Classic Game Room HD - DONPACHI for Sega Saturn review

Classic Game Room HD reviews DONPACHI for the Sega Saturn from Cave and published by Atlus in 1995. This Japanese Sega Saturn release is one of the best SHMUP bullet hell maniac shooters ever created and packs serious challenge with looping rounds of gameplay. Choose from one of three ships that have different weapon configurations and speed. Waste waves of enemies and end bosses with normal shots and charged up super lasers. Donpachi is a classic 2D vertical scrolling space ship shooter on the Sega Saturn, regarded as one of the best SHMUPS ever made. This CGR review of Donpachi on Sega Saturn has gameplay from Donpachi showing video game play of Donpachi upconverted to HD. The sequel to Donpachi is called DoDonpachi and is also available on the Saturn. If you are in North or South America and have a Saturn you can easily import Donpachi from Japan which is playable on American Sega Saturn with a 4 in 1 card which easily breaks through region encoding. There is no problem at all when trying to play the Japanese Donpachi on US Sega Saturn.

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[ufee]

The sequel, Dodonpachi, is better.

[cheetah672]

I agree with you: you need to review more bullet hells/arcade style shooters! On June 29th, Deathsmiles will be released for the 360. It's another bullet hell, although it's horizontal like R-Type rather than vertical. Still, it's made by the same company as DonPachi. If you can, review it when it comes out! That would really make my day!

[NGrevolutionary]

Is Wheeljack narrating this game??

[reesercliff]

REVIEW DODONPACHI RESSURRECTION it works on american consoles!!!

[jorge201021]

this game is also on ps1

[joshuavideogames]

Got a copy for $37

[ViperAcidZX]

Hey, you think you might do a review on Trouble Witches NEO! for XBLA? It's a bullet hell shooter with (horribly) cheesy English dialogue.

[paulspydar]

@andy7666 maybe its another shooter then? cos I heard somewhere that you can reverse the enemys bullets of a certain colour and make them return and shoot at the enemys that fired them at you, (does that make sense? I`m not sure I explained that too well!)

[andy7666]

The MAME version is superior of course but its damn nice to have the hard-copy in your sweaty, shaking hand.. The Saturn is an awesome machine, criminally overlooked.  I love buying Japanese imports for it (when I have any dough!) - the CD cases and artwork are so superior to the big clunky cardboard boxes we had in Europe - also, the games were all poo over here, whoever the hell decided on what NOT to bring over (basically everything) should have been jailed - no wonder Saturn flopped :(

[andy7666]

@paulspydar No difference at all in most games but in SOME titles you may have a weapon that can shoot certain colour bullets, things like that - in these earlier games it is just an aesthetic thing - having all bullets the same colour can get a bit boring to look at (some modern Doujin games do use this though).

[paulspydar]

BTW this version looks different to my PS2 jap version...

[paulspydar]

I love these shooters & have this for my JAP PS2 But please someone explain to me the purpose/differenace between the blue & pink bullets? there just so many on screen I dont know whats going on! Im sure I am missing something ? as I just dont see how its possible to win (the way im playing anyhow!) without infinate continues & that seems pointless..