Wow, what a promotional event. To promote Wii game Samurai Warriors 3, Koei is pulling out all the stops. We already knew that Japanese superstar GACKT was involved. He ended up doing some voice acting for the title, but more importantly, he recorded both the theme song and the ending song for Samurai Warriors 3. Both songs were released as a single last month, and now the artist will be showing up at this festival to perform those songs live.
The two-day event, scheduled to take place on March 6 and 7 in Saitama, will be set as a scene from the Sengoku period (15th to 17th century Japan) to celebrate the country's history and culture, as well as the setting of the game. I've been to some pretty big promotional events for games, but 80k people and a concert by one of Japan's most popular musicians? Wow, Koei!
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12:00 PM on 01.28.2010
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that wouldn't surprise me actually.
It seems Japan has more more interesting celebs then we have, look at the face on the guy with the shades, dude's pissed off.
and of course snag me a copy of the game.
I'm concerned because 2010 is looking to have quite a few good hack n slashers and RPGs coming out of Japan, and I wouldn't want SW3 to end up like Musou Orochi Z, as in not releasing here. Especially since SW tends to have more tweaks and improvements to gameplay than its 3 Kingdoms counterpart.
oh well, I LOVE KOEI'S MUSOU GAMES.
Best regards, Anna, CEO of iscsi windows 2000 and i tunes