

Sadly, it is exactly EXY’s desire to destroy everything that creates the conditions for the endless battles to continue, and so comes DaiFukkatsu. She enters the machine, sees things that she cannot fathom or accept (likely involving the human influence on the unending wars and the eternal recurrence of this war), and goes crazy. Leinyan’s ending is more resolved, but the apparently-canon ending is that of EXY. But they all have to do with a mainframe computer for the ever-bent-on-destruction machine Hibachi (or, stylized, ]-[_-34(#!). The older games focus less on character and story, but as the story’s progression continues, things definitely change.Īt the end of DaiOuJou, there are different resolutions depending on which of the three “Element Dolls” (your AI-semi-human character choice) you use. DaiFukkatsu takes place in the series’ chronology after DoDonPachi DaiOuJou (and DoDonPachi, and DonPachi, all before that). Recently, Degica localized and published CAVE’s hit game DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu (translated to DoDonPachi Resurrection), in its “1.5” form, which includes the original game, the Black Label modes, and a host of other variants. The “true” endings may bring some resolution, but they tend to be bittersweet at best in the case of the DoDonPachi series, we can switch “bittersweet” with “dark as hell.” The “normal” endings leave the player with riddles and loose threads.
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They know how to tell stories, and they want to tell stories.) Unfortunately, it’s only available in Japanese.ĬAVE games tend to have dark endings. But it’s not like the stories are non-existent, or that the CAVE team doesn’t know how to tell a story (for proof of my latter claim, check out Instant Brain, CAVE’s one and only Visual Novel.
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What often gets ignored in CAVE’s shmup series is the storyline. When I say that’s some of the best VGM I’ve ever heard, please know that I’m speaking with a world of experience behind me.)

(I’ve listened to over 1000 game soundtracks and reviewed them for RPGFan. CAVE also manages to pack incredible aesthetics into their games: the in-game visuals are stunning, character art is always top-notch, and the games sport some of the best game music I’ve ever heard. The challenge level can become completely unreal. For the unitiated, danmaku = bullet curtain, or “bullet hell” as it’s sometimes called. Let’s just get this out of the way: CAVE is known for making incredible danmaku shooters.
