Thunder Force VI
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| System(s): PlayStation 2 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: Sega | ||||||||||
| Developer: Sega CS3 | ||||||||||
| Licensor: Twenty-one | ||||||||||
| Genre: Shoot-'em-Up | ||||||||||
| Number of players: 1-2 | ||||||||||
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Thunder Force VI (サンダーフォース６) is the sixth game in Technosoft's Thunder Force series of shoot-'em-ups, released in 2008 for the PlayStation 2. As Technosoft had already left the video game industry by then, they contracted Sega to develop the game. Development was put into the hands of Tetsu Okano, who assembled a team of heavyweights in the genre to develop the game, which he intends as the "first step"[2] of a plan to revive the 2D shoot-'em-up genre called Project STG.
The game has currently only been released in Japan; though Okano did consider online distribution or an Xbox 360 port if the game was successful in Japan, neither of these have materialized, and it is unknown whether either an overseas release of this game or creation of the rest of Project STG may materialize. At least in Japan, this game is often a bad evaluation.
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History
Release
Thunder Force VI is the last Japanese PlayStation 2 game to be published by Sega.
Reception
The game was panned by critics for its blurry visuals, short length, bland soundtrack and the recycled stages and mechanics from the previous games.
Fans also criticized the design of ORN Emperor for its eroguro taste, which is inappropriate for the game's A rating by CERO.
Production credits
- エグゼクティブプロデューサー: 臼井 興胤
- チーフプロデューサー: 宮崎 浩幸, 名越 稔洋, 西野 陽, 見吉 隆夫, 新湯 哲生
- エグゼクティブスーパーバイザー: 前田 雅尚, 川越 隆幸
- プロジェクトリーダー: 下村 一誠
- プロデューサー: 塩谷 尚史
- 企画原案・美術設計・プロデュース: 岡野 哲
- プロジェクトマネージャー: 吉田 壮宏
- 営業企画: 飯野 光一
- 宣伝: 渡辺 祐介
- PR: 山藤 雅也
- WEB制作: 田名綱 陽平
- 印刷物制作: 作田 喜尋, 軸原 一彰, 飯田 直彦
- テストチーム: 清水 順一, 西川 彰, 寺沢 彰, 桑野 聡, 黒川 修弘, 森岡 憲一, 廣瀬 一郎
- プログラム: 伊藤 勇太, 菊池 大介
- デザイン: 田中 ゆき
- CGデザイン制作協力
- メディア・ビジョン エンタテインメント株式会社: 小野 明, 大窪 哲也
- 有限会社アニマロイド: 北田 清延, 橋本 温子
- ムービー／機体デザイン制作協力: Worag
- サウンド制作協力: 佐藤 豪, 金子 剛, Tamayo, 古川 もとあき, BETTA FLASH, (五十音順)
- 西夏語協力: 荒川 慎太郎, 小野 裕子, 小高 裕次
- モンゴル語協力: 富川 力道
- © SEGA © K.Matsuoka
- Licensed by: Twenty-one Technosoft div.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Thunder Force VI/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Promotional video 1
Promotional video 2
Physical scans
| PlayStation 2, JP |
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 Cover
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 Disc  Manual |
Technical information
- Main article: Thunder Force VI/Technical information.
ROM dump status
| System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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1,902,477,312 | DVD-ROM (JP) | SLPM-55096 (V1.00) |
External links
- Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 2
- Interview with project head Tez Okano in Edge Magazine (archive)
- Thunder Force VI on PlayStation.com: JP
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/slpm55096.html (Wayback Machine: 2008-11-01 08:17)
- ↑ http://www.edge-online.com/features/saving-shooters/ (Wayback Machine: 2014-08-03 11:07)
- ↑ File:ThunderForceVI_PS2_JP_SSCredits.pdf
| Thunder Force games for Sega systems / developed by Sega | |
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Thunder Force II (1989) | Thunder Force III (1990) | Thunder Force IV / Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar (1992) |
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Thunder Force AC (1990) |
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Thunder Force: Gold Pack 1 (1996) | Thunder Force: Gold Pack 2 (1996) | Thunder Force V (1997) |
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Thunder Force VI (2008) |
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Sega Ages Thunder Force IV (2018) | Sega Ages Thunder Force AC (2020) |
| Thunder Force related media | |
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Best of Thunder Force (1997) | Thunder Force VI Soundtrack Demo (2008) | Thunder Force IV (2019) | Technosoft Music Collection: Thunder Force III & AC (2020) | Technosoft Music Collection: Thunder Force IV (2021) | Technosoft Music Collection: Thunder Force I & II (2022) |