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2021 · Port · CAVE Interactive CO · Shooter · Arcade

DoDonPachi Resurrection

Nintendo exclusivePort

Once again the three pilots jump back in time to 2008 and enter the fray, the transport ship being targeted as soon as it exits the portal: the Element Daughters, gigantic evolutions of the Dolls, are awaiting...

Released
25 November 2021
Platforms
Nintendo Switch
Genres
ShooterArcade
Developers
CAVE Interactive CO
Publishers
Live Wire
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
ActionScience fiction
Age ratings
CERO BESRB T

About

DoDonPachi Resurrection, known in Japan as DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu (怒首領蜂 大復活, Angry Leader Bee Great Resurrection), is the fifth arcade game in Cave's DonPachi series, published in 2008. The game was unveiled at AOU2008 Amusement EXPO.

Keywords

  • shoot 'em up
  • bullet hell

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

In addition to the three ships from the original DonPachi and DoDonPachi, players can choose from three "styles" of play.

==== Bomb style ====

Story

After the turmoil caused by the assault on Lunapolis which sparked the "Blissful Death Wars" (as depicted in the previous installment), peace seems to have been restored, with the legendary DonPachi Corps retreating to its HQ in a space-time fold. Six years later, anomalies are detected in the space-time fabric, yet tests reveal nothing out of order, with the portals regularly functioning for both teleportation and time travel; also, the leader of the DonPachi squadron Colonel Godwin Longhener (a descendant of the deranged Schwarlitz Longhener who once commanded the Donpachi Corps like he had) dismisses the matter due to the lack of actual danger.

Nevertheless, a technician delves deeper into the anomaly, discovering that something has infiltrated the HQ computer systems and is using the portals to send large quantities of materials and data to the past, spreading out like a virus and quickly evolving. In an ironic twist, the virus is discovered to be the program originally installed in the Element Dolls six years ago, now reaching beyond the DonPachi Corps programming and seeking to annihilate the human race in retaliation for their "enslavement" (after the war, they met a rather cruel demise at the hand of their own human creators) by waging war in the past rather than in the present: unsettled, the Colonel authorizes the last transport ship to time jump in order to fight back the invasion before future changes. However, he states: "Start over from the past... I never thought of that", echoing the ideas of mankind's imperfection which has always been a recurring theme in the series.

Development

DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu Original Sound Track is a 23-track CD that includes music tracks and voice samples from the video game, and a bonus song called Image Song (Bonus Track). The soundtrack went on sale on January 26, 2009. DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu Black Label Original Sound Track was released on February 20, 2010.

An arrange soundtrack was also released. This is the same as the CD included in the Version 1.5 Limited Edition and Resurrection Deluxe Edition Xbox 360 ports. The iOS exclusive soundtrack was also separately released on CD.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Nintendo Switch25 November 2021Worldwide

Title IDsone per regional release, with its latest update

PlatformTitle IDRegionLatest update
Nintendo Switch01005A001489A000—v7

Editions and related releases

Part of
DoDonPachi Resurrection
Port of
DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu

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