Japan Gaming Guide

Here’s an interesting new free to download indie game. Exelinya Burst is a wild score oriented game with tons of enemies and chaotic graphics. A bit like a Llamasoft game, but a lot harder to die. It’s now been translated into English.

[via EngRish Games]

No More Heroes 2 is sure to be one of next year’s hottest Wii games. Famitsu have posted an intriguing video which shows of some of the crazy characters and the balletic anime combat.

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Shin Sangoku Musou Multi Raid, or Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce has been out for a few weeks in Japan, but will debut in the US later this month. It’s based on Dynasty Warriors 6, and looks rather good.

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It looks like the arcade version of Blazblue was a hit. Not only is it getting converted to PS3, but also to Xbox 360. Let’s hope the home versions are just as good as the arcade original, keeping the spectacular 2D fighting gameplay intact.

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Inside Games has published a few screenshots that it claims are from Tales of VS, the new PSP game, but one of the shots is clearly the logo from Tales of Graces, the forthcoming Wii game. Whatever their origin, they should be of interest to tales fans.

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Final Fantasy VII has just been released on the Japanese PSN, and is available for 1500 yen. Naturally the game is Japanese only. If you do speak Japanese then it’s pretty much a must buy. First released almost twelve years ago on the original Playstation, FF7 brought the JRPG into the mainstream and remains one of the great epics in the gaming canon.

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The guys remaking Zelda Link’s Awakening have moved their 3D dream a bit closer to reality with the release of a debug demo. It all looks very impressive, given that many had doubts the project would ever see the light of day. If they’ve got to this stage, surely they can finish it off. We’re very much looking forward to playing the finished game.

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A surprise from Nintendo today. Like a bolt from the blue, they’ve launched an official site for a game we’ve never heard of. Takt of Magic is coming out on May 21st for Y5,800. It looks like standard RPG fare, but for the cool looking magic system - spells are cast using Wiimote gestures. It reminds us ever so slightly of Black & White, but a bit more family friendly and, you know, Nintendo.

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Wonderland found some great World of Warcraft themed masks. With the recession still going strong, how about getting your halloween stuff in the off-season?

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It’s a mini space-invaders bank. You can actually play it too, it takes Y100 coins. What a great way to encourage saving! It has little controls, and even the bands on the screen to make it look like it’s in colour. This costs a mere $60, wonder how much a full size one would be?

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