Onee Chanbara games are a lot like school in the summertime- no class. Yet, the "cowboy ninja girl vs zombie horde" centered game series, birthed on the PS2 in 2004, has seen releases on everything from cell phones to the Xbox 360 to even the big screen. Somebody out there must be buying these games, and starting sometime in 2009, Wii owning fans of flesh (of both the pink female and rotten corpse varieties) will finally get their chance to be "a somebody".
Why is it that the series hasn't made it to the States before now? Are US Wii owners that much more accepting of corpse killing, katana wielding hookers than the US PS2 and 360 install base? Only time and accumulative sales data will tell.
[Via GamesRadar]
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8:51 PM on 07.09.2008
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also posted in c-blogs >_>
... it's a nice button masher
Now I have to go look it up.
Pics or it didn't happen, cereal.
Now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanbara
Thanks fellas.
Doesn't matter anyway, as when this comes to the states it will likely be called "Zombies Ate my clothes (and my neighbors)" or "Zombie Strippers: the game".
Good.
I was about to ask to turn in your badge, because there are users who claim... and can't back it it up.
You can hold onto your badge. Good day.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, just not complete :)
@covah: You're right there. Onee means 'older sister' the -chan honorific symbolizes the close bond.
All this waiting for an actual PS2 port or 360 port and we get the Wii? come on...
oh well. They're all like....25 + shipping on play-asia.