Shooting things and shooting the breeze...
The Castle of Shikigami series is one of the more recent shooting franchises to appear in Japanese arcades and subsequently home consoles. Castle of Shikigami III is the first to appear on Wii with Aksys providing the localisation for North America. Combining good looks, humour and challenging gameplay, it's a welcome addition to the Wii's shooter library.
When a gamer hears the phrase "arcade shooter," they're likely to think Time Crisis or House Of The Dead. It's doubtful one would immediately focus on the sub-genre of bullet hell.
The GUFU Blog writes: "SHMUPs or Shoot-em Ups, are some of the oldest video game genres in existence. It’s true. Even before games like Ultima and Wizardy – shooters preceded them all. It all started in 1978 with the release of Space Invaders. A revolutionary game by the Japanese developer known as Taito which still makes arcade boards and other video games. More than 30 years later since the release of the original. Now, in the year 2010.
The genre has became one of the least accessible and is literally never mentioned in mainstream video games. Even Rogue-like fans who recently got The Dark Spire and Shiren The Wanderer are laughing at fans of the shooter genre. Here is a blog totally dedicated to the dying genre. I will include some recommendations for beginners, hybrid shmups, and what I think are the best games and developers in the genre. Before I begin, these are merely my opinions and shouldn’t be considered anything more than that."
Dabe writes "Here is a top 5 list of the worst video game voice acting work, including a special mentions section at the end for some truly incredulous entries that couldn’t make this list of horrendous proportions. Anyways, without further ado, descend the page and descend into the madness of poorly scripted and translated Japanese imports..."
I agree Resident evil had some bad voice acting, and lets not forget the horrible FMV as an intro, but let's be real here, that was part of the charm of that game, it was for me anyways.
