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Mastiff Sinks Teeth Into Technic Beat, Gungrave OD 17

Posted by simoniker from the they-bite-and-fight-and-bite dept.
Thanks to GamerFeed for its news story noting that publisher Mastiff has picked up the quirky Arika-developed Technic Beat rhythm title for American release. It's explained: "Players listen to music represented in the game by radiating concentric rings of sound. Picking up the beat, they dance into the middle of the rings and try to 'catch' the music", and a hands-on preview at IGN PS2 has screenshots and more info on the "wickedly weird" PlayStation 2 title. Mastiff, the tiny U.S. publisher also responsible for bringing cult PS2 SRPG La Pucelle Tactics to the States, are also publishing PS2 action title Gungrave OD in the U.S., according to IGN, who describe the sequel to the somewhat one-note Sega-published shooter as "an assault on the senses."
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  • Gungrave... (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I honestly wonder: if Gungrave didn't have the awesome Japanese character designs of Yashiro Nightow (Trigun), would it even be remotely popular?

    I think most of the Gungrave's scuccess is because of Nightow.

    Still, this is a good time to release Gungrave OD because Gungrave the anime TV series is getting its region 1 release.

  • When I started reading Philip K. Dick's books I soon got the feeling he was on drugs. I now know he was.

    Why do I get the feeling LSD played some part in the concept for this game? Wow man look at the colour of the sound....

  • but seriously, when will there be an American version of Rez released WITH the controller adapter? Seriously, this would be one of the hottest selling PS2 titles of the year if it were ever released here.

    • Re:Great and all... (Score:3, Informative)

      by h0mer ( 181006 )
      Rez has already been out in North America on PS2. It came out a little over 2 years ago, 4000 or so units were shipped, the game was discontinued.

      I managed to drive around and find a copy at a local Gamestop, but I don't think that's possible anymore. It's fetching above retail on eBay, now that was a good investment. :)

  • no disrespect to the Orientals but what I call... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by h0mer ( 181006 ) on Wednesday June 09, 2004 @07:13AM (#9375672)
    ...'Play Jap.'

    It's great that someone has finally figured out that bringing quirky and fun Japanese games over here is a wise idea. None of these games are going to sell a million units, hell, they probably won't sell 100,000 units but these games will sell.

    I'm hoping that even with the cost of localizing text and other aspects of the game, Mastiff is still turning a profit. I've always been a big fan of importing games and I've been worried that the next generation of consoles will be much harder to hack and get imports up and running.

  • Wow! Looks Interesting (Score:3, Interesting)

    by blueZhift ( 652272 ) on Wednesday June 09, 2004 @07:19AM (#9375692) Homepage Journal
    This looks really interesting. If it gets the marketing it deserves, it should have a good chance as the US market is slowly getting into games like this. It's a shame what happened to Rez, but since that time I think things have changed somewhat. At the very least, maybe people are finally getting bored with all of the sequels and movie licensed games.

  • Are they still in business?

    They used to take overlooked Japanese games like this all the time and release them over in the States (when they weren't bringing out Japanese RPGs) -- they were (in)famous for their quirky sense of humor, resonance with fans, crazy in-box and preorder extras, and eternally pushed back release dates (see Magic Knights Rayearth for the Saturn).

    Are they gone? Still making games? What's Victor Ireland doing right this minute? What's up?
    • According to this:

      # Our Games [workingdesigns.com]

      The next game out from them is Growlanser Generations due according to the schedule in Q1 2004

      The last site update was April 2nd 2004...

      • whoa... I never thought any company in their right mind would do a localization of any games with Satoshi Urishihara's character designs. I loved Langrisser back in the day... much to look forward to, providing they actually plan to finish up all the translations and release the game... they'll definately get $90 off me, if nothing more than to show my support.

        Now if only somebody could bring over Super Robot Wars...
    • IMO they've really missed the boat on this whole quirky thing, even though they started it. I first started paying attention to them back when the Lunar remake was gaining attention, and since Eternal Blue came out I've been less and less interested in their offerings (Arc the Lad didn't grab me). I would actually rather see WD release more games and fewer huge package deals. Considering they haven't had a release since 2002 and we're going into the second half of 2004, I'm either thrilled they had enoug

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