I’ve been playing Muramasa: The Demon Blade as “Princess” Momohime. I put “Princess” in quotes because Momohime is more than meets the eye. She is a furious fighter, a good thing because Muramasa: The Demon Blade is action packed.

Muramasa: The Demon Blade comes out in April which means its time for Marvelous to start promoting it. They just released this brand new clip (thanks for the tip Ishaan!!) which shows more areas than the hands-on Tokyo Game Show demo.   See the part where Momohime slices creatures while waves rise in the background? [...]

Importers get ready! April 9 is when Japan gets Vanillaware’s 2D action game, Muramasa: The Demon Blade. An international release for the US and Europe has been announced, but we don’t have a concrete release date for either region. Don’t be surprised to see one soon since some US retailers are listing Muramasa: The Demon [...]

The last time we heard about Muramasa: The Demon Blade was around Tokyo Game Show where XSEED confirmed they were co-publishing it in North America and Rising Star Games mentioned Europe was getting it in November. Fortunately, our wait for Muramasa: The Demon Blade might not be as long Europe’s. Two separate retailers claim the [...]

After I played Muramasa: The Demon Blade at TGS I wanted to know when I would continue my adventure past seeing Kisuke standing on a wooden boat rocking in gorgeous 2D waves. Marvelous noted Vanillaware would be done with Muramasa: The Demon Blade sometime next year. Rising Star Games, Marvelous’ European arm, is more specific [...]

You don’t even have to play Princess Crown to witness the profound effect the Sega Saturn (and Playstation Portable) title has had on its spiritual successor Odin Sphere. While the games tend to have different feels while playing (for example:…

While there is an influx of hey-that-Wii-game-still-exists news today it’s an opportune time to bring up Oboro Muramasa Youtouden. The gorgeous looking 2D game made an appearance at Tokyo Game Show 2007 – in video form. Marvelous and Vanillaware, the creators of Odin Sphere, haven’t said much about it since . Yasuhiro Wada, President of [...]

It was quite disappointing that Oboro Muramasa Youtoden was barely seen at Tokyo Game Show. A short trailer ran on Marvelous’ main stage, but besides that Vanillaware’s next project was nearly a no show. These few screenshots and pieces of concept art are all that remains of Oboro Muramasa Youtoden’s TGS appearance. Granted the game [...]

I think everyone else is talking about this by now, but these scans Jeff L. sent in (thanks again!) are so beautiful we have to post something about Oboro Muramasa Youtouden. The title is coming out for the Wii and it’s made by the creators of Odin Sphere. Surprise! Like Odin Sphere this is being [...]

Consoles and RTS (also known as real-time strategy) games. At worst, a mixture akin to fire and pressurized gas. At best, a tremulous liaison whose main contributor is a body of triple-A PC titles, ported to the hardware of the day with a good measure of compromise and clumsily remapped to a controller. The success [...]

Lillet Blan, the protagonist of Grim Grimoire begins the game only with the skills to summon Glamour familiars (as seen in the first article). Within the first few hours of the game Lillet also learns how to control phantom warriors and Necromancy magic. Necromancy units are mostly in ethereal form, which means some deal less [...]

Also developed by Vanillaware (remember Odin Sphere?) is Grim Grimoire, a side scrolling RTS that NIS America is releasing in North America later this month. The story is about Lillet Blan who is caught in a time loop, trapped between five days inside the Silver Star Tower. Lillet is a young sorceress and she doesn’t [...]

A side-scrolling brawler featuring 2D sprites.  Same old, same old, right? WRONG! Vanillaware’s latest PS2 game, Odin Sphere is anything but ordinary.  On paper, it sounds like your run of the mill beat-em-up with light RPG elements, but in practice it took my breath away. Sure, it’s the same old story about Valkyries and King [...]

In just one week (two for North America) Odin Sphere is going to be on store shelves. Contrary to popular belief Odin Sphere is a 2D action game, similar to Final Fight but with RPG elements and this video demonstrates how the game plays. After you defeat your enemies they release glowing pink psyphers that [...]

I feel confident to say that Grim Grimoire may just be one of the best looking PS2 games if not ever, then at least this year.  While I drooled over screenshots prior to playing it, they really don’t do the game any justice.  In a generation where most companies have moved on to 3D, it’s [...]

As seen in our earlier playtest there is more to Grim Grimoire than eye candy, but seeing a battle might give you a better idea about how Grim Grimoire’s system works. At the start of this battle a group of phantoms are attacking one of my bases. Since they are in astral form they can’t [...]