Blazing Star - 1998 Developer Interview (In English)

[Boat200]

Ran into this on Shmuplations via their tweet. Blazing Star - 1998 Developer Interview (In English)
http://shmuplations.com/blazingstar/

 

[Bar81]

Very cool. Explains the Pulstar Blast name as well as some interesting stage art design choices.

 

[SNKorSWM]

Here's all the in-between stage stories and personalized endings for the characters.

Actually for Blazing Star there are quite a bit of stuff that isn't normally viewable.
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[hnns]

thanks a lot!

 

[MCF 76]

That was a pretty cool read thanks for sharing that with us.

 

[snkmiami]

Thank You for sharing.

 

[aoiddr]

Great read. ^_^

 

[Voultar]

Fantastic read.

I always love reading about the "inside story" from the programming and developer's prospective.

 

[ShootTheCore]

Fantastic read.

I always love reading about the "inside story" from the programming and developer's prospective.

Agreed - definitely wish we could see a lot more of these articles. I personally would find development backstory interviews with other shmup developers like Konami (Gradius), Tecnosoft (Thunder Force), and Hudson (Lords of Thunder) fascinating.

In this case, it's a pity that the Neo CD version with extra ending materials never happened. But if it had, I probably would still be CDZ exclusive rather than CDZ + CMVS. Blazing Star was the main Neo Geo game I wanted that wasn't on CD.

 

[blackoak]

thanks guys! blackoak from shmuplations here, glad you all liked the Blazing Star interview. It may have been a neo-geo member that voted on those, not sure. I do have a big backlog of stuff, with more neogeo things (and more to add, as I only recently discovered the existence of Neo Geo Freak magazine--have all the interviews in there ever been translated, btw?) You can check out my backlog that patreon supporters can vote on each month here: http://shmuplations.com/patreonlist

just wrapping up a little promotional thing at hg101 actually, where the users of that forum got to vote on interviews they wanted me translate for this month (a patreon taste-test if you will, and thank you to that community). vgmdb is up next month, but I'm planning to do the same for neogeo in a few months hence.

 

[jon713]

Such a fun game, thanks for the link!

 

[Bill Kilgore]

Awesome find!

 

[GhostSeed]

Keep up the good work blackoak it was a great read.

 

[cr8zykuban0]

will have to check this out since blazing star is my favorite shooter. I thought they did a great job with the game

 

[Bar81]

I hope what you meant is:

blazing star is my favorite shooter *on the Neo*

Otherwise, play more games.

 

[Kid Panda]

There wasn’t anything in particular that we tried to carry over from Pulstar, but we were careful to not make Blazing Star too difficult. The director of Pulstar told us “this time, let’s make an easy STG with a charge shot, that anyone can clear.”

Best line ever.

 

[cr8zykuban0]

I hope what you meant is:



Otherwise, play more games.

favorite on the neo but one of my top 10 favorites of all time.

 

[Bill Kilgore]

Even now there’s some flicker in places. I’m sorry if it looks bad.

Japanese people are always so polite and perfectionists. I find this a really interesting quality in Japanese people.

 

[joe8]

Ran into this on Shmuplations via their tweet. Blazing Star - 1998 Developer Interview (In English)
http://shmuplations.com/blazingstar/

Blazing Star is probably the best shooter on the Neo, after Pulstar.

 

[Bar81]

favorite on the neo but one of my top 10 favorites of all time.

Fair enough if you like it that much; it's just not by any stretch the best shooter across all platforms.

 

[joe8]

Fair enough if you like it that much; it's just not by any stretch the best shooter across all platforms.

which would you say are the top 10 shooters across all platforms, then?