{"id":1280,"date":"2013-03-17T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T11:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2013-03-17T11:53:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T11:53:53","slug":"ddpsdoj-crossing-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1280","title":{"rendered":"DDP:SDOJ &#8211; Crossing Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/c20130311_ddnpachi_03_cs1w1_906x1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/c20130311_ddnpachi_03_cs1w1_906x1280-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"ddp-sdoj-release\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/c20130311_ddnpachi_03_cs1w1_906x1280-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/c20130311_ddnpachi_03_cs1w1_906x1280-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/c20130311_ddnpachi_03_cs1w1_906x1280.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>The praying for localization (or region-free) for <b>DoDonPachi: SaiDaiOuJou<\/b> is now in full force as May 30th has been chosen as its release date.  What is likely the swan song for <b>Cave&#8217;s<\/b> arcade production will be arriving with HD visuals, arrange modes and the whole lot.  I&#8217;ll never afford the limited edition never mind the super-limited edition; I&#8217;ll be thrilled just to be able to play it at all.  10 years after <b>DaiOuJou<\/b> became the best shmup of all time, its successor has some big shoes to fill.  To be honest, I&#8217;ll never be the fan I once was; the time simply doesn&#8217;t exist. I&#8217;m not entirely sure how bad that is.  If one cannot devote the proper time to a game like <b>DOJ\/SDOJ<\/b> (unlike <b>DFK<\/b>); is it worth it?  I&#8217;m hoping for a yes.  Ultimately I think it&#8217;s going to be localized.  And I <b>will<\/b> get it.  I&#8217;m still waiting on getting <b>ESP Galuda II<\/b> and <b>MMP\/Ibara 2<\/b>.  But this game is the holy grail and I&#8217;ll pass on everything to get it.  The wait continues!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The praying for localization (or region-free) for DoDonPachi: SaiDaiOuJou is now in full force as May 30th has been chosen as its release date. What is likely the swan song for Cave&#8217;s arcade production will be arriving with HD visuals, arrange modes and the whole lot. I&#8217;ll never afford the limited edition never mind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-dodon-pachi","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}