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gosokkyu
@gosokkyu

Pre-registration has started for Touhou Gensou Eclipse, the horizontal, free-to-play smartphone STG announced years ago by danmaku veterans Cave and finally scheduled for release in Japan on November 22: fan artist u_u_zan is in charge of character designs and main illustrations, and they already have a ton of known community members and circles queued up to contribute art, music, etc.



gosokkyu
@gosokkyu

so, this was supposed to be out at 00:00 this morning, but it got pushed back a few hours

and then a few more

and then a few more

and now they're like, "maybe at 18:00, maybe not"

/cirnoshrug


gosokkyu
@gosokkyu

...well, sort of: it came out on Android, but the iOS version's stuck in the queue and will be out whenever it's out, I guess



gosokkyu
@gosokkyu

Pre-registration has started for Touhou Gensou Eclipse, the horizontal, free-to-play smartphone STG announced years ago by danmaku veterans Cave and finally scheduled for release in Japan on November 22: fan artist u_u_zan is in charge of character designs and main illustrations, and they already have a ton of known community members and circles queued up to contribute art, music, etc.


gosokkyu
@gosokkyu

so, this was supposed to be out at 00:00 this morning, but it got pushed back a few hours

and then a few more

and then a few more

and now they're like, "maybe at 18:00, maybe not"

/cirnoshrug



Famitsu recently ran an interview with D4 Enterprise's Naoto Suzuki on the current state of Project EGG, and things seem to be going extremely well for them right now: sales of the first couple of EGG Console releases have been great (magnitudes higher than standard PC EGG releases, apparently), and they're pushing to release 2~3 EGG Console games per month, with the idea that some of the bigger licensed games might subsidise releases of more obscure games. They're also in talks for some sort of collaboration with Japan's non-profit Game Preservation Society (gamepres.org) for the specific purpose of figuring out how to reissue games whose copyrights can not be secured or located due to rights holders dying, being impossible to find or identify, etc.

The most interesting statement is that they plan to be more aggressive about expanding EGG overseas, both via EGG Console but also the established PC service, and they're considering widening EGG's scope to include European computer games. I do wonder precisely how they intend to launch Project EGG overseas... they mentioned their recent tie-up with Antstream not too long ago re: MSX, and that they're working through issues/R&D on precisely how much of the current infrastructure can be launched worldwide, so my big fear is that they're going to give up and dump their catalogue onto Antstream or otherwise screw it up with cloud-based nonsense, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

(EGG did attempt international expansion back in the mid/late '00s, in collaboration with a Dutch MSX fan group called WOOMB who intended to not only publish but localise D4's catalogue, but they only got a couple games in before folding; the silver lining was that the initiative lasted just long enough to ensure D4E set up global-friendly payment options on their own service, which have persisted to this day.)



chunderfins
@chunderfins

my breakfast shmup Hazelnut Hex is coming to Steam in 10 days!! you can wishlist it now right here!


gosokkyu
@gosokkyu

you can also go buy it on itch or Switch (US - UK) right now if you'd prefer; it'll also be out on the Japanese Switch eShop at the same time as the Steam release.

I was very pleasantly surprised by this game—it was completely off my radar, and my default assumption about western-made STG that just show up out of nowhere (and in particular, games that come off as primarily aesthetic-driven) is that there's not going to be a whole lot to them, but this game's super-solid and I hope it does well enough to justify a more substantial update in the future.

(Heads up on something that's tripped up everyone who's spoken to me about this game: "moderate" = hard mode!)