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Those were the days, that was New York

I am some manner of posting-machine today, making up for lost time or something. This one’s fairly short, though; I’m just posting to point out that Platine Dispositif, makers of the best shmup EVER, have released a demo of their next game, a “metroidvania” which I believe is called Chelsea: Bunny Must Die. Go check it out; it’s quite Cave Story-like. Except with less plot. And more rigid and Metroid-like level structure.

Important! When you start the game, you will think that the controls are broken and you can not move right. This is not a bug, it is a feature. You will be able to move right as soon as you pick up the thing just to the left of the starting point that looks like a snowglobe with gears in it. I do not understand why this is. Perhaps someone can explain it to me.

Platine Dispositif also recently released a demo of a new shmup called Dandelion: Starchild Journey, and although I downloaded it last week along with a ton of other doujin game demos, I got really busy and haven’t had time to play any of them yet. I’ll try to check them out tonight and then post about any particularly awesome ones tomorrow-ish.

People have been having trouble getting the Chelsea: Bunny Must Die page to come up, so here‘s a direct link to the demo download.

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14 Responses to “Those were the days, that was New York”

  1. RavenWorks Says:
    December 12th, 2006 at 7:37 pm

    Am I the only guy getting a 403 on anything beyond the root of that guy’s site? And after so tantalizing a description, argh :P

    (OK, that’s the second time your math thing has booted me, and I’m CERTAIN I had it right this time >_>)

  2. Hunty Says:
    December 12th, 2006 at 7:57 pm

    Ack, it does look like their site is down. Hopefully it will just be temporary.

    Sorry the math thing keeps eating your posts. I’ll look into it.

  3. FredP Says:
    December 17th, 2006 at 6:28 pm

    Missing underscore… the correct link is:

    http://www20.cds.ne.jp/~murasame/games/_bmd.htm

  4. Hunty Says:
    December 17th, 2006 at 8:26 pm

    Fixed! Thanks!!

  5. RavenWorks Says:
    December 22nd, 2006 at 6:12 am

    The new link is broken now too… and the main page of the site leads to a link without an underscore >_> Are we being purposely thwarted here?

  6. Hunty Says:
    December 22nd, 2006 at 1:51 pm

    now the one without an underscore works.

  7. RavenWorks Says:
    December 22nd, 2006 at 11:09 pm

    Not for me x_x What the heck is going on…

  8. Hunty Says:
    December 22nd, 2006 at 11:49 pm

    Try the direct link to the demo. If that doesn’t work try clearing your browser cache.

  9. icky Says:
    January 7th, 2007 at 2:03 am

    !! nice Leonard Cohen (potentially Rufus?) reference.. I’ll be checking out the game now :3

  10. moth Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 9:40 pm

    I bought this game bunny must die in a little doujin shop in akihabara. i don’t understand the ‘help’ messages and am stuck! Iv beaten two bosses but theres nowhere left to go except a door that only remains open for 1 second, and a bunny icon which i can’t reach. can anyone help me out as how/where to go?

  11. Hunty Says:
    May 12th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

    After you get the second hourglass that turns your time gauge purple, you can hold down the time button to reverse time.

  12. apoclaisela Says:
    October 8th, 2007 at 11:23 am

    hi,
    good site :) Whish you good luck!

  13. Aquillion Says:
    January 5th, 2009 at 5:29 am

    Oh! These are the same people that made Dicing Knight, an odd Wonderswan Color game that is sort of a cross between a roguelike, a Zelda game, and a SHUMP. There’s an English translation for that game available here:

    http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=dicingknight

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