Operation Darkness demo is region locked for North America

This might be old news to some, but an accumulating amount of tips (thanks everyone!!) claimed the Operation Darkness demo is not available to gamers in North America. I asked a few other people living in the US with Japanese Xbox Live accounts to check this out and the result is they cannot get access to it either!

I found this to be quite surprising because the Operation Darkness demo is pretty much localized in English, with the exception of voice acting. Also I managed to download the demo using my Japanese Xbox Live account in the USA without playing with a proxy server. However, I’m not able to download any region locked Xbox Classics. Perhaps, I got it early during while it was for Gold Xbox Live members only? This might be disappointing, but Atlus is probably working on their Operation Darkness demo, a demo with English voice acting.