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Doujin shmups headed our way via Rockin' Android photo

Doujin games, or Japanese fan-made games, are great fun if you know where to go to get them and have recommendations on what to try. There's an almost endless supply of games from just about every genre out there. While it may be hard to enjoy most of these without Japanese language knowledge, the shmups are pretty accessible to everyone. And now they'll be even more accessible thanks to Rockin' Android.

This Los Angeles-based publisher already has four 2D games lined up for distribution here in the US. PC games Suguri Perfect Edition, Gundemonium Collection, Flying Red Barrel: Diary of a Little Aviator, and Qualia will be available via digital download and DVD this summer, complete with English translations. On June 30th, Suguri Perfect Edition and Qualia both launch -- both look great...and hard.

The one I like most is Gundemonium Collection (pictured above), set to release this August. It comes with three games: Gundemonium ReCollection, GundeadliGne, and Hitogata Hapa, and looks to be absolutely insane. Check out a video of the insanity after the jump.

Good news! Rock on, Rockin' Android. 

[Via GameSetWatch]

 


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12 comments | showing # 1 to 12
Conan-san's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 10:41
Conan-san
Hey, it would be nice to get an english translation of Battle Moon Wars and it's three expantion packs...
Jesus H Christ's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 11:39
Jesus H Christ
Touhou Project, please.
NihonTiger90's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 12:10
NihonTiger90
That stuff looks insane @.@
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 12:29
Holyetheline
I love it. This looks fun as hell.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 12:38
Chronic Logic
So creator of this game used sprites and graphics from other games to make his own game?

The game itself looks cool, but I hate these graidus top down or sidescroller games. Trying to dodge all those bullets, makes me dizzy.
Tanukitsune's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 13:11
Tanukitsune
I haven't seen games this zany since Parodius! HUZZAH! I'm excited!
The Pat Man's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 16:06
The Pat Man
More accessible? Don't know what you're talking about. These games ARE accessible and have been for a bit now online. Just need to know where to look. But let me just say that Gundemonium is insane. That video alone is only of the first level of the game. And it's a great game btw. Was happy to see people translated it and put online to download. Even though it's free online for a while now, I would still recommend it even at cost. After seeing this article, I'm now in the mood to play the game again. But if you think that video is insanity though Dale, you obviously haven't seen or played a Touhou Project game. I'll admit I haven't played every Touhou Project game. But the one I've played, the translated version of Imperishable Night, is THE DEFINITION of insanity.
Riegel88's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 16:37
Riegel88
Wow. My mouth just went =O NO JOKE
I love Gundemonium one of my favorite Doujins. So much fun, and like Pat said..they are accessible..just use google and have some brains about it.
Now only if the touhu games would be released here.
SakuChan's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 16:45
SakuChan
This was sooooo posted on Japanator. :P But it's about time someone wrote about this on Dtoid.
The Pat Man's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 18:08
The Pat Man
@Riefel88

Hard to tell if you've played the Touhou games or not going by your last sentence. If that's the case, you can download them Doujinstyle.com. English patches can be found with a simple google search even though not all the games are translated.

Anyways, I should have said this before but obviously didn't. I'm glad that the games are going to be more wide-spread. But as I checked out the site, I realized both collections are at $20 each. That's a problem to me. I don't know about the other colletion, but the games in the Gundemoneum collection aren't worth $20. Maybe $15 at the most, just maybe. I've played all three in the Gundemoneum collection. There's no real story or a bunch of text to read. They're not that long and can be completed under an hour each. And as awesomely fun as they are, $20 to me seems too much. I mean GundeadliGne became freeware as time went by. So you're technically paying for 2 games and added baggage. I mean Recollection is just a simple remake of GundeadliGne with added stuff to it and better visuals. So there's no reason to have GundeadliGne in the collection except for the sake of comparing the two.

It would be one thing if it was a Touhou game which actually had a story that needed to be translated. But it's completely another to be selling games that barely needed translation as well as a freeware game for that high of a price. With as little that needed to be translated, they could sell the Gundemonium Collection at $10 or $15 and still make a profit. I have a feeling Rockin Android will sell the Touhou games eventually. So if these collections are priced at $20 right now, I'm only afraid how much the Touhou games would cost since those games would actually require EFFORT (such as story translation) for American players to understand and play.
VeggieH8R's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/07/2009 18:35
VeggieH8R
This is all for naught if RefleX is not released. Seriously people, it took over ten years to make and I've watched the demos evolve through three engines before a final full release last year at Comiket (which sold out in minutes I hear).

Siter Skain deserves your WORSHIP.
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