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Japanese Import: Cave's Mushihimesama Futari Ver 1.5 makes its debut

From Gamertell:

"Good news importers, Mushihimesama Futari Ver 1.5 comes out November 26, 2009. The Xbox 360 game Mushihimesama Futari Ver 1.5 is not only Cave's latest bullet hell shoot 'em up and sequel to Mushihime-sama, it's also region-free. That means that you can play it, no matter what region your Xbox 360 is. "

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Bug Princess Review (Gamerlive.tv)

Cave once again dominates with "shmup" fun.

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“Shmups” and All Their Curtain Fire Goodness

“Shmups” or Shoot’em Ups are games that involves you flying some sort of shiplike object while shooting enemies and dodging bullets. This all began towards the very beginning with games like Gradius and Lifeforce and eventually it grew into various subgenres like the vertical kind and the type where the screen is all flooded with bullets.

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darthv724694d ago

before fps came on the scene. So many good shmups past and present and I hope....the future.

I can see a revival of the space shooter with a new r-type or gradius or darius, or thunderforce (my personal fav) or ....

the list goes on. It would be a nice break from the over crowded first person shooter market.

Venoxn4g4694d ago

I love this genre... there are sooo much great games, especially japanese ones

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Binge Gamer Review: Espgaluda 2 Black Label - Region Free Shmup

Binge Gamer writes:

Esgaluda 2 Black Label is a great game at it's core, but it is held back by some of the choices made during it's trip from arcade to console. Unlimited credits are great for practice and being able to experiment with what the game has to offer, but they really should have been left out of Score Attack mode. Also-as is the case with most Cave games, but especially this one-the complex scoring system could have some players scratching their heads and wondering what the point of it all is. It took me a while to really get into it, and at first I thought I didn't like it too much. Give it some time, though, and all of the elements will sink in.