Play It to release Shikigami 2 in Europe

takohiko · Post by **takohiko** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:33 am

http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstore/pro ... ode=PT1960

yep. only with the subtitle "War of the Worlds" appended to it, presumably both to make it appeal to people who wouldn't give a second look to a game called "Castle Shikigami" and as a somewhat shameless cash-in on the recent movie. Coverart... well, it's better than Mobile Light Force.

They probably won't bother with a 60hz mode, though, considering the Euro version of MLF2 and Play It's last shmup release (the 1945 pack) didn't have one.

TVG · Post by **TVG** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:15 am

ill get it if it has 60hz, DC pad sucks.

Post by **system11** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:18 am

The vagrant wrote:ill get it if it has 60hz, DC pad sucks.

The man speaks the truth. It surprised me when I started looking, aside from the hard to find Ascii pad, all the third party DC ones I've seen are even worse than the Sega one - as they all imitate it, cheaply. What were Sega thinking?

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:24 am

I wonder why they have all those WWII bomber planes on the cover?

Hopefully they didn't swap out the 8 characters for 8 different types of bomber planes (ala Battle Garegga)....on second thought, that might be pretty cool.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:16 am

War of the Worlds?

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:35 am

Why do western publishers keep releasing games with covers that have nothing to do with the game and look crappy, when they could simply use beautiful japanese covers?

(obvious answer: they're stupid)

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:59 am

Europe is constantly fucked over with this trash, so it's not unusual.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:59 am

That better be a mockup cover. Unless someone is trying to actually outdo XS Games when it comes to sucking at localizations.

visuatrox · Post by **visuatrox** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:22 am

Does tricking people into buying a game really work, I mean nothing in that game reminds of War of the Worlds

takohiko · Post by **takohiko** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:09 pm

there's a person (in the blue orb thingy) shooting at the planes (which might actually be insects, now I look at them), so it does at least have something to do with the game.

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:27 pm

Sadly, there are worse offenders...

http://www.sgppresents.com/images/etc/sonic103.jpg

Why "Quantum Leap"? Why the exact logo from the show? ABSOLUTELY NO REASON.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:32 pm

Really, it's unintentional. Even if you told them how to do it right they'll still "think of the kids" and yeah, think back to when they were kids.

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:25 pm

When Play It did the Strikers 1945 I + II pack it wasn't just the 60htz missing, it had fucked up sound, no save game option and had its name changed to 1945 The Arcade Games.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:47 pm

bloodflowers wrote:
The vagrant wrote:ill get it if it has 60hz, DC pad sucks.
The man speaks the truth. It surprised me when I started looking, aside from the hard to find Ascii pad, all the third party DC ones I've seen are even worse than the Sega one - as they all imitate it, cheaply. What were Sega thinking?

Yeah, I tried the official Agetec arcade stick, thinking it would be an improvement, but I find I don't have quite the same control as with a d-pad. Right now I'm stuck playing Gunbird 2 with the standard DC pad. Could be worse, but far from ideal.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:51 pm

theevilfunkster wrote:When Play It did the Strikers 1945 I + II pack it wasn't just the 60htz missing, it had fucked up sound, no save game option and had its name changed to 1945 The Arcade Games.

That sounds awful, though I might prefer it over nothing. (In the US there is only Strikers II for the PS1 (sans tate).)

zyloj · Post by **zyloj** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:22 pm

I wonder why they pay for a new (a bad) cover design when you can get the original cover more interesting for occidental eyes. I hope this people can't release more shmups...

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:33 pm

If you want to improve on the dreamcast pad, pick up either a treamcast joypad or ascii fighting type cvs the d pad on them is much better feel a wee bit like saturn due to the button lay out. I've tried em out on shmups and they aren't bad nothing compared to a joystick though.

Kron · Post by **Kron** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:37 pm

professor ganson wrote:Right now I'm stuck playing Gunbird 2 with the standard DC pad. Could be worse

Yeah you could be playing the ps2 version with the equally if not more awfull ps2 d-pad

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:23 pm

Kron wrote:
professor ganson wrote:Right now I'm stuck playing Gunbird 2 with the standard DC pad. Could be worse
Yeah you could be playing the ps2 version with the equally if not more awfull ps2 d-pad

Yeah, in the case of the PS2 I decided to get Logitech cordless, which has an excellent d-pad.

SPACE HARRIER · Post by **SPACE HARRIER** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:57 pm

This is how It's done..

Got that you (%$#@#$%%_+:? people at PLAY-IT

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:52 pm

"I am Kim, of seven homes and two moms!"

"I hate activities."

See this, Play-It? This is how it isn't done.

highlandcattle · Post by **highlandcattle** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:54 pm

SPACE HARRIER wrote:This is how It's done..

Got that you (%$#@#$%%_+:? people at PLAY-IT

that cover is also quite ugly ,I wonder why they only translate half of the title why not translate the full title? Something like Castle of the ceremonial gods

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:07 pm

highlandcattle wrote:that cover is also quite ugly...

Least it's accurately ugly.

I wonder why they only translate half of the title why not translate the full title? Something like Castle of the ceremonial gods

Because "Shikigami" is already cumbersome enough by itself?

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:48 pm

thats great. there are airplanes all over it.

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:14 pm

That cover fucking sucks, sorry PAL guys.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:33 am

highlandcattle wrote:
SPACE HARRIER wrote:This is how It's done..

Got that you (%$#@#$%%_+:? people at PLAY-IT
that cover is also quite ugly ,I wonder why they only translate half of the title why not translate the full title? Something like Castle of the ceremonial gods

That cover is ugly too. I don't understand why they can't keep japanese titles like they did with Katamary Damacy, instead of converting everything into dumbass-glish.

If you look at the GC and DC covers, they're far better. As the GC version sits in my room, if you wanted, I could upload a picture of it. The dreamcast version is also nice.

~Kid Icarus~ · Post by **~Kid Icarus~** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:47 am

I was kind of annoyed that I paid around £40 for the JP version of this when it came out. But now having seen the box I think it was an extra £30 well spent.

Also, you yanks don't always get the best boxes:

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:43 pm

highlandcattle wrote:I wonder why they only translate half of the title why not translate the full title? Something like Castle of the ceremonial gods

Polytheism might scare off the soccer moms?

Anyway, the "War of the Worlds" is ridiculous. The sad thing is that right beside this game on the shelf will probably be dozens of high-selling games with anime cover art on them (Dragonball, etc.) so why are PlayIt still marketing to the west like it's 1985?

I'm just glad we didn't have to go through a 1+ year long thread this time to figure out what the hell this PlayIt release is.

If this actually sells well they better not think their modifications are what were responsible, otherwise our future may hold further translated wonders ("Psyvariar 2: Return Of The King", "Espgaluda: The Fantastic Four"...)

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:59 pm

Thunder Force wrote:If this actually sells well they better not think their modifications are what were responsible, otherwise our future may hold further translated wonders ("Psyvariar 2: Return Of The King", "Espgaluda: The Fantastic Four"...)

"Gunbird: The Aviator"
"Mushihime-sama: A Bug's Life"
"Kingdom Grand Prix: 2 Fast 2 Furious"

Heck, we could make a whole new thread out of this.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:18 pm