Multiplayer games?

[protoblues]

I'm looking for some good games to play with friends.  Aside from the Twilight Frontier fighters and Rift in a Friendship, though, I'm not aware of many strong multiplayer doujin games.  Can anyone help me out?

[Spotty Len]

Touhou Daiundousai is tons of fun (offline only, netcode is horrible), and Urapani is not bad if you like Mario-style platformers.

I think Touhou Sky Arena has multiplayer, but I don't know whether you can play on the same screen. I never tried it.


...Is MUGEN mentionable here? :]

[Leon゠Helsing]

MUGEN's a bit too much of a mixed bag to be honest. If you're not aware of the quality authors then you might end up wasting a lot of your bandwith on shitty characters.
Besides, MUGEN isn't really so much of a game as it is an engine, almost like Danmakufu.

[Spotty Len]

MUGEN's a bit too much of a mixed bag to be honest. If you're not aware of the quality authors then you might end up wasting a lot of your bandwith on shitty characters.
Besides, MUGEN isn't really so much of a game as it is an engine, almost like Danmakufu.

I was joking. I really am terrible at it.

But always bet 2hu nonetheless.

[Ranko Hoshino]

Suwako's Jumping Shooting Game (Suwapyon 2010) has simultaneous multi-player mode, and it's free now.

Here's the official download link.

http://www.utgsoftware.net/archives/dlcount.php?fname=suwapyon.zip&dir=suwapyon/

[Neodymium]

I think Touhou Sky Arena has multiplayer, but I don't know whether you can play on the same screen. I never tried it.

Touhou Sky Arena let's you up to 4-player split screen. I'd recommend Sky Arena too or Magical Battle Arena NEXT by the same developers.

[Thata no Guykoro]

Amapani and Urapani by Desunoya both have NSMB-style multiplayer.

[protoblues]

Touhou Daiundousai is tons of fun (offline only, netcode is horrible), and Urapani is not bad if you like Mario-style platformers.

I think Touhou Sky Arena has multiplayer, but I don't know whether you can play on the same screen. I never tried it.


...Is MUGEN mentionable here? :]

Amapani and Urapani by Desunoya both have NSMB-style multiplayer.

Touhou Sky Arena let's you up to 4-player split screen. I'd recommend Sky Arena too or Magical Battle Arena NEXT by the same developers.

Thanks for these!  Touhou Daiundousai does look like a lot of fun, and I'll check it out right away.

We do love platformers--we beat most of Super Mario 3D World together--so I'll also give the *pani platformers a shot.  It reminds me of a game I played a loooong time ago, called Super Marisa Land.  I saw a video of the game; it's impressive that they were able to manage the camera so well in a doujin game.

Sky Arena looks awesome.  It looks like the Gundam VS games.  MBA Next looks a bit more polished, so I'll probably give it a go first.

Suwako's Jumping Shooting Game (Suwapyon 2010) has simultaneous multi-player mode, and it's free now.

Here's the official download link.

http://www.utgsoftware.net/archives/dlcount.php?fname=suwapyon.zip&dir=suwapyon/

What an interesting game!  I got past Cirno fine on Normal by jumping over everything.  Reisen is a jerk.  I'll probably do better next time, since I found out afterwards xpadder was mapping jump and shot to the same button and I'm supposed to be able to do those separately.