IncGamers' Jake Kawaguchi reports from Tokyo with the latest Japanese gaming news, what's hot and what to expect over the next few weeks...
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I think White Knight Chronicles could be massive for the PS3 in Japan. Level-5's RPG is out here on Christmas Day (which, trivia fans, is not a national holiday in this part of the world, although the Emperor's Birthday on December 23rd is) but the promotional buzz has been quietly humming for a few weeks already. Pretty soon, it's going to be amplified from a buzzing hum to deafening snap of static-driven feedback: I can just sense it.
The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?
After Street Fighter II released in in 1991, it caused a fighting game explosion, both in arcades and in home consoles. But, as the decade ended, and arcades were failing, so too were 2D Fighting games. This is how Street Fighter IV completely revitalized the genre.
I'd say Blazblue helped too. Didn't care for Street Fighter 4, but Blazblue was amazing during that time. Sad that the series kind of went downhill after the first 2 or 3 games though.
BlazBlue was phenomenal. Platinum'd Calamity Trigger because I loved it so much. I remember buying Continuum Shift back in the day at launch for like $40. They did have DLC characters (Valkenhayne, Makoto, and Platinum at the time) and it came out to just a tad more than it would at full price. Didn't mind at all.
Great fighting game.
Continuum Shift was definitely my favorite. Spent way too many hours on that game, haha... Had the counters for days with Hakumen.
BlazBlue was the much better, more technical game..and a real 2D Fighting Game after all. But yes, since it was a big name..the characters were still popular and the game itself was good, SFIV indeed helped a lot. However, I am pretty sure the much better-selling Mortal Kombat 9 would have been done without SFIV as well..and that one truly helped to make the fighting game genre in general more popular again.
You’re sound dumb. Blazblue was not better than sf4. You’re just saying that because you’re a street fighter hater.
eyyy max xD
one of the very few streamers i can actually watch without it being cringe and awful ha.
The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.
Grab your longsword, shield and round up the fantasy archetypes - there are Ice Dragons afoot!
Thanks for these nippy Nippon updates =)
BTW, for anyone uneducated: "Nippon" is the name of Japan in Japanese.
Also, love Street Fighter =)
Ahh I was wondering...
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Can't wait for SF IV. Good article.
Roll-on, White Knight Chronicles.
C'mon Level 5, do your thang!
Cannot wait for this game.