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    Chaos Field

    I've had one go of this and from what i've played so far, it's surprisingly good! Seeing the movies and hearing about it didn't really fill me with hype after Shikigami No Shiro II being a bit rubbish and the latest few dreamcast games being simply average, but playing Chaos Field has revived my interest in the Dreamcast.

    First stage was composed of 2 small mini-boss fights, and a big boss fight. Not sure if all the levels are laid out like this aswell.

    The 3 ships you can choose from are Mixed Blue, Flawed Red, and Fake Yellow, all with different attributes. The shot weapon is different, and the A+B special is different, but the X+B and Sword weapons remain the same throughout all 3 ships.

    **** me it's difficult!! The moment I hit the Chaos Field, it's bullets flying towards you in all directions. The difficulty level may be stupid, but it's the most fun i've had in a shoot-em-up in a long time, and in my mind comes very close to Ikaruga greatness. Something about the way the game plays just makes me grin and celebrate whenever a miniboss goes down. Oh, and have I mentioned the music? IT'S FANTASTIC!

    Saurian, I can see you lapping this up.
    Last edited by Silvergun X; 19-12-2004, 23:49.

    #2
    Yeah man I played this loads when I was in Tokyo - it's a wicked shoot em up, definetly will pick this up soon!

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      #3
      is this only out in Jap for DC? It's also out on GC and PS2 right?

      sounds great though, may well have to pick it up..

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        #4
        Only out on DC at the moment, as far as I know. Cube version is out next year as "Chaos Field Expanded".

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          #5
          Any vids floating about?

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              #7
              Thank you amigo

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                #8
                The music is VERY good. Plays ok in the 10 minutes I tried before I left home this morning.

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                  #9
                  Just a few little differences i'm starting to pick up.

                  The lock-on weapon DOES differ between ships, despite what I said in my first post. Mixed Blue scans in a cone shape infront of you and locks on, Flawed Red's lock-on is strange... It fires a target straight infront of you for a short distance as a circle then kind of 'explodes' into a bigger circle, anything caught in that target circle gets locked on. Fake Yellow's lock-on is probably my favourite, firing two beams both left and right of your ship and arcing up slightly, so any bullets or boss parts diagonally above you get targeted. Kinda hard to explain with my limited vocabulary.

                  Also, is it just me or is there a different sword distance between ships aswell? Flawed Red's sword seems slightly longer than the others but that's probably just me...

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                    #10
                    Just been looking this up; freaky; GC is out JPN 24/2/05

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                      #11
                      Great game from what I've seen so far, though if anyone here could translate the manual, or point to a site that does it, it'd be a great help.

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                        #12
                        Is the GC version actually going to be different...or just have a different name. Like Bangai-o on N64 and DC were very different to each other. Anyone know the differences?

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                          #13
                          thought they were the same tbh, only 8 weeks between launch dates as well so doesn't leave much time for major changes (unless they're already done .....)

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                            #14
                            Got mine today (NCS). Initially a little underwhelming have to say. Graphics seem pretty basic, and yet plenty of slow down. Music is totally generic... didn't like it at all. Nothing like the quality of the awesome music in a Treasure shooter.

                            Seems to pinch ideas fairly openly from Radiant Silvergun - your ship has a sword which can swipe away enemy bullets, and one of the character's ship has a lock on laser beam weapon.

                            Will have to play some more. It's nice to have another DC game but they do seem to be getting worse. After the ridiculously good Ikaruga, then the excellent Border Down, the enjoyable Psyvariar 2, the decent Shikigami no Shiro 2, and now the adequate Chaos Field...

                            Hopefully it will get better!

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                              #15
                              Anybody know how you can get this to save your high scores (if you can)? It saves the settings and credits but the high score table doesn't seem to get saved for me.

                              I'm quite enjoying the game, but the slow down is really bad in places. Might have to get the Cube version if it's better in that regard.

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