consistent with other versions of the game (XBOX360 ver is the gold standard). Maybe buy it as a license to play when on sale, then go get the arcade version.

good game

Beforehand, my direct experience with the [b]DoDonPachi[/b] series was limited to the original, and the (considered "apocryphal" by many fans) first sequel outsourced to IGS on their arcade hardware. From those, I remembered it to be just about sci-fi military machinery with no gimmicks. Imagine my face when I found myself faced with mecha girls. Well, I'm sure a giant robot maid [i]with glasses[/i] is important to the lore. The spritework appears to be, at this point, mostly 3D modeled, albeit of a quality ranging from good to excellent, but some traditional pixel art can still be noticed here and there. As often happens with Cave games, though, good luck appreciating the details when you are busy dodging veritable storms of bullets. Speaking of the sound, the game is excellent with the soundtrack, also because it has a whole four of them: the original version and the Black Label one, each one also with an arranged version. There is a reason I've played the Black Label modes more times. The various re-arranged modes, including the Black Label which has two arranged modes of its own, grant the game quite a bit of variety, and with no need to buy DLCs to get some of them, unlike […

This is both a great beginner shmup and (apparently!) a great expert shmup. Getting the 1-ALL in the standard version isn't too hard, but getting the 1CC in Black Label is harsh and something I'm not capable of doing at this point. I will say, I prefer Mushi, Mushi Futari and Espgaluda as far as the easier Cave shmups go, and I'm not practised enough to assess the more challenging versions or the two loop run, but either way you'll enjoy this regardless of your skill level. (Though I'd recommend for absolute beginners to start with Touhou 8 or something like that)

im not sold on games that sacrifice clarity to style. does it look cool? -yes. is it possible to understand what is exactly happening on screen at a given moment? - mostly no. and that is my main problem - background and foreground and enemies and bullets and cosmetic parts and functional parts of the stage, all of them blending together too well; most of the time its not possible to understand why something happened on screen. theres an explosion - is it the enemy? is it some element? will it destroy enemies, or is it cosmetic? under hundreds of similarly looking sprites i have no idea. usually in those types of games, background and cosmetic elements are made with different resolutions or color tones or are desaturated - so it would be more convenient for the eye to see whats going on, when "something" is happening for unclear reasons, why would i care for it then? when difficulty is borne not from challenging gameplay systems or reaction checks etc, but from unclarity and inconvenience, i view that as universally bad. There are some other problems - hit registration is unreliable, replays mostly dont work , and some resolutions cause the game to crash etc , but those a…

A very good port with many game modes.