I love how native Japanese games can have barrels of blood and guts, but Western games end up getting Z ratings for much less blood, or they get censored.
Why in the hell aren't the enemies fighting back? Combat looks pretty bland too. I can only hope that this is a really really early build, as I was freaking excited about this game.
Those guys just exploded... EXPLODED! Note to Japanese developers: excessive blood is not how you start selling to western audiences... but I like that you're trying.
There is part of me that wants to try this, but there is another part of me that knows God Hand is the best of the FotNS game ever, and this will just be some crappy square fest.
Yeah: I love FotNS (I have all the original Japanese manga in their "Anthology format") and the PSX FotNS game was the pinnacle of that manga/anime on the console.
I also love TECMO.
But "-Musou"? ...not so much. It's played out. It makes sense, because FotNS is nothing if not one guy against a million, but it seems cheap and easy. "Replace Lu Bu with Kenshiro, and all those chinese guys with Road Warrior punks. Ka-Ching!"
If they have a variant combat system for boss battles or something I'd be a little more interested, but Musou == Yawn.
Hell yeah! This is one of my favorite anime/mangas and it makes me happy to see Tecmo doing it justice. I'll go one further and call it MANime.
If you see Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) as a ten year old child, you'll grow up 20 years instantly and look like Rambo, but have a beard. Women will get pregnant upon viewing it and give birth to longshoremen. Flabby men will get all the muscle they need, and if you already have muscles, you'll get muscles on top of muscles.
I cut whole steaks out of cows and ate them raw, and stared down semis until they turned into hissing wrecks in traffic. I skipped puberty and went straight to proclaiming that people were "already dead" at a single touch after watching this.
So, uh. You could say that I'm looking forward to this. Hyperbole aside.
Hokuto No Ken is one of the most famous anime ever here in Italy. It came at the end of the 80's and it's been a real cult since.
Unfortunately Hokuto games always sucked (most of them weren't even released ouutside of Japan) and this one is no exception apparently.
It is really frustrating to see how no one seems to be able to make a good game out of a character and a story with so much potential.
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What's next? Scrotum on a Ceiling? :) #tecmo
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Yes, there's a typo, but it looks better that way. #tecmo
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Learn more about Hokuto No Ken and you'll understand why its necessary
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Yeah: I love FotNS (I have all the original Japanese manga in their "Anthology format") and the PSX FotNS game was the pinnacle of that manga/anime on the console.
I also love TECMO.
But "-Musou"? ...not so much. It's played out. It makes sense, because FotNS is nothing if not one guy against a million, but it seems cheap and easy. "Replace Lu Bu with Kenshiro, and all those chinese guys with Road Warrior punks. Ka-Ching!"
If they have a variant combat system for boss battles or something I'd be a little more interested, but Musou == Yawn.
10/14/09
Disclaimer: Yes, I know that God Hand was loosely inspired by Fist,...I LOVE GOD HAND!!
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I've been waiting for one of them in a Musou game for years.
10/14/09
If you see Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) as a ten year old child, you'll grow up 20 years instantly and look like Rambo, but have a beard. Women will get pregnant upon viewing it and give birth to longshoremen. Flabby men will get all the muscle they need, and if you already have muscles, you'll get muscles on top of muscles.
I cut whole steaks out of cows and ate them raw, and stared down semis until they turned into hissing wrecks in traffic. I skipped puberty and went straight to proclaiming that people were "already dead" at a single touch after watching this.
So, uh. You could say that I'm looking forward to this. Hyperbole aside.
10/14/09
Unfortunately Hokuto games always sucked (most of them weren't even released ouutside of Japan) and this one is no exception apparently.
It is really frustrating to see how no one seems to be able to make a good game out of a character and a story with so much potential.
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Well I guess I might be wrong in this case. Anyone wanna help explain this?
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