(Should the player meet the second loop requirements)Īs the last enemy fell, the pilot received an incoming call from the Colonel. Thus is the fate of the worker bee, surely it was merciless beyond reason. The plan was for this elite pilot to go in alone, and single-handedly destroy the entire army. With the sense of unease growing with each passing day, Colonel Schwarlitz Longhena came up with a plan to eliminate the Mechanical Alien army, and called upon one of his “worker bees” to prepare to sortie. When our armada had arrived to intercept this new threat, they found that the attackers had completely vanished from the radar. Soon after, an unknown army comprised of “Mechanized Aliens” launched an attack upon our forces. Communication with the 7th Starship Corps has suddenly ceased while they were circulating the outside of the star cluster system. The game introduced several of what would become the series mainstays: The Donpachi Squadron, Colonel Schwarlitz Longhena, and his “Final Brutal Weapon”: Hibachi.ĭodonpachi takes place many years after the founding of the Donpachi Squadron. Dodonpachi would be released into Japanese arcades on February 5, 1997. Because of that decision, Dodonpachi went on to solidify the bullet-hell sub-genre. Ikeda would later reveal in an interview that he told his team that “We won’t lose in terms of bullets!” When released, Dodonpachi could have up to 245 bullets onscreen at once. Ikeda knew that he couldn’t make a game like Battle Garegga no matter how hard he tried, so if he wanted to surpass it, it would have to be done through different means, bullet dodging. The intense action and immediate difficulty of Battle Garegga left a strong impact on Ikeda, leaving him with the feeling that “We (Cave) have to surpass Battle Garegga. The cause of this “more” feeling stems from a chance encounter with the Raizing game Battle Garegga that main programmer Tsuneki Ikeda experienced. More enemies, more stages, more bosses, more systems, more dodging, more bullets, more…everything. To sum up Dodonpachi in a single word, it would have to be…more. This lead to a far more balanced and refined game than its predecessor. “Angry Leader Bee”), was to ignore the “Toaplanishness” of Donpachi, instead only putting in systems that Cave felt were the most interesting.

The feeling that the developers had when making Dodonpachi (lit. Therefore, it’s no surprise that a sequel to Donpachi would soon be in development. Donpachi was a hit in arcades, and people felt that Cave were picking up right where Toaplan left off.

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