Strike Witches Game Distinctly Underwhelming

I still don't see the issue. It makes me wonder if the people bitching and complaining have played any of the other shmups on the system. Sure, it could use better shot sounds, and slightly more flash in the graphics, but when compared to the rest of the shmup fair on the 360, only titles like Death Smiles 2 really stand out. Otomedius G and plenty of other titles are roughly on the same level as this Strike Witches game.

Cool will I need to put a token in the Xbox to play?
Assuming that their is a Lunatic mode, I will run out of tokens before owning this half-assed game.

watching that video clip...

I'm not really seeing this supposed "lack of quality". but maybe I just have realistic expectations for the genre, and understand that liscensed games don't tend to be aimed to be the next huge "killer app" for a given system.
$80 may be an exorbitant game price, but let's not confuse "the company wants too much money" for "this is a poor game".

it's a liscensed SHMUP. it's not going to be leaping up and down, waving it's arms, and humping your leg screaming HI-DEF! HI-DEF!. honestly, I'm getting somewhat tired of games being judged based on their looks alone.

Something like this for 80 buck might've worked better back in the 90's, but now, it's just shit.

I was thinking "What Next?"

Perhaps design a "Gunslinger Girl" game, but essentially just use the program for one of the classic (and Formulaic but good) SNES games, like "Iria", "Lupin", "3X3 Eyes"...

Then charge $80...

Wow, that's horrible. Gradius, R-Type, Einhander, etc, etc... So many game series have done side scrolling shooters better. This doesn't even look like fun from a gameplay stand point. It looks like a frustrating annoyance. Graphically... It's not good. I don't like Strike Witches in any medium, but this is the worst. They could have easily gone for a more realistic approach like varying ammo clip sizes and reloads to slow down that mindless spray that side scrolling shooters are plagued by. They also could have made a 3D shooter game wherein the flying girls gun down targets. That might have been fun just because flying in 3D is fun when well executed. This is just so so sad.

Area 88 for the super nes rape this game really hard.

I'm trying to be optimistic; I'll take the uberly cute Eila cutscene portraits and Nakai Erika's voicework as the major draws of the game while the shooting part is just an extra minigame.

They should have made it into a flight & yuri simulator instead..

i will be downloading this shit for laught ;)

Looks GREAT!...
for wii

Touhou: Now in horizontal mode.

It looks good and I love SW, but I'd rather just play Triggerheart after seeing the game play.

Fuck you assholes who piss me off! Giving minus points! You shit fuckers that should die! Go die and fuck off earth! You are shit stinking assholes! You playing games is a loser time instead of finding a girl and making a family!

That boss battle would have been a lot cooler if it was bigger, doubled as a carrier, and had individual gun turrets shooting at you along its surface and belly.

It's fought in stages.

First, and endurance type phase where it releases tons of enemies and you have to destroy the hanger.

Second, You get up close and personal, zooming across the wings destroying the turrets and that leads into the third phase where you attack critical points on the wing to make it crash.

Of course a gameplay overhaul would have to be made, Ace Combat style, to make this possible. But really I should watch a few episodes of Strike Witches so I know there things are coming from.

omg fail. Do they really expect to get $80 per copy of this crap, or is that just to break even with all the illegal copies that will undoubtedly come out?

bad graphics or not, the gameplay looks kinda fun.

not sure why they don't just release it for the pc, though. they could have at least animated the dialogue graphics :l

reward:pantsu shot at end game.

And now imagine:

-HD-Graphics
-Level of Detail from Crysis
-Gameplay of Zone of the Enders
-120 Hours campaign (Online and offline coop support with splitscreen up to 4 players in any online/offline combination)
-Versus mode
-Softcore yuri scenes
-Mini games like catch the panty-thief
-alternate costumes
-Dating game components

Now that's an $80 game....actually i'd pay like 200 for a special edition with pantsu, the 100 songs OST and a figurine.

Eira! ¯ 3 ¯

Interesting game but only for X-BoX 360? I hate that shit! PS3 is better.

... when the big one explodes at 3:55, the game slows down as if it has trouble rendering it all.

Now that is crappy programming.

prolly has exorbitant loading times too. :P

Interesting concept, bad execution.

The game itself may be of poor quality, but I'm sure that their will be many fans that will buy the game just for the laughs at the poor quality or just to kill some time.

Despite only looking at the first few seconds of the YouTube video, if the developers learn from their mistakes, the game series could really excel. Also, full 3D or just 2.5D with sprites?

Also, the dialogue setup is horrible IMO - I'd perfer characters in 3D interacting (like if someone's pissed off, they push the other character as you'd do in real life), not something like a visual novel dialogue setup.

I'll keep my eye on this.

A Strike Witches VN would most probably be better..