Comments on: Dai Senryaku Exceed coming to North America?

By: Sonny_Burnett

Sonny_Burnett — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:42:01 +0000

If this got translated to english I would buy it in a heartbeat for the psp, I loved the xbox version of this.

By: Ed S.

Ed S. — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:42:47 +0000

It did come over via PS2 and I just bought it. It’s exactly my type of game. I agree with an earlier poster, though, it should come to PSP. Handhelds are a perfect platform for this type of game.

By: jvgfanatic

jvgfanatic — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:41:50 +0000

Like Advance Wars? At the most basic level (military units, turn based) but that is where the similarities end. Daisenryaku has hundreds of real-world units spread across 8 nationalities. The game is played on a hexagonal grid rather than a square one. There is no simple “rock-paper-scissors” algorithm like you find in Advance Wars, it is much more complex and requires a lot of thought.

One of the topics on the Kemco boards for the XBox version covered “how to deal with assault helicopters” and it ended up being 43 posts long with each post detailing a different strategy. You’ll find no such depth in Advance Wars (though I’m not knocking that game).

If you want Daisenryaku on a handheld then there are Japanese versions of Daisenryaku DS (middle east theater), Daisenryaku Portable (far east theater) and Daisenryaku Portable 2 (middle east, again). They are very playable without knowledge of Japanese though they are in that language. I have faqs for the PSP versions and can help on any of them, I monitor their boards at gamefaqs.com.

Iron Storm for the Sega Saturn is also a game in this series and it gets nothing but kudos. It’s still known as one of the best Saturn titles out there amongst strategy game lovers. The following for the series is indeed VERY loyal, I still get emails about the XBox version and my FAQ for it gets tons of hits even today.

If you want more info on Exceed (or any other Daisenryaku, for that matter) please head over to Gamefaqs. I’ll be happy to answer any questions you post on the boards (Daisenryaku MMT, Daisenryaku Exceed, Daisenryaku Portable, Daisenryaku DS) plus you can get info from the FAQs.

As one who is keenly aware of this game’s following I take exception to Spencer’s ignorance as to the game’s audience. Both Valcon and Crave have been listed as publishers (depending on which site you read) so who knows what the quality of the final translation will be like but it hardly matters because the game is in the play anyway and Daisenryaku plays *great.*

By: JeremyR

JeremyR — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:38:25 +0000

I would rather see a DS or PSP version, though, the gameplay is more suited for handhelds, IMHO.

By: JeremyR

JeremyR — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:37:04 +0000

It might very well be a mistake, but the Xbox version had a very loyal following. It’s actually nothing like Risk, it’s simply like Advance Wars, only with real units instead of cartoony ones. But gameplay is pretty much identical. I can definitely see someone bringing it over. And I think you are counting the PS2 dead much too soon. It will likely have games coming out for it for years, and something like this would be worth it even for those with PS3s, thanks to the backwards compatiblity.

By: badfish

badfish — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:42:18 +0000

There must be some sort of mistake.