Modern day Shmups?

[Gabriel]

I wouldn't bet on it. Yes the game is coming to the U.S., but it's being localized by Aksys Games. For those that don't know, Aksys Games is a publishing company founded by ex-Atlus localizers. These guys specialized in translating text-heavy RPG's, and therefore know their stuff. So in summation, you won't be seeing another babelfish translation like you did with XS Games' Castle Shikigami 2 release.

A shame. That was 90% of that game's charm.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Personally, playing "I'm not touching you!" with the bullets for multiplier had quite a charm to it. I'll miss the hack translation though.

[Ze_ro]

Kenta Cho

Seconded! Torus Trooper is quite a rush, though most of his other games are somewhat derivative... rRootage even lets you choose to play the game in Ikaruga, Psyvariar, or Giga Wing mode! All his stuff ends up being amazing though, so it's hard to criticize.

If you like Kenta Cho's stuff, you might also want to look into "Hello World Project"... they make similarly abstract shooters. This is the best english page I could find. I've only tried Area 2048 and Z-Lock so far, but I thought they were both excellent.

--Zero