DODONPACHI SAIDAIOUJOU

Nintendo Switch · 2024

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About this game

Dodonpachi Sai-Dai-Ou-Jou is the final game in the DonPachi series of overhead 2D shooters and Cave's final arcade game.

It follows in the footsteps of Dodonpachi Dai-Ou-Jou , featuring a variation on that game's scoring system and a traditional set of Dodonpachi ships.

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Players choose one of several ships to blast through five intense vertically-scrolling levels, dodging bullets and shooting down countless waves of enemies.

Unlike previous Dodonpachi games, there is only a single, tightly-focused loop, and the game's true final boss is encountered at the end of this one loop by collecting every bee medallion in the game, not dying, and not using any bombs.

The plot picks up after the previous two games.

Most of humanity was wiped out in the Blissful Death Wars; the survivors group together in cities managed by bio-mechanical element dolls.

Hibachi, the element doll of the City of Ideal, is assigned the task of protecting humanity and comes to the conclusion that the best way is to upgrade humans into bio-mechanical creatures like herself.

After finishing with the City of Ideal, she sets out for the rest of humanity.

The remaining humans respond by scrambling the Dodonpachi squadron to her out; the player controls one of the squadron's ace pilots.

The arcade version's story is exclusively told through text in the post-game epilogues but 360 Mode features a more involved, fully-voiced story with animated depictions of element dolls Saya and Operator; the story is unveiled through dialogue between the two characters during and in between levels.

Like in other Dodonpachi games, the player's ship features two kinds of normal attacks: a regular shot, and a laser.

The regular shot is a machine gun, providing the player with a rapid, relatively weak shot good at taking out smaller ships.

The laser is a focused shot going straight forward, which provides sustained damage good for taking out larger enemies but with slower ship movement.

The combo system also works like in pre

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About Nintendo Switch

Released in 2017, the Nintendo Switch became one of the best-selling consoles of all time thanks to its hybrid handheld/docked design. Its cartridge-based physical format (as opposed to discs) has made complete-in-box collecting popular again, with certain limited print runs and Nintendo-published exclusives already commanding a premium on the secondhand market just a few years after release.

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