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Review: DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou (Switch) - Cave's Vicious Shooter Is Close To The Series' Best
- DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou makes the clean stylings of its predecessor even cleaner. It’s also infamous for having the hardest hidden boss ever committed to circuit boards. DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou was only ever previously available on the Xbox 360, making its Switch appearance celebratory. It adapts and reassembles things seen in previous entries, and offers near-clairvoyant sense of clarity. DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou is the first of the DonPachi series to only require a single loop run of the game. The package itself is comprehensive with options to configure.
- Outside of arcades, DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou was only ever previously available on the Xbox 360, making its Switch appearance celebratory. Infamously, the 360 port suffered from inexplicably shocking input lag that was only ever rectified by a fan patch. We used the same testing methods and are confident the issue has been quashed.
- In Saya’s Arrange, which features a very interesting single-life run, you can near-constantly engage Hypers, reaping green score icons to keep your multiplier from falling from the 10,000 maximum. It presents an original risk and reward system that rookies will really enjoy getting into, and veterans will adore mining for score.
- SaiDaiOuJou’s original arcade release was actually slightly broken by exploitable scoring bugs. These were ironed out for the home release in a new 1.5 version that rebalances the game into a fairer, more polished product.
- It takes a good while and a good understanding of bullet hell games to achieve a near-clairvoyant sense of clarity, yet the accompanying adrenaline rush of pinging Hypers at crucial junctures or successfully networking a boss’s varied attack patterns, offers a high like few others.
- While a fine-looking affair, DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou’s anime stylings are frankly unremarkable, and the incessant chatter will be turned off by many. But these are minor, skin-deep critiques of what is an incredible piece of work.
- Slight unevenness keeps SaiDaiOuJou from being the series' absolute best, but it certainly comes close. Cave went all out, with conditions for true-last-boss Hibachi and then Inbachi geared towards shoot-'em-up maniacs.
- Whether playing for score or focusing only on survival, DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou is quite the spectacle, perpetually igniting in a hailstorm of bullets and score ingots, and satisfying pyrotechnic blasts.
- The package of DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou on Nintendo Switch is incredibly comprehensive, bursting with options to configure, allowing you to define everything from screen rotation and sizing to replay recordings and online leaderboard achievements.
- There’s a beauty here that only Cave could achieve; a harmony of scoring and surviving; coasting on sheer adrenaline as you thread hit-boxes through pixels, hammering out routes amidst dizzyingly spectacular orchestrated chaos.
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