21/04/2009

The New age of nippon closed ports

Many years have passed since japan opened his bay for gaijin but is this an actually truth?
Maybe, but for nintendo nooo!!! they obstruct us from reaching their nippo games and this is the article that i will show us all the games that was deprive from us.


Part One:

The Square Enix case :


Eggmonster Hero DS: First ds game square released in japan was scheduled to land on our shores late 2008...we're still waiting, maybe this will never be released here because of the crazy game it is or because is a spin off from a series that never came stateside(hanjukyuu hero)( a la dragon quest heroes, but dragon quest heroes came stateside... we will never know why s-e kept this game from us...).

Sigma Harmonics: Rythm adventure investigation rpg from Tetsuya Nomura and Yoshinori Kitase, the story tells about a boy, Sigma Kurogami, wich in each chapter he solves he changes the past and meets another murder, the games atmosphere is like another meets j pop culture + Showa period. The opening of the game is sung by Aya Hirano( the godess that dub, suzumiya, konata, mamori...) who also does the VA for Neon Tsukyumi. this game has lots of nipponic hermetism culture, as The World Ends With You had, but sold lesse than TWEWY i still pray for this gfame to come stateside.

Nanashii no Geemu(Nameless Game): A noir adult horror rpg wich puts people on the role of a boy who heard about a rpg game that make people disappear, he then uses his ds to play the game and see that something that is happening in the game is happening in the real life ... maybe they thought that it's too creepy for our western eyes... aside that the game wasn't a huge seller, but come on, this is a very niche game... it sold better than any game of project zero(fatal frame) series has ever sold and scored pretty on critics.

Front Mission 2089 Board of Madness: The second installment of front mission series on ds is a port of a cellphone game, the first one that came stateside wasn't a huge seller but was one of the best simulation rpg to port on ds bay, the series is extremely niche so that's why they didn't brought it here.

Itadaki Street DS: Mario series unite with Dragon Quest series, if any other serie teamed up like Final fantasy or Jump this would be the sign of world doom japanese would stop working...jokes aside this is a huge selling game that is very casual and have two of the most loved hardcore franchises but the game, itadaki street isn't very popular by our shores so that is why it never came stateside.

Cid to Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon: toki wasure no meikyuu DS(Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Dungeon Plus): A remake(?) of the chocobo dungeon wii game that includes more jobs and a cid sidestory. Didn't sold very well on japan market, and is just a remake(?) of a game that didn't sold well too...another one that us will be deprived sadly.

Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon: Majou to Shoujo to Gonin no Yuusha(Fibal Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales: the witch the girl and the five heroes): This game still has the ay of hope, being the second installment of a series that came stateside chocobo games are the ones with the most bright future from square "culture imprisonment".

Yosumin DS: A puzzle game is not that hard to localize... and is a cash in. The only thing that impel this from coming here is that the nipponic want to deprive us from their culture. About this game story, is a web browser game that s-e used and remaked(?) for ds with 2 palyer mode and stylus upport.

This ends Square-Enix report with didn't had any wii games, at least this S-E...

NEXT ISSUE: NAMCO BANDAI AND THEIR GAMES THAT DID'NT CAME STATESIDE




18/04/2009

nintendo stocks fall!!!

I s this a sign of the new doom that befall us?
Are there a reason to fright?
To me this is the time for nintendo to change her target( not all the way back, but to see that we still at her side waiting for nintendo quality games) this is the perfect chance for nintendo to gather another fans for wii install base, to launch at our bay some japanese games( costs less than make one from nothing) and hold still wii( pun intended) the fanbase that is tossed aside.

nintendo 4th reich rise and fall(?)

Is there a way for BIG N to own hardware sales and software, or to own casual games and hardcore fanbase?
When our empire was reigning over software sales(just nintendo software sold on our empire, but it's still almost the same, sadly) our towers(hardwares) weren't that good, now nintendo has his towers inside tons of feuds but our lores(software) aren't penetrating so good on those, aside that panis et circenses things like party games, carnival games...why it must be this way?why when nintendo rises from the ashes comes a great crisis like the bulbonic pest of videogames, will nintendo become the new atari? is the one empire(one console to reign them all) the solution? Maybe if you think about the ps2 that was the great empire with it's great lores lores for all kind of feud lores that could make to millions of feuds and was at that time almost the one tower that existed in every home you could see, then it can make you feel like it could be the answer for the software and sales problems, but who will be the first empire to let his pride down and make the first great empire the romance of this new three kingdom?
But will the three empires come into a sense where their desires and their soldiers would work together? like what about motion sensing, hd graphics, internet free, ... would the three come to an agreement?That's why it is most impossible to became a reality in our land, maybe when the dragons come back with their scorching fiery breaths, or fairys give our forests some new appearence...but for now let's talk about this casual gamer and hardcore.

It all begun with nintendo and their open sea market...sadly they part from our hardcore shores to sail in the great blue, but was this ever any good, or just a terrible curse cast upon us?
if it wasn't for this we'd never been talking so much about games with those commoners, and never had to play games that want only milk cash.Are we happy with this 3 ships sailing different seas and getting diferrent kinds of treasures?While nintendo still (less but still)bringing us games like fire emblem, zelda,...sony and micro$oft are fighting for those that our nintendo left behind, even if we still managed to hold some of em.
Nintendo don't got the power to hold in his arms everything the solution comes with what they're making now, letting little developers do the job, as with, punch out wii, excitebots, takt of magic,(even)sin and punishment, etc this is the poath nintendo must walk along with money hat for games like, crystal bearers and dragon quest 10 wich can make bach to the top on nihon empire for BIG N.

nintendo's problems: They start with a popular saying "with great powers comes great responsability" what was those powers, and what was those responsabilities?
Powers were the ability to control the great blue sea, make every commoner bewitched by our magic of the great blue sea, everyone saw those voodoo things on that cursed display and thought they were what they saw, our voodoo magic worked too well, but what about the lores of our sailings wich we wanted to pass on? nobody was giving a damn to em...sadly enough this is where the responssability enters... our great captain saw that, but he was late, there was always a warm and confortable lair for our lores of sailing, it was with our old pubs that never let captain's side, but captain... oh captain he was blinded by the gold that those voodoo made... he didn't care about our old nights at pubs telling our stories one another, he wanted money, he sold us to became a corsair we are flooded with massive things of love... he forgot the liquid courage to do what we want not what was asked...
Our captain saw that we were alive really late, that is why we are sailing in this calm sea without any lore to tell, the only ones we had was told already, but what we see at the horizons are turbulence seas that will make us new lores, about dragons adventures for the tenth time, etc those are what we need, aside os the lores of those distant seas like the asian ones... wich i don't know why we cannot know about¬¬
That's it the first post made by a crazy guy that loves games, i will mix some fanfics and articles about games here i hope it was nice... late i will give it a revision