![]() ![]() Well technically, they did Bandai Namco bought a controlling share of D3 Publisher back in 2009, essentially taking the company over, and at this point owns somewhere around all of the company’s stock. Wait, so why didn’t Bandai Namco release it in the US? ![]() Among the earliest of those games to come to the US was a surprisingly under-represented title dubbed Gods Eater Burst, brought to the US PSP in 2011 by D3 Publisher, back when they were releasing crazy console games instead of mobile phone games, and it drew a small amount of attention for being, basically, one of the very few US released Monster Hunter inspired games of its time. Suffice it to say, when you get beyond a certain level of popularity, other companies want to make their own version of that successful thing done their way, so in short order Japan saw all kinds of Monster Hunter inspired games (dubbed the “hunting action” genre in Japan, apparently), including Soul Sacrifice, Freedom Wars, Toukiden, Ragnarok Odyssey, Lord of Arcana and even Phantasy Star Nova to a certain extent, even though that series probably inspired Monster Hunter more than Capcom would care to admit. Japan had no such reaction at some point between the launch of the original game and the PSP releases, the reaction by the fanbase was nothing short of magical, and Monster Hunter became a major player for Capcom in Japan, to the point where we’ve seen maybe half of the releases in the series Stateside overall. When Monster Hunter came out back in 2004, the response in the US was decidedly lukewarm amongst all but a small subset of fans, though as we continued to see more and more games in the series dribble out, most of them native to the PSP, the response over here slowly improved. ![]() Well if you’re five you shouldn’t be playing the games, but okay, I’ll give it a shot. ![]() Okay, so what is God Eater? Explain it to me like I’m five. However, being that I have been eagerly awaiting this announcement since the second game released in February of this year, I am all about telling you, in great detail, why this is a really big deal, and why you should be putting in your pre-order pretty much the moment you stop reading this article. While each of those games is, in its own right, worthy of some degree of unpacking, Sean, Crystal and DTN are our resident Tales experts, Joel and Aaron would be better equipped to discuss a JoJo’s game, and Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs-Force literally came out less than a week ago in Japan, so there’s not a lot to talk about yet. This was by no means the only game they announced, of course in addition to this announcement, they also graced us with an announcement for Tales of Berseria, a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure game dubbed Eyes of Heaven, an internally developed Mobile Suit Gundam game dubbed Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs-Force, and another God Eater game, dubbed Resurrection, so it was a pretty stacked announcement all around. Well, after ten long months of hints and teases, it’s official: God Eater 2: Rage Burst has been announced for a Western release (literally less than a week after I imported it, not that I’m bitter), courtesy of Bandai Namco (Namco Bandai in the US, but I’m just going to use Bandai Namco for simplicity) themselves (EDIT: We now have an official release date see below for details). ![]()
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