I too was actually pretty skeptical at first, but have found that STGs control surprisingly well on an iPhone. If cave keeps bringing them to iOS, I'll keep picking them up.
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Cave's Bug Princess 2 Black Label flying to iOS platforms
Oh would you look at that, Cave Interactive will be ferrying yet another shooter from the arcades to the pockets of shooter fans everywhere. After releasing Akai Katana on the Xbox 360 last month, the Japanese developer looks to the future, announcing the impending release of Bug Princess 2 Black Label for iOS platforms. Back in April Cave released Bug Princess 2, a localized mobile version of the 2006 arcade game Mushihimesama Futari. In addition to sharing a name with a rather delicious whisky, Black Label sports new challenges, an alternate scoring system and God mode. Perhaps the most significant addition is a Boss Rush feature that pits you against the bosses from both Bug Princess titles. While that's great news it ls as though that Boss Rush mode might be subject to microtransactions or require the original Bug Princess to unlock certain content.Cave will probably be more willing to divulge more on the subject along with pricing and a release date sometime in the near future. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)Why would you want to play something that requires such precision on an iPhone/iPad? It stresses me out just thinking about it... You'd be surprised. The control on ipad IMHO, is very precise and not a problem whatsoever. At times i do better than with a fightstick on 360 @Speeeven
I too was actually pretty skeptical at first, but have found that STGs control surprisingly well on an iPhone. If cave keeps bringing them to iOS, I'll keep picking them up. Still no ports to android phones? I don't see why so many games never get ported to Android from iOS. Android is open-source and free to develop for unlike iOS. I see no problem in porting these games to Android phones and releasing them in English too. I wouldn't have this problem is iPhone weren't so overpriced when their competitors do exactly the same things for cheaper prices. BroStar: I think it's kinda like the Wii case: Cheaper games, huge installed base but no really a market to sell. Xbox 360 and PS3 have less consoles per home, their games are more expensive and games sell better on them. @Bro - I don't own a smartphone myself, but I do know that Cave has ported one or two of their shooters there...I'm pretty sure that either Espgaluda II or Deathsmiles made it. The company mentioned that it has to program certain things differently for their stuff to run properly on Android, though I'm not tech-savvy enough to go into details. As to whether they might send more over in the future, I honestly have no idea...personally, I'm more concerned about a full console port of DDP SaiDaioujou happening in some form, but that's just me. 7:00 PM on 04.09.2013 Bug Princess 2 Black Label, other Cave shmups on saleCave is celebrating three years of selling its wares on mobile platforms by slashing prices on a number of its shooters until April 14. It's largely the same sale we see from them every few months, but there's one notabl...
11:30 AM on 03.20.2013 Rejoice! A Cave shooter finally coming to PlayStation 3The unthinkable has happened. One of Cave's illustrious shoot-'em-ups has been announced for PlayStation 3. Despite some saying it would never happen, the latest edition of Weekly Famitsu reports 5pb will bring Ketsui: K...
1:00 AM on 02.25.2013 Cave Shooting Collection heading to Xbox 360 this MarchCave's prohibitively expensive shooting collection has a release date. The ten disc bundle of danmaku goodness is slated to hit Japan on March 28 for the steep price of ¥ 24,800 (roughly $300), though it's still not ...
1:00 PM on 01.21.2013 New releases: Ni no Kuni arrives at lastIt's Monday, and that can only mean one thing: it's the beginning of another week of new releases! And what a great week it is, most notably containing the release of the long awaited Ni no Kuni, Level-5 and Studio Ghibli's ...
6:00 AM on 12.21.2012 Cave World Winter Sale has begun on iOS and AndroidIt's wintertime and you know what that means. Everywhere you turn someone's looking to bleed you dry. If you've yet to spend next month's rent on the Steam's holiday sale, why not throw a few bucks at Cave and pick up a new s...
2:00 PM on 12.01.2012 Do want: Cave Shooting Collection coming to Xbox 360One of these days I'm going to go out and splurge on every shooter available for the Xbox 360. No, I'm not talking about Halo and Gears of War. Microsoft's console has been home to many of this generation's finest bullet hell...
5:00 PM on 10.22.2012 Make your iPhone happy with DoDonPachi MaximumCave is arguably the best thing to happen to mobile gaming. There. Said it. I seriously suck at bullet hell-type games, but I still have to get everything that Cave sends your way for iOS devices. They're that good. The next ...
1:00 AM on 08.17.2012 PSA: Cave shooters on sale for iOS platforms this week[Update: Today, August 17th, is your last opportunity to take advantage of the Cave World Summer Sale.] Summer is here and just about everyone and their brother is having a seasonal sale to help part you from your hard earned...
9:00 PM on 06.09.2012 Cave's Bug Princess 2 Black Label flying to iOS platformsOh would you look at that, Cave Interactive will be ferrying yet another shooter from the arcades to the pockets of shooter fans everywhere. After releasing Akai Katana on the Xbox 360 last month, the Japanese deve...
2:00 PM on 05.17.2012 Review: Akai KatanaI spent $80 on a double-pack of Cave’s Muchi Muchi Pork and Pink Sweets when I visited Tokyo last fall. Some people might think I’m crazy for paying that much on what could easily be a $5 downloadable game. But i...
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