For those of you with Japanese PSN accounts, I would recommend getting the demo for this fighting game by Arc System Works. The demo includes a story mode for one character (Marco) and a Vs Mode where you can select one of two players (Marco and Urs.) 1up has confirmed that this game is actually coming to the United States.

My favorite thing I like about the demo is its art style. It’s only apparent when you select Story Mode, though, since it features character portraits. It’s really too bad that Arc System Works chose to put 3D models in the game which look ugly by comparison. The fact that the character models are low-res doesn’t help :-/

Battle Fantasia is coming out for both the 360 and PS3. To see a video of the game in action, go here.

This is actually not joke. Koei is actually releasing Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI for PC in the States in the summer. I might actually be inclined to double-dip and buy the PC version, just for the added convenience. The PC version also apparently has better graphics than the PS2 version. You can see the PR here.

So, I finally got Patapon. There’s not much I can say about it that the video below doesn’t already explain. You tell the patapons to do certain actions by beating on your drums (in 4/4 time, usually.) Most of it just requires you to be able to keep a beat (which is a bit harder than it sounds,) although some commands require you to do a bit more work.

One thing I didn’t think of was how hard the game could be sometimes XD. Especially since it’s really easy to get slightly off beat when you’re in fever mode. Ealier in the game, being in fever mode isn’t that big of a deal. But later, messing up can really screw you over :-/ By screw you over, I really mean, you really want to get it back before you forces dwindle a lot when facing an onslaught.

In my opinion, the only annoying part of the game is some of the lack of direction they give you. For example, when they tell you that you need a certain juju in order to pass certain levels, you don’t really know exactly where that is (you can usually find them by killing certain animals.) Besides that, I would call it a nice pick-up-and-play game.

So, I finally got my order of Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis on Wednesday of last week. I’ve hardly gotten a chance to play it, however, since I have this SSBB tourney to participate in and have various other schoolwork to do. Oh, I like how I listed them in that order >.>

Regardless, since I did get the premium box set, I decided to upload pics for you all. Please enjoy them below. Before anyone asks: yes, I totally did take these pictures on my laptop becuase I have no other empty space in my tiny dorm room. -_-;;

This is indeed would be the most awesome game ever. I’ll let the video speak for itself. You can watch it at Nico Nico Douga or see it below.

Hyped yet? Unfortunately, this is just some elaborate April Fools’ joke that some Japanese guy made. T_T

Do you like Gunstar Heroes? If yes, then Noitu Love 2 may be the game for you. The game is kind of like Gunstar Heroes, except with less shooting, and way more punching. It’s pretty fun, even though the demo, at least, was pretty easy.

The game is developed by Konjak, which most people have probably not heard of (myself included before this game was mentioned to me.) You can find his site here. He was kind enough to release a demo for his upcoming game. You can either get it from his site or download it here.

And she’s looking quite hawt. Her name is Angol Fear (アンゴルフィア). Those of you who have read Keroro Gunsou may notice that she has a certain semblance with a certain character from said manga, in both looks and name. Maybe I should pick up the game to find out what their relationship is, hehe.

If you want to see the full scan (more like a picture than a scan,) check it out here.

Recently, I had the chance to watch my third chinese drama: Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Tiān Lóng Bā Bù. I actually watched all 40 episodes in 5 days, clearly sacrificing sleep and schoolwork to watch as many episodes as I did. This may not seem special in any way, until you remember that a typical drama episodes is 40 minutes long (as opposed to 20) which means that I watched approximately 3 hrs and 20 minutes of the drama each day. Quite hard when you have four tests to study for.

Anyway, the story centers around a martial artist by the name Qiao Feng. To be frank, this guy is the definition of GAR, so there’s little reason to explain his character. At the beginning, Qiao Feng becomes the leader of the Beggars’ Sect, which few oppose since he is the strongest in all of China. There is actually a saying in China (in the story) “Mu Rong in the North, Qiao Feng in the South,” or something like that. Not like the directions are very important. You could say that things are looking up for Qiao Feng.

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When I first say this manga, I was actually confused about who was the artist. This may be hard to believe, but I had originally thought that the artist was Asu Tsubaki, the mangaka of He is my Master. Yea, I know. It doesn’t take a very close inspection to see how wrong I was. The art styles are nothing alike.

After my misconception was… annihilated, I started looking into the manga some more. Thus I found out that Last Uniform was indeed not an ecchi book. (Come on, “last uniform”? What other kind of book could it be.)

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Initially I didn’t want to post until I’d gotten all of the loot, but since the stuff is arriving so slowly, I decided to put it into two posts. I actually got more stuff than usually at the winter comiket. I still don’t think I got everything I wanted though. Darn deputy service and its deposits and bidding limits. T_T

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So, I was a little late on this, but I finally got my hands on a copy of Soul Nomad and the World Eaters. Oddly enough, I thought I had ordered it a while ago, but I forgot to finish the checkout. I finally found out when I went to preorder Mana Khemia. I’m one of the ones who get to get the figure ^^. I noticed that Soul Nomad was still in my cart.

Let me start out by saying that this is one of the better SRPGs that has come from N1, of course, in my opinion that doesn’t sound like much. Disgaea, even with its lovable story, was not a very good SRPG in my book. It just seemed like a big grindfest. The battle system wasn’t all that great either. It had almost no interesting quirks at all, unless you count geo-panel manipulation as interesting.

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Yup, it’s finally here. The Devil May Cry demo has landed on XBL (for Gold members) and on the JPN PSN. The American demo may be up by the time I post this, but it doesn’t really matter. The JPN demo is almost entirely in English.

The demo comes with two modes; one mode where you start playing a certain section of the game for 10 minutes and the other which focuses on the boss fight against Berial. The fight with Berial is somewhat hard. It took me three tries to beat him XD. Maybe it’s because I haven’t played a DMC game since the first came out.

In my opinion, the fight with Berial is a lot more fun than the 10 minute mode although that mode teaches you some useful moves. I’ll probably grab this game shortly after its release, unless classes get in the way….

For those of you looking to see how the X360 and PS3 versions become, Dot50Cal from neogaf posted captures from both versions. The differences seem minute, though. You can see them here.