Small correction: "Daijoubu" on its own is a statement of reassurrance and actually means, "It's alright," or, "Everything's fine". "Are you okay?" would be "Daijoubu desuka?" It's still pretty funny!
Strangely, unless, the localization _is_ translation from the original language but turned out to be ended up deemed *too broken* due to lack of interest and the grammars should be "TL;DR" in there but I thought it was no one whatever some-so ever at all.
I like this lengthy format with all the comparisons of versions. It's a different approach than the "Battle of the Ports" videos, or similar fare. I think it works well, and it's cool to get the historical context with each release as well. Good stuff!
You can tell that a Herculean amount of effort and detail went into this. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for this. I hope to see future shmup releases that will deserve this type of deep dive.
I'm already in the midst of getting another similar one on the go. Still have some of the subject matter inbound through the mail, but I've already got at least some footage and it's probably gonna be a crowd-pleaser: Tatsujin & Truxton.
DOJ is far from my favorite CAVE game or bullet hell but I think it is one of the most important games of its genre. I sort of see Ketsui and DOJ as being the married couple royalty of bullet hell games. I may never one all either one, but it’s fun to just play even a small part of such a tightly designed, polished, brutal piece of art.
I can feel that, especially with Ketsui. I know for me, too, a 1-all for either would require far too much dedication for the time being, but... maybe some day. Black label tho. Gotta be.
Great work! Dai-Ou-Jou's been that one game from the people at Cave that took me quite a while to get into, and once I did, it became a masterpiece in my eyes. I love your dedication to seeing every single port!
I really appreciate the honesty of your take on (the many forms of) DOJ. It's often hailed as the jewel in Cave's crown, but few people are able to explain what it is exactly that makes it stand out in such a positive way in what is already an oeuvre of genre masterclasses, and it can come across as fans just aping certain authorative opinions.
Solid episode. Just recently got into Daioujou with the switch M2 port. Enjoyed this retrospective of the series. Keep up the great work. Was informative and chill.
Finally it's here! Really enjoyed this episode. This was my first foray into DOJ and had such a blast with it, even if it kicked my arse. Luna Tour especially was a great way to experience harder difficulty in smaller chunks at a time. Now to praying we get Futari or SDOJ from M2 in the future. Excited to see the next episodes. Short or long vids, both are very enjoyable to watch!
Incredibly comprehensive video. I got the Switch version upon release but I had no idea how the previous ports differed from one another. As a casual player I really love all the arrange options.
Incredible work. Thank you. To me, the biggest fault with this release is just too many versions. 2 or 3 versions would have been more than enough in my book (just White + Black, perhaps). Not into movies with regular releases, directors cut, extended directors cut, special edition etc, either. I know I am probably alone on this. And it is a truly awesome release. Loving it (played only Black Label so far). Thank you for explaining all the differences, though. Much appreciated. Keep up your great work.
Fantastic video as always, and I'd love to see more like this! I'm with you on White Label, it's just too brutal to be enjoyable, but in a lot of ways it felt like Cave was still figuring things out and it was vital to that whole process.
The wider look at multiple ports felt at home next to Bullet Heaven's always thorough coverage. Good times all around. I'm also a sucker for home ports. Bonus points if they're weird, ambitious, or unnecessary.
Fantastic video! I really, really appreciate your rundown of the different modes of the Switch/PS4 versions and the details of each of the ports. I also agree that Resurrection was more fun (for me), but I agree that it's great that DOJ has it's fervent fans
I do love that M2 caters to a variety of skillsets in their Cave releases. I'm happiest somewhere in between novice and arcade mode, so I often find an arrange mode that is just right.
Holy hell this was a treat! I've always thought of this channel as more of a "shoot em up show" and this series has absolutely cemented that notion. I cannot imagine the sheer amount of elbow grease that went into this, thank you so much!
Thank you for watching, I hope you'll follow our content when we launch our new channel in an effort to get a wider reach (channel age is killing us in the algorithm)
This is excellent. The amount of information, the editing, the format, the gameplay (you are pretty good actually!)... you are a terrific content creator, I mean it. As hard as it is to get big when you are specialised in such a niche genre, this channel deserves to be huge. In any case, as can be seen in the comments, you have many passionate followers. Thank you, and keep them coming :D As for the game, it's a masterpiece. But yeah, not for everybody. I see your points. Besides the hardcore gameplay, which is indeed frustrating, there is something very interesting in this game that I don't think you mentioned: its sad, post-apocalyptic atmosphere. I truly love it. And btw Kenichiro Fukui is amazing. Einhänders music is forever ingrained in my mind. What a game that is... I dream of a remaster.
Really enjoyed hearing your take on DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou, haven't taken the plunge into BL arcade yet but I had fun with the M2 port arrange modes (I felt a bit sorry for the nerfed hibachi in them though!). I think your commitment to creating such an informative and entertaining video despite not being 100% sold on the material is commendable too, especially in this long form format (which I think is ace and would love to see more of!). Guess the game was pretty Daijoubu for you, I'm hoping to find more from it if I go on to try the BL 1-ALL but we'll see!
I really enjoyed this overview of Dai-Ou-Jou. Have to sink more time in DOJ and DFK to find a personal answer to which game I prefer. Loved that you took the time to highlight all the different modes and versions of DOJ. Will definitely check out the mobile version for some shorter pick up and play sessions.
Happy to read that you enjoyed my feature, it took a long time to get together! I'm definitely going to return to the arranges on 360 and PS4/Switch for sure, but as for arcade... I think Black Label is where my attention will stay~!
Good video, nice overview of DOJ. I guess in the end, fun is totally subjective and relative though. For the insanely high-skill, technical superplayer who revels in punishment and mastery, DOJ white label is a heavenly experience. It's everything they want to see in a video game, a chance for them to express their gaming skills at the highest levels. For the average person into shmups and danmaku though, it will generally be a tour through the darkest recesses of hell, especially in trying to nab that evil, evil 2-All... Funny how that works, huh? Hahaha.
As a mobile phone player, I absolutely LOVE the iOS ports of the Cave shmups. I‘d argue that touch screen controls are the most precise input method for the genre. I just love the micro-precision. Happy to see you covered the iOS version in this great video, and liking it as well. DaiOuJou aka Blissful Death - to me - is perfect. While I initially preferred Resurrection as well, DaiOuJou grew on me, and I think there is no other shmup with a better pacing and better difficulty curve out there. Resurrection‘s last stage is simply a little too long and too annoying. Anyways, thanks for this very informative video!
I'm waiting on my copy of PAL Truxton before getting my b-roll and teaser images; I'll have 11 versions! I think I've already started the script, too, so it's already well on its way.
I like lengthy contents like this (and the algorithm these days prefer these anyway). I'd like to see more of these. I'm more of an SDOJ guy myself. DOJ is... too Stockholm syndrome-y to me :P. Among the 3 DDP games with Hyper, this is the only one where the Hyper fill can INCREASE DYNAMICALLY TO POSSIBLY ABSURD LEVELS, since the Hyper fill from the bee items scale directly with the Hit count when picked up! DFK and SDOJ give the Hyper fills at predictable rates, which I appreciate more. DOJ's skill floor is much higher possibly due to this.
Good news then: my next feature will be similar, and I'm currently working on getting b-roll and playing with ambitious shots and editing. It should be ready this weekend
yea white label definitely wasn't meant to be fun lol. it made a lot of bizarre decisions, like having the same hitbox as ddp despite having way more bullets, not giving you many hypers to work with, the infamous rails in stage 4, loop 1 being essentially a loading screen, not letting you continue in loop 2, suzaku and byakko being extremely dumb in loop 2, and a trash tlb that can only be beaten by spamming hypers. it's definitely harder than black label but not in a fun way imo anyways the real masterpiece is dangun feveron
Great video! Really enjoy your videos, but this one was top notch. I always get excited to see a new bullet heaven video and this long form video really hit.
I didn't like DFK's stage obstacles that required to laser them away. There's nothing wrong with that, it just wasn't what I like in a shmup. DOJ is a much more straight forward shooter in that respect, even though I agree that it was probably meant as a quarter muncher because of the unexpected success of the outsourced/licensed DDP II. I can definitely see that DFK is class, and it's obviously much easier to get ahold of ($20, available outside of Japan), so it's probably still the best entry point to the series. No wrong choices here, and I do hope that at some point, SDOJ will also be ported. PS: The iOS version of DOJ is probably the most fun I've had with a shmup in a long time, the touch movement is awesome. It does make it a very different game, but I highly recommend it to any iOS user.
Fantastic work on this video. Been a bit out of keeping up with the shmup community lately but I've been looking forward to this one since you announced it. Thank you for everything you do!
Great review. The comparison with the previous versions is not only interesting from a technical perspective but also from a historical one. Unfortunately, it also shows that some of ports are upgrades in one area and downgrades in another - I guess the switch version can't be played via touch screen like ios? Also, too bad that it's not available on western psn or steam...
While DOJ isn't my cup of tea (that distinction goes to DFK, obviously, though I've yet to try the other games in the series) it has its charm for those intrested in the thrill of difficulty, or for a causal easier approach. But yeah, cool feature covering all of its ports. And I'd would like to see other games in the future get this kind of treatment for their own episodes covering all of their ports (so far), especailly ones to revisit too, when they're also getting modern/current gen ports too. (Like maybe say...the possiblity of Exelica and Shiki 2 getting their own features down the line?)
I never managed to get that one achievement on the 360 version where you have to shoot an obscene number of ships. I hope that isn’t a trophy on the ps4 version!
Great video! I still suck at shmup but I disagree about your final opinion I think the difficulty makes this game as fun as it should and I actually kinda dislike the PS4 arrange modes and I found them real boring outside of the purple one. WL is brutal and I could agree there but BL is a great time. still subbed!
Black Label is definitely way better balanced than WL for sure. I'm actually getting an IGS PGM conversion of it soon, even though it's unofficial. Same hardware at its core, though! I'm also on the hunt for Tamashii on PGM2 as well!
Japan only for the moment... hopefully not permanently. A Japan account is super easy to make tho, and ¥cards are easily obtainable - instantly - on Play Asia.
Small correction: "Daijoubu" on its own is a statement of reassurrance and actually means, "It's alright," or, "Everything's fine". "Are you okay?" would be "Daijoubu desuka?" It's still pretty funny!
In the context of the book, I prefer to call it "You'll be fine" 🤣
Dog in flaming kitchen meme....
Strangely, unless, the localization _is_ translation from the original language but turned out to be ended up deemed *too broken* due to lack of interest and the grammars should be "TL;DR" in there but I thought it was no one whatever some-so ever at all.
Masterclass review! Etrem again proves he is one of the top three shmup reviewers of all time.
I like this lengthy format with all the comparisons of versions. It's a different approach than the "Battle of the Ports" videos, or similar fare. I think it works well, and it's cool to get the historical context with each release as well. Good stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You can tell that a Herculean amount of effort and detail went into this. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for this. I hope to see future shmup releases that will deserve this type of deep dive.
I'm already in the midst of getting another similar one on the go. Still have some of the subject matter inbound through the mail, but I've already got at least some footage and it's probably gonna be a crowd-pleaser: Tatsujin & Truxton.
A top notch retrospective Etrem, it was worth the wait! 🙌🙌
DOJ is far from my favorite CAVE game or bullet hell but I think it is one of the most important games of its genre. I sort of see Ketsui and DOJ as being the married couple royalty of bullet hell games. I may never one all either one, but it’s fun to just play even a small part of such a tightly designed, polished, brutal piece of art.
I can feel that, especially with Ketsui. I know for me, too, a 1-all for either would require far too much dedication for the time being, but... maybe some day. Black label tho. Gotta be.
Great work!
Dai-Ou-Jou's been that one game from the people at Cave that took me quite a while to get into, and once I did, it became a masterpiece in my eyes. I love your dedication to seeing every single port!
Love how you used each stage music for each part.
I love doj, I suck at it but hot damn i love this game and especially the sound track.
Nice, you noticed 🙂
I really appreciate the honesty of your take on (the many forms of) DOJ. It's often hailed as the jewel in Cave's crown, but few people are able to explain what it is exactly that makes it stand out in such a positive way in what is already an oeuvre of genre masterclasses, and it can come across as fans just aping certain authorative opinions.
Solid episode. Just recently got into Daioujou with the switch M2 port. Enjoyed this retrospective of the series. Keep up the great work. Was informative and chill.
I'm going to focus more on the Arrange S and L going forward. They're a real fun time tbh
Finally it's here! Really enjoyed this episode.
This was my first foray into DOJ and had such a blast with it, even if it kicked my arse. Luna Tour especially was a great way to experience harder difficulty in smaller chunks at a time.
Now to praying we get Futari or SDOJ from M2 in the future.
Excited to see the next episodes. Short or long vids, both are very enjoyable to watch!
Incredibly comprehensive video. I got the Switch version upon release but I had no idea how the previous ports differed from one another. As a casual player I really love all the arrange options.
Incredible work. Thank you.
To me, the biggest fault with this release is just too many versions. 2 or 3 versions would have been more than enough in my book (just White + Black, perhaps).
Not into movies with regular releases, directors cut, extended directors cut, special edition etc, either.
I know I am probably alone on this. And it is a truly awesome release. Loving it (played only Black Label so far).
Thank you for explaining all the differences, though. Much appreciated. Keep up your great work.
Fantastic video as always, and I'd love to see more like this! I'm with you on White Label, it's just too brutal to be enjoyable, but in a lot of ways it felt like Cave was still figuring things out and it was vital to that whole process.
Love the long form content and this video was excellent!!
The wider look at multiple ports felt at home next to Bullet Heaven's always thorough coverage. Good times all around. I'm also a sucker for home ports. Bonus points if they're weird, ambitious, or unnecessary.
Fantastic video! I really, really appreciate your rundown of the different modes of the Switch/PS4 versions and the details of each of the ports. I also agree that Resurrection was more fun (for me), but I agree that it's great that DOJ has it's fervent fans
Great stuff.This longplay format is always great when you do it.The one you did on the Cresta series was also excellent and well wo a watch.
Glad you enjoyed it! I have yet another underway
I do love that M2 caters to a variety of skillsets in their Cave releases. I'm happiest somewhere in between novice and arcade mode, so I often find an arrange mode that is just right.
This is the best video on DOJ I've seen so far. I hope you do more content like this.
Thank you for the kind words. I followed this one up with a Tatsujin and Truxton feature, and I think it turned out better
Great work! You're a true professional. I hope you'll get the recognition you truly deserve soon.
I have another feature like this one nearing completion, and I think I prefer this direction in terms of video style.
Holy hell this was a treat! I've always thought of this channel as more of a "shoot em up show" and this series has absolutely cemented that notion.
I cannot imagine the sheer amount of elbow grease that went into this, thank you so much!
Thank you for watching, I hope you'll follow our content when we launch our new channel in an effort to get a wider reach (channel age is killing us in the algorithm)
This is excellent. The amount of information, the editing, the format, the gameplay (you are pretty good actually!)... you are a terrific content creator, I mean it. As hard as it is to get big when you are specialised in such a niche genre, this channel deserves to be huge. In any case, as can be seen in the comments, you have many passionate followers. Thank you, and keep them coming :D
As for the game, it's a masterpiece. But yeah, not for everybody. I see your points. Besides the hardcore gameplay, which is indeed frustrating, there is something very interesting in this game that I don't think you mentioned: its sad, post-apocalyptic atmosphere. I truly love it.
And btw Kenichiro Fukui is amazing. Einhänders music is forever ingrained in my mind. What a game that is... I dream of a remaster.
Really enjoyed hearing your take on DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou, haven't taken the plunge into BL arcade yet but I had fun with the M2 port arrange modes (I felt a bit sorry for the nerfed hibachi in them though!).
I think your commitment to creating such an informative and entertaining video despite not being 100% sold on the material is commendable too, especially in this long form format (which I think is ace and would love to see more of!).
Guess the game was pretty Daijoubu for you, I'm hoping to find more from it if I go on to try the BL 1-ALL but we'll see!
It's time! The hour of DOJ!
Wow. So good. Thank you so much for taking the time.
I absolutely LOVE the Saseiroku Arrange, especially the arrange of Strange Dance.
I really like what you have cooked up here - including the controversial personal angle.
Thanks, I figured it was going to either work really well or kill the whole thing with no in-between 😅
I really enjoyed this overview of Dai-Ou-Jou. Have to sink more time in DOJ and DFK to find a personal answer to which game I prefer. Loved that you took the time to highlight all the different modes and versions of DOJ. Will definitely check out the mobile version for some shorter pick up and play sessions.
Happy to read that you enjoyed my feature, it took a long time to get together! I'm definitely going to return to the arranges on 360 and PS4/Switch for sure, but as for arcade... I think Black Label is where my attention will stay~!
Good video, nice overview of DOJ. I guess in the end, fun is totally subjective and relative though. For the insanely high-skill, technical superplayer who revels in punishment and mastery, DOJ white label is a heavenly experience. It's everything they want to see in a video game, a chance for them to express their gaming skills at the highest levels. For the average person into shmups and danmaku though, it will generally be a tour through the darkest recesses of hell, especially in trying to nab that evil, evil 2-All... Funny how that works, huh? Hahaha.
As a mobile phone player, I absolutely LOVE the iOS ports of the Cave shmups. I‘d argue that touch screen controls are the most precise input method for the genre. I just love the micro-precision. Happy to see you covered the iOS version in this great video, and liking it as well. DaiOuJou aka Blissful Death - to me - is perfect. While I initially preferred Resurrection as well, DaiOuJou grew on me, and I think there is no other shmup with a better pacing and better difficulty curve out there. Resurrection‘s last stage is simply a little too long and too annoying. Anyways, thanks for this very informative video!
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing this. Your passion can be clearly seen here. Keep it up!
Oh, and I do love long-form rundowns, so you have my vote. Crossing fingers for the same treatment for the Tatsujin games :)
I'm waiting on my copy of PAL Truxton before getting my b-roll and teaser images; I'll have 11 versions! I think I've already started the script, too, so it's already well on its way.
Incredible as always.
I like lengthy contents like this (and the algorithm these days prefer these anyway). I'd like to see more of these.
I'm more of an SDOJ guy myself. DOJ is... too Stockholm syndrome-y to me :P. Among the 3 DDP games with Hyper, this is the only one where the Hyper fill can INCREASE DYNAMICALLY TO POSSIBLY ABSURD LEVELS, since the Hyper fill from the bee items scale directly with the Hit count when picked up! DFK and SDOJ give the Hyper fills at predictable rates, which I appreciate more. DOJ's skill floor is much higher possibly due to this.
Good news then: my next feature will be similar, and I'm currently working on getting b-roll and playing with ambitious shots and editing. It should be ready this weekend
Great retrospective once again! I agree about DFK but DOJ is a special breed.
Great work
yea white label definitely wasn't meant to be fun lol. it made a lot of bizarre decisions, like having the same hitbox as ddp despite having way more bullets, not giving you many hypers to work with, the infamous rails in stage 4, loop 1 being essentially a loading screen, not letting you continue in loop 2, suzaku and byakko being extremely dumb in loop 2, and a trash tlb that can only be beaten by spamming hypers. it's definitely harder than black label but not in a fun way imo
anyways the real masterpiece is dangun feveron
Great video! Really enjoy your videos, but this one was top notch. I always get excited to see a new bullet heaven video and this long form video really hit.
Great stuff, all the DOJ in one place
Great video as always
I didn't like DFK's stage obstacles that required to laser them away. There's nothing wrong with that, it just wasn't what I like in a shmup. DOJ is a much more straight forward shooter in that respect, even though I agree that it was probably meant as a quarter muncher because of the unexpected success of the outsourced/licensed DDP II. I can definitely see that DFK is class, and it's obviously much easier to get ahold of ($20, available outside of Japan), so it's probably still the best entry point to the series. No wrong choices here, and I do hope that at some point, SDOJ will also be ported. PS: The iOS version of DOJ is probably the most fun I've had with a shmup in a long time, the touch movement is awesome. It does make it a very different game, but I highly recommend it to any iOS user.
Great video. I'd be down for more in this vein for sure.
More to come: next is Truxton. I need to figure out how to make it as good as this one lol
My favorite bullet hell! This game became very important to me. Thank you so much for the video.
Dude. off to work, so I'll watch later. But I just wanted to say well done on getting this out. Im super pumped to watch it all later today!!
Loved the video! Would absolutely enjoy more like it. Really glad to see bullet heaven back!
Love it love it love it. Please keep making videos
My next one will be very ambitious. I hope to have it ready this weekend.
Well worth the wait
Fantastic work on this video. Been a bit out of keeping up with the shmup community lately but I've been looking forward to this one since you announced it. Thank you for everything you do!
Great Work!
Awesome review 👍
Thanks!
More features like this, please!
great stuff!
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
great video! would love more longform content from you.
F it, this video is so good I’m watching it a second time
Great review. The comparison with the previous versions is not only interesting from a technical perspective but also from a historical one. Unfortunately, it also shows that some of ports are upgrades in one area and downgrades in another - I guess the switch version can't be played via touch screen like ios? Also, too bad that it's not available on western psn or steam...
You're not the first person to say they wanted touch control in the Switch version. Would have been pretty neat!
great vid on a great game :) would love to see more of this in the future
The next one will be similar, but thankfully there aren't a trillion different arrangements lol
43 minutes of DoDonPachi, you are my second favorite Canadian after Red Green, PS I'm pretty sure you're Canadian.
One day M2 Shoot Triggers series of games will come to PC.
One can hope.
I feel as if that would be ideal.
While DOJ isn't my cup of tea (that distinction goes to DFK, obviously, though I've yet to try the other games in the series) it has its charm for those intrested in the thrill of difficulty, or for a causal easier approach. But yeah, cool feature covering all of its ports. And I'd would like to see other games in the future get this kind of treatment for their own episodes covering all of their ports (so far), especailly ones to revisit too, when they're also getting modern/current gen ports too. (Like maybe say...the possiblity of Exelica and Shiki 2 getting their own features down the line?)
The only game I bought for both ps4 and switch…not to mention ps2
se ve muy bonito, gracias por tu contenido
Gracias!
I never managed to get that one achievement on the 360 version where you have to shoot an obscene number of ships. I hope that isn’t a trophy on the ps4 version!
Cave rules.
I really hope the Switch version comes to the US...
Sad though that there still is no PC release for this.
Also, I hope you cover Angel at Dusk some day, if nothing else for the artstyle.
That's a big possibility: I have a great number of Akiragoya shmups, most in fact!
@@StudioMudprints A man of culture I see.
Great video! I still suck at shmup but I disagree about your final opinion I think the difficulty makes this game as fun as it should and I actually kinda dislike the PS4 arrange modes and I found them real boring outside of the purple one. WL is brutal and I could agree there but BL is a great time.
still subbed!
Black Label is definitely way better balanced than WL for sure. I'm actually getting an IGS PGM conversion of it soon, even though it's unofficial. Same hardware at its core, though! I'm also on the hunt for Tamashii on PGM2 as well!
Liking now watching later 💪
why is this game not on the europe Nintendo e-shop? thx for this review!
Japan only for the moment... hopefully not permanently. A Japan account is super easy to make tho, and ¥cards are easily obtainable - instantly - on Play Asia.
I can't find Reincarnation anywhere it's not on digital at PlayStation store 😢
It's Japan only, so you'd have to create a Japanese store account or import the physical disc.
It is, however, its on the JP PS Store and Nintendo E-Shop. It is not purchasable digitally elsewhere.
Serious quality ❤❤❤