Nintendo Download: 14 April 2009 (Japan)

A downloadable manga? That's a first, but it'd never catch on here (thank god). I'm not sure why Mappy costs more there, 500 points was perfect for such an ancient VCA title.

....I feel sorry for Japan....ANYONE HERE FROM THERE SO I CAN LAUGH AT YOU?

Cool you can download manga now! Sweeet.
lol sumos must get MEGA wegies all the time.

Hudson picked up the VC version of Der Langrisser? Wow... that kinda sorta gives me some hope that we'll see Warsong over here in North America, if Hudson is willing to pick that one up as well.

We'll never see Langrisser II or Der Langrisser, unfortunately, but for the love of all things sacred, give us Warsong!

SUPER DUPER SUMOS! XD

Actually this is the second manga from Sunsoft on WiiWare; I cannot recall the name of the first but I'm pretty sure it has English subtitles available which spawned rumours that this service could end up getting release overseas; no clue about this one though.

Hudson seems keen to do the worldwide thing with the properties they're releasing; I wouldn't put it past them to localise Langrisser, but you could be right Mr. Yogurt...

looks at sumo game oooooooooh

@anthonyb: God is capitalized. Its Good Friday, at least do that much

For once, I dont care about the JP releases. Usually they get uber stuff, but not this time.

I believe the sumo game is actually supposed to be a sequel to a sumo series Tecmo has been making for a long time, Tsuppari Oozumou. There's a few old installments on Japan's VC too.

OTT? Must be getting old, can't decipher jibberish like I used to.

Der Langrisser!!! I want it, I hear it's amazing!

I wouldnt mind seeing that sumo game in NA. A sumo game would be extremely fun in my idea of it. I'll wait for a review first, though.

Mappy costs 800 points there.

Laugh at you? They still get 5 games instead of our 2 or 1.

Also, was Mappy ever released in original form in Japan?

@Peznaze-OTT: Over the top.

if the points convert directly, then it is really expensive! 500 points for some crappy manga...

Has anyone forgotten we pay too much for Mega Drive Titles compared to the Japanese? I doubt they would care that one title is overpriced compared to the fact they have Panel De Pon! D:

@i8cookie
I dunno, I havn't read it, BUT considering that most go for $12 to $15 in America, I think it is a good deal. Assuming that they are as long as the standard ones

lucasarts please come to VC

@RadioShadow: word, I only have one Mega Drive title for my PAL Wii and am very happy to pay only 600 for them on the Japanese Wii.

Since the overall releases aren't thrilling me I may decide to get something next week with which to tittlate y'all...

@ 14. MarkyVigoroth

Yes it did, it was MADE in Japan.

@Bahamut: Why do you keep doing that? I mean really, how did you make it through Okami? >_>

On topic: All of those are pretty meh...

So Europe still only gets VC releases every other week?

Bleh!

I wonder why japan has to pay more for arcade titles. Meh they get Mega Drive titles on the cheap anyway, so it's not a huge loss.

Arrrggghhh! Tinge of jealousy!

I thought MD games were cheaper in Japan because the original console was blown out by the SFC and PCE.
(then again, they don't charge more for PCE games)

@Popyman: Whether the word is capitalized depended on context. If you're talking about the great god Zeus or like that, it's not capitalized. If you're saying "thank God," that is meant to refer to the Christian God, therefore making it a proper name. All the god stuff in Okami is fictional, so none of it requires capitalization.

On topic...I don't care if this stuff is mostly crap, it's still FIVE GAMES! How long has it been since we had anywhere NEAR that many releases, not counting the Arcade launch a couple weeks ago (which was FAR too unusual a circumstance to count)?

As far as that goes, I'm kinda annoyed that Europe got THREE GAMES this week! Based on recent history, that's a LOT, and it makes NA the only region to not see some sort of increase in releases post-system update. Add to that the fact that NA also didn't get Majora this week, and I'm not all that happy with NOA's release choices lately.

Of course, this is less of a problem than it could be because I have plenty of other stuff to play anyway whilst playing catch-up on downloads, but it still REALLY bothers me when one of the other regions (or worse, BOTH) gets a lot more stuff than we do.

I'm curious, though. Why did this site suddenly start announcing Japanese releases on a week-by-week basis? I was very surprised when that started happening.

i want to play Ozeki Thrust

Not an exciting week for Japan by any means, but that Sumo Wrestling game looks kinda fun.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071223031133/http://www.vc-reviews.com/

Downloadable manga? The Wii really is becoming versatile...

@Stuffgamer1: Well, it's something I keep track of, so we figured why not post it here. Sometimes it's a good preview of stuff that could be coming down the pipe like Bubble Bobble, Puzzle Bobble, Rainbow Islands and Kimi to Boku to Rittai.

@Sean Aaron: That makes sense, I guess. All it's really done for me so far is made me even more sick of our small releases compaired to their gigantic ones. sigh

I'm planning on checking out that Sumo game. I have no idea where I found the name or else they've changed it because it's actually called Tsuppari Sumoo Wii Heya (Wii Strut Sumo Stable?). It's 1000 points, so I'll wait to see if there's anything in next week's releases before committing to it right now.