Gaming, Handhelds

Cave update

Happened to be awake, so I just hopped on the Cave ustream to see … uh … MasaKING in a maid costume. Also:

* Update coming in about 3 hours with puzzle, costumes (palette swaps?), and DLC items, bug fixes and some new options (screen rotate, move screen area to right/left)
* DLC items cost about $3 to $4 apiece :/
* Mushihimesama weapon looks pretty powerful but only seems to affect shot, not laser/lock
* Bug Panic OST announced
* Espgaluda 2 HD version in development fuck yeah
* “Castle Creator” social game in development, i expect this will probably flop internationally

And LOL afterschool storybook time ft. Asahina Mikuru and Ika-musume :roll:

“English Cave World blog post is here.”:http://caveworlden.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/deathsmiles-major-update-wrap-up/

Translator ended the Ustream session with “we try to translate to the full extent of the jam” or something like that, good to hear that our translator is a gigantic shmup dork too.

7th Dragon, 7th Dragon 2020

8/4

Sorry, don’t have time to translate this week. Haven’t actually looked at these yet either. This week’s news and a little bit of last week’s:

* “Character creation”:http://dragon2020.sega.jp/character_make.html video. (“Famitsu article”:http://www.famitsu.com/news/201108/04047984.html)
* “Information on Samurai”:http://dragon2020.sega.jp/character1.html and a video.
* There’s actually a brief blurb on the Psychic and some character art in “this Famitsu article from last week”:http://www.famitsu.com/news/201107/30047471.html.
* Seventh Heaven “Miku”:http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=20805383 fanart.

Gaming, Handhelds

RO Mobile

“Ragnarok Online Mobile Story”:http://octoba.net/archives/20110728-android-1879.html

Keep on milkin’ …

Region-locked, unfortunately.

7th Dragon, 7th Dragon 2020

sasakure.UK ft. 初音ミク – SeventH-HeaveN

Aand it’s up.

“sasakure.UK ft. 初音ミク – SeventH-HeaveN”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsS371x43lk

Official update also mentions a bunch of merchandise being sold at Comiket 80 – “http://jrpg.jp/news/?nid=166″:http://jrpg.jp/news/?nid=166

!https://pent.semilunar.org/images/27.jpg!

Well I suppose it IS Tokyo in the year 2020…they’d better have lifesize Miku running around the city by then…as a pop idol she can win over the gigantic -Zentraedi- Dragons with the power of song or something

ミクさんかわゆい（ ﾟ∀ﾟ ）

Handhelds

Live Art

“Portalgraphics – Live Art”:https://market.android.com/details?id=net.portalgraphics.liveart for Android

This looks fantastic. I remember flipping through many openCanvas files back in the day.

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Curiouser and curiouser (7/28)

Back in the States.

A “nice photo of the preorder bonus”:http://dragon2020.sega.jp/information.html is now on the official site. And it looks super nice, just like the last Dragon Chronicle book did. (Similarly, my wallet looks super empty.)

Apparently there is another Famitsu article this week. Alas, again, I do not have access to Famitsu so I have no idea what is being reported.

That said, 2ch reports that sasakure.UK will be producing the theme song, which will be performed by Hatsune Miku. There’s also this image here, indicating that Miku herself will be in the game.

!https://pent.semilunar.org/images/26t.jpg!:https://pent.semilunar.org/images/26.jpg

The theme song should be available for listening on the official site by tomorrow.

Gaming

Tokyo

Found some arcades. Played through about 3 levels of Daifukkatsu poorly. Saw Deathsmiles II in another arcade, but haven’t gone back yet…

Man, if I lived here my life would be so over.

My real, perhaps not interesting, but generally productive non-otaku life.

Handhelds

Android region locks

So, I can’t actually download Japanese region-locked apps to my phone even if I’m in Japan, alas. The locale of the phone is still the US.

“Bisei-tokei”:https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zeroone.bisei.tokei2 Looks interesting but I need more space on my phone. Might be nice with a desktop dock, I think.

Gaming

Spelunkin’

New and unusual CAVE Co., Ltd. news:

“Afterschool Picture Show Club”:http://www.cave-world.com/jp/apps/houkago_no_kamishibaibu/ – Storytime with full facial animation from cute 2D girls (Japanese) ft. “Yuko Goto”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABko_Got%C5%8D and “Hisako Kanemoto”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisako_Kanemoto

“Derby Classics @ facebook”:http://www.derbyclassics.com – Exciting racehorse social simulation game (English)

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CAAAAAVVVEEEEEEEE