Hello, Shiza from the Yatagarasu dev team here.

An update on development progress will follow later, but today I have a quick update with some details about the arcade location testing in Japan and a message from the team about the Alpha release.

NESiCAxLive Version Location Tests
Location tests for the NESiCAxLive (arcade) version of Yatagarasu AoC will be held over Sept 19-21st* in 4 game centers in Japan. This is the first opportunity to get hands on with this version which features the first new character, Azure, so if you are in or can visit Japan (Tokyo Game Show will be held on the same dates), please drop in and try it out.

Participating arcades are:
Akihabara HEY
Taito Station Osu (大須)
Taito Station Namba (難波)
Taito Station Tenjin, Fukuoka (福岡天神)

There will also be questionnaires about Yatagarasu AoC available in the arcades. Feedback from the questionnaires will be used as reference by the Yatagarasu dev team and will affect the development of the game, so please take a moment to fill one out.

Here is the announcement of the test at Famitsu’s website: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201409/11061144.html

Alpha Version Testing
On August 17th at the summer Comic Market event. we distributed the latest PC version of Yatagarasu AoC  and released the same version to backers on Steam. The dev team members were excited to see Yatagarasu on Steam for the first time and happy it went well.

One thing we learned from this release is that releasing even a work in progress build is extremely difficult. It takes a lot of tinkering with the code to make it releasable and to make sure that play data and feedback can be processed.

The Alpha version is still very much a work in progress, but hopefully gives a good idea of progress and the direction development is taking. The release has been valuable for the dev team as we are receiving lots of feedback from the release, and it’s already been a great reference in development. Thank you to everyone for your feedback and opinions.

Please look forward to the next version.

Shiza

When you’re at super selection, please have the choices display super input as well as the names.
Previous versions of Yatagarasu did show the inputs, but removed them from the Alpha release to free up the man hours required prepare the input graphics and minimize localization work. In our defense, SFIV uses text only in its super selection screen!

Getting the message for a 1 hit combo looks silly. [Trisection]
I used to think the same way and in previous versions we didn't display the combo counter for only one hit, but many modern fighting games now displaying combo counts from one hit, so we’re following that trend.

Thank you, it looks like they removed that awful combo font.