It’s just a few days before C74 happens, so just a short listing of things to look out for. All links are to Japanese sites unless otherwise stated, considering.. you know…. Comiket happens in Japan.. and what happens in Japan is usually catered towards the Japanese.

Magical Battle Arena

Category: Arena Fighter

Website: http://fly-system.net/product/mba/chara.htm

Although I am not really much of a fan of fighting games (because I’m terrible at them for the most part), they usually do not come up. MBA is a bit different because it features characters from the Nanoha series. Besides, who doesn’t want to befriend other people by beating the crap out of them with maximum power? =P

Note: This game has been mentioned previously on this blog.

Magical Cannon Girl 2

Category: Shoot ‘em Up

Website: http://www.kit-station.com/mcg2/

The fairly well-done (and challenging) shooter Magical Cannon Girl, which has been blogged about before, from KIT-Station has a sequel! I will be looking forward to this, considering how much I enjoyed the first one.

Patriot Dark

Category: Shoot ‘em Up (Bullet Hell)

Website: http://temperancelance.orz.hm/download.html

A game from TEMPERANCE LANCE. I downloaded the demo a month or two ago and played. You have two types of ships to control (straight fire or fanned-out). Quite intense and highly recommended if you enjoy bullet hell shooters.

RefleX

Category: Shoot ‘em Up

Website: http://www.siterskain.com/reflex/index.html

This game from SITER SKAIN looks quite retro-y and arcade-y. Downloading the demo as we speak. Apparently, Shoot The Core puts it as the star of the show for them.

RefRain ~prism memories~

Category: Shoot ‘em Up (Bullet Hell)

Website: http://www.rebrank.org/products/r2/

An intense vertical shooter from RebRank, people behind the wonderful 五月雨 ~samidare~. On posting on this a while back, Curtis comments that it “was both visually stunning and fucking insane.” I only hope that it continues to be like that because there aren’t enough hard games out there anymore.

Note: This game has been mentioned previously on this blog.

東方地霊殿 ~ Subterranean Animism

Category: Shoot ‘em up

Website: http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th11top.html

The latest installment to the very awesome 東方 (Touhou) series, this making it the 11th game of the series. Demo, which has been released for quite some time, features the first three stages of the game. Play as either Reimu or Marisa, paired up with one of three partners.

TWilight refrAIN

Category: Shoot ‘em Up

Website: http://blue.sakura.ne.jp/~loop/twain.html

A sequel (quite a few of these making appearances, aren’t there?) to TWilight INSanity. One thing that I definitely enjoy already about this one compared to TWINS is that it follows standard shmup key mappings by default (and for some reason, no matter what I did, I couldn’t set up TWINS’ controls). It plays like TWINS: you pick a pairing and you can swtich around between the two. It plays quite well.

Expect more about these games this weekend!