Yesterday, CAVE surprised us all by announcing plans to update DEATHSMILES ($5.99), DODONPACHI MAXIMUM ($3.99), DoDonPachi Resurrection HD ($5.99), and DoDonPachi Blissful Death ($2.99) for iOS 11 and later. The announcement from CAVE mentioned the updates were “coming soon" and I thought that meant later this month. I was wrong because the updates are all out now and previous owners of the games can download them now.
Alongside the updates, CAVE has also put all four games on discount for a limited time. Thanks to Sebgo on our discord server for the heads up on this update.The four games discounted are below:
DEATHSMILES ($5.99)
DODONPACHI MAXIMUM ($3.99)
DoDonPachi Resurrection HD ($5.99)
DoDonPachi Blissful Death ($2.99)
For modern devices, the gameplay still has the same aspect ratio and there is art around the gameplay portion of the screen across all devices. DEATHSMILES doesn’t let me rotate the display on iPad either which is annoying but a small price to pay to have this on a portable and hopefully ready for a few more years of iOS updates depending on what Apple does. DEATHSMILES also has controller support. If you haven’t played any of these yet, check out our reviews of all the games. Which ones do you plan on buying today?
Welp, if they aren't going to update the SD build of DDPR, I guess I'll be buying the HD Edition. Other than that (and the HD build of ESPII) I've got all the others, so no more buying from me.
Though.... to show some appreciation, I'll probably wind up tossing some $$ over the next few weeks towards whatever and everything in regards to equips that look interesting in Deathsmiles.
=D
And if, for whatever reason, Cave devs happen to see this :;: THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREEEEEEEEEAKIIIIIIIIIIING MUUUUUUUUUUUUCH!!!!!!
Deathsmiles looks awful on my iphone xs. Everything looks like the screen has been smeared with vaseline, its all blurry and looks awful. Sad really, because of all their games, I was looking forward to playing Deathsmiles again.
Hopefully Cave starts putting these on Switch, or at least putting more of their back catalog on PC/Steam again.
Boy was I excited to see Deathsmiles return.
Having installed, a bit less so:
Biggest problem by far is that, upon opening, I got an error message in Japanese that the save file is corrupt... and had ALL my smartphone mode goodies vanish. Given that I had spent many, many hours grinding literally all but a single item, this was frustrating to put it mildly.
At least my purchased items restored correctly.
Other much more minor annoyances:
- The word “long” in any cutscene text is replaced with “Int32”, which is possibly the most hilarious find-and-replace error ever.
- The shop previews of fancy weapons are inaccessible on an iPhone X because the button is too close to the screen exit bar.
- You can’t rotate the phone, which is particularly annoying with my case.
On the plus side, they did fix some text wrapping errors, and you can full screen it and move the screen to the left or right as well.