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Jaleco, a company I am sure you have never heard of, is currently working on Kizuna, an action RPG for the Nintendo Wii. The game is scheduled to come out this Winter in Japan.
The game’s story focuses on the Kingdom of Navigalia, which has had repeated run-ins with a demon king by the [...]
Today some new info surfaced about Wii’s Fragile: Goodbye Ruins of the Moon. I hope you guys aren’t sick of hearing about this game, because I love learning about it. Every time I do I want to buy a Wii a little more. Anyway here are the new features of the game [...]
Humans can find just about any topic to squabble about, video games are of course no exception. Recently they have become a major point of a number of debates across the internets. I don’t intend to solve these major conflicts, just give my opinion and maybe get an idea of what you guys [...]
This is a guest entry written by my girlfriend. I haven’t gotten a chance to play Wii Fit yet, but she seems to enjoy it so I asked her to write a review:
OK, so the biggest thing in video games in Japan before I left was the Nintendo Wii Fit. Since last fall I saw multiple [...]
Fragile news has been plentiful lately, thanks in part to the update the game’s official website has received. In addition to some new images, info, and a newsletter, the site now has its own blog.
In Japan, the blogs that accompany games are pretty serious. I first noticed this with Success’ Haninwa Seikatsu: Hitsujimura. The game [...]
Arc Rise Fantasia is the next game in Marvelous’s Luminous Arc series. Normally these titles don’t generate a whole lot of press, but the fact that the next installment is going to be released for the Nintendo Wii seems to have placed the game in the spotlight.
Marvelous released the game’s prologue which tentatively translates [...]
I have been eagerly awaiting new information about Fragile: Goodbye Ruins of the Moon since I first wrote about it. Namco sure took their sweet time, but I guess I should just be happy that rumors the game was canceled are false. Fragile is a game for the Wii that takes place after [...]
So Furai No Shiren 3 has officially hit the shelves in Japan. Am I jealous? Yes. Do I want this Koppa wii-mote holder? Yes. Is life fair? In this blogger’s opinion almost certainly not.
If you have a Japanese Wii and want to try your hand at the game, you [...]
The third installment in the Furai No Shiren series is getting a cool new weapon development system. You can still find weapons in random dungeons, but now Shiren can activate a “Dragon Pulse” (竜脈) and let his weapon sit for a few turns to develop a new attribute or become stronger.
Finding a Dragon Pulse [...]
The kind folks at Vanilla Ware who gave us Odin Sphere are working on another title exclusively for the Wii. The game, tentatively titled Oboro Muramasa Yōtōden (朧村正妖刀伝), revolves around a young ninja boy named Kisuke (鬼助) who has lost all his memory.
Kisuke meets up with a mysterious young girl named Momohime [...]