Even a handful of years following its market demise, the Sega Dreamcast surprisingly still kicks with life every once in a while, thanks to dedicated developers who seemingly refuse to let the format die. Play-Asia is expecting the system's new lifeblood in the form of HUCAST's DUX and redspotgames' Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles, set to release sometime in November and October respectively.
DUX comes in as the latest effort of HUCAST, which also developed the recent post-production Dreamcast shooter Last Hope (which the company just ported over to the NEO-GEO freakin' CD a couple of months back ... awesome!). The horizontal 2-D shooter features a wide scale of vibrant colors as the engine pumps out the visuals entirely in high-resolution CGI models. Not too many details about the game are being thrown around at the moment, but, it's a shmup. I think all you have to know is that you can expect a metric buttload of bullets onscreen at one time. Thankfully, DUX is given arcade stick support is being developed to run region free - THANK YOU! HUCAST also announced on its site, a DUX OST CD is being printed to compliment the game's release.
The second title refreshingly strays from the habit of releasing only arcade shmups since Sega ceased production on the white box. Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles obviously comes to the system as a puzzle title, which originated as a project released on the GP2X. The game field uses tiles based off Chinese elements and was developed and ported by Yuan Works. Exclusive to the DC version are the new character Mr. VMU, English and Japanese translations, new arcade mode danger break system, new graphics and art, new cutscenes and a 40-page manual complete with full packaging and spine label.
Currently, DUX is being sold at Play-Asia for the price of $27.90 and Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles will ring in at $39.99. The site also has Last Hope back in stock at $39.99.
We're looking forward to the fact our Dreamcasts are still getting new snacks every once in a while as, admittedly, I'm a little behind the game seeing as my last DC purchase was the post-production shooter Trizeal (for which I got a sweet bandana and OST along with the game). It's good to see some systems haven't been forgotten and we continue to look forward to Super Fighter Team's upcoming Zaku for the Atari Lynx. I have done interviews with Super Fighter Team and Cryptic Allusion Games recently and hopefully soon I will be able have clearance to post this tidbits on GemuBaka in the near future to detail their recent works on the Genesis and Lynx and Dreamcast respectively.
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