Recently, Rising Star hasn’t announced many games from their Japanese counterpart, Marvelous Interactive. Instead the European publisher is busy distributing Baroque, Growlanser: Heritage of War and LOL, better known as Bakushow in the region.   However, in the latter half…

The final piece of extra content in the Nintendo DS version of Flower, Sun and Rain is rather uneventful, nothing like an English language option. It’s just a jukebox where you can sample the game’s tunes. A decent addition if…

Alice was down at Wondercon over the weekend and sent a report from the Blood +: From Japan to America’s Adult Swim panel where someone asked if there was a chance the PS2 game would get localized (thanks!!). She writes:…

Grasshopper Manufacture is about to re-release Flower, Sun and Rain on the Nintendo DS on March 6th and it’s time to start pushing the title. Marvelous’ strategy is a little unorthodox for the times, live action video instead of flashing…

Earlier this week, fellow Siliconera writer Levi informed me the Heavenly Star music video was cut from the Ubisoft’s “red” version of No More Heroes. Since I have the Japanese version I was completely unaware that it got cut. Definitely…

Rei ~ Tsukihami no Kamen ~ (Zero ~ Mask of the Lunar Eclipse) isn’t exactly new news. The subtitle is, but Tecmo announced they were working on a Fatal Frame game for the Wii months ago. No plot details or gameplay…

Grasshopper Manufacture is rolling out what additions are included in the Nintendo DS port of Flower, Sun and Rain. The dress up system is sort of neat since Sumio can dress up as the bellboy and choose an outfit that…

  When Travis isn’t hunting members of the United Assassin Association he kicks it at the No More Heroes motel. His grungy surroundings are semi-interactive. You can’t freely move around, but you can choose what Travis does through menus.  …

A few weeks ago, the GameFly listing for No More Heroes mysteriously changed it's release date to January 22nd, 2008. A week or so later, the Amazon listing for the game changed to the 1/22 date as well. Now IGN…

There were many signs that Flower, Sun and Rain DS was going to be the next project out of Grasshopper Manufacture. The most recent in memory and what should have been the most salient was a flier packaged in my…

Travis uses beam katana as his weapon to slaughter a ring of assassins. You use the A button on the Wii remote. The tutorial quickly explains there isn’t as much waggle as you may imagine for a game where you…

No More Heroes is all about otaku culture and someone at Grasshopper Manufacture thought of a clever idea to make the instruction book feel like a comic book. The manual doesn’t show the Wii remote controls with frames of hand…