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Shoot'em-Up Developer Cave Announces A Totally New Shooter For Touhou Project

Bullet hell icons are ready to fill the screen with projectiles.

kotaku.com

Well this is weird. Cave, who have not developed an original title in about 9 years, have announced they will be developing a new title for the anniversary of Touhou Project, a series of beloved doujin (fan/indie) shooters on PC, which were previously developed by Team Alice.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Jesus, this can be massive…for approx. 100 people into that sort of thing.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Jesus, this can be massive…for approx. 100 people into that sort of thing.

In the west? Surely. I think Touhou is a teeny tiny little bigger in Japan, though.

A Cave x Touhou game can only be a good thing, no matter the size of the audience.

 

[anthony2690]

I don't know if I even want to get my hopes up, will probably just be a mobile game

That being said wish, cave would just make incredible console games again.

 

[SF Kosmo]

I don't know if I even want to get my hopes up, will probably just be a mobile game

That being said wish, cave would just make incredible console games again.

Cave's mobile shmups were pretty dope though.

 

[anthony2690]

Cave's mobile shmups were pretty dope though.

I don't play mobile games though, if they made them for consoles with controller support, would they still be great compared to their other games?
Genuinely curious, if so, wonder if they will port them one day.

 

[SF Kosmo]

I don't play mobile games though, if they made them for consoles with controller support, would they still be great compared to their other games?
Genuinely curious, if so, wonder if they will port them one day.

The touch controls were fantastic. They didn't feel like clumsier versions of other games. In some ways they controlled better.

 

[Wonko_C]

I don't like the Touhou shooting games but I've enjoyed some spinoffs like Koumajo Densetsu I & II and Touhou Luna Nights.

But I love Cave shooters. I look forward to see what they do with the franchise.

 

[somesang]

Jesus, this can be massive…for approx. 100 people into that sort of thing.

There are tens of us.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Last thing I can remember from CAVE was Deathsmiles. WAY back in mid 2000's. At least a decade ago. I've got it on disk with a xbox 360 faceplate.
That faceplate has to be worth a ton of money by now right? Right?

 

[bender]

Anything by Cave is an automatic purchase.

 

[Holammer]

Hope they don't do anything stupid like releasing it on Switch only.
Like a certain Touhou Spell Bubble.

 

[SF Kosmo]

Anything by Cave is an automatic purchase.

 

[bender]

Tony Hawk Am Cry

 

[RaduN]

Well, Cave are possibly the only developer i can think of with an impecable library (lets ignore that one game ). Each and every shmup they made is a masterpiece in pretty much any aspect (art, gameplay, scoring, originality, addictiveness, ....use of purple color).
Even if this will be a mobile game (which it will) it will probably be great.

(i play Ibara, Muchi Muchi Pork!, Daifukkatsu Black Label, Mushihimesama and all others daily on my phone, so i could be a little biased...)

 

[Magic Carpet]

After thinking about Death Smiles I tried to play it last night on my Series X.
Turns out it's one of the few games that is NOT backwards compatible.
Looking at my shelf of 360 games most of the NON back compat games are from Japan developers.
And Skyrim. For some reason. 'eyeroll'

Editing for softer language.