

Nintendo’s unveiling of “Zelda Musou,” the latest entry into the massive cookie-cutter Dynasty Warrior franchise, has been the cause of some consternation with those concerned about Nintendo’s post-Wii slide into mediocrity.
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Koei has managed the perhaps unprecedented feat of accidentally publishing the wrong game, after it attempted to release a PSP version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII, only to mistakenly place Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII on all the discs.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Feb 12, 2012 14:02 JST
- Tags: Atelier, DLC, Gust, Koei, Marketing, Moe, Otaku, PSP, Visual Novels

Budding fans of the Vita’s upcoming real-time fairy dating game Ciel nosurge have been aghast to learn that the game is episodic and will take over a year to finish and cost 2-3 times the price of a normal title.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 30, 2012 20:00 JST
- Tags: Atelier, Gust, Image Gallery, Koei, Moe, Otaku, PSP, RPG, Visual Novels


Gust’s upcoming PS Vita moeblob-dating sim “Ciel nosurge” has been attracting a great deal of favourable attention online, and looks set to become the most hotly anticipated title on the Vita – at least amongst the creepy otaku demographic.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 9, 2011 13:45 JST
- Tags: Feminism, Koei, Loli, Marketing, Moe, Nippon Ichi, Oppai, PS3, RPG

The hatred of western reviewers for games with low advertising budgets and niche audiences continues to manifest itself in further slating of ero-RPG Hyper Dimension Neptunia, with yet another big-name reviewer, in this case Eurogamer, now apparently scoring the game on the basis of feminism and political correctness – it is said to be “plain old ugly Japanese sexism” and “sexist, senseless and ultimately stupid.”
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Western reviews of ero-RPG Hyper Dimension Neptunia have seen the game denounced for its “disturbingly sexualized caricatures of young girls” and “depressing stereotypes of vapid, sexy cuteness,” a promising condemnation if ever there were one.
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North Star Warriors seems set to enter into the shoddy port hall of fame – some benchmarking tags its load times as 8 seconds on the PS3 versus 62 seconds on the Xbox 360.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Apr 8, 2010 19:52 JST
- Tags: DLC, Fist of the North Star, Koei, Marketing, Oppai, Oshiri, PS3, Xbox 360



The latest DLC for North Star Warriors has proved an immediate hit for reasons which should be obvious.
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Hokuto Musou (“North Star Warriors”), the latest in Koei’s famed Musou/Dynasty Warriors brawler series and the first to feature Fist of the North Star, has proved a great hit in Japan with 500,000 units shipped to retailers.
Plenty of bloody gameplay videos have emerged for those curious about Kenshiro’s latest antics, and just how successful Mamiya’s corset is in countering jiggle.
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Impressive and bloody details of new Fist of the North Star brawler Hokuto Musou have surfaced, and it looks as if another blockbuster entry into the Musou series is imminent, along with plenty of flying entrails.
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Hokuto Musou (Dynasty Warriors: Fist of the North Star) has been formally announced as being set for a multi-platform release in 2010.
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We saw previously how adaptations of the classic Chinese novel the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sangokushi in Japanese) have spawned a legion of sometimes irreverent anime, manga and game franchises; here you see and updated and expanded version of that same diagram, showing what diverse interpretations each character receives.
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