Andriasang: CyberFront announced today a final release date of March 31 for the PlayStation 3 version of arcade shooter Mamoru Has Been Cursed (Mamoru-kun wa Nowareteshimatta). The game will be priced ¥6,279 in standard form and ¥8,925 in limited edition form.
The limited edition will include three items:
Gematsu - UFO Interactive is teasing a western localization for CyberFront shoot ‘em up Mamoru-kun wa Norowarete Shimatta! Meikai Katsugeki Wide Version.
The game was initially released in Japan for Xbox 360 in 2009 as Mamoru-kun wa Norowarete Shimatta!, and added the Meikai Katsugeki Wide Version subtitle for the enhanced PlayStation 3 version in 2011.
In the following interview G.rev CEO Hiroyuki Maruyama talks about the difficulties of being a small company, about the shmup market and why Xbox 360 is the platform of choice, about the price for innovation, about digital distribution to reach the overseas fans, about the Senko no Ronde DUO cancelled DLC, and much more. Also Hiroyuki Maruyama tells us that G.rev had considered a remake of Border Down and Under Defeat and maybe they gave those titles a reconsideration.
Mamoru-kun wa Norowarete Shimatta was originally released to Japanese arcades on the NAOMI arcade hardware. Now, this unusual shoot-em-up with a mouthful of a title (translated literally as Little Mamoru Got Cursed!) finally comes to the PS3 with new enhancements to boot. The first disc-release shoot-em-up title for the PS3, it currently has very little competition on the region-free console. But is it a worthwhile import purchase? Fans of shoot-em-up titles that are in the mood for something a bit different, should certainly give Mamoru-kun a look.
