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Makoto Asada, the head producer for Cave's console ports, left a devastating message for all their worldwide fans on their development blog today. The message simply states:



A truly gut-wrenching blow to all of the shmup fans who believed that Cave making Mushihimesama Futari 1.5 a region-free title was a sign that they will continue to do this for their future titles(myself including). While Mr. Asada does leave a small gleam of hope to shine through with his last line; "for the time being", the entirety of his statement seems pretty ominous to me. Of course, this could all just be left open to overseas publishers to pick up their console ports to do their own localizations, much like Aksys is currently doing for Death Smiles.

In fact, the only reason I could even see Cave completely region-locking their future games is because they intend to properly have them released in other foreign markets. I can't imagine that region-freeing Mushihimesama Futari made them lose any money, quite the opposite actually, considering the pretty strong fanbase they have outside of Japan. Either way, if you're currently an owner of a J-360, I would hold onto the system for a little while longer. You have no idea what us shmup fans will have to endure through next!



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Well. Darn.

Unless of course this is because of planned localization, in which case that is good.
I'm just gonna start making my own shoot-em-ups. With paper and pencil. Sound design provided by my voice.
Well that's good news I guess. If they can bring the titles in the north american market that would be great!
THECLEANINGGUY; no games after ESPgaluda II will sell as well.
Unless this is indicative of western releases :)
Am I right to assume Cave doesn't release games on the PS3?
I still need money to import Mushihimesama. I have a feeling it will be forever until I manage to secure a copy.

/sigh

I hate being broke.
This doesn't affect me as I'm not a huge $80 shmup fan, but it is sad whenever a designer decides to make his product region locked.
AS IF IT COSTS ANYTHING TO MAKE REGION FREE OR NOT. MICROSOFT SHOULD HAVE MADE IT MANDATORY LIKE SONY.
@ Dan CiTi

Sony didn't make anything mandatory. Bayonetta was going to be regioned, then they dropped it. All games on PS3 ARE region coded (look at the box) but the PS3 console is region free, allowing any region to play on it. Part of it is a BD thing, too, I believe. There are other reasons for region locking. In fact, a lot of 360 Asia releases are region free, they're just the same games we have here in english.
It'll probably be hard to go back, but perhaps this [plus DeathSmiles] is a sign that they'll instead be focusing on official localized releases...? :] We can hope, right?
NOOOO ;_; oh wait I don't own a 360 why am I complaining.
Seriously though, Cave games should be released on PS3 via PSN. It can be a terrible translating job, whatever, I just want to play them on PS3!
This means either good or very very bad news. Maybe we'll start to get localized versions, or... we won't even be able to play imports... hope it's the former. Also, how is Espgaluda 2?
@grafkhun: Espgaluda II looks so awesome that i want to buy a shitty Xbox 360 just to play the damn thing along with Ikaruga and Deathsmiles.

Go check some videos in YouTube.

About this news, yeah is pretty lame... but i hope that more Cave games go out of Japan.

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