Topic: Otomedius Excellent Out Next Week

[Ahasverus]

This /thing/ is a complete flop, thank God for letting Igarashi out of castlevania, glory to heavens! http://www.gameinformer.com/games/otomedius_excellent/b/xbox360/archive/2011/11/09/otomedius-excellent-review.aspx

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

That reviewer has apparently never played the Gradius series.  Like, ever.
His complaints are "I lose everything when I take a hit" and "You have to light up the bars to get to the power up you want by collecting the power ups", etc.

However, it does concern me that it doesn't show you the power up name (instead it just lights up the name of the character?  From what the reviewer said).
Also, the 'stock ticker' dialogue the reviewer is mentioning.

Then again, what do I care?  I don't have an X360 anyway, bwahaha.

[Reinhart77]

Kokoro Belmont is now available as DLC, as well as her stage music and gamer profile pics.

She actually does play as a Belmont.  Her default power ups include a Laser Whip, Holy Water, a Boomerang Cross, and an Ax.  She can also replace some of those sub-weapons with a Knife or Boomerang, but those are attacks available to several other characters and might not be Castlevania inspired.  If you've ever wanted to know what it'd be like playing a Gradius game with a Castlevania character, now's your chance. 

I haven't played her too much yet.  When she has a sub-weapon equipped, it is always used at the same time as firing her main laser, rather than by pressing a different button as in a Castlevania game.  I think she can have more than one sub-weapon equipped at a time, which are all thrown simultaneously when she attacks.  The laser whip is a continuous "flexible" beam attack that replaces her normal laser.

The music fits the stages pretty well.  There's occasionally a couple notes from a Castlevania song, such as some Theme of Simon during boss battles.

[Rugal]

So.. This is what my beloved Gradius has become. Little anime hentai sluts riding around on planes.

[Rugal]

Double post

[Rugal]

Sorry

[thernz]

Well, it's not like the actual game itself is bad. From what I heard anyway.

Edit: No wait it looks terrible.

[Esco]

What utter trash! The gfx are god awful, the music is unmemorable, the gameplay is not exciting, and most enemies are absolutely DULL to look at!

As for the engine itself for the game: complete utter and useless dried up hippo shit!

Gradius V came out YEARS AGO! And it blows this game away in every aspect; even gfx. And that is just sad. I fail to see how Konami can have a game as AMAZING as Gradius V made, yet hasn't made a half descent sequel since. 

[Charlotte-nyo:3]

So.. This is what my beloved Gradius has become. Little anime hentai sluts riding around on planes.

Strangely enough that seems to be somewhat of a trend in shmups now. They're probably going for the extra sales such a thing can bring given how tough it is to sell shmups these days.

[Super Waffle]

Triggerheart Exelica did it first and did it better.

[Neobelmont]

Triggerheart Exelica did it first and did it better.

Wait somebody has this game I thought it was just me.

So.. This is what my beloved Gradius has become. Little anime hentai sluts riding around on planes.

You say that like it's a bad thing 

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

That's Ecchi or Cheesecake at best.
It's not full-on Hentai.
Am I right, Otaku? Back me up, here.