News: Doujin round-up #6

January 10, 2006, 02:23 AM

by chazumaru, via various -
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Cubic 3, the new kinetic novel from GlobuleDoujin news, from the usual sources. The weirdest game of the week is most certainly Moeyo Tokkou ~Chikyuu no tamenara shineru~. Tokkou describes the special armor the main protagonist is equiped with, but when written differently is also the tokkou ("suicide") used in tokkoutai ("suicide squad"). The subtitle means "I would die for the planet Earth" and refers to Sega's Kimi no tamenara shineru ("I would die for you", the early DS title that preceded "Where do babies come from?"). The game itself is a bizarre mix between the influences of Mother, Chikyuu Boueigun and Rent-A-Hero - stuck with the classic japanese RPG formula. There is a demo version if you are curious about the result - it's the same one that was available at Comiket 69.

While waiting for the garage kit of R-type's R-9A spaceship, shooting fans will be rejoice in the discovery of Touhou no Ronde, which - as its name bluntly suggests - takes the universe of Shanghai Alice's Touhou series and mixes it with Senkou no Ronde's gameplay. GrisGrisProject is supposed to release Dread Lock next spring. It's a promising run'n'gun mixing 3D design with 2D gameplay for a result in the vein of Assault Suit Valken and Wolf Fang Koukiba, or so. You can judge for yourself with their first playable demo. Meanwhile Blue&White is working on a Cybertroopers Virtual On clone named Iron Duel. The final version of the game will be released by the end of the month, and it seems to need quite the high specs to run smoothly.

If you babble a bit of japanese, you might be interested in kinetic novels, too. Globule has opened a webpage for the new project Cubic 3, which had some promotion material available at the last Comiket. There is a web version of the game planned for february. Globule is also working on Hyakuiromegane ~Kalos Eidos Skopeo~ (the title means 'kaleidoscope' as you can guess), another visual novel that has quite a bit of buzz around it since the demo version available at Comiket 68 last summer. That last game is rated for adults only, although I didn't spot anything unsafe for work while browsing. If you like the art, there is an extensive gallery here.