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TranscendPang
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Developer: wosderge
Release date: 2010

TranscendPang is a freeware doujin shoot 'em up created by wosderge. The game's gameplay is mostly derived from the classic arcade game Buster Bros., also known as Pang, but with some key differences. Where Buster Bros. may be described as an action game, TranscendPang takes the basic "Pang" format and turns it into a frantic shoot 'em up experience. The soundtrack features several artists from the Japanese doujin and rhythm game scenes.

Gameplay Overview

TranscendPang Gameplay

In TranscendPang, your character is fixed to the ground, with only the ability to move left and right, just like in Buster Bros. You also have a shot button, an OverDrive button and a Skill button. In total there are 12 playable characters, as well as 2 secret characters, where each character has unique stats for movement speed, wire speed and overdrive damage, as well as completely unique skills.
Your goal is to progress through the stage by shooting incoming balls that appear at the top of the screen and bounce around on the stage, and destroy the bigger enemies that appear from time to time, called sentinels. Each stage has unique theme with its own music where all the sound effects for shot and kills add to the music that's already playing, creating a generative soundtrack. This also means that your shot and the enemy balls are synchronized to the tempo of the music that's playing.

Controls


  • Shot (Z): Fires a wire towards the top of the screen.
  • OverDrive (X): Destroys all balls on screen, and deals damage to sentinels and bosses.
  • Skill (C): Activates the character's special skill.
  • Boost (Shift/Space): Increases the rate of incoming balls.

Sub-skills


TranscendPang selection screen

You can equip up to two sub-skills for your character. This is done by moving to which character you want the skill of, and pressing either Left or Right. Their assignment is indicated by two different colored dots next to the characters whose skills you've equipped. Sub-skills are very useful, as they let you equip a total of 3 skills, since you also keep the skill of the character you're playing as.

In order to active a skill, you need to build up your skill gauge and hold either Up or Down while activating the skill.

  • The skill you selected with Left gets assigned to DOWN + Skill (pink dot)
  • The skill you selected with Left gets assigned to UP + Skill (green dot)

If you're able to rebuild the skill gauge before the skill runs out, then you can activate another skill in the middle of the first skill, making it possible to combine two skills. The only catch is that sub-skills deplete the skill gauge much quicker than your primary skill, so be careful when activating it.

Bombs


Bombs in this game refers to the glowing balls that explode after 4 beats. Throughout the stage, bombs will spawn in naturally from the top of the screen, but they appear in a different color than the regular balls.

Regular Bombs

Regular bombs are usually red or orange, and once activated they will glow white. You can also tell if they're about to explode by listening to their audio cue, which is typically a short musical phrase that lasts for 4 beats. If you shoot a bomb while it is glowing white, you will delay its explosion until the next cycle.
If a bomb's explosion hits balls smaller than itself, it will destroy those balls immediately. However, any balls the same sizer or larger will be turned into bombs themselves by the explosion.
If a bomb comes in contact with a sentinel or a ruler (boss), it will explode immediately, while also dealing a lot of damage. However, the player can not be hurt by regular bombs.
it is also possible to create bombs yourself. If you are able to split the same ball three times before it hits the ground, it will turn into a ball. This means that in order to create bombs, the ball needs to be at least size 4 or 5.

Hostile Bombs

Hostile bombs however can hurt the player. These will appear purple, or green if color support is turned on.
While they behave like normal bombs, they will also turn smaller balls into purple bombs. You can turn them into regular bombs by shooting them while they're not glowing. That means that if a purple bomb is about to explode, you'll have to hit it once to deactivate it and then once again in order to turn it into a regular bomb.
Hostile bombs will not damage sentinels or rulers.

Depth


Depth is the metric of progression and score in the game. By hitting balls and destroying sentinels, you get points which are added to the depth.
Each stage has a pre-defined total depth, which is presented to you at the start of the stage. Once you have reached that depth, you will have reached the end of the stage and the stage's boss will appear. Additionally, each floor of the stage has its own target depth which is required to reach in order to progress to the next floor. However, due to how the floor change only happens at the start of each musical phrase, it is possible to exceed the target depth of each floor. It is not possible to exceed the total depth of the entire stage.

Norma Time


Each stage has a norma time, which is presented to you at the start of every stage. If you are able to reach the total depth of the stage within the norma time, you will face the NEO version of the boss, instead of the regular version. The exception is the final stage, which does not have a NEO version of the boss, and the norma time is infinite (but displayed as 59:99.)

Bonuses


While playing the game, you can be rewarded by two main types of bonuses, one for eliminating sentinels or bosses, and one based on the size of bombs.

Sentinels Eliminated

For every 6 sentinels eliminated, you will be rewarded with an extend. This includes sentinels eliminated across two different stages. For example, if you eliminated 4 in one stage, you will get the reward once you eliminate 2 sentinels in the next stage.
Additionally, there are certain spots in the game where several sentinels will appear at the same time. If you are able to defeat them without taking any damage or using any overdrives, you will receive a reward.

Condition Reward
1 sentinel No reward
2 sentinels Shield +50% (Normal Mode) or +1 OverDrive (Abnormal Mode)
3 sentinels Extend

Boss Eliminated

For every boss defeated, you are rewarded with an extend.

Sublimation Bonus

A sublimation bonus is rewarded to you based on the size of the largest bomb exploded during a chain. The bonus will be rewarded once the last bomb in a chain has exploded.
Keep in mind that hostile (purple) bombs do not reward any bonuses. You need to turn them into regular bombs in order to get a reward from them.

Tier Reward
1st Sublimation Bonus No reward
2nd Sublimation Bonus Score bonus (Needs research for calculation)
3rd Sublimation Bonus Full skill gauge
4th Sublimation Bonus Shield +50% (Normal Mode) or +1 OverDrive (Abnormal Mode)
5th Sublimation Bonus Extend
6th Sublimation Bonus MAX: Extend, full skill gauge and score bonus.

It is only possible to get the 6th sublimation bonus in the final stage of the game. For stages 1 through 6, the highest tier you can get is the 5th sublimation bonus.

Modes

The game has 5 modes you can choose between.

Wandering Mode

This is the main mode of the game. In this mode you have to play through 7 stages out of a possible 19, arranged in a branching tree, similar to the Darius series.
The tree has a depth of 3 branches, except the final stage which has 4 potential stages. You can only move between adjacent branches, i.e. from A to B, or from C to B, but not from A to C.
Your performance in each stage is what determines what the next stage will be.

Movement Condition
A to A Defeat normal boss.
A to B Defeat NEO boss.
B to A Defeat normal boss.
B to B Defeat NEO boss.
B to C Defeat NEO boss and get 2 extends during the stage.
C to B Defeat normal boss.
C to C Defeat NEO boss.

The exception to this rule is stage 2-B, which lets you move up to 3-C without getting the two extends which are normally required.
Additionally, the Final stage has slightly different criteria, due to adding a new branch.

Stage Condition
Final-A Clear 6-A without beating the norma time.
Final-B Clear 6-A NEO, or clear 6-B without beating the norma time.
Final-C Clear 6-B NEO, or clear 6-C without beating the norma time.
Final-X Clear 6-C NEO.

Advanced Mode

This mode lets you play a through one of 3 courses, each consisting of 6 predetermined stages.
At the end of each stage, you will always face the NEO version of the boss, and you may not use any continues. If you get Game Over, you have to restart from the beginning.
Some courses must be unlocked before you can play them.

Course Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6
Normal Sphagnum Squarossum (1-A) Love Entropy (3-A) calm,waste. (4-A) growing train (5-A) drug festival (6-A) leftscene (Final-A)
Maniac Easy-0 (2-A) Massive Qur'an (3-B) KARAKUROID (4-B) armament (5-B) senescent systems (6-B) lumpectomy (Final-B)
Transcend Rotten Soil (2-B) gazer (3-C) Endoplasmic Reticulum (4-C) HASCORALGUN (5-C) the age of shadow (6-C) last mother (Final-C)

Invasion Mode

This mode lets you play any stage freely, as long as you have played it at least once before in Wandering Mode.
Once you select your stage of choice, you may choose between the following options:

  • Challenge: Attempt your best time for the stage. You will always face the NEO boss in this mode.
  • Practice: Play through the stage with infinite lives. Your best time here will not be saved.
  • Boss Attack: Go straight to the boss of the stage.
  • Boss Attack (NEO): Go straight to the NEO version of the boss of the stage.

Challenge is only available if you have beaten the NEO version of the boss of that stage in Wandering Mode. The same goes for Boss Attack (NEO).

Genesis Mode

This mode lets you play any custom stage the game is able to find inside the "user" folder in the game data folder.

Boss Rush

This mode is its own self contained stage which lets you play against every boss in the game in sequence.

Characters

Each character has its own unique stat for movement speed (Speed), wire speed (W-Speed) and OverDrive power (OD-Power), as well as a unique skill for every character.
Speed and Wire Speed both range from 6 to 10, where 10 is labelled as M. OverDrive Power ranges from 1 to 4, though some characters have 0.

Stigma

The Stickman

Speed 7
Wire Speed 7
OverDrive Power 3
Skill Tri-Wire
Skill Duration Long

Tri-Wire allows you to have 3 wires on screen at the same time rather than just 2.

Ri

The Spirit

Speed 6
Wire Speed 6
OverDrive Power 3
Skill Shield
Skill Duration Long

Shield grants you immunity against one hit.

Neove

The Flower of Fantasy

Speed 6
Wire Speed 9
OverDrive Power 2
Skill SideChain
Skill Duration Medium

SideChain lets you shoot two wires at the same time from the sides of your character, rather than from the center.

Kadys

The Crystal Lifeform

Speed 7
Wire Speed Max
OverDrive Power 1
Skill HARD-WIRE
Skill Duration Short

HARD-WIRE makes it so that your wires will penetrate enemies, rather than breaking upon contact.

Lene

The Beast of Flames

Speed 9
Wire Speed 7
OverDrive Power 2
Skill Telecrash
Skill Duration Slightly Long

Telecrash lets you teleport slightly ahead in your direction of choice. After teleportation, you will be invincible for 1 second, and you will deal damage to anything near your teleportation destination.
After activating the skill, you use it by pressing LEFT+DOWN or RIGHT+DOWN. However, doing so will drain a small portion of your Skill Gauge, making it run out quicker.

Ricolita

The Owl

Speed 8
Wire Speed 8
OverDrive Power 2
Skill Owls' Eye
Skill Duration Medium

Owl's Eye will half the speed of all the balls.

nISQ

The Eyeball Monster

Speed 8
Wire Speed 6
OverDrive Power 1
Skill of the ripper
Skill Duration Medium

of the ripper will grant you the max wire speed.

Zunu

Author of the Scorched Earth

Speed Max
Wire Speed 8
OverDrive Power 1
Skill Abaddon
Skill Duration Medium

When Abaddon is active, your wire will create a blast upon impact, which will also deal damage to surrounding balls, as well as deal extra damage to sentinels and bosses.

ovalizer

The Laughing Cube

Speed 7
Wire Speed 9
OverDrive Power 4
Skill h a n g u p
Skill Duration Short

hangup will cause all balls and sentinels to freeze. Coming in contact with a ball will not hurt you while the skill is active.

Grooge

The Unidentified

Speed 9
Wire Speed 9
OverDrive Power 2
Skill The age of bubble
Skill Duration Medium

The age of bubble will allow you to create bombs with 1 hit less than usual.

Simurgh

Statue of the Divine Bird

Speed 8
Wire Speed Max
OverDrive Power 0
Skill [STILL]
Skill Duration Long

[STILL] will make it so that your wire will follow your character, akin to a laser.
While the skill is active, you will need to hold down the shot button rather than tapping it. The tempo sync is also lifted while the skill is active.
Additionally, this skill will make your wire's strength be halved.

La Ancie

What was once considered an abomination

Speed 9
Wire Speed 8
OverDrive Power 1
Skill 0 m/bre
Skill Duration Slightly Long

0 m/bre allows you to summon up to 3 shadows. The shadows act as turrets that you can place freely on the ground.
After activating the skill, you can place shadows by pressing UP+DOWN. Doing so will drain a portion of your skill gauge, making it run out quicker.
Whenever you shoot, so will the shadows. However, if you hold DOWN while shooting, only the player will shoot. If you hold UP while shooting, only the shadows will shoot.

Abe-san

A Mysterious Creature

Speed 8
Wire Speed 9
OverDrive Power 3
Skill Super-Charm
Skill Duration Short

Super-Charm will cause the balls to become attracted to you, thus move towards you.

LostFace

The one who lost his face

Speed Max
Wire Speed Max
OverDrive Power 0
Skill gUErnIcA
Skill Duration Very Short

gUErnIcA will cause a wave of destruction every 2 beats.
Every ball besides the smallest size will explode.
Hostile bombs become neutralized and regular bombs will ignite.
Damage to sentinels and bosses.

Stages

Stage 1-A: Sphagnum Squarrosum

Total Depth 1200
Norma Time 1:20
Composer scytheleg

This is the first stage you'll encounter in Wandering Mode of the game. Elements of this stage is also used for the game's tutorial.
The sentinels in this stage are leaves which shoot 5 stars in a circular formation. They stay completely stationary until they are either defeated, or until they time out.

Ruler: Norterm C.R.I.
The Standing Rock

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
Pathostuffs Floats above the ground, and cry glowing orbs
which can be destroyed by your shot.
The tears are regular balls instead of glowing orbs.
Earth Screams Floats back and forth and slams its body
into the ground in intervals.
Body slams now generate shock waves, which can be
cancelled out by your shot. Additionally, boulders will tumble
down from the top of the screen when the boss hits the ground.

Stage 2-A: Easy-0

Total Depth 2010
Norma Time 2:20
Composer copyyy

The sentinels of this stage are green jellyfish-like beings which move around slowly and spew out glowing orbs. You can cancel out these glowing orbs by shooting them.

Ruler: Amor-Phogleria
The Devouring Philanthropic

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
Ovumming The boss is stationary, but it has four crystal balls which protects it from attacks.
Breaking a crystal ball will cause a circle of stars to burst out, and breaking
all 4 will allow you to damage the boss until they regenerate.
N/A
Last Embrace The boss is now equipped with two arms. The tip of the arms will shoot out stars.
In order to damage the boss, you have to shoot at its core, as the arms block your attacks.
The arms will disappear once the boss' health has been depleted.
N/A

Stage 2-B: Rotten Soil

Total Depth 1800
Norma Time 1:50
Composer wosderge

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage 3-A: Love Entropy

Total Depth 2500
Norma Time 1:500
Composer L-more (a.k.a. cinako)

The sentinels of this stage are hearts which stay stationary on the screen. They attack by consistently spawning in balls and hostile bombs, while also attacking with a circular star pattern.

Ruler: sodunpos
The eye that sees emotions

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
Spread of Shine The boss will follow after the player, while 6 glowing orbs revolve around it.
The orbs will regularly shoot out stars, and occasionally they'll
shoot out large balls which home in on the player.
These balls can be destroyed by shooting them.
Damage the boss by hitting the eye.
N/A
The Spiral Encounter The 6 orbs now revolve at different speeds.
Whenever the orbs overlap, they will perform an attack.
The attacks are either to fire lasers straight down into the ground, or
to spawn large hostile bombs.
N/A
Love and Hatred The 6 orbs are now solid objects and can be destroyed by shooting at them for a while.
Shooting the orbs will not damage the boss however.
The orbs now move in a more erratic pattern across the screen.
The attacks include shooting stars regularly and spawning homing balls.
N/A

Stage 3-B: Massive Qur'an

Total Depth 2800
Norma Time 2:20
Composer xenothium

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage 3-C: gazer

Total Depth 3500
Norma Time 2:20
Composer scytheleg

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage 4-A: calm,waste.

Total Depth 3600
Norma Time 2:50
Composer Ritsu

The sentinels of this stage are rolls of film which bounce around the screen. They will not perform any attacks on their own, however they will fire groups of 4 stars at the player, if you deal damage to it.
Dealing damage to the sentinels will also make them move faster.

Ruler: LandScape Dimenos
A Beautiful Sight

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
Flashback Four Season This phase actually has four phases on its own, which changes for every 25% of its health depleted.
The first attack is the winter attack. This attack has glowing balls fall down like snowflakes.
You can destroy the snowflakes by shooting them.
The second attack is the autumn attack. Orange and red balls will drop to the ground, and
leave the screen once they've hit the ground.
The third attack is the summer attack. Laser beams will shower down from the top of the screen.
The final attack is the spring attack. Bursts of pink stars will happen all around the screen.
Hit the floating image in the center in order to damage the boss.
N/A
The Flood of Panorama Several objects will appear on the screen. A palm tree, a totem pole and a volcano.
They each have their own attacks which they perform periodically.
The palm tree will throw groups of large stars at the player.
The volcano will erupt with orange and red glowing orbs.
The totem pole will spawn a ball which splits into several tiny balls once hit.
Each of the objects can be destroyed individually, but doing so will not deal damage to the boss.
Keep in mind that even if the boss' HP is completely depleted, the objects may still perform
their attacks until the music cycle ends.
N/A

Stage 4-B: KARAKUROID

Total Depth 3200
Norma Time 2:20
Composer cybermiso

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage 4-C: Endoplasmic Reticulum

Total Depth 7200
Norma Time 3:50
Composer exci

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage 5-A: growing train

Total Depth 3200
Norma Time 1:50
Composer LU

This stage's sentinels are giant bells which stay in place but swing back and forth. They'll shoot sets of 3 stars in the direction they're facing.

Ruler: cruel flow
The Clock Which Approaches

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
Confusion of Twelve The boss will shoot glowing orbs out of its minute hand. Shooting the orbs will make them bounce away.
The boss also teleports around the screen every time the minute hand has completed one cycle.
N/A
Tick Tack Talk The boss now moves erratically around the screen in bursts of three.
Every time it moves, it also shoots a line of stars at the player.
Every time the boss pauses, it'll drop a hostile bomb.
N/A
Approaching Clock The boss will stay stationary at the center of the screen and shoot orbs out of its minute hand.
This phase is similar to the first phase, but this time the boss will not halt its attack until it is defeated.
N/A

Stage 5-B: armament

Total Depth 4800
Norma Time 2:50
Composer LU

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage 5-C: HASCORALGUN

Total Depth 4500
Norma Time 3:20
Composer wosderge

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage 6-A: drug festival

Total Depth 4444
Norma Time 2:50
Composer Ras

The sentinels of this stage are neurons which float around the screen. Every time they're about to attack, they aim at the player's current position.
Their attack consists of shooting 3 streams of stars, where the last stars will have a higher velocity than the first ones.

Ruler: Amin /blank
Eternal Hypnosis

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
Hemorrhage The boss moves in erratic patterns and spews out bursts of red orbs, and
ends its movement pattern by shooting a double helix laser into the ground.
N/A
Astigmatism The boss splits itself into three clones. Initially they revolve around
the center of the screen, shooting stars in a fan shape towards the ground.
This is followed by them shooting dense and rapid lines of stars towards the ground,
before one of the clones prepares for a larger attack.
The clone which has charged up will fire a huge and sporadic burst of stars.
Sometimes, one of the other clones will shoot a spiral of stars while
it is charging up the attack. It is possible to prevent the final burst of stars by
hitting the boss with a bomb.
Once the cycle restarts however, all bombs and balls on screen will be removed.
N/A
Vertigo The boss moves to random positions on the screen and fires large and dense spirals of stars.
The stars fired last will have a higher velocity than the first stars fired.
N/A

Stage 6-B: senescent systems

Total Depth 5555
Norma Time 3:20
Composer wosderge

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage 6-C: the age of shadow

Total Depth 4700
Norma Time 2:50
Composer CRUNCH

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage Final-A: leftscene

Total Depth 5000
Norma Time None
Composer wosderge

This stage's sentinels are black holes that stay stationary while rapidly firing two streams of stars in a spiral from their center.
The two streams of stars have different speeds.

Ruler: e X i S
The final stage of evolution

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
P U L S E Small triangles will move out from the boss in a larger triangle shape. N/A
C A G E The boss will form large walls of small triangles which fall down to the ground.
You have to place yourself between the gaps in order to avoid getting hit.
N/A
R A Y The boss will send out small triangles sweeps the ground with a laser. N/A
I D E A The boss will continuously spawn large groups of small balls while the screen
gradually becomes more obstructed by a bright white light.
N/A

Stage Final-B: lumpectomy

Total Depth 6400
Norma Time None
Composer LU

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage Final-C: last mother

Total Depth 7000
Norma Time None
Composer kakyo (a.k.a. Nankumo)

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Stage Final-X: dwllns

Total Depth 4444
Norma Time None
Composer fnixkm (a.k.a. dust.c & iraxa)

More stage details coming soon.

Ruler:

Phase Normal Differences in NEO
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A

Strategy

Coming Soon.

Unlocks

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