City Connection Releases Muchi Muchi Pork! & Pink Sweets Boosted
The port closes out the Xbox 360 Cave shooter library on current hardware, and the added Arrange Modes give veterans a scoring system the original arcade releases never had.
Key Facts
- City Connection released Muchi Muchi Pork! & Pink Sweets Boosted on October 1, 2026 for PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam.
- The collection bundles Muchi Muchi Pork!, an arcade shooter from 2007, and Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara, an arcade shooter from 2006.
- The release includes 11 modes, covering arcade reproductions, Arrange Modes, and high-difficulty courses such as MANPUKU and HARDER.
- The packaged version of Muchi Muchi Pork! & Pink Sweets Boosted costs 6,490 yen and the download version costs 5,390 yen, both tax included.
- The arranged BGM was handled by Daisuke Matsumoto, Yosuke Yasui, Hagane, and Sean Bialo, and can be switched with the original tracks.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, Game Spark.
City Connection released Muchi Muchi Pork! & Pink Sweets Boosted on October 1, 2026 for PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam. The collection bundles two Cave vertical-scrolling bullet-hell shooters: Muchi Muchi Pork!, which arrived in arcades in 2007, and Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara, which arrived in 2006. Both were bundled for the Xbox 360 in 2011, and this release is a port based on that version. It adds arranged BGM across all tracks, with Daisuke Matsumoto handling Muchi Muchi Pork! and Yosuke Yasui, Hagane, and Sean Bialo handling Pink Sweets. Players can switch between original and arranged tracks per stage. The package includes a total of 11 modes, covering arcade reproductions, Arrange Modes, and high-difficulty courses such as MANPUKU and HARDER. Online rankings and replay saving are supported. The packaged version costs 6,490 yen and the download version 5,390 yen, both tax included. On Steam it is 10 percent off until October 16.
Both games come from the Ibara lineage, the branch of Cave's output made by programmer Shinobu Yagawa, who had worked on Battle Garegga. That line sits apart from the Tsuneki Ikeda (IKD) shooters most players picture, and the 4Gamer play report frames the two titles as Cave's most unusual shooters.
The ports ship as version 1.01 of each game, balance-adjusted from the arcade Ver. 1.00. Options let players run Ver. 1.00 instead. Beyond the MANPUKU and HARDER courses, the 11 modes include HARAHARA (start at second-loop difficulty), EXTENDED, and S-ATTACK, a Stage 6 score attack.
Arrange Mode changes both games more than the mode count suggests. Muchi Muchi Pork! adds a Fever Counter that readies Fever at 10,000; bombs trigger it, bullets intensify, and Lard Attacks convert enemy bullets into Kinton. Pink Sweets rebuilds the controls so shooting and shield/Rose Cracker run on separate buttons, and adds the Hadou Gun. Its score multiplier reaches 64x but returns to 1 if the player stops attacking.
The packaged first-print bonus carries the MUCHI*PIN soundtrack CD and a guidebook with story and character explanations. The Clarice Shop adds a cassette tape of the arranged BGM. Yosuke Yasui's Stage 1 arrangement for Pink Sweets draws particular praise.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.