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Siliconera have found a US Trademark filing which appears to indicate that Hudson are undertaking the localisation of Grand Prix's 2008 arcade-style shooter Shootanto: Kakohen in what is sure to please folk curious about this currently Japanese-only title.
The game was released in December 2008 and got some attention due to its off-beat concept of having the player control a monkey who throws coconuts and bombs at various prehistoric beasties coming towards the bottom of the screen in a gameplay style reminiscent of classic arcade games Cabal and Blood Brothers. The monkey gradually "evolves" into a human, whilst foes range from dinosaurs to giant bugs, sabre cats and lizard men through three stages that can be tackled by 1 or 2 players.
According to the filing the game will be called Shootanto: Evolutionary Mayhem, though Hudson have yet to make any official announcement. This marks their first time publishing a WiiWare title from another developer so it will be interesting to see if any other Japanese WiiWare exclusives are handled by Hudson in the future.
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Grand Prix are also working on a sequel to Shootanto: Kakohen (Past Chapter) called Shootanto: Miraihen (Future Chapter). So far little is known about the latter title outside of it having at least one stage that appears to be set in World War II.
[source siliconera.com]
Comments 13
I never did put up first impressions of this title because it looked like Shootanto: Miraihen was coming sooner and I was going to do a big Shootanto post.
Screenshots for Miraihen were released in January -- hope this doesn't mean it got canned!
I can't say I'm excited. I remember reading an import review of Shootanto: Kakohen that said it was slow and poorly designed, ultimately getting 1 star out of 5. Oops!
I had a strange feeling it would come but that doesn't mean I'll be getting it...
And I swear, if Hudson brings more titles over (especially the ones that, y'know, I really want to come over), I'm gonna love them even more.
YES, I had all but given up hope of ever playing this on my Wii! Do want!
Do you spell tire with a "y" in Europe? I've never seen it that way before.
@Toddr: Yeah. "I'm beginning to tire of this tyre!"... You know, something you might write if you were tired of a tyre. Same sound, different meaning, different spelling!
The more Japanese wiiware games the better I say.
We have Hanabi for vc so why not?
I have no idea what to think of this...
Doesn't look too appealing to me.
Bleh! Just leave it where it is...
At the end of the day its kind of a shooter isn't it? That itself interests me.
I can see right-wing Christians verbally cursing this game. I can't wait to play it.
It is a shooter; it's not brilliant, but it was cheap and fun.
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