The shmup machine gets Dragon Blaze

Zerodiv has announced that the next Psikyo game to land on the Nintendo Switch is Dragon Blaze from 2000. It will launch on april 5th in Japan.

Dragon Blaze was previously available on the PlayStation 2.



Also, as reported earlier M2 was going to announce a release date for Dangun Feveron outside Japan and the date is april 4th for both Xbox One and PlayStattion 4. It's looking to be a busy month ahead!

Degica website announcement: Castle of Shikigami

Straight from the horses mouth:

That’s right, the next shmup release from Degica Games will be Castle of Shikigami!

Congrats to @AlbertZero on Twitter and Michael Anderson on Facebook for figuring it out in our Mystery Clue contest! And after only one clue, too! They’ll each get a key for the game for their amazing prognostication.

So what is Castle of Shikigami?

A bizarre string of serial murders has occurred in Japan. Each victim was killed slowly, over an entire day. The 32nd victim has just been found. And you are going to stop it. Via mystical powers and shoot’em up gameplay. (There are very few problems in video games that can’t be solved this way.) Each of the playable characters has their own unique shooting mechanics while sharing the tension system, which rewards risky play with stronger shots.

Castle of Shikigami has never gotten a proper EN release, with only a PS2 release redubbed Mobile Light Force 2 with all the story pulled out making it outside of Japan, so this will be the first time ever that you can experience the full game in English! And with all six characters having a separate story, that is a lot that you were missing out on.

Be on the lookout for more info about Castle of Shikigami in the coming weeks!

Shikigami no Shiro getting re-released

Degica Games ran a short contest before announcing that their next shmup release will be Shikigami no Shiro or Castle of Shikigami, the original game which saw a botched port (for PS2) known in the west as Mobile Light Force 2 for some reason.

I'm not the biggest fan of the series and platform hasn't been announced yet but who am I trying to kid? I'll get it.