Akai Katana - PAL Release Confirmed

[gmintyfresh]

Risingstar games have done it again:

http://mcm.gamespot.com/story/6343095/a ... pe-in-2012

[DreamcastRIP]

No mention of it coming to PS3 though.

[Smurph]

This is brilliant news - I only saw the trailer for the Japanese release a few weeks ago. Love Progear, which this is similar to. This is probably the best Cave related news I could get, next to a localised Ketsui...

[speedlolita]

No mention of it coming to PS3 though.

Considering no Cave games have so far this generation, maybe you could take a hint?

[DreamcastRIP]

No mention of it coming to PS3 though.

Considering no Cave games have so far this generation, maybe you could take a hint?

Never say never! For now at least I'll have to be content with the Cave releases on Saturn and iOS.

[TheRev]

Hope they make it region free like they are doing to Do Don Pachi Resurrection.

[James A]

Already the wallet feels the pain for next year

[Masakisu]

Cheered when I heard this news. Take all my money Rising Star.

[ShadowNeku]

Oh Rising Star, how i love you so. This was the one Cave shmup i genuinely hoped would make it over here.

[Mootown]

I got the Jap version on launch - was well excited, then played it like twice I need to get into it but I just haven't had chance yet even though I think it's my second fave cave game after ESPGALUDA II

[gmintyfresh]

No mention of it coming to PS3 though.

In the bigger scheme of things Cave haven't ruled out some of their shooters coming out on the PS3 indeed I remember seeing some tweets from Risingstar asking Cave if was a possibility. I suspect that how well PAL DDP and Akai sell might have some influence on this - reaIistically though the chances of any of these games being ported to the PS3 as not at all or in quite a while unfortunately.

This is brilliant news - I only saw the trailer for the Japanese release a few weeks ago. Love Progear, which this is similar to. This is probably the best Cave related news I could get, next to a localised Ketsui...

I think Akai is up there when it comes to hori's on the 360, pipped by Deathsmiles in my opinion but I suspect most people will prefer Akai. I quite like the game because is completely insane but doesn't focus on human characters or scanily clad school girls - it's quite refreshing for Cave to release a proper shooter! If nothing alse an English translation will help me understand the bonkers scoring system!!

Hope they make it region free like they are doing to Do Don Pachi Resurrection.

I think they'd be daft to lock it, plenty of people I know from the US are importing DDP

[Dam]

This is truly awesome news. We should all buy 2 copies to ensure that it sells well!

[gmintyfresh]

This is truly awesome news. We should all buy 2 copies to ensure that it sells well!

Aye, makes you wonder if they're thinking about releaseing Ketsui!!

[Smurph]

This is truly awesome news. We should all buy 2 copies to ensure that it sells well!

Aye, makes you wonder if they're thinking about releaseing Ketsui!!

Seriously, you need to stop this. You're getting my hopes up more than Kerry Katona finding icing sugar in a bag marked 'Charlie'.

[harlequ1n]

Great news, I've been following the latest shmup stuff from the distance seeing how they never support the PS3 and more with the goal of Saturn'ing them in the future.