Before Ikaruga There Was Dimahoo! Review of Mahou Shoot Em' Ups!

Before Ikaruga There Was Dimahoo! Review of Mahou Shoot Em' Ups! | Raizing

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Before Ikaruga There Was Dimahoo! Review of Mahou Shoot Em' Ups! | Raizing. With this review of Dimahoo (aka Great Mahou Daisakusen) we have now completed the Mahou Trilogy on this channel! The trilogy consists of Sorcer Striker (Mahou Daisakusen), Kingdom Grand Prix, and Dimahoo! What makes this game famous, besides being generally excellent as many Raizing shmups are, is its claim to fame as being a shmup with a polarity mechanic before Ikaruga. Dimahoo came out a year prior to Treasure's most famous shoot em' up. That being said, in this review I examine the polarity systems of the two games and compare them to one another, is Dimahoo similiar to Ikaruga? Another interesting aspect of this game is that it is on Capcom CPS2 hardware, so it can be easily emulated. It's kinda interesting that it was not on Capcom Arcade Stadium 1 or 2, but that doesn't surprise me either ha. As of right now this game is not availible on switch, ps4, xbox, ps5, or steam. You can play it on Mister, Shmuparch, or other emulators very well though :-) This game sorely needs and M2 shottriggers port though, it would benifit greatly from a custom mode and gadgets. I also don't trust other devs like City Connection with a release like this.
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@JaimersSTG Жыл бұрын

Oh god 9 year old ancient forum posts. Was a bit confused at the 'not documented' remark, many of the Japanese players constantly streamed it, counterstopped it and made insane video guides for it recently. It was one of the most talked about shmups in recent years. Though I guess not in English yeah. Completing item sets actually gives you special effects which is quite neat: Sword: Main shot power up. Shield: smaller hitbox. Axe: Charge attack lasts longer. Armor: smaller hitbox. Ring: stronger bomb. Helmet: smaller hitbox. Staff: Subshot power up. Accessary: Charge attack power up. Food: Charge meter increases faster. Shoes: Movement speed up. Treasure: Nothing. Collecting sets is quite important to power yourself up. Grimlen's speed in particular is quite awful until you complete the shoe set for more speed. Besides that there are also secret legendary items that require all sorts of different requirements to trigger in certain spots. You want to complete all the normal sets before the stage 4 treasure chests so they drop legendary items instead for major points. But yeah if there is one game that would benefit the most from M2 gadgets it's this game. At first I actually thought they were doing this game instead of Mahou Daisakusen because that would have made a lot more sense.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

You shall never escape the time prison of the farm ha. When I was reading through the posts about the game, I thought yours was a great summary of my feelings as well ha. As for the lack of resources, that is cool that there is a lot of Japanese guides, but that information is pretty much inaccessible to most western players, myself included. It would be great if they got translated over on the wiki or something. Also yes it's a major oversight that this game did not get the M2 shottrigger treatment! It's the perfect candidate along with batrider, what are shottriggers up to these days ha. Enough with the slow drips of toaplan, we need some raizing action and we need it now.

@oneupdawg Жыл бұрын

This game is incredible. I'm hoping for a console release someday from M2

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Me too!! They need to get back to the hot stuff ha

@opaljk4835 Жыл бұрын

@@TheElectricUnderground yeaahhhh, not exactly thrilled with the early Toaplan concentration tbh. Although the later Toaplan games would be cool, and I do love fire shark and truxton etc, but I already have played them a ton on the Genesis ports.

@rockhyde7775 Жыл бұрын

@@TheElectricUnderground They already did with Dodonpachi Daioujou Shot Triggers and I’m really excited for it! Truth be told, I was kinda disappointed with the Tiger and Shark packs because I wanted something newer as I find the newer shmups more exciting in my eyes.

@rockhyde7775 Жыл бұрын

Or a release on Capcom Arcade Stadium 3. That could work also. Whichever way Dimahoo gets released, either via CAS3 or M2 Shot Triggers, either way, I’d jump on it right away. I was happy Progear was released on CAS2 despite me preferring vertical shooters over horizontal ones mainly because I don’t have to worry about death by walls or ceilings which I hate by the way. Doesn’t take away greatness, just my personal pet peeves is all.

@riggel8804 Жыл бұрын

Love the casual disrespect for the mini consoles.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Couldn't help myself ha, damn things

@reinhartsieger6588 Жыл бұрын

hating those is a must!

@TheCrewExpendable 4 ай бұрын

Yeah you have to remember to ask pest control to spray for mini-consoles otherwise the dang things start multiplying really quick!

@kirinichiban21 Жыл бұрын

I was first introduced to Raizing through Soukyugurentai, quickly heard about Garegga but then not much else - so it's interesting hearing both the history and your take on the other games they've made. Thanks for doing this thorough treatment of this series! Would be very keen to hear your take on Souky too one day.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

If the patrons have their way that review probably will be soon ha. They love the raizing reviews :-)

@then1533 Жыл бұрын

For the algorythm- excellent review as usual.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend!!

@albertloo6631 Жыл бұрын

I feel the polarity system would be much better implemented if you could switch instantly with a separate button like Ikaruga instead of firing off a charge shot. I really want a home port of this though since the art direction of this game is so sick.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Yep agreed! Or if they sped up the charge at least

@evanseifert8858 Жыл бұрын

I'd never heard of this one. Shmups of this era always remind me of Batsugun.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

For sure they all have a similar vibe in this time :-)

@vidyergaemenjoyer447 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Both Dimahoo and Soukyugurentai suffer from having relatively little info about them compared to Garegga and Batrider. Which is a shame because they're both really great games!

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, this one was particularly difficult to research for the review, had to just analyze replays and try to figure wtf was going on ha.

@yogsothoth915 Жыл бұрын

On the one hand the ridiculous number of mechanics sounds incredibly exciting, but on the other hand a rank system with such a heavy spike sounds absolutely terrifying. But such is the way of the quarter muncher. The temptation luring you in, and the pain telling you to get off the machine

@hooksnfangs6006 Жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right about why I keep coming back to these games. The presentation, visuals, and the fantasy setting/theme. The system is very weird and I almost always forget about the charge system lol. Out of the trilogy I find this one the least memorable though. It leans very heavy on the mech side and the color palette is a bit too dark for my tastes. Previous games are just popping with color and have a good amount of non-mech enemies.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Yeah I love this game's art style, so unique and cool. It's chunky in a really satisfying way and raizing go hard on the backgrounds on this one.

@lunaria_stg Жыл бұрын

Loved watching WTN's counterstop runs of this game. Raizing's shmups are really cool looking and they all seem very fun to play, even if somewhat unpolished.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Yeah wtn is a beast!! It is a fun game, despite some of the jank ha

@dingo535 Жыл бұрын

Good review, I actually played a fair bit of this on my old pc when I had shmupmame. I think the longer you hold the charge the bigger and more lucrative the items / medals dropped. I never did figure out the item sets/ unique items at all though.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Yeah you can get Uber Uber charges ha, takes forever though

@lazorsbear7068 Жыл бұрын

i hope capcom make a 3rd arcade collection with this, mm and giga 2

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

I know it's an odd ommision right! Why no dimahoo capcom?

@PedroFerreira-sx2gd Жыл бұрын

Great review. Glad too see some obscure information that i didn t know. It is a good game, but sorry i can t care about the polarity system, maybe because i AM not a fan of holding the Button for such a long time. I don t consider the initial stages a "cakewalk", they may be easy compared to Later stages / but not that easy for initial stages of a average shootemup. There are still arcade steal coins mentality. Would love to see the bullets with other color (specially those small fast Yellow) but It does not reach the lunacy of dark bullets of battle garega. Eighting rizing have a unique style , unique bullet patterns, but they are hard , you really have to BE offensive and dance between those small bullets . Forget dodging to the other side of the screen. Yes sorcer striker is for me by far the best of the trilogy , tecnology were not só developed during the time, só everything is more Simple and charming but certainly not easier.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Yes the long charge mechanic is my least favorite aspect of the game, it just hits the breaks on the pace of the enemies it feels. As opposed to garegga with it's relentless waves of enemies ha.

@seanmcbay Жыл бұрын

Never heard of this one. Looks rad.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

It s a fun one for sure!

@RuV9999 Жыл бұрын

probably my first Raizing Shmup i played before Battle Garegga!

@KnjazNazrath Жыл бұрын

That quote about gettin' hoodwinked by Raizing games is *so true*.

@shmups_hobby Жыл бұрын

Super scanlines 👍

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

delicious! Yes those are shmuparch scanlines :-)

@minimalmaster8489 Жыл бұрын

This jewel by Raizing is as magnificent as it is inventive and challenging. The game also apparently has vaguely RPGesque elements (magic item pick-up) which some say are the elements of a quest parallel to the shoot to earn bonuses. To try urgently, this shmup looks monstrous! I hope it will one day be ported to our modern consoles and PC, preferably by M2 of course. Especially since it's quite the kind of shmup that would lend itself well to a port from this talented studio.

@energyzer_bunny1913 Жыл бұрын

I have the OST on my phone. I absolutely love the soundtrack of this game!

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Yeah slamming ost!!

@StevenSchlottman Жыл бұрын

I love those dumbass, little mini console things.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Not me ha

@ominojaku1069 Жыл бұрын

I’ve got this on my Pandora, didn’t know what it was at first..never even heard of it, played it for hours while getting completely baked, couldn’t believe how good it was! Absolutely needs a switch/console/PC release

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

That s awesome!! Yeah absolutely hidden 💎

@ms.ilovecotton9778 Жыл бұрын

the mini consoles are amazing lmaooo

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

best thing ever :-)

@kitestar Жыл бұрын

Dimahoo AKA GREAT Mahou Daisakusen (I hate referring to it by its western name)

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

The jpn name is a mouthful ha

@user-pv6lm1ik6t Жыл бұрын

i like the patron reading macrus dancer gif in the end, where did you get it?

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

I just looked up minmay dance gif ha

@user-pv6lm1ik6t Жыл бұрын

@@TheElectricUnderground nice

@jak_1894 Жыл бұрын

I like ikaruga but I wouldn't say I'm a fan of its cerebral gameplay. I just like to blow stuff up in shooters so maybe I would like this.

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

I feel you there!!

@ominojaku1069 Жыл бұрын

Me too! Love doing intricate dodging and destroying everything, not really bothered about scores at all..just love trying to 1CC them

@fickdich2867 Жыл бұрын

That's usually the only reason people hate on Ikaruga. They simply prefer braindead twitch dodging. At least you are honest.

@EKlicKKlacK3 Жыл бұрын

Out of the Mahou series, this is probably my least favorite. But, I still really enjoy it. Bosses hold secret treasures. Gain takes the longest for the charge shot. The fire and ice system is a cool little gimmick, but definitely not a huge part of the game. You are right though, after stage 3, the difficulty gets up there. It would be cool to see a M2 release of this, but till then I'll enjoy it on the CPS2. 1) Kingdom Grandprix 2)Sorcerer Striker 3)Dimahoo

@TheElectricUnderground Жыл бұрын

Yeah the long charge shot is a bummer, slows the pace