{"id":4618,"date":"2023-12-24T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T13:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2023-12-24T13:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T13:19:43","slug":"dodonpachi-dai-ou-jou-rinne-tensei-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/4618","title":{"rendered":"DoDonPachi: Dai-Ou-Jou Rinne Tensei: Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DoDonPachi: Dai-Ou-Jou<\/b> is the best shmup ever. I&#8217;ve thought this since I imported the PS2 game 20 years ago. And while there have certainly been great games since, to me, nothing has surpassed it. M2&#8217;s other ports have been spectacular, but though <b>Ketsui<\/b> and <b>Garegga<\/b> are phenomenal games, they just don&#8217;t draw me in like <b>DOJ<\/b> does. Now that I have reason to sink my teeth into one of their ports, I must say, this version is simply the best version of the best shmup ever. It&#8217;s just astonishing.<\/p>\n<p>\nWe all have our favorite games ever. But every so often when we return to them 5, 10, 20 years later, their luster has faded somewhat. It doesn&#8217;t look as good as it did, or there are certain frustrations that didn&#8217;t irk us in the past. With <b>DOJ<\/b>, none of this exists. 10 minutes into my first run, I was just smiling. This game remains the greatest and M2&#8217;s treatment only improves on it, giving us black label finally, giving us <b>DDPIII<\/b>, with wonderful casual modes, perfect gadgets and a sleek presentation.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot speak highly enough about this translation and it&#8217;ll be the one I play for the <i>next<\/i> two decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/18c9becace75-screenshotUrl-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/18c9becace75-screenshotUrl-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/18c9becace75-screenshotUrl-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/18c9becace75-screenshotUrl-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/18c9becace75-screenshotUrl-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/18c9becace75-screenshotUrl-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/18c9becace75-screenshotUrl-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DoDonPachi: Dai-Ou-Jou is the best shmup ever. I&#8217;ve thought this since I imported the PS2 game 20 years ago. And while there have certainly been great games since, to me, nothing has surpassed it. M2&#8217;s other ports have been spectacular, but though Ketsui and Garegga are phenomenal games, they just don&#8217;t draw me in like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-dodon-pachi","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","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=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4620,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}