Guwange

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Guwange ぐわんげ

Guwange was the last game developed by Cave for their 1st gen hardware.

It was originally released in the arcades in 1999, and later ported to Xbox 360.

A variation of the game with altered scoring system called "Special Version" or "Blue Label" exists. It is a simple rom swap on PCB, and available in the 360 port.

Gameplay Overview

Guwange is a vertical shooter with a walking character and levels scrolling both vertically and horizontally.

• A (Press): Shot.
• A (Hold): "Shikigami" attack.
• B: Bomb
  • When holding B after bombing, you can move the stick to control the direction of the bomb.
• C: A Auto-fire if enabled in the game's test menu.

Characters

Shishin : Dude with mask

• -- Shot can be aimed left/right a bit when moving.
• -- Average movement speed

Shishin: Girl with wolf

• -- Shots fire straight
• -- Fast movement speed
• -- Shikigami attack leave napalm trails

Gensuke: Dude with glasses

• -- Shots are wide but straight
• -- Slow movement speed

Health pickups

There are three types of health pickups. - Small: Restores some health in the current health bar. - Medium: Restores one full health bar. - Large: Restores all health.

Stage 3

Destroy the biggest statue first at the end of the horizontally scrolling section (small health pickup)

Stage 4

Destroy the midboss with shikigami attack (medium health pickup)

Stage 5

Destroy the tank before the boss (small health pickup)

Stage 6

On the spider section, killing spiders will grant health pickups. First a small, then a medium and then a large assuming enough spiders are killed.

Each cart at the section towards the end grants a small health pickup.

The right three at the first phase of the boss gives a medium health pickup.

Scoring

TODO: add

Console Release Notes

Xbox 360 / Xbox One

• Physical Release? - No, digital download only.
• Arranged Modes - Yes: 'Guwange Arrange Blue', 'Guwange Arrange 360'[1]
• Online Leaderboards? - Yes
• Tate Option? - Yes
• Original Arcade Graphics - Yes (and Xbox 360 can be forced to output Tate 4:3 ratio at 480p)
• Internal Scanlines Generator: No (T_T)
• Graphical Filters: Smoothing On/Off
• Training mode - Yes
• Training Mode Configuration:

- Save States - No
- Level Select - Yes
- Customise Resources - Yes, all.
- Boss Fight Select - No
- Mid Boss Fight Select - No
- Save Training Run Replays - No

• Replay Mode - Yes (& can download high scoring replays from Leaderboards)
• Replay Options:

- Can slow playback to 1/32 speed (!)