Remember our expose on Space Invaders Extreme 2 that revealed a strange moe figure with a ridiculous, oversized hat? Reader Jksprat investigated the phenomenon with an import copy and found that the “Invader Girl” permeated every variant of the game’s final stage! You can read Jksprat’s in-depth report below:

Stage 5-A: The first sign of things were a little fishy was when I noticed this stage had reused assets from the very first stage of the game. I got rid of most of the Invaders and took a good look at the moving cubes: a cute 8-bit Invader Girl spinning around in the cubes! … You can see her best at the upper right behind the “[bingo] lights”.

Stage 5-B: This once more reuses assets from Stage 2. The background movie is a continuously looping zooming out of 2D graphics. … Invader Girl’s head is here, and we can see her trademark ginormous hat is based on a bear.

Stage 5-C: [This] is based on both Stage 3-x.  This time it’s a little 3D model of Invader Girl spinning upwards. In Stage 5-C on Extreme difficulty (which will thoroughly emasculate anybody attempting it, by the way *cry*), it uses the Invader Girl stage again but with a slight change… ;3

Taito and Square Enix haven’t restricted the moe character to the game, either. Invader Girl appears on the cover of Zuntata’s Space Invaders Extreme 2 soundtrack released last month. Also, representatives gave out exclusive stickers of Invader Girl at Summer Comiket. The stickers featured the character without her hat… and in a bathing suit.

Space Invaders Extreme 2 releases in the U.S. this week, presumably with Invader Girl intact (stop giggling, pervs). I’m sure most of you forgot it was coming out so soon!

Buy: Space Invaders Extreme 2 ($19.99)

See also: Incredible Space Invaders Extreme 2 trailer

[Thanks, Jksprat!]

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