~Every Extend Extra~

[Kiel]

I just picked it up and I thought I'd post some impressions. I never played the Doujin so I didn't know exactly what to expect going into it. And its good to see that a doujin game maker can make it into the mainstream systems.

After putting about an hour into it I can say it was worth the monies, On the cover it says its from the makers of Lumines and it shares a lot of similarities. Each stage has a different theme/look as well as the enimies contained in each one. Also just like lumines it has great music to accompany each level too. If you have ever played a Kenta Cho game (Torus Troopers, noiz2sa, rRootage) its shares kind of the same abstract visual art style and is very cool.

Gameplay is a mix of puzzle, strategy, and to a much lesser extent shooter. Basically what you do is navigate and detonate your own ship. You use the explosion that your ship creates to in turn blow up enemy ships using their explosion to cause chain reactions. The more ship that add to the chain reaction the higher the score you get. Simple yet difficult and some very cool boss battles.

So, is anyone else playing this?

 

[Poison Sama]

Haven't played the PSP version, but I love the original.

Max out your quicken items as soon as possible. You'll be able to make larger chains that way. In the PC version, they stop appearing after you get 6, but I've managed to get upto 8 by letting them float on the screen (after they've been uncovered) which allows new ones to appear.

 

[GregN]

The box art looks like a bad 70s Sci-Fi book cover or album cover.

 

[Mushiki]

I love Mizuguchi

 

[Kiel]

The box art looks like a bad 70s Sci-Fi book cover or album cover.

No way, its rad.

 

[Mushiki]

 

[Kid Aphex]

is that the US boxart?

~wheres that original source from, mush? thanks for sharing.
~i like it so much im stealing it for my avatar.

 

[Mushiki]

is that the US boxart?

~wheres that original source from, mush? thanks for sharing.
~i like it so much im stealing it for my avatar.

Hahaha, I was actually making an avatar for myself after resizing it to post it here...

Here's the same image, but in full resolution -

EDIT - fuck photobucket resizing images automatically...

 

[Kid Aphex]

wow, gorgeous artwork.

 

[kernow]

great game, been meaning to import it for a while now

 

[J0e Musashi]

great game, been meaning to import it for a while now

Import? Super Lol 2 X. Shane in "I have a PSP and now I'm gonna start importing games too" shocker.

 

[kernow]

Import? Super Lol 2 X. Shane in "I have a PSP and now I'm gonna start importing games too" shocker.

what.. the english version that is. not the 'JP' one.

and I said 'I've been meaning to import it for a while', haha that doesnt actually mean I'll go all nerd and import it, no, I'll just play the ISO until I get a second hand copy off ntsc-uk or something.


but then, in all reality, I'm really not that bothered.

 

[Kiel]

The 7th stage is starting to get to me, its very Rez-like.

 

[kernow]

how do you beat the first boss? I just get game over every time yer

 

[jro]

how do you beat the first boss? I just get game over every time yer

Big chains, foo'.

Big, big chains on the first several hits, then you just need a total (set) number of hits to finish it off.

I've found that the moving from the center of the explosion skill helps a ton against bosses, in particular.