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Pressing the B button again during a Hyper will cause a Spread Bomb or Laser Bomb to go off, canceling the rest of the Hyper. The time remaining for the Hyper is shown below the GPS bar. After collecting a Hyper Medal, pressing the B button will cancel all bullets on screen and cause the player’s ship to gain devastatingly powerful Shot and Laser weapons for a limited time. Getting high chains and point-blanking enemies will raise the Hyper Gauge, which, when full, will cause a Hyper Medal to drop from the top of the screen. During gameplay, the scoring information can be found in the upper left corner of the screen, which contains the GPS system, the combo gauge, and the new Hyper System, in addition to their score and remaining ships. It’s a very nice touch that really adds to the overall feel of the game. Cave even put the inactive numbers as darker, but still visible pixels, further simulating the Nixie tube styling. The game has a really cool (and detailed) Nixie tube style throughout its UI.
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Daioujou has a very different style than the other DonPachi games, going for a dark sci-fi look. Exy starts out with a single bomb, and can carry two at most.ĭodonpachi Daioujou is a three button game (two buttons, one auto-fire button), with the same controls as the previous games. Due to her programming, she is the preferred Element Doll for advanced pilots. Exy is an older-generation doll, and was designed to maximize a fighter’s functionality, with no regards to pilot safety. CharactersĪn Element Doll that enhances both the fighter’s Shot and Laser capabilities. Knowing that the mission is suicidal, the ships are deployed on the surface of the moon, alone against the mechanized army. Once more humanity was committing the same mistake: a war of machine against machine… To make up for this shortcoming, the ships were equipped with an “Element Doll”: artificial life forms who have been specially modified to optimize a ship’s destructive power, allowing the craft to operate at an enhanced level. However, what time mankind had was few, with only enough to produce two types of ships to combat an army, let alone produce pilots of equal caliber to those of the legendary Donpachi Corps. With little time to spare, the United Nations ordered the reactivation of the Donpachi Corps. Intercepting information that the awakened machine army was currently rebuilding Hibachi in preparation to attack Earth and fulfil their original programmed goal: the annihilation of the human race. The exiled machines had reawakened, quickly overtaking the defenseless Lunapoils, and creating automated production facilities for their army. Suddenly, a disturbance on the moon was reported. In this age, humans had gone on to colonize the moon itself, using advanced robotics that were capable of completing tasks that proved too challenging for human comprehension. Humanity would slowly begin to rebuild and after one thousand years, civilization was at last used for peace. In order to preserve the newfound peace, humanity sealed what remained of the Colonel’s robot army on the moon, hoping that such an event would never occur again. Ironically, the war had also solved the problems of overpopulation, pollution, and the growing arms race. However many lives had been lost due to this battle, cities were razed and weapons were destroyed. After being betrayed by the leader of the Donpachi Squadron, a lone pilot managed to defeat Colonel Schwarlitz Longhena’s mechanized army, and prevent his plan to annihilate the human race from succeeding. In fact, at one point game’s development team was told that Cave’s arcade development division would be disbanded if the game didn’t perform well at its location tests! But Cave’s fans are a passionate bunch, and because of their support, Daioujou was released successfully, allowing many gamers to experience the “blissful death” for themselves.ĭaioujou‘s story begins one thousand years after the events of Dodonpachi ( Dodonpachi II Bee Storm‘s events are non-canon). When all three factors were combined with the team working with Cave’s flagship franchise, Dodonpachi, the team was under intense pressure the entire time. If weak hardware wasn’t enough the game was developed on a ridiculously tight schedule by a small development team. The game ran on the PolyGame Master hardware, just like Dodonpachi II Bee Storm did, which ran at relatively low specs compared to other hardware at the time.
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Cave must have truly believed that line, because on ApCave released the next game in their DonPachi series titled: Dodonpachi Daioujou (lit. When Dodonpachi was released, it had a tagline telling players that “dying is good” (shinu ga yoi). “Daioujou Suru Ga Yoi (Die A Blissful Death)”