GamingLives looks at the side-scrolling shoot-em-up from Cave and Rising Star Games:
"Novice and casual players will find Akai Katana to be a challenging, but fair, game that will test their skills. It surpasses any horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up on the system (although Omega Five on Xbox Live Arcade is still an absolute gem of a game). Questions remain over the longevity of Akai Katana if all you want to do is play it for fun, but mastering it is a longterm goal that you may never manage."
Siliconera knows Cave is bringing Dodonpachi Saidaioujou for Xbox 360, but what else is the maniac shooter company working on? They picked the brain of Cave lead creator and Game Development Head Makoto Asada to see what their future plans are.
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""Dodonpachi Saidaioujou" - why 360 has won this gen and sony have failed."
I hear the game is so big each bullet comes on it's on disk on xbox.
Cave has a mega collection of shooting games according to Amazon Japan, which is taking reservations for the Cave Shooting Collection. This bundle includes 10 games plus downloadable content on seven DVDs.
As a port of an arcade game, Akai Katana may be short but it is still incredibly fun and provides a seemingly "impossible to beat" kind of challenge that is lacking from a lot of video games today.
