The reasoning behind this modest claim lies in the ability to customize your hero's equipment, abilities and statistics in a ridiculous number of ways, exploring randomly generated maps infested with enemies, deadly traps and an insane sense of humor.
The hero "Absolutely Victorious Make-Ranger," was run over by a car on his way to fight the Last Boss, "Demon General Mr. Tanaka DEATH-DARK!!!" You, the protagonist, happened to be buying groceries nearby, were thus selected to inherit the mantle, and the duty to defeat the Demon General. Of course, you'll need to undergo a lot of special training by crawling through a series of randomly generated, isometric-perspective dungeons infested with monsters.
Thankfully, you've got myriad pieces of equipment, including handguns, lances, swords, drill arms, tank legs, gatling guns, extendo-claws, cat ears, Prinny hats, angel halos, chonmage, and other such things in your arsenal. That, combined with a fully customizable stat grid and hideout, should help you grasp victory without too many deaths.
Anime fans will also be delighted to know that several anime characters (and their signature weapons), will be making appearances, including Taiga of Toradora!, Dokuro-chan from Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan, Shana from Shakugan no Shana, and Spice & Wolf's Holo. Are you reading this, Brad Rice? Taiga is in this game.
The game is out on March 11th in Japan, and so far there hasn't been word on an English release, but you can check some screenshots and a trailer narrated by the wonderful lisp of Norio Wakamoto below.
Wait, why are there random anime cameos? I didn't even like Toradora but this sounds fantastic. Also: Rie Kugimiya is the Nolan North of female anime voice actors.
So it has Shana, Holo, and Dokuro-chan... DOKURO-CHAN!?!?! OMG if this doesn't come to the states I will import it even though I don't understand what is going on as I must have it. ITS FUCKING DOKURO!?!? The world will be wronged if it is not translated, WRONGED!
The problem is that adding all these cameos, regardless of your opinion on the characters involved, has pretty much GUARANTEED this game an extended stay in Licensing Hell if they even think of localising it, and thereby a good chance that it will show up either severely diminished or not at all.
What I learned from the video was:
- There's a huge lion guy
- You wear a lot of stuff
- There's a human circulatory system stage thingie
- The number 4000
Do these facts warrant enough to constitute a purchase? I'm not sure because I can't und--YES.
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11:00 PM on 01.25.2010
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Now, I eagerly await the US release date!
Permission to be sad, captain?
Btw, when we get a proper look of the protagonist, doesn't he look like Dale North in a track-suit?
Quit giving me reasons to buy a PSP. >_<
- There's a huge lion guy
- You wear a lot of stuff
- There's a human circulatory system stage thingie
- The number 4000
Do these facts warrant enough to constitute a purchase? I'm not sure because I can't und--YES.