Why I LOVE Japanese Games Part 6: CAVE Shumps

it's harder than it looks but still a blast to play

Yo this ya boy the omegakatana bringing you another episode of my favorite Japanese game series. This time it isnt a jrpg or a fighting game or a platformer but a series of shrumps by a small company named CAVE. This video isn’t about the company CAVE themselves but their games or at least the ones that I played so far. Im not going to get into story details at all due to the fact I only care about blowing things up and not getting hit/or killed and not for the plot. So no story details on the games about to cover. Also one more thing this is gonna be a very very short video or other words the shortest my favorite japanese games episode. The first CAVE game a played was a game called eprade or dondopachi one of the two so ether or those are my first cave games I played. Eprade is unqiue due to controlling humans with phyich powers that are strong enough to blow up ships and other machines. the cool thing about this game is that with the c button on arcade or whatever you set the button in mame your character develops a force field around the character and the longer you hold the button the force field grows bigger and aborbs the bullets your enemies fire at you. now with dondopachi it’s the second game in the donpachi series although I played the first game donpachi that game moved like a turtle compared to the awesome sequels that came after it including the one about to talk about. So anyways dondopachi seems like a regular shrump which is very very hard and intense but it’s note worthy for it’s twist at the end that your comanding officer is the bad guy of the game the whole time. While the first game (which is the ONLY THING you should care about) is it’s ending where you are ACTUALLY KILLING YOUR OWN ALLIES THAT ARE ACTING LIKE ALIEN INVADERS. In order to develop the best fighter squadron which is totally stupid and disgusting in my opinon. Anyways the game play for dondopachi and it’s sequels are FUN AS HELL with high replay value due to blowing things up and trying not to die which is impossable to do if your a rookie. Next game we have progear for the cps2 arcade board (or mame) this game is unique again due to it’s setting takes place in a 1890s vibe or steampunk setting where you control a pliot that is trying to fend off invaders from another kingdom or empire with suppior tech. I don’t about the story due to me that I play cave games to blow things up thats it. So the gameplay view is a horizontal instead of vertical uptop view like most shrumps do it’s easy to pick up but difficult to master but also this game has high replay value. Next we have granage sorry for the mispronunciation of the title I dont speak japanese and speaking of japanese this shrump takes place in sengoku japan where you control people who have yokai posecessing them and it’s actually part of the game mechanic where your demon or yokai can attack enemies or aborb bullets for you. I dont know about the plot again due to the fact I only play to shoot things so go on a wiki or google the game for the plot. the game is pretty fun like all of the cave games I played so I highly recomend it. the next game is  Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi yes it’s a mouth full and it’s a japanese title but it’s a very HARD but FUN game it mostly takes place in a war torn world where an evil weapon company named evac (which cave spelled backwards) where you fight tanks, planes, helicopters, missle launchers etc. also it features a complex number chip system which I can’t figure out at all. Neverless it’s a very fun game to play. So those are my top cave games I will be mentioning in this episode and I know about deathsmiles (I didnt like the game), akai katana which I never played and the mushisama games which are pretty good and love the setting as well . mushi pork which I HATED with a pasion. So what are your top cave games.