This Week In Imports: Scientifically Magical

By Spencer . May 18, 2009 . 12:15am

This Week In Imports: Scientifically Magical

Mass Effect could be a hot seller in Japan. The sci-fi RPG is going up against Takt of Magic, a wand waving fantasy game for Wii, and SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1.

 

SNK took their sweet time releasing the portable collection of emulated Neo Geo games. We got the same game last year. On the brightside, that box art is pretty cool. I Will Protect You (aka Ora ga Omae o Mamoru), Idea Factory’s action/otome game, also heads stores rounding off this week’s import list.

 

Just in case you were thinking about reserving Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days we have a few Play-Asia coupon codes. We’re giving away another two codes to anyone who sends us a tweet.

 

Nintendo DS
Happy Star Band
Ora ga Omae o Mamoru
Pro Yakyuu Team wo Tsukurou! 2
Simple DS Series Vol. 48: The Saibanin
Sloane and MacHale’s Puzzling Story
Yume wo Kanaeru Zou DS
Yuzai X Muzai (Innocent X Guilty)

 

PSP
SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1

 

Xbox 360
Mass Effect

 

Wii
Takt of Magic

 

Key European Releases
Bionic Commando (PS3, Xbox 360)
Damnation (PS3, Xbox 360)
EA Sports Active (Wii)
Pokemon Platinum (DS)
Punch-Out!! (Wii)

 

Key Domestic Releases
Bionic Commando (PS3, Xbox 360)
Boom Blox Bash Party (Wii)
EA Sports Active (Wii)
Puchi Puchi Virus (DS)
Punch-Out!! (Wii)
Steal Princess (DS)
Terminator Salvation (PS3, Xbox 360)
Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s Stardust Accelerator (DS)
Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s Wheelie Breakers (Wii)

 

Play-Asia Coupon Codes ($5 off $50)
ZC-CBR-EBY
VS-FZQ-YWP


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  • Ishaan

    Is Jenni going to be playtesting I Will Protect You? :D

    I can't wait for details. It sounded interesting in our last feature: http://www.siliconera.com/2009/02/10/idea-facto…

  • matty

    Happy Star Band is being released in the U.S. as Rockn' Pretty.
    I hope SNK (or someone) makes a Vol. 2. I really want to play Aero Fighters 2 and Last Blade.

  • Aoshi00

    Don't mean to be picky, I think the title should be “Ore” instead of “Ora” for I Will Protect You, probably listed wrong on Play-Asia. Every time I look at it it just reminds me of Goku referring to himself, lol.

    I'm officially out of things to import for the time being, I actually used two of those coupons you gave out last week, on Fragile and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom,

  • Dais

    God, I hope Takt of Magic is good.

  • Mr_Qoo

    Spencer, do you happen to know if the Japanese version of Mass Effect has a complete re-voiced japanese track? That would really be worth the purchase again just for that.

  • Aoshi00

    Since the localization took so long, I would assume it does if it's like Gears of War or Halo 3, but all the recent ME trailers they've shown are only subtitled in Jpn. Otherwise I think Jpn players would have a lot to read for an RPG w/ as much dialogue and text as this. For an epic sci-fi, Jpn would probably sound kind of weird.. then again I bought the Jpn Blu-ray for Gattaca just to hear Ethan Hawke speak in Jpn :)

  • http://www.younganimal.com/berserk Mr_Qoo

    Spencer, do you happen to know if the Japanese version of Mass Effect has a complete re-voiced japanese track? That would really be worth the purchase again just for that.

  • Aoshi00

    Since the localization took so long, I would assume it does if it's like Gears of War or Halo 3, but all the recent ME trailers they've shown are only subtitled in Jpn. Otherwise I think Jpn players would have a lot to read for an RPG w/ as much dialogue and text as this. For an epic sci-fi, Jpn would probably sound kind of weird.. then again I bought the Jpn Blu-ray for Gattaca just to hear Ethan Hawke speak in Jpn :)

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