A trillion hit points… A trillion hit points… I’m a bit at a loss for words on this one. In the upcoming game from Compile Heart, Makaishin Trillion, you’re up against a foe that has a trillion hit points The game’s premise is simple: you play the part of a demon lord who has been…
Because while war never changes, the platform and user interface has a tendency to. Grand Kingdom is an upcoming tactical RPG game for the PS4 and PS Vita where players take on the role of a mercenary living in a land that is currently caught up in a conflict between four neighboring kingdoms all fighting…
In Japan, there is a genre of games specifically targeted at women. Called “neo-romance games” or “otome games” (maiden games), most are essentially harem romance stories with the genders reversed. But it wasn’t always this way. Tecmo Koei was a pioneer in the field creating the first neo-romance game for the Super Famicom (The Japanese…
Apparently, some Smash Bros. players out there are frustrated at the strength of characters like Kirby and Pit – both characters from franchises that director Masahiro Sakurai created. Because if Kirby beat you, it’s obviously the creator’s fault. “With Smash Bros., every now and then someone will vent their misplaced anger towards me.” Sakurai wrote…
Once a yakuza… Always a yakuza. From comedian, actor, director, and generational phenomenon, Takeshi Kitano (aka “Beat” Takeshi) is a new movie of generational conflict between old-school Japanese gangsters and current-generation scam gangs. Titled Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen, the movie focuses on a retired Japanese mafia member, Ryuzo, who is taken in by one…
Welcome to a land without night. Yoru no Nai Kuni (よるのないくに The Land Without Night) is an upcoming fantasy action RPG set in a world where the defeat of a demon lord placed a curse upon the land. The main character, Arnas* came in contact with the demon lord’s blood and became a half-demon. Using…
Japan’s latest open-world JRPG has a ridiculous title. A sandbox open-world game where you play a high school student living his daily life in an island town for three months, talking with people, running around, taking absurd panty shots on his camera. What would you title such a game? High School Photographer maybe? Student Times…
In the age of 3D high-spec prettiness, more and more I find myself looking forward to and enjoying “low tech” games that give my imagination room to play. Walking through my regular game store the other day, I noticed a trailer for a game I had not really paid much notice to, Ray Gigant. The…
Five boys enter an insanely strict former-all-girls school. Racy wackiness ensues. Welcome to Prison School Based on the manga of the same name by artist, Akira Hiramoto, Prison School follows the protagonist, Kiyoshi, and his fellow male classmates when they have the misfortune of enrolling in an elite private boarding school that was formerly an…
A dystopian future where giant monsters rule the Earth and mankind is protected by impossibly giant weapon-wielding soldiers? Hot damn I’m in. As previously announced, based on the video game series of the same name, the God Eater anime is set to air this Summer. Check out the latest trailer below with English subtitles. Yeah,…
Destinies and names… So that’s what they were talking about. Mobius Final Fantasy was formerly titled Mevius Final Fantasy. However, in what appears to be in preparation for its international release, the name was changed, along with some other things Unfortunately, at present the only trailer available is the Japanese version, giving non-Japanese-speaking fans little…
The King of Monsters latest game is getting a much needed upgrade from his original Japanese release. See what’s evolved in the new trailer for the Godzilla’s game PS4 version. Godzilla the game was released last year in Japan on the PS3. The game, while looking to be a wet dream for Godzilla fans, was…
Bakuman, the manga about making manga is getting a live-action movie adaptation. Check out the trailer (with English subtitles). As seems to be the ever increasing trend of live-action adaptations of popular manga/anime, the next upcoming movie is Bakuman, based on the manga of the same name by the authors of Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba…
Taking time off from his insanely busy workload, Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai visited Japan’s Video Game Museum. He was in for a letdown. In his latest column in Weekly Famitsu, Sakurai talked about going to the Huis Ten Bosch amusement park on one of his holidays. “Inside [the park], there is a ‘Game Museum’…
We’ve heard the horror stories ofjust how bad being an animator in Japan can be. But whose fault is it? Greedy investors? Slave-driving studios? The networks? Turns out, it’s because of the guy who started it all. It’s been long known that working as an animator in Japan is a pretty grueling job. Long hours…
Square Enix’s new smartphone game, Rampage Land Rankers, is labeled as an “imaginary science adventure drama” and is a “PvD” (Player versus Dungeon) game where players create custom characters, called “Rankers” to explore board-game-like dungeons to fight monsters and find treasures. Actions in dungeons, like moving to attacking, are executed by using cards that can…
Capcom recently released a new trailer fortheir latest Ace Attorney game. Now watch it with handy translations. The ancestor of Phoenix Wright, Sherlock Holmes, Watson as a young girl… the newest Ace Attorney game, The Great Ace Attorney: The Adventures of Ryunosuke Naruhodou has is all. The new trailer also focuses on a couple of…
Every field of specialty has its own jargon. Terms that can hold different or specific meaning within that field as opposed to outside. “Frag” “noob” “pwn”… These are words that were either born or altered by gaming. Japanese gaming has its own words too. A thread on 2ch, Japan’s biggest online billboard, posed an interesting…
Despite my feelings for the first movie, I had to see it all through to the end. I used to laugh at peoples’ overreactions to live-action adaptations. And then I heard they were making a two-part, live-action adaptation to one of my most favorite manga series ever, Parasyte And then I saw the trailer And…
Star Ocean V is a thing and it’s coming. Sadly, Square Enix hasn’t seen it fit to offer the announcement trailer in English for Western fans of the series. Fear not; that’s why I’m here. Star Ocean V: Integrity and Faithlessness, the fifth installment of the main Star Ocean series will take place between Star…
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