As promised, Taito had a live stream take place this morning/last night (depending upon your location) and in that video we got our first look at their upcoming Darius Burst Another Chronicle. I was unwillingly awake this morning when it was on and I watched some of it at the time but it’s nice to have the whole thing saved so anyone can go back and watch.
Click here to watch the video. Jump ahead to the 10 min. mark to see the cabinet itself. It’s a little smaller than I thought it would be but that’s a good thing. It appears that they are using angled mirrors to create a nearly seamless image of the two monitors together (which I think the original did with it’s three monitors but I have personally never seen an original Darius but they do show one in this video about 20 min. in) and the game itself looks spectacular even though the image quality on the video is less than ideal. The only thing that might be an issue is the player on the far right, I wonder how it might work out for them since most of the enemies appear on their side of the screen and the players generally stick to the left.
Darius Burst Another Chronicle will be released this winter in Japan. Hopefully Taito will consider distributing this internationally but even if they don’t I imagine that some intrepid locations with deep enough pockets will get one.