Dark Left - hidden shewty in Tenshi no Uta II

[exodus]

yeah, I went for one of the JP listings. loads of games in france and germany for some reason

[ashrion]

I arrival, boss second stage, juas ten shi no uta 2 is a very good game... 25 year in my house and i  played 30 hours and one shoothing game all time inside a, incredible.

[Punch]

JAPJAC is a good user?

I find those hidden shooters to be fun. I always wonder if the programmer+artist done an elaborate easter egg for fun, a secret pitch using another game's development time, or just a disgruntled programmer mad about having to work at yet another boobie avg (I don't think that's the case for any hidden shooters on the PCE but it's funny to imagine a super excited programmer trying to convince his bosses to make a shooter after too many rounds of Star Force... "NO HIROSHI WE'RE STICKING TO THE PLAN, SUPER MAHJONG SOAP SPA III PLUS CD IS A GO").

[SignOfZeta]

I think I paid less than $1 for this game.

[ParanoiaDragon]

There isn't much on US eBay right now, unless I am missing some incorrectly spelled listings.

I would also try looking for the game with the name translated, like Poem of Angel 2, Angels Poem, Song of Angel on ebay & elsewhere.  Sometimes Jp sellers try to translate the names to english.

[JAPJAC]

All credit to JAPJAC for mentioning this in the shewty list thread. 


Link with screen shots: http://norondor.tumblr.com/post/165903457959/tvgame-hidden-shoot-em-up-game-dark-left-found

Hidden shoot ‘em up game Dark Left found on the PC Engine Super CD-ROM game Tenshi no Uta II 天使の詩II 堕天使の選択 by Riot / Telenet

To access it, load the game using System Card 1 or 2 so that the warning screen appears (top photo).  Then on the joypad press up, up, down, down and buttons I+II simultaneously.  On the title screen, it says that the game is produced by Pandaemonium.

Anyone try it?  I don't have the game.

My pleasure.  Shoutout to my lifelong mucker TekCadet/C86/tvgame that told me.

The same geezer that showed the internet what Harmful Park, Groove Jigoku V, Little Ralph, Ore No Ryouri, Segata Sanshirou, Crows:The Battle Action and many more were for the first time.  Legend. 

Disseshowedo.

[SignOfZeta]

That’s funny. I thought Sega made Segata Sanshiro.

You never really understood what “deserved credit” was anyway though...

[Ex_Mosquito]

Why are people buying it? I made a ‘valuation’ copy earlier and it plays pretty damn terrible. I think this one was better off staying hidden! :/

[SignOfZeta]

Why are they buying it? That I don’t know. I find this discovery interesting historically and I’m glad to have it. So far I’ve only played the first one and that was 20 years ago. People like this developer a lot even though most of what they make is pretty lame. Riot/Telnet/Wolf Team had this charm to their way of doing things that is very “PC Engine” in the best ways. They represent a huge part of what was lost when 16-bit died so I can see being interested in all the minutia. Also, when this was just an RPG most people can’t play it had less appeal than it does now that there is a secret shooter on it that anyone can enjoy.

[Gypsy]

Well, if you can get it really cheap, why not? I have other bad shooters already. Heh.

[Necromancer]

Why are people buying it? I made a ‘valuation’ copy earlier and it plays pretty damn terrible. I think this one was better off staying hidden! :/

I want to buy it (and the first game) because it's an rpg (my favorite genre), relatively cheap, and runin gives 'em a thumbs up.  The shewty is just a bonus.

[Black Tiger]

The Tenshi no Uta games are great and unique feeling RPGs that make better use of the hardware than most PCE RPGs.

[exodus]

Yeah, like those said above - I didn't have Tenshi no Uta II, though I had the first. So this was just the right sort of kick in the pants for me to get the sequel, and it will indeed go up in price as people discover it's got a shooter of any sort in it.

[Gypsy]

The Tenshi no Uta games are great and unique feeling RPGs that make better use of the hardware than most PCE RPGs.

I'll have to grab the first one too then.

[seieienbu]

I have one of the Tenshi games but I can't recall which.  If I own the second then I'll give this a shot this weekend.