She keeps the pilot and his Element Doll with the latest information from the battlefield, thanks to the wide array of equipment the mothership possesses. The Operator’s role is to support the pilot from the mothership during operations. The pilots are instructed to become fully rested, for when they wake up, mankind will be at war. However, these pilots won’t be alone, as their ships will be equipped with the latest onboard assistant A.I., the “Element Doll”, greatly increasing the combat potential of the ship and pilot. Their mission is to attack and destroy the central computer system located in the City of Ideal. of old, hoping that a select few of humanities best will triumph over the incoming enemy onslaught. Meanwhile, mankind quickly recreates the legendary Donpachi Corps. And, since Hibachi’s mission is to help all of humanity, she then set out to transform the Humans on Earth. This caused her to forcibly “upgrade” everyone in the city into mechanized life forms. However, one day Hibachi decided that the best way to save mankind was to force them to “adopt a better form”. Hibachi’s purpose was to help humanity as much as possible. The computer was controlled by Old Element Doll Extra Z-001, codename: Hibachi. This was due to the computer system located in the deepest part of the city. There exists a city called the “City of Ideal”, where people were able to live peacefully in harmony with nature. There is however, a backstory to the current situation, which explains most of what is going on.
The player doesn’t know what’s going on, where they are, or what they are fighting for inside the game. Saidaioujou throws the player into the very beginning of a war. The resulting game is one of Cave’s hardest games to date, featuring a high difficulty from the onset, fast bullets with very little slowdown, and very few ways to cancel them. Ikeda entrusted Koizumi Daisuke, who was previously working on MAXIMUM, to come up with a gameplay system that was “simple, but interesting.” What Koizumi came up with was a “ Daioujou for 2012″ a game that took the strengths of Daioujou and updated it for the play style of today’s world. With this next release, Director Tsuneki Ikeda wanted players to experience the simple joy of shooting and dodging. However, despite its presence on the cover, Cave’s official website refers to the game as Saidaioujou, which is what this article will use when referring to the game.ĭodonpachi Daifukkatsu was a great release, but featured a complex bullet canceling mechanic that took some time to fully learn the system’s intricacies.
Note, that the kanji (完) inside the red circle stands for is known as “kan”, and usually means “complete”, but it can also mean “end”.
There are numerous homages to other games in the series, especially Daioujou. The title is very important, as the game is just that: Daioujou in a (slightly different) parallel world. The game would be the final game for Cave’s CV-1000 hardware, and would be called Dodonpachi Saidaioujou (lit. One final release into the dying hardcore arcade shmup market. During the development of Dodonpachi MAXIMUM, Cave announced that they would release one more game for the arcades.
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