New Japanese PS3 demo of Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 out now...

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:07 pm

If you log on to the Japanese Playstation Store Network, you'll see that there is a new PS3 game demo of Sega's Ryu Ga Gotoku 3. It first appeared on the Japanese PSN on 2/18/2009 and the full-version game is set to debut sometime in March of 2009. It's a 1,256 MB file download and is version 1.00 for now. It runs at 720p output and still looks quite good imo. Lots of cool FMV scenes in this brawler fest demo -- a rarity these days concerning import PS3 game demos these days (which is quite sparse and lacking compared to the USA or European PSN sites). Why is that? ^_~

Btw, this RGG demo does support 5.1 Digital Dolby output...so if you have a cool stereo reciever setup such as that with Toslink support, you're in for a audio/visual treat. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:08 am

Yup, already played & loved it

Might as well mention that Ryu ga gotoku 3's club sega arcade includes a somewhat shmuppy minigame; your ship can't take damage,
and the gist of the game is to destroy medium to big sized enemy ships, composed of cells, as fast as possible since there's a timelimit.
The further you get the bigger the enemy. It's quite the eye-candy too...

Khan · Post by **Khan** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:46 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crR8o40_aHY

^trailer

Wow it looks quite good, ill be getting it for sure!

Jonathan Ingram · Post by **Jonathan Ingram** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:51 pm

Played the demo. Impressions? Game of the fucking forever!!! Genre: Kiryu Kazuma simulator.

To me RgG is definitely the best new franchise to have appeared on the PS2. I clocked about 90 hours in RgG2 on my first playthrough and finished all 120 sidequests(yes, even the Shogi and Mahjong ones). Same with RgG: Kenzan. And since RgG3 is supposedly going to have more sidequests than the three previous RgG games combined(according to Toshihiro Nagoshi at least), I better brace myself for the hundreds of hours of ass kicking the game will throw at me.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41289.html - epic 20 minutes long trailer, in case anyone missed it.

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:45 pm

are they going to translate this into english? :p

Jonathan Ingram · Post by **Jonathan Ingram** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:23 pm

Sega of Japan`s reps said they have no plans of doing so. Kenzan`s almost a year old now and there`s still no news on whether they are going to release it outside of Japan or not. Besides, it`s not like either of them will sell more than five copies if they do.

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:42 pm

How come ? :( It looks like a great game. Original, cool story and presentation... A lot better than most of the top selling games... But how do you guys play it, can you understand japanese ? I study japanese myself but I don't think I'm good enough to play this kind of game in japanese yet.

nem · Post by **nem** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:13 pm

Boxcelios, shmup minigame in Yakuza

The player ship looks a bit like Opa-Opa

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:10 am

^ Yes, that's the one I described on the previous post I made. Couldn't remember it's name to look for a youtube vid.

Thanks for the link