Project Y - Megadrive/Genesis and Dreamcast

Just saw whilst browsing Bordersdown's forums that a new scrolling beat em up is being produced for both the Megadrive (Genesis) and the Dreamcast.

Apparently it's by the same guys who made the new RPG for the Megadrive a few years back, called Pier Solar.

The interesting point of this seems to be the RPG elements they want to include in this game.
In any case, you can read more details about it on Magical Game Factory's website.

Dragon's Crown Amazon & Elf Figures

Just saw over on myfigurecollection that the Amazon figure from MegaHouse is due for release in July this year, and will cost 9250Yen. Bit expensive for my liking but knowing from past purchases of MegaHouse's figures it will be a good quality figure.

(If anything at least the Amazon's butt looks robust lol.)

Playasia has the preorder for the figure up at the moment, as well as the Elf figure which is due for release in June.

Check out Playasia's preorder page of the Elf for more pictures.

The King of Dragons (Super Famicom/SNES)

 

It's been a while again since I've last posted.
Was a bit addicted to playing Monster Hunter 4, and I've been a bit busy being back at work again.

Below is my guild card in case you where interested, haven't played for a few weeks but might play it again this weekend since I found out there are some new event quests. 

Went back to London over Xmas and picked up the English version of Dragon's Crown, so have gotten back into playing through that again. Been going through it a bit slower than I did the first time I played the JP version, probably because I've done it before so I'm not as motivated.

Also whilst I was back I decided to bring back a couple of retro games to Japan with me, one of them being The King of Dragons on the Super Famicom.
Although I've owned this game for quite a long time, I have really made much of an attempt to playing through it properly. As I've been getting more and more into playing scrolling beat 'em ups lately, I've decided to play this a bit this weekend.

It's quite nice dipping into the old Capcom beat 'em up games to see where the influence for Dragon's Crown came from, particularly since (IIRC) George Kamitani had previously worked on the D&D games at Capcom.

It's a pretty fun game, and worth checking out. Even if it's just finding the rom and playing it on emulation. Fairly long in length as well, managed to scrape my way up to the boss on the 14th stage and found out after on Google search that there's actually another two more stages!!

Below is my latest score on the game, only wrote my name as 'A' because it doesn't save the score onto the cartridge anyway. (And was a bit pissed off I died tbh.)

Anyways also be sure to check out the Capcom Database website for loads of artwork of the game, have put only a couple of examples below but there are plenty more of great images on that site.

Neobitz' Knight's Chance MVS Collectors and Standard Edition Details.

 

Neobitz have posted up some details of what is to be included in the Collectors and Standard editions of their title, Knight's Chance, good to know they aren't sacrificing old MVS carts to make this game. 

Preliminary Knight's Chance MVS Collector's Edition and Standard Edition.

Standard Edition Includes:

MVS Cart (New shell + custom PCBs). No SNK parts used!

Mini-Marquee
Flyers
Soft DIP Settings Sheet
MVS Cardboard Box

Collector's Edition Includes:

Everything from SE plus:
Shockbox + Insert
Custom Playing Cards
Poster (not pictured)

Final art subject to change. Meg size not finalized.

Collector's Edition will come with the option to reserve a serial number (first come, first serve basis).

Pre-Orders will open once we finish setting up the pre-order page.

We're trying to aim for a December 2013 release date, depending on production time.

COMPGAMER TV : The King of Fighters Online Review/Gameplay

cgnnews has just uploaded a video recently, which is actually a review I believe, but as I can't understand Thai I just watched a bit of the gameplay instead. 

The video itself is over 30minutes long and shows gameplay pretty much throughout. 

It's weird though, as my preconception of the game was that it would be some kind of scrolling beat'em up type game, but it looks more in line with games like maybe Starcraft type games. 

If you look at the KOF Online official site it does seem you are able to download it now, though I gave up halfway through trying to figure out to register. (May try again when I'm less tired from work.)

Gunlord headed to 3DS/Wii-U - Indiegogo campaign

NGDEVTEAM are looking to bring Gunlord to the Nintendo platforms of the 3DS and Wii-U and have started a crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo.

Previously this was released on the AES and Dreamcast, but now they are looking to bring the title to a wider audience. 

I've only ever managed to play one of their titles, Fast Strikers, which was released on iOS platforms a few years back. For some reason it was pulled from the iTunes store, which I'm a bit gutted about as I deleted it at one point and have no way to download it again now!!

Anyways for those interested to help fund their campaign, please check out their campaign on Indiegogo.

Knight's Chance (MVS) - Attract Sequence

Neobitz has uploaded a new video to their Facebook page, showing off the attract sequence for their MVS title, Knight's Chance. Judging from what is being said on the Facebook page, the game is pretty much finished and should start being prepared for preorders some time in the next couple of months.