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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
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KAMUI, released in 1999 by Siter Skain, even now still holds its place as one of the best doujin shmups ever made.
Siter Skain eventually went on to make the Tale of ALLTYNEX trilogy but I still think that Kamui is the best of the three if only because of its simple but elegant scoring system.
As you might be able to tell the game draws a lot of inspiration from Rayforce in both the mechanics as well as bosses/backgrounds and thus all the enemies are either in the foreground or in the background. In the foreground you can shoot them with your shot and the powerful laser which also cancels bullets. Enemies in the background you can lock with screen-wide homing lightning.
For scoring you want to kill as many enemies as possible in the background since you get a multiplier for doing that unlike killing them normally. How high this multiplier is depends on how charged up your lightning meter is when you release the locks with a maximum of x16 when the meter is fully charged. You can accelerate the rate of recharge by holding the lock button.
Another important trick in this game is something I like to call "deathlocking". Some enemies when they are killed drop to the background for a few frames before they explode and in that short instant you can lock them with homing lasers.
Nyu Media localized the game and can be gotten through Steam among others:
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![[steam] ALLTYNEX SECOND hard no damage clear](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9KBGpSxDi-M/mqdefault.jpg)
Imagine if CAVE and Siter Skain teamed up to make a shoot 'em up...
Also, the destruction of Xaffiquel at 33:32... that has to be the most epic final boss explosion in _any_ shmup.
Alice: Father...
Xaffiquel: Well met, my daughter! It’s been a long time.
Alice: I was hoping we would not see each other. I can’t allow you to leave here, Father.
Xaffiquel: You have ever been the ally of humans. Have you forgotten what they did to you?
Alice: Think you I would forget such a thing? No. But nor do I seek revenge against them.
Xaffiquel: Still uttering the same nonsense. No matter. Now is the time to put aside your weak human side and join me in remaking this world!
Alice: Xaffiquel, in the name of humanity, I will defeat you again.
That's some top-tier dialogue there!
@@lancecurry7538 Guess what I’m referencing.
@@SolCresta3405 Meanwhile, on the same Earth, somewhere around Moon
"Earth is in sight. No presence of Con-Human detected. Should we proceed?"
"Affirmative. But remember, observe until we were engaged. Stay vigilant."
@@alexhndr Right.
@@SolCresta3405 symphony of the night isn't it?
If I had a list of the worst family reunions in fiction, the final battle of this game would be on the top 3.
27:12 - What do you think was going through Kamui's mind as she encountered her own father, Xaffiquel?
Look at the ending. It explains in detail.
@@lancecurry7538 Well, derp.. thank you good sir !! :p
@@lancecurry7538
"Kamui,I am your father."
*****INTERNAL SCREAMING*****
@@lancecurry7538 Lasers, probably.
Following Rayforce 1.5 from unreleased titled even Kamui came here.
"Released in 1999"
Yup love all three of these games as soon as I saw them on Icarusfw twitch channel. Alltyanx second, ReFleX and Kamui are all amazing games.
SiterSkain the three man company that made these games are a tight nit group who make games as a hobby. They all have day jobs. NYU Media did a fantastic job porting all three games and showed such respect to the source material.
SiterSkain are working on another game and have been for years. It's a mech kinda game is all I know.
Support this game, game Devs (SiterSkain) and publishers ( NYUMedia) please. They diserve your money for releasing these masterpieces in North America and translated.
KAMUI Boss lists
Boss 1 Soruyuu
Boss 2 Kokutaka
Boss 3 Ougumo
Boss 4 Kamui
Final Boss Xaffiquel
Boss 4 : "Zodiac Ophiuchus"
Stage 5 City Administration-level all purpose Administrative Computer (ALLTYNEX OS-based).
Located in the neural nest.
Boss 1 Soruyuu （蒼龍：Blue dragon）
Boss 2 Kokutaka（黒鷹：Black hawk）
Boss 3 Ougumo （黄蜘蛛：Yellow spider）
Boss 4 Mass production type Kamui （量産型神威）
Final Boss Xaffiquel
A lot of this game reminds me of Thunder Force 5. The boss designs, the stages, the music, the score multipliers you can get on enemies...hell, even your straightforward lightning attack. At first I thought it was like "what if the Guardian had defeated Vambrace"
It's actually a Rayforce clone more than anything. Sprite scaling for depth, scoring by aiming for enemies below you, fighting through tunnels and a giant, white underground city and so on. Even the ship's design. Makes me wish there was a modern Ray inspired game just like Devil Engine for TF.
@@Ramash440 ...Crimzon Clover?
finally i found this after 10+ years
Say, can you imagine this game having a port to the original Playstation or Sega Saturn? Maybe some slight differences with the two?
33:36
d-did he just t-bag with a ship??
Nice run.
So close to Erhune's WR !!
00:00 Intro
00:43 Level 1
02:35 1. Souryuu
04:17 Level 2
06:42 2. Kokutaka
09:28 Level 3
12:06 3. Ougumo
14:43 Level 4
16:50 4. The KAMUI
20:32 Final Level
21:29 5. Neural Nest
27:07 6. XaFfIqUeL {Final Battle}
33:54 Game Complete
Man, sister skain’s stuff is brilliant!! I wonder what they’re doing now?
A mecha shmup similar to Battletech for Genesis, called Armed Dragoon.
@@tehteh9893 it'sbeen a few years, one's gotta wonder abouttheir wellfare...
@@jamesiewalters2360 Indie gamedev is sloooooooow, I know since I am one. Sometimes you spend half a year working and only get a few monthes to scribble some code out for your game on vacation.
@@BuyMeThingsnow regardless, I hope they're doing okay.
@@jamesiewalters2360 they have stopped production on armed dragoon and are working on Alltyanx Origin according to their website.
I think its safe to say that..
This is the only Japanese Dojin STG that i knew
Where the WR is held by Western Players
Imagine Superplayers like Sairyou, SPS, or Fufufu got their hands on this game
Maybe we can get a No-Miss run in the future? Who knows.
Good Rayforce like game
Besides a few add-ons, this game looks just the same as Rayforce
Good job. One of my all-time favorite games.
The Tale Of Alltynex Deserves An Anime Series
i get hard filtered at Ougumo
late update: I stopped getting filtered.
I wonder if it’ll be playable on Steam Deck?🤔
Given its track record being able to play most games, I feel confident about this one.
I cant get sound effects on this game.
This game is similar to Soukyuugurentai, the vertical shmup.
+피재
Sokyu Gurentai(Terra Diver) + Rayforce
Adjudicator
basically NOT rayforce: the game. Yeah i need this
Well, I bought it on PC
37:00
Kamui Never Die
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