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Otomedius Gorgeous! Comments by Jonti Davies

27 November, 2008

Maiden voyage.

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Dizzy
27/11/08 @ 11:44
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Last year everybody seemed to be playing this in Japanese arcades. Didn't the arcade version have a touch screen feature?

Oh and errr... cleavage FTW?
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Widge
27/11/08 @ 11:45
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"Otomedius Gorgeous! is essentially a game about penguins and cleavage."

360 now ordered!

\o/
Der_tolle_Emil
27/11/08 @ 11:49
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shmup = sold
TafKas
27/11/08 @ 11:52
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Where can one buy this weirdness?
menage
27/11/08 @ 11:53
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Sigh

Finally a Konami game which isn't crap next to MGS and they DON"T release it here. Fuck them. Konami hasn't been a contender since the SNES days.
Retroid [mod]
27/11/08 @ 11:53
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"Otomedius Gorgeous! is essentially a game about penguins and cleavage."

/Adds to "Most Wanted" list
LetsGo
27/11/08 @ 11:53
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Better than banjo?
AndyboyH
27/11/08 @ 11:55
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Curse them for their region locking. >_<

I'd happily import, and could deal with the whole Japanese text thing, but it's locked, like part of my heart now. ;_;
boabg
27/11/08 @ 11:55
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And now the comedown you've all been waiting for: it'll never be released outside of Japan.

It take it it's region free or am I missing something?
AndyboyH
27/11/08 @ 11:57
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@boabg - not according to play-asia, it isn't :(
TafKas
27/11/08 @ 11:57
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Why review a game we cant get a hold of? Makes no sense to me, I must be missing something too....
consignia
27/11/08 @ 11:59
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First Id@lMaster, now this. I knew I should have picked up a Japanese 360, before the pound all went to shit.
3william56
27/11/08 @ 12:00
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Can you play with one hand? It's official - Xbots in Nippon are perverts!

mmm... Penguins...
Moonprince
27/11/08 @ 12:02
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That looks awful.
menage
27/11/08 @ 12:03
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Why not make this region free if you never gonna release it overseas? It will only mean less sales via importers.

Stupid. maybe it will come to XBLA someday.
Rev. Stuart Campbell
27/11/08 @ 12:06
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If it's region-locked, this review seems a big fat waste of time. How many EG readers have Japanese 360s? Four?
DanWhitehead
27/11/08 @ 12:09
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The Nicole Kidman penguin in Happy Feet had quite impressive cleavage. Not that I noticed.
Der_tolle_Emil
27/11/08 @ 12:35
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Region locked? This? Makes no sense at all. Too bad :(
muscleblade
27/11/08 @ 12:37
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@menage

I know. What happened to Konami. They where on top alongside Capcom in the NES and SNES era.
farticusmaximus
27/11/08 @ 12:39
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So... the Japanese claim that the west is now usurping the east as gaming mecca and they must tap into western audiences, yet continue to isolate themselves by witholding perfectly marketable games like this.

Are they very stubborn/proud or just very very stupid?
muscleblade
27/11/08 @ 12:39
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"half of the game's Achievements are dependent on your willingness to use the right analogue stick to direct a cursor and thereby cop a virtual feel of characters' 'special areas' on the select screen"

What the fu¤%&#
GreatUncleBaal
27/11/08 @ 12:50
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A two-page review for a game I can't actually get hold of... Cheers. Maybe should have been summarised in a round-up, eh? Although to be fair I can see the impetus in wanting to write about boobs and penguins. Incidentally, can anyone recommend a good shmup for the 360?
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27/11/08 @ 12:54
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@GreatUncle

Ikaruga is awesome, and rockhard in an sadism kind of way.

@muscleblade

yeah, exactly what I meant. Capcom and Konami really battled it out in the past for coolest third party dev. Now Capcom is lord and master and Konami it's bitch. Serves them right to put all their people on one 6 hour cutscene (that was a joke, I loved that cutscene)
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mingster
27/11/08 @ 13:11
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@ greatunclebaal how about Senko No Ronde
designerheadache
27/11/08 @ 13:12
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forget bringing back The Krypton Factor, Holness and Blockbusters was where it was at.
ne0star
27/11/08 @ 13:14
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I'm really pleased they reviewed it. Off the back of that review I have ordered it from Play-Asia.

menage
27/11/08 @ 13:15
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Got a Japanese xbox then?
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mingster
27/11/08 @ 14:11
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Any one know if by hacking/chipping a 360 it makes it multi-region?
Skeletor
27/11/08 @ 14:16
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Nice and funny review, cheers:-)
Hope somebody from MS notices it and also bothers to read the comments...to this person I have one thing to say:
BRING THOSE DAMN JP-SHMUPS TO EUROPE, YOU TEASING BASTARDS!
Ketsui, Death Smiles, Raiden IV etc. Can't be that hard to bring them over to xbla...
muscleblade
27/11/08 @ 14:19
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"how about Senko No Ronde "

Thats more like a fighter in a shmup setting. Decent but very shortlived. 6/10.
Krelle
27/11/08 @ 14:31
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yay for japanese 360
ParanoidZombie
27/11/08 @ 14:50
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... And we want an euro release for operation darkness, too!!! No, wait, I'm not sure we do, actually.
Eraysor
27/11/08 @ 15:36
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Why have penguins when you can have prinnies?
riz23
27/11/08 @ 15:49
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Sadly, I do want an EU release for Operation Darkness. I'm a sucker for anything turn based. No matter how shit it is. I'm still waiting for Culdcept Saga (aint gonna happen).
As for a review of a game we will never get to play, well I'm torn. On one hand it is interesting to read about the direct descendant of a classic like Parodius/Sexy Parodius but of course galling to know I'll never see it in an EU shop. As has been said many times before, this is Eurogamer y'know?
I hope you review Dondonpachi Daioujou Black Label Extra when it comes out too. I'm showing that masochistic streak again aren't I?

Edit: As for decent shmups you can get over here, Ikaruga was mentioned, then you have Triggerheart Exelica and the forthcoming R-Type Dimensions all on XBLA. Not too shabby eh?
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Super_Zee
27/11/08 @ 15:57
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FFS, region locked? What a load of arse.
Remy
27/11/08 @ 16:01
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I detest region locks, in ALL things. :(

Why are the 2 Japanese games I'd most like to buy on the 360 region locked to Japan? (this and Super Robot Wars) And the 1 USA game I most want (All Pro Football 2k8) was region locked to the US (so I bought a USA 360, but it is now a UK one thanks to RROD fix so I can no longer play this game).

It saddens me so much they still do this. Its not like these games are ever going to get a Euro release as there is no market for them over here. So why code in the region locking? Doesn't make any sense to me. They just lose a few bonus export sales. :(
Skeletor
27/11/08 @ 18:46
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@Remy

The Japanese publisher keep it region locked because they hope to find a western publisher someday that is crazy enough to localize the titles and bring them to the west (=licensing deal means more money than a "few" bonus sales).

@Zero_Cool

I hope you also love another aspect of the PS3 - development is expensive and a pain in the arse if you're not familiar with the system. That's why most shmups are developed for the 360 right now.
In this case region locking has nothing to do with MS...it's the publisher's decision.

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aine
27/11/08 @ 19:35
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hmm. i'm not sure about this game. at least the penguins are still present and correct, but something about replacing the usual parodius humour and its various wacky characters with scantily clad teenage manga ladies just rubs me up the wrong way. it seems like a horribly desperate piece of otaku-pandering more than anything else.
Daikon
28/11/08 @ 00:54
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How many EG readers have Japanese 360s? Four?

*raises hand*
mingster
28/11/08 @ 09:52
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zero cool your blu ray dvd's ARE region locked on the PS3 try playing a region 1 blue-ray on a region 2 PS3.
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28/11/08 @ 11:13
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I wonder if it's worth trying to make a fake Japanese xbox live account? My fake USA account works fine for downloading demos. Of course, I cant read Japanese, but still....
tnt_2008smum
30/11/08 @ 08:48
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@Skeletor

Zero_cool also loves how tight his ps3 feels in his ass!
tnt_2008smum
01/12/08 @ 21:43
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@Zero_Cool

pot, kettle and all that!

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