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[muteKi]

http://www.konjak.org/nlove2.htm

Noitu Love 2 (currently only in demo state, but BRILLIANT)

What is this? It is basically a combination of pretty much every Treasure game out there, only it's for PC and uses a mouse to control (along with keyboard controls, mind you -- it's just for attacking).


The first stage starts out with a hectic run reminiscent of the last level of Dynamite Headdy and then throws you into wave upon wave of enemies while running through a city just like in Gunstar Heroes.
The combo attack system is brilliant and this game is really fast.
The second level starts with a boss reminiscent of the Death battle from the Dracula X SNES game, and then proceeds into something straight out of the Genesis Adventures of Batman and Robin (perhaps the most graphically advance of all Genesis games).

There's lots of scaling and 3-D like effects (just like you might expect from Treasure) and the first boss is satisfyingly large.

BUT THIS GAME IS COMPLETELY INDEPENDENTLY MADE.


Seriously, though? Why are you still reading this? You should be out playing this game now, unless of course your OS isn't compatible with this game, in which case I apologize profusely at having shown you this brilliant game and not giving you the opportunity to play it.

[Ozymandias]

You had me at Dynamite Headdy.

[KvP]

I think you all are in the wrong thread.

[Narr]

I downloaded it but am engrossed in a conversation with a good friend.

Looks awesome.  I greatly enjoy these kinds of games.

Kinda makes me want to play through Cave Story again, actually.

[muteKi]

In case you're not sold, here's a video of a guy dancing like a square to lame 80s music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uA9NF2-8TM 

[will: wanton sex god]

It was fun, but i don't see anything remotely brilliant about it.  It's refreshing in a day of fps's and graphics contests, but it isn't anything that hasnt been done before.

[muteKi]

I suppose it's not quite Earth-shattering, but I love how it's put nearly everything that made every great old game awesome into a single package.


That said, as all that's out there is a short demo of what I would assume is still WIP, there's probably more stuff to go. I'm going to assume a number of interesting puzzles and platforming traps.


I am curious, however, to see if this game will continue to make use of the evolution chambers in the first game.

[Narr]

I feel the need to mention the rest of the games the guy has on his site.

Chalk is pretty damn fun.

[muteKi]

The original seems pretty fun -- I watched a guy play it on the highest difficulty.

It has pretty funny dialogue on that setting, since you have to beat the game on expert to get it -- thus the game plays under the assumption that this is a second play through.

[Narr]

I'm going through the original on normal mode right now and I'm stuck on the last boss.  He's got this one attack I just don't know how to dodge.  It has to do with a giant lightning strike that just passes through the zone.  I'm thinking you're just supposed to take a hit and not get pummeled to death by everything else going on, but that's proving to be a challenge.

[muteKi]

Yeah, it's hard to dodge. If you right click along its trajectory you might be able to create a shield that will block it from hitting you, though.

[Narr]

What's this about right-clicking?

This is the first game I'm talking about here.  You have jump and punch.  That's it.  The rest you control with your keyboard.  Mouse doesn't do a thing.  It's like an oldschool NES game (two buttons, simple layouts, fun all around)

[muteKi]

Oh, the first game. Now it all makes sense. As far as I know, you just have to beat that first phase really fast before that happens. Second phase isn't too hard -- just get him to fire at the targets and he gets hit. Go smart, hit the triggers, hit the thing in the center as normal, go ape and hit the button before he can hit you.

There are also maybe a couple undodgeable attacks on the final phase, too, especially on the harder difficulties.

[muteKi]

*BUMP*

IT'S ON, BIZNITCHES!!

http://www.konjak.org/

[Melodic]

Twenty bucks? Fuck that.