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Polsy
Mar 23, 2007

It is kind of weird that this is the game you're more likely to have heard of, but I guess if the later ones are significantly better.

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Shei-kun
Dec 2, 2011

Screw you, physics!
The sheer lack of effort they put into making that scene up to the boss work was amazing.

Like, simply removing the scene completely would have been a better choice than just removing the voices entirely.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Next up: the best game?

Zombie Hunters 2
/2006.06.29/
Originally Simple 2000 Volume 101 THE お姉チャンポン 〜THE姉チャン2特別編〜 (The Sister Mixture ~The Sister 2 Special Edition~) [Same sodding symbols, plus '2'. Why is the translation different?]



I've seen that Aya picture before.

Video #12: Time for a nice, hot shower.

Well, now we know where all the effort went.

Light Gun Man
Oct 17, 2009

toEjaM iS oN
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Lipstick Apathy
All these years later and I still don't really understand the European titles for these games.

It's Zombie Hunters! Or maybe Zombie Zone! Maybe both!

GirlCalledBob
Jul 17, 2013
What the hell is rage mode Riho wearing? Some kind of battle apron?

Blaze Dragon
Aug 28, 2013
LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND

That really does look a lot better than the previous one. Mostly because it isn't nearly as dark so it's easier to see what's there, but also the controls seem better as well. And giving Riho a posing attack at least fits with the character. Though I'm not sure why she can go Super Saiyan now, and grow an apron out of nowhere too.

Ramos
Jul 3, 2012


Blaze Dragon posted:

That really does look a lot better than the previous one. Mostly because it isn't nearly as dark so it's easier to see what's there, but also the controls seem better as well. And giving Riho a posing attack at least fits with the character. Though I'm not sure why she can go Super Saiyan now, and grow an apron out of nowhere too.

Yeah, this feels almost too competent for this series. It's not even like accidental success either, they fixed a lot of stuff from the previous engine and gave it a lot of polish all around. I guess the games can be good when given a proper amount of development time.

Light Gun Man
Oct 17, 2009

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Lipstick Apathy

Ramos posted:

Yeah, this feels almost too competent for this series. It's not even like accidental success either, they fixed a lot of stuff from the previous engine and gave it a lot of polish all around. I guess the games can be good when given a proper amount of development time.

This game is definitely in like the top ten Simple 2000 series. Probably top 5 even. And the Onechanbara games only continued to improve after that, other than maybe like the Wii game because waggle controls are not the best thing.

racerabbit
Sep 8, 2011

"HI, I WANT TO HUG PINS NUTS."
:frolf:

Light Gun Man posted:

All these years later and I still don't really understand the European titles for these games.

It's Zombie Hunters! Or maybe Zombie Zone! Maybe both!

Zone of the Zombie Enders II

YOTC
Nov 18, 2005
Damn stupid newbie
You can smash attack on the load screens to beat up 2d zombies.


Don't ask why I know this.

Nuramor
Dec 13, 2012

Most Amewsing Prinny Ever!

YOTC posted:

You can smash attack on the load screens to beat up 2d zombies.


Don't ask why I know this.

I was wondering about that unmoving sprite on the loading screen.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

WHY?

Light Gun Man
Oct 17, 2009

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Lipstick Apathy
Cool combos are a mysterious technique no one truly understands

Ramos
Jul 3, 2012



What? You've never crotch blasted someone?

Shei-kun
Dec 2, 2011

Screw you, physics!
This needs to be someone's avatar.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Hips, Tits, Lips, Power!

Video #13: Goh the Crow.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Shei-kun posted:

This needs to be someone's avatar.

Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.
I see that Peach has a challenger for the title of Queen of Exploding Hips.

Shei-kun
Dec 2, 2011

Screw you, physics!
Now I just need a proper caption :allears:

Hel
Oct 9, 2012

Jokatgulm is tedium.
Jokatgulm is pain.
Jokatgulm is suffering.

I'm not expecting you to do some rigorous testing but I'm kind of curious, does putting point into the stat upgrades do anything when it's not the one point that fills up one of the "bars"?

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

I'm pretty sure the points do bugger all until a bar is filled.

Hel
Oct 9, 2012

Jokatgulm is tedium.
Jokatgulm is pain.
Jokatgulm is suffering.

SelenicMartian posted:

I'm pretty sure the points do bugger all until a bar is filled.

Of course, I don't know why I expected them to not make the worst design choices.

Simon The Digger
Dec 23, 2010

Some Kind of Magical Idiot
I've played this game myself (I'm actually a pretty big fan of its XBOX 360 sequel) and so I grabbed some screenshots of the doofy fake business names from the mall area.







Also, you can hold X during the pre-mission dialogue screens to speed up the text crawl.

Shei-kun
Dec 2, 2011

Screw you, physics!
I'm not sure I want to buy clothing from a store named Poots.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Shei-kun posted:

Now I just need a proper caption :allears:

'Screw you, physics!' still works pretty well, imo

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Tamsoft's finest.

Video #14: Soon, it'll be over.

EasilyConfused
Nov 21, 2009


one strong toad
I really hope the last game isn't just Zombie Hunters 3.

Ramos
Jul 3, 2012


So much for that one coming close to the verge of okay. Also, I'm getting the definite vibe that Makoto might be a tad smarter than her sister.

Light Gun Man
Oct 17, 2009

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Lipstick Apathy
I believe Riho's ending for ZH2 is that it was all actually a movie shoot

TAMSOFT TRIVIA

Eva's probably ripping off Ivy a bit, sure. But she's actually more directly ripping off Sofia from Battle Arena Toshinden (maybe this outfit was in the second game, to be specific), an earlier and more famous (at the time, anyway) game by Tamsoft!



Light Gun Man fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Aug 6, 2017

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
Did they bring in the artists from CLAMP or something because holy poo poo

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

http://i.imgur.com/Zo1uB1Y.mp4

Ramos
Jul 3, 2012


Oh yeah, that image reminds me...

Since this thread is apparently approaching its final days, I guess I should mention the post I did over in the weird fan art thread when I got curious and started googling her name. See, Riho's apparently pretty popular but only with a certain select group of people. You might call her the patron saint of giantess stuff because that's almost the only reason people draw her.

:nws: Just as warning, everything's about as work safe as the usual videos in this thread.






*dat perspective*

Then there's this poorly drawn flash animation. It involves breaking buildings, the military, and vore.




That person, for whatever reason, also hosted an entire doujin dedicated to Riho and what I assume is a good chunk of the D3 cast of characters. I put it on Imgur for easy viewing. It's untranslated though it probably shouldn't be too hard to break out my second grade level Japanese and get a rough translation out if anyone's interested. The title on the first page is "The Giant Beauty Crossover".

The last thing of note I found was some youtube video of Riho dancing and singing while giant. I'll be honest, the only reason why it's here is because I found it funny that she was knocking down buildings while dancing.

When people weren't drawing her being giant and in her swimsuit, she's in a maid outfit:





The last one's official art from a game called Dream C Club. A quick googling says it's a hostess club game for the XBOX 360 where you try to hook up with the various girls, so a dating sim but even sleazier than usual. That includes a bunch of sexual minigames but not enough to keep it off the XBOX 360. It was never translated to English, so I'm going to take a wild guess and say SelenicMartian isn't covering it next.



I mean, come on, who doesn't want to date that face?

Hope you enjoyed your dosage of weird Riho poo poo.

Ramos fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Aug 7, 2017

Light Gun Man
Oct 17, 2009

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Lipstick Apathy
I do cleanup/typesetting for comic translations as a hobby, lemme know if you wanna translate and I'll push the pixels.

Another inter-game connection here is that one of the Dream Club girls, Nonono, also is a playable character in an Onechanbara game. Skip to about 5 minutes in to see that in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-y182rlOVI

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Next up: the Simplest of them all.

All-Star Fighters
/2005.12.15/
Originally Simple 2000 Volume 91. THE ALL★STAR格闘祭 (The All*Star Fighting Festival)



How sweet of the European cover designer to add a character from a never-localised game.

Video #15: Slutty Pikmin.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Video #16: Riho Cubed.

And that was all I've got on Riho Futaba. Let's never talk about it again.

Simon The Digger
Dec 23, 2010

Some Kind of Magical Idiot
Thanks for the videos, it was really fun seeing the bizarre poo poo D3 Publisher and Tamsoft got up to in the PS2 era. Also, I doubt you're ever going to play it again, but the Dragon Sisters/Nadeshiko girls from Zombie Hunters 2 reload using L1, the "clean sword" button.

EasilyConfused
Nov 21, 2009


one strong toad
Good choice for a final game, ending with Zombie Hunters would have been something of a downer.

Another fun LP, I look forward to the next one, which sounds like it's obscure even by your standards.

Nidoking
Jan 27, 2009

I fought the lava, and the lava won.
That was the most absurdly

ending I could have hoped for.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
i swear to gods

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Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I want you to know I really appreciate the EDF Deploys.

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