SubscribeArcade shoot-em-up developer Cave announced at the recent Cave Matsuri 2009 event that it will bring a spinoff in its popular Mushihime-sama series to the iPhone. Fortunately for us mere mortals, it may end up being much less challenging than its infamously difficult arcade predecessors.
Mushihime-sama Gaiden: Bug Panic features the same characters and graphic style as the original Mushihime-sama arcade games, but its gameplay more closely resembles an overhead-view twin-stick shooter.
In Bug Panic, players are armed with an infinite supply of spread bombs, only three of which can be detonated at a time. In a mechanic similar to Missile Command or Every Extend Extra, enemies that get caught up in each bomb’s explosion will themselves explode. Players must effectively chain enemies to spread waves of destruction across each level and score big points.
No release date has yet been set for Mushihime-sama Gaiden: Bug Panic, and Cave has not revealed whether it plans to release the title outside of Japan. Given that the recent Xbox 360 port of Mushihime-sama Futari was shipped on a region-free disc, though, an international release for Bug Panic seems likely.
The game mechanic looks amazing and challenging. Graphics very good. But the music… please!
zomg! I wants
[...] II follows up on Cave’s iPhone-exclusive action title Mushihime-sama Gaiden: Bug Panic, which still has not yet been released as of this writing. Given Cave’s recent [...]