Comiket 89 Doujin Lineup

This year’s winter Comiket 89 took place from the 29th to 31st December at the Tokyo Big Sight fair. As always, it brings us a lot of new titles to look forward to.

 

 

 

 

For those new to Comiket, it is the world’s largest doujin fair. Here independent groups known as circles sell manga, music, games and various other products. These products generally tend to use other companies’ characters and settings, but since they help promote these series, companies generally overlook any copyright infringement.

 

Comiket is held every year in Japan in both summer and winter. While it started out in 1975 with a mere 32 participant circles, today it has over half a million visitors.

 

Some of the most popular visual novels to date initially launched as small doujin projects, such as Type Moon’s Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night as well as 07th Expansion’s Higurashi and Umineko. Companies like French Bread after making it big with a hit released ported their games to consoles and arcades.

 

EdelweissNal once again has made a video of all the game available at Comiket 89, including both Touhou and original titles. Like always the variety is staggering.

 

 

Many of the games here are only available at the Comiket 89 show floor. Therefore, the only way for western fans to get these games usually means ordering them from Japanese sites from a very limited quantity. Fortunately, not all is lost, since a good number of these games offer a trial version to play with. We’ll take a look at some of the most interesting entries shown at Comiket 89.

 


Gensou Senryakutan ~The Touhou Empire~

 

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Fans of Touhou and RTS games can try out The Touhou Empire. This game is heavily inspired by Age of Empires. While you do collect some different resources such as alcohol and faith the general concept is the same. Build houses, build units and exterminate the enemy. Each race is a different character and you can summon them and use them as heroes.

 

Download GensouSenryakutan ~The Touhou Empire~ Trial version

 

comiket 89 - Gensou Senryakutan

 

 


Beyond Fallendom

 

PlatineDispositif

 

 

Mesh between rougelike and 2D Zelda games. You explore floor after floor searching for a key in order to proceed to the next floor. Combat is done in real time. You also have to manage you hunger and items.

 

Download Beyond Fallendom Trial version

 

 

 


 

Imalice

 

Planet Marimo

 

 

For those searching for a more traditional shmup look no further than Imalice. This retro style shooter is simple, yet addictive. You can find all the typical elements from holding down fire to charge a special attack to ramming into enemies. The visuals and soundtrack are superb making for an even better package.

 

Imalice Trial version

 

 

 

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