The latest M2 ShotTriggers reissue is out in just two weeks: DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou Rinne Tensei, a deluxe version of the third mainline game in Cave's illustrious series of arcade shooting games, originally released in April 2002 and quickly followed up with a "Black Label" revision later that year, as well as some other minor variants released in Asian territories. While players were initially split on the game's immediate, intense difficulty, it eventually solidified itself as a fan favourite and a game that many aficionados consider the peak of Cave's output.
Unlike many of the games selected for the M2STG treatment, DOJ was fortunate to have already received an excellent home port by way of Arika's 2003 PS2 version, with the only fault being the fact that it only covers the original "white label" version and not Black Label. The 2009 Xbox 360 port of Black Label, published by 5pb. and produced by an outsourced studio using stolen code from Arika's PS2 version, was pulled from sale and plagued with technical issues that Arika themselves made an attempt to fix but were never fully straightened out, so there's long been a demand for a fresh port that does justice to both versions of the game.
As usual, M2's gone all-out with their version of DOJ, throwing in multiple version and a ton of supplementary features and new modes for both new and returning players. They've been drip-feeding info on all these additions over the last several months via periodic live streams, the last of which just wrapped up, so lemme run down all the info in one place:
