Quick Look: Astebreed

Vinny Quick Looks are back! All is right with the world once again!

@paindamnation:

this is love

not into bullet hell type games but this might be the first one i actually check out hopefully theres more skills to pick up since it seems you have most of it from the get go

@mooseymcman: it's not what I was saying.. but it wasn't what I was not saying either.

Also... I was joking ;)

Holy pleasant surprise batman!

At this point just about every staff member is secretly Giant Bomb's Anime Expert :o It's... spreading throughout the office, like an insipid poison.

Anime and anime-inspired things are almost never as crazy or hard to understand as Giant Bomb likes to make 'em seem. (From time to time I kinda wish it actually was as crazy as they make it out to be...Sounds like one hell of a time...)

That's mostly OK though, 'cause they're normally funny about it.

Way into the way the camera changes.

@machofantastico said:

@paindamnation said:

@smcn said:

This is still the best news

Oh my lordy, this made my day.

Well, the Vinny QL made my day, but then this did too, so I've got some time paradox shit going down here. Also: Yeah! Vinny content! This is why I love Giant Bo... BEAST! I mean, no offense to Alex, there's plenty of top duders in the GB crew, but ain't nobody else like the V-bomb!

@christoffer said:

@csl316 said:

Welcome to Anime Week on Giant Bomb!

Is that anime? Looks like a whole lot of verbalized exposition.

That image? No, it's not an animated gif.

But Vinny presented plenty of anime here.

Giant Bomb East > Giant Bomb West, definitively now. We must all accept this truth.

@smcn said:

This is one of the finest gifs I have seen on this site.

As expected Alex and Vinny make a natural team. I love all of Alex's platitudes on the overall anime-ness of the dialogue. Game looks neat if you're hankering for a bullet hell. Great job guys. GB East will be cranking the content in no time.

I'm sick of the whole "rival sisters" story archs in animes.

Vinny and Alex are an awesome combo, I can't fucking wait for more. :D

Hurrah!

This game looks cool. In to the wishlist it goes!

Ive missed you guys glad your back in action just in time for me to be extremely hung over and watch videos on my phone

It's Giant Bomb anime week!

So glad to see the Beast up and running.

Am I the only one that keeps reading it as Assbreed?

edit: Oh and Vinny makes reference to it within 2 seconds. Good ol' Vinny.

Do gotta say I'm missing Brad this week but these Jeff/Dan and now this GB East QL has been amazing. GB has never been better! Hopefully Brad will be back for UPF this week.

Can't recommend this enough!

Oh wow. This game has Philosoma-like prospective changes. I'm sold on that alone.

Hearing Vinny's voice seriously made my day. I needed this.

GBEAST can use my Astebreed.

Vinlex or Jeffckert? Great new QL pairings.

So much freaking content, this is amazing.

@vinny@alex:

The game looks pretty fun, but the overbearing "ANIME!" humor you guys constantly went to the well for made me stop watching about half way through. Yes, it's anime influenced, but please find other things to talk about, or at least talk about things in a way that isn't as leaning heavily on the same jokes over and over.

@esdeib said:

I prefer Alvin and Ryjeff.

Vincent Caravella is always MVP.

The whole Giant Bomb East thing always gets me super excited. It reminds me so much of the early days of Giant bomb when everyone was so happy and all the fuck ups and amateur production was incredibly charming.

Part of me wants them to spin off entirely and create their own site.

That ghost daughter came from the moon.

YOU ARE DOING LOUSY VINNY! Alex rips away the controller.

Glad to see these guys getting started.

Yeah! GBEAST Quick Look motherfucker!

Can somebody start a kickstarter to get Vinny to do some anime re-dubs?

i want one stream to just end with them slapping each other for a solid 5 minutes.

Haha, it's cool.

@gilby: This is an amazing idea. Do it.

Congratulations on getting the video recording issues at least largely sorted out!

As far as the game itself goes, it looks like it's taking a good bit of inspiration from the Sin & Punishment series with the changing perspectives and melee capabilities, but there is also a heavier focus on standard bullet hell gameplay. The story seems to largely be made of high-grade anime nonsense, but I feel like shoot-em-ups tend to either have no plot or absolutely insane plots and either way works fine.

It does look a bit on the easy side of things, especially with being able to take multiple hits, but I don't know how much it ramps up in later stages (nor how many stages there are total, but usually it's around the 6-7 mark) and I have no idea how many difficulty settings there are beyond 'Normal'.

Not calling this Astrobreed instead of Astebreed was the worst mistake. Or the best mistake. Not sure yet.

Phil Fish was right.

Tears of joy that this Quick Look is finally out. I love Astebreed!

Oh wow. This looks incredible.

Hey Vinny and alex nice quick look, thanks duders

Ass Debris.

@luck702: Mate, I'm a Brit, and for a second I thought it was called Arsebreed. Now that is a title.

I feel like putting them in deadly killing machines is a pretty good way to go about it.

I haven't seen it done before, but I feel like it's been done before.