New Dreamcast Game; Wind & Water Puzzle Battles

[lisalover1]

Long live the Dreamcast! It would be awesome if someone made a new online game for the Dreamcast, too, but the fact that they're still supporting the system at all is good enough for me.

[Ramatut4001]

Can't wait for this. My wife and I already ordered our sprites.

[abeisgreat]

Can't wait for this. My wife and I already ordered our sprites.

I paid for a custom sprite not knowing that my sprite for the GP2x version got included for free. They offered to give my money back, but I just let em keep it. I support the little companys XD

[RackGaki]

I'm interested in this game, but the euro to dollar conversion just kills me. Last Hope comes to over $60 before shipping on their site... yikes.

I can find the page for sprite-ordering, but not for the actual Dreamcast release. I imagine that would be 20 euros, though.

[abeisgreat]

I'm interested in this game, but the euro to dollar conversion just kills me. Last Hope comes to over $60 before shipping on their site... yikes.

I can find the page for sprite-ordering, but not for the actual Dreamcast release. I imagine that would be 20 euros, though.

That might be cause its not released yet haha. I think they said itll be 40 bucks, I dunno what that is in euros though.

[HeavyMetalMe]

The same company is also putting out "Dux" in about a month for DC. It's a hori shmup like "Last Hope", also by redspotgames.

Actually, hucast.net are developing Dux, athough they too are made up of ex-members of the NGDEV team that produced Last Hope. RedSpotgames are apparantly working on a vertical shooter called 'Dalforce' as well as the DC port of Wind & Water.

He'd have known that had he read my interview!

Reviving this thread because the game can now be pre-ordered on Play-Asia.

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-54- ... -31d9.html

[vbt]

Wind & Water released !!!

Finally, this day has come, we were looking forward for so long. redspotgames and Yuan Works are announcing that by this day “Wind and Water” Puzzle Battles” is ready for shipping and can be regularly ordered at the redspotgames online shop.
While this is the day the first games will be shipped my mail, the official release date was already on November 1st 2008. In front of serveral hundred visitors “Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles” has been released, presented and sold previously at this date at the “Retro Gaming Connexion” in Congis-sur-Thérouanne near Paris, France.

http://www.redspotgames.com/wind-and-wa ... -shipping/

[Mozgus]

So I tried this out a little. Got a couple gripes. It doesnt support soft-reset, and it's not very well formatted for 480 sets. My TV is cropping off a good portion of the right side and bottom. It also seems to only support slot 1 memory cards. I wanted to use my slot 2 but it doesn't even try to.

Otherwise this is a surprisingly slick game with a nice CDDA soundtrack, low rez but pleasing spritework, and a lot of content for a puzzle game.

[GagaMan]

Put up a video of me unpacking it and trying it out, if anyone's interested:


First impressions: Darn, is it hard! I still haven't beaten the first vs battle in the story mode. takes some really quick reflexes. Very nice, though.