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[Llyranor]

This seems to have been posted a few days ago, so it seems new. Search revealed no recent Ketsui thread.

http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/02/29/eight-frantic-minutes-of-ketsui-ds/

When we last previewed Ketsui DS, the shoot'em up was a barebones affair, a boss-rush remake of Cave's original arcade game. At an event last weekend, however, Ichiro Mihara, publisher Arika's vice president, revealed a versus mode in which players fly through a full stage to build up a "box score" lead over their opponents and hold it for three seconds. Perhaps more compete stages will find their way into the final product?

Mihara also announced that Ketsui DS would feature three difficulty settings, the hardest setting being unlockable after finishing the default difficulty. The easy setting is designed to be "clearable for the young women office workers at (our) company." Judging by the bullet-choked video we've posted above, most of us will need that easy setting.

Though Arika hasn't yet scheduled a release date for Ketsui DS, the company does plan to include a superplay DVD containing high-scoring footage of the arcade game with each copy.

Direct Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5tZz7LPjBU

That looks absolutely insane. An 8 min boss fight of that intensity would be something I would never survive. Yet the gamer in me strangely compels me to it. If that's how bosses are, a 'boss rush' game might still actually be pretty meaty.

 

[BrodiemanTTR]

Oh hot sexy beautiful. Not sure I trust the DS Lite pad to it though.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I don't get how Arika will give us this but not make one tiny compromise on the fifth stage to get the arcade release onto PS2.

Humorously I hear the solitary available full stage in the DS build is based on stage 5.