Forum Overview :: Mischief Maker's Maker's Mark :: Do you like over-the-top action games?

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]It still boggles the mind that japanese indie developer easygamestation took their shit sub-zelda combat engine from their shitty game "duo princess" then added a shitty shopkeeper/interior decorator game on top of it, called it "Recettear," and struck shit gold with the somethingawful crowd. Hooray, forget <A HREF="http://www.vector.co.jp/download/file/winnt/game/fh502734.html">Crimzon Clover</A> or <A HREF="http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~icewind/yuki-usa/createtode3.htm">Diadra Empty</A>, let's bridge the pacific divide between American consumers and Japanese indie developers with a glorified facebook game. I guess this fist-shaking paroxysm is aimed at the heavens for allowing shit games like Recettear to achive success and glory while actually amazing action games like "Es" die in development: [youtube id=fpN2AAyCEVk] <I>Fuck</I> Shank! Anyway, 9th Night, the developer of this game, has closed shop and their website is down, but thankfully a lot of japanese indie developers tend to spread their demo downloads over multiple mirrors and archive.org helped me locate a still-working DL link. Grab it while you can: <A HREF="http://mirror0.fuzzy2.com/2008/01/9th-night/es_trial_beta.zip">http://mirror0.fuzzy2.com/2008/01/9th-night/es_trial_beta.zip</A> Arrows move horizontally. Z is sword, hold back when hitting Z for a lifting uppercut. X is machine gun (tap) or homing lasers, (hold). Z and X together fire Death Blossom when the power meter on the left is full. C is vertical jump. V is horizontal dash. A fires special weapon 1 S changes target. D targets closest. Q fires special weapon 2 I don't think the config editor or the config text file actually work in this beta. This is like a tighter-controlling version of Zone of the Enders 2. It's only 2 stages. Play for speed and score (you build up a combo meter by rapidly attacking) and it's still an absolute blast.[/quote]