The People Who Make Half-Minute Hero Want To Know If You Want The…
Are you insane with envy that Japan got Half-Minute Hero 2, the sequel to Marvelous Entertainment's lovely satirical PSP role-playing game, but we never did?
It's Called the Virgin White Box Set. Enough Said.
Marvelous Entertainment has announced the official release date for the PSP game ; it's February 21, 2013. Along with a release date, three videos, new character details, and information on limited edition goods of the game have been uploaded to the official site as well.
Harvest Moon Studio and The Last Story Studio Are Marvelous Together
Marvelous Entertainment, the studio behind the Harvest Moon farm simulators, is merging with AQ Interactive, which recently did The Last Story for Nintendo, and Liveware, a software contents company. [Marvelous Entertainment]
Sexed-Up No More Heroes 2 Figures Are Finally Here
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle's Sylvia Christel can soon straddle a beam katana on your toy shelf, thanks to the sculpting talents of master toymaker Mitsumasa Yoshizawa who brings the Grasshopper Manufacture creation to life in pricey polyvinyl chloride form. Ready the wallet!
3DS Games Won't Send Developers Broke, But...
Never mind that we don't know how much a Nintendo 3DS game costs to buy, developers need to develop the games first. And that costs money.
Marvelous Entertainment Is Trying To Stay Alive
Marvelous Entertainment has published titles like Harvest Moon, No More Heroes and Little King's Story. It has seen better days.
Twitter Becomes A Japanese Role-Playing Game
Even those who find social networking tool Twitter a vapid waste of time might be interested in this, a new role-playing title from Japanese publishers Marvelous that takes a person's Twitter feed and builds a game out of it.
Half-Minute Hero Review: A Good Risk
Have you ever had your intelligence insulted or your time wasted by a Japanese role-playing game? This one won't do either.
See Valhalla Knights for yourself
My preview of the upcoming Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga for the Wii seems to have a lot of people up in arms about graphics, gimmicks and general Wii skepticism.
Half-Formed Half-Minute Hero Impressions: Why Am I Naked?!
Another game Stephen Totilo got to first that I was curious about was Half-Minute Hero, the game where you really only have 30 seconds to beat a level.
Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga Preview: Making The Jump To Home Consoles
The Valhalla Knights games (all two of them) have been confined to the PSP since 2006, but now they're finally making the jump to home consoles.
Sakura Note, For The Nintendo DS
Marvelous Entertainment's creative experiments with Nintendo platforms just keep on keepin' on, with the release later this year of Sakura Note, an adventure game for the DS.
Marvelous May Bring Its Wii Games To PS3, Xbox 360
Japanese publisher Marvelous Entertainment hasn't seen the success on the Wii that it might have envisioned. Releases like No More Heroes, Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Arc Rise Fantasia haven't captured the Wii audiences attention just yet. What to do?
Marvelous Entertainment On Wii Game Sales: T_T
The Wii may be king of the console market, but some publishers, like Marvelous Entertainment of Japan, are having a hard time recouping their costs to the point of tears. Huh?! There's no crying in video game publishing!
Grasshopper Manufacture's PS3 Title Is "Risky"
Grasshopper Manufacture, the developer behind Wii franchise No More Heroes, is working on a PS3 game — perhaps that rumored Kafkaesque title? Who knows? President of Marvelous Interactive, Yasuhiro Wada, does.
Muramasa Loses Its American Publisher
What is it with Wii games losing publishers? First Fatal Frame, now Muramasa - which was about the best-looking thing due on the console in 2009 - finds its American release up in the air.
Muramasa: The Demon Blade Is Clearly Pandering
We have little doubt that Vanillaware and Marvelous Entertainment are targeting the tinglier areas of otaku with Muramasa: The Demon Blade, what with all the sexy bath time and fetishistic character designs.
Arc Rise Fantasia Covers Up Itself
Screenshots for upcoming role-playing-game Arc Rise Fantasia featured a female character Lesley with the lower part of her breasts exposed. That is, before the Wii game's website was relaunched.
Are These Box Art Designs Similar?
Folks are fluttering around on the Japanese internet about the boxart similarity between these two games. Kwinky-dink or sinister thievery?