Cave confirm Death Smiles II and Guwange for 360

[Bootaaay]

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/0 ... uncements/

Cave closed off the stage presentations with two major announcements. First up came word of an Xbox Live Arcade version of Guwange, for release in 2010.

Death Smiles 2 is also on the way for 360. The 360 version promises new characters, new bosses, and graphical upgrades. A limited edition version will come with a soundtrack.

Also, 5bp are working on a new shooter for 360 and say that the long awaited patch for DDP is on it's way;

The company said that it's working on a new Xbox 360 shooter. It also addressed a somewhat touchy subject: DoDonPachi. The long promised patch for the game, which was pulled from store shelves quickly following its release last year, is apparently being tested by Microsoft now.

Awesome news, can't wait to get my hands on Guwange again - it's easily one of my top 3 Cave games. Also, good to see Death Smiles II will be getting an upgrade, i've heard nothing but bad things about the arcade version (which is worrying since the first was so exceptionally awesome) and that the DDP patch will finally be coming.

[Bootaaay]

DeathSmiles II 360 trailer;



Release date is May 27th 2010, also the Guwange XBLA port will include 3 modes; Arcade, Cave Festival "Blue" Version and a new Arrange mode that uses dual stick control.

Here's the cover and some DeathSmiles II info I saw posted over at the shmups forum;

Changes from the arcade version:
-7 stages total (2 more than the arcade version)
-2 new characters (Follett and Rosa)
-Updated graphics (16:9 mode)
-New bosses

Other stuff:
-The LE comes with a DLC code for an arranged soundtrack
-Release date: May 27th!
-Region locked, you'll need a Japanese 360 for this one.

[shallowgamer]

Thanks for the info. Now do I drop 70 bucks, or wait until it comes out in the states for $20?

[Japhei]

Thanks for the info. Now do I drop 70 bucks, or wait until it comes out in the states for $20?

It will probally be a $40 dollar game or a $60 dollar LE release with limited press and a Cave Extras Extravenganza!

[hashiriya1]

Woo, Cave shmups are the only reason I bought a JP 360....for 7,900 yen

[Japhei]

New cover pic and trailer on my site.

http://japhei.blogspot.com/2010/03/deat ... -game.html

[Japhei]

New gameplay video released

[durkada]

Great news. For one thing, I'm glad more Cave games are coming to the home. For another, it gives my Xbox something to do. The 360 library is becoming more lackluster every day, to me. In the past year I bought... Raiden IV.

Got Death Smiles pre-ordered on Amazon.

[MrPopo]

Holy crap, that's a lot of boolet cancelling.