U.S.G. ~A New Beginning~

Description

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Genre : Shooting RPG
Players : 1 player
Spec : 2.01 GHz, 512 MB of RAM


STORY :
You are Kyte, one of the pilots in the 'U.S.G' Project. You have been trained by 'The Center' to be prepared for the 'true battle' that lies ahead of you. Though nobody knows what this 'true battle' really is, all they can do is follow the training program and protect their base from the 'invaders'.
Together with his assigned navigator , Len, they have to go through various missions in order to survive. However, the suspicious risen when not only the pilot who fail the mission disappeared, but also their personal navigators as well. Will he succeed in all the missions and survive long enough to find out the truth? And just what is this "U.S.G" project he seems to be into?


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Kyte
The hero of the game. He's young and naive. However, he seems to have a great sense of survival. He love fighting and challenges, but killing is another story for him.

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Len
Kyte's personal navigator. She's talkative - VERY talkative. And sometimes that annoys Kyle a bit. However, under the easy-going looks, she's actually a deep person and very clever as well. She'll help Kyte out in many situation, such as informing him about the incoming threats.

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Chuck A.K.A. Bulky Chin
One of the pilot in the U.S.G project. Nobody really understand what he's talking since he always talk in a manly powerful way with only just two words like 'Chuck! Happy!' which might mean 'I'm feeling terrific right now to eventually be in the real mission, Wahaha!!' It seems like Kiki is the only one who understand what's he saying.

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Kiki
Chuck's personal navigator. Although she's small and appear to be a little kid, she's actually as old as the other competitor. Still, her childish personality doesn't help proving that fact. She's really attach to Chuck, and since not so many people understand what Chuck say, it turns out she'll do the translator task more often that the navigator's one.

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Lynk A.K.A. Pretty Boy
One of the pilot in the U.S.G project. He's obsessed with beauty. Thinking that he's in higher class and more beautiful than the rest of the competitors, it causes bad impression of his to many people. However, he's actually a nice guy, if you can stand all his self-praising. Although he looks like he can't beat anyone in arm-wrestling, he's actually a very clever person and love to destroy his enemies with tricky attack.

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Gold D Blumen
Lynk's personal navigator. People also call her Ice Queen, due to her cold attitude. Somehow, she has become a friend of Kiki and Len. She doesn't talk much, and it seems like people prefer it that way since everytime she opens her mouth it's either sarcasm or praising Lynk's and her beauty.

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Dr. Ashjee
A mysterious doctor who appear to be the one who's behind everything. But what is her true purpose?

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Mrs. M
A mysterious woman who seems to know about the competition. She's Mr. P's wife.

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Mr. P
A mysterious man who seems to know about the competition. He's Mrs. M's husband.


:: The Monsters ::
These are the five main targets for your five main missions. A.K.A. The bosses :P
::DON'T CLICK IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THE BOSSES BEFORE PLAYING THE GAME::
more to come....




- Unique "Strength & Weakness" battle system in shmup game.
- Leveling up your character and develop your character to fit your playstyle.
- Not good at shooting game? Don't worry! Set the difficulty to fit your skill anytime during the game!



Exploited the enemy's weakness!
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Your good old normal non-elemental machine gun. It's safe to use, but won't give you any elemental advantages.
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The attack of the giant triangle!
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Flower Shot
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Stay Alert!!
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Go through 5 missions with uniques settings.
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Difficulty Select, ranking is also different for each difficulty
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Stage Result screen
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Save & Load Screen.
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Pilot Status Screen. Here you can set up your ship before entering any mission. You can alter the level of the weapons and status, if you're up for challenges. (However, you can't go further than your actual current status level and you can't go lower than 1)
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Some cutscene during each mission.
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Game's Title
*The volume is a little bit loud, so make sure to lower down the volume in youtube player before playing*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnvVfYX4MT0

"Strengths And Weaknesses" System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbVAYE-J08I

"Knock Down" System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1lnKLsjofs

"DRD" System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neckrwFfjOg

Something to expect in "Hard" difficulty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYm4jKgVENM

!!MAY CONTAIN SPOILER - First Boss Test -!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjoHub99jWY

Strengths and Weaknesses
There are five elements of attack in the game, which are : Non-elemental, Fire, Ice, Electric and Wind. Each enemy has their strengths and weaknesses that will cause them to react differently to these five elements. For example, enemies who are strong against fire will take less damage from fire attack. But if they are weak against ice, they'll take at least double damage from ice attack.
However, you can only pick two choices of weapons into the mission. So it's a nice idea to save before you enter any mission.

Knock Down
The bonus of exploiting an enemy's weakness does not only do more damage, but also there's a chance that the attack will knock them down. When an enemy is down, the enemy will be vulnerable and do nothing for a short period of time, leaving you more time to retaliate, or help decreases number of bullets on the screen.

Rave and D.R.D
Everytime you attack or kill an enemy, you'll recieve some rave point which you can see the progress in the rave guage. Once the guage is full, you'll get one R-stock for spending to use DRD.
DRD is a defensive device that you can select one and only one before entering the mission. This range from a sheild, protecting you from bullets for a short period of time, to a shockwave that will wipe out all bullets in the screen.
Knock down an enemy will also give you rave point bonus.

High Risk High Gain
Once you killed an enemy, all the bullets it shoot that are still on the screen will become your bonus exp. Thus, one strategy to level up quickly and go for highscore is to have most bullets possible on the screen before killing off any enemy.
Also, if your ship overlap with enemies or bullets, but doesn't hit your hitbox, you'll get extra score and exp also. The longer you can stay in that position, the more score and exp.



DOWNLOAD LINK
http://www.mediafire.com/?bqyihlz1ug4

Mirror 1 :
Mirror 1 - 42.74MB

Also, please try all games from the contest and cast your vote! This game is one of them :D
http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=42714.0


Staffs
Scenario & Game Design - Hima
Artworks - Piti

Thanks To
- CyberSam for Input Script
- DerVVulfMan for Encrypt/Decrypt Text Script
- Trebor777 for Read TXT file Script
- Mr.Mo for Mouse Script
- Arevulopapo for Particle Engine

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Latest Updates

10/30/08

• hima added a YouTube video, U.S.G. - A New Beginning: Stage 9 Normal Mode. 06:47 AM

09/24/08

• hima added a download link, U.S.G. ~A New Beginning~(Mediafire).. 03:58 PM

08/12/08

• hima added a download link, U.S.G. ~A New Beginning~ O.S.T.. 10:13 AM

07/21/08

• hima added a download link, U.S.G. ~A New Beginning~.. 02:54 AM

07/20/08

• hima added a download link, Game Patch.. 05:58 AM

07/19/08

• hima added a download link, U.S.G. ~A New Beginning~.. 10:14 AM

06/10/08

• hima updated game details. 09:07 AM

05/25/08

• hima added YouTube videos: U.S.G. - A New Beginning: Stage 5 Hard Mode, U.S.G. - A New Beginning: Stage 4 Hard Mode and U.S.G. - A New Beginning: Stage 1 Hard Mode. 02:10 PM

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Comments

hima 08/23/08 03:02 AM

Because they're all from best indie musicians ;)

brandonabley 08/20/08 04:36 PM

This game has the best music ever!

hima 05/25/08 12:42 PM

All stages walkthrough with everything at max level videos made by Marston_X are now uploaded! Thanks to Marston_X for his hard work. ^ ^

hima 05/17/08 03:56 AM

Since the new version is coming soon with better writing, original soundtracks and an extra stage, I'll have to remove the game link for now. :)

Inkogneto 03/26/08 01:20 PM

No need to be sorry, it was just a suggestion. Though you can always upload updated versions of the game if you wish of course.
Two months is a very small amount of time to make such a game, a lot of people spend much longer on games made with RMXP that are of a much lower quality. Yes, I will continue to play this and maybe if I read the dialogue it will make more sense. ;)

hima 03/25/08 06:36 AM

Sorry about the amount of dialogues! I should really have implemented the skip cutscene option :( However , you can speed up the cutscene by holding ENTER button.
The game took us two months to make. That's why I didn't have time to implement some of the options that should be there, like mute the character's voice and more secret missions. The game was made for the RMXP A new beginning contest.
Thank you for you comment, and glad to hear that you enjoy the game. I hope everything will makes sense in the end, but I don't know how much lol.

Inkogneto 03/25/08 04:21 AM

This game is pretty neat and unique to the rpg maker community, with all of the fancy custom RGSS scripts and custom graphics. I am astonished that such a game has even been made with RMXP. I was just wondering how long it took you to make and if I were to make a suggestion, I think there is too much dialogue. It adds to the play time of the game, but after the first scene, I just wanted to skip all of the anime and dialogue to get back in the action. I just got to the second level so far, but it was fun even though I was shooting balls and squares with faces and didn't have a clue how any of it could make sense. Good job though.

hima 03/24/08 11:50 AM

Thank you for all the comments! I didn't know that this has been accepted so I haven't checked here til today ^ ^;;

Anyway, the game is finished. Feel free to download and try the game out. I'll be adding more screenshots and videos soon. I don't know why the bbcode doesn't work :'(

demondestiny 03/15/08 07:01 PM

This game looks awesome. Definitely be trying this out.

trance2 03/15/08 01:16 PM

Is this... danmaku in RMXP? Holy shit.

kentona 03/15/08 12:26 PM

This game looks intense!

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