News: Doujin round-up #7

January 22, 2006, 07:57 AM

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Arm Joe's new character Marius, on the left. Tanguy and I are still working on the characters' voices. Doujin highlights of the last few days, from the usual sources. Takase released a new version of Arm Joe, the lovable fighting game set in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables universe. Version 1.4 discards a few bugs, adds a character and includes a nifty new BGM. The game now weighs around 300MB unpacked!

There has been a bunch of other interesting fighting projects in the news. One example is Circle J.F.K.'s Ninja Bugeiden Karyuudo, scheduled for a demo release at Comiket 70. The game feels a bit like Ninja Master's, and its protagonists are popular characters from old anime licenses, such as Kamui Densetsu. There is a trailer to download here. Another game that got a new footage is Kizuna Fighters Zero, released by Nekketsuya for Comiket 69, which adapts their own Kizuna Zero (from Comiket 68) into a fighter. You can get the video as well as a demo version via their download page. Meanwhile, a new test version of Muteki Kakutou Musume -Miki the Fighting Girl surfaced on AuSystem's website.

Most shooting games from Comiket 69 got their usual patches. Suguri is one of them (patch here), but it also has a revised demo version and a new opening movie to download. Yoshiba Works, already responsible for Danmaku Buster and Yoshiba Mini Virus Crusher, has a new version of Bad Rally II to download. Another oldtimer, Hachimitsu Kuma-san revealed his new project Thoho Soccer (I'm going with his romanization here, although it should obviously be spelled touhou). As its author puts it, Thoho Soccer mixes 40 characters from the Touhou universe with "a certain soccer series on Famicom". From the first screenshots, fans will immediatly recognize that the inspiration comes from Captain Tsubasa. The manga and anime being far from realistic, the Famicom adaptations by Tecmo opted for a very peculiar gameplay - somehow closer to a strategy game with special moves. Captain Tsubasa's rights for a video game adaptation are currently owned by Konami.