THE MOST INTERESTING HERO IN 3D

Anyone following Atlus should have a pretty solid glimpse of what they are all about. Even though they are in the gaming business, they don’t strive to make something lighthearted serious. In fact, they intend to bolster that idea both with their upcoming title 3D Dot Game Heroes and this particular vignette. Titled “The Most Interesting Hero in 3D”, this quick video shows some of the bigger enemies and bullet points of the game.

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The ever popular side-scrolling shooter Metal Slug returns in the form of a PSP game titled Metal Slug XX. Originally released in 1999, the classic 2D run n’ gun shooter Metal Slug X is getting a bit of a facelift on the PSP. The high resolution 2D art brings to life all the stages in the game. Metal Slug XX will include the original stages along with adding co-op support via Ad-Hoc Wireless Lan and the popular Combat School mode. In Combat School you will go through 70 mini game challenges and if you do well enough you can unlock some fancy new weapons. In order to play Metal Slug XX’s Co-op mode you and a friend will have to have a copy of the game.

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I was recently able to attend a live demonstration of 3D Dot Game Heroes, the upcoming parody/homage action/adventure title under the Atlus umbrella. During the demo, Atlus USA’s Manager of PR and Sales Aram Jabbari went through some of the bigger bullet points and finer details of the upcoming game.

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3D Dot Game Heroes, the upcoming retro throwback gaming homage/parody action adventure role playing game straight out of the minds at Atlus, has been garnering a lot of attention for its three-dimensional pixels. The unusually breathtaking visuals of the game are both an impressive technical accomplishment and an interesting way to tap into the player’s imagination. Working further towards this ideal, 3D Dot Game Heroes will include an apparently-robust character editor where the possibilities are seemingly limitless.

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The PC indie hit is coming to Xbox 360 Live Arcade!  Enjoy exciting first-person brawling action, brought to you by the folks at Atlus.  The game will be available for XBLA March 31, 2010.

While you wait, why don’t you check out the fresh new screenshots, posted in the gallery below?  Or, you can check out a video in case you missed it.

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Atlus is certainly doing their fans service when it comes to information and media related to their upcoming Wii game Trauma Team.  Check out the latest screenshots in the gallery below, or visit the website to check out the latest developer’s featurette, “The Creation of Character”: http://www.atlus.com/traumateam/featurettes.html.

Although the release date has been pushed back into May (check it out on May 18, 2010, to be exact), fans certainly have plenty to look forward to.

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If you’re looking forward to the Ultimate Edition of Zeno Clash for XBLA, then you’ll enjoy this video, which shows off the new attacks found in this updated version.

“Initially, ACE Team had offered to demonstrate the new moves in Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition in person for the Atlus staff,” chuckled a grimacing Aram Jabbari, Manager of Public Relations and Sales for Atlus.  “We all thought they were kidding when they talked about cool-sounding moves like the ‘headbutt’ and ’spin kick.’  After a week in the hospital, I’m happy to say that fans can expect to find those and equally punishing new attacks in Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition, and that the moves deliver the same satisfyingly visceral feel as all the other injury-inducing first-person melee combat Zeno Clash has to offer.  In other good news, the doctor says the swelling on my head will go away in about a month or so.”

For more info on the game, which is set to release March 30, 2010, exclusively for XBox Live Arcade, check out http://www.zenoclash.com, or scroll down for an ACE Team roundtable interview, discussing frequently asked questions about the upcoming title.

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The folks at Atlus don’t like to disappoint, so they’ve provided us with more screens and a video that gives you a sense of the flow of the game.  Check those all out below.  A word of warning, though: the video is all in Japanese (with no subtitles)!  For more details on the behind-the-scenes of Trauma Team, check out the full developer’s featurette here.
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Oftentimes when a developer tries to make a title more “accessible,” that means serious “hardcore” gamers are left in the dust with a dumbed-down experience.  However, Atlus, in its latest blog post on the upcoming Wii game Shiren The Wanderer, Scott Strichart, project lead, assures us you will find plenty of strategy and challenge, especially when it comes to the game’s bosses.

In the blog entry,  Mr. Strichart emphasizes the importance of preparation for these battles, especially the “escape scroll” item:

“There is no shame in going into a battle, testing the waters, and running away before you find one of the game’s hundred-plus ways to die. This allows you to throw yourself back into the fight armed with knowledge, and it’s a great way to pad your levels! If I could put a “theme” on all of the blogs for this game, it would be that caution will win the day.”

For those of you die-hard Shiren fans who laugh in the face of such claims, don’t worry: if the main bosses aren’t challenging enough, there’s always the post-game.  Hardcore players only, who know the game inside and out, have acquired the best gear, and developed a perfect strategy.  Less serious fans can skip these, of course, as finishing the main game is still a significant accomplishment.

Famitsu rated the game nearly perfect (9/9/8/9), and you don’t have long before you can try this incredibly addicting game for yourself.  Shiren The Wanderer comes to Wii on February 9, 2010.   For more on the game, check out the official website: http://www.atlus.com/shiren.

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Atlus and Persona series fans had heard about the infamous Persona 3 Portable months ago, but that was sadly for the Japanese version.  While SMT fanatics played through Persona PSP, we waited (as patiently as we could) for today: the official announcement that Persona 3 Portable or P3P, will arrive in North America in July (both on UMD and via PSN).

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With plenty of buzz abound for Atlus’ upcoming retro throwback “homage” title 3D Dot Game Heroes, the company has decided to release some new screenshots pimping the game’s English localization. The screens clearly show the attention to detail both for the game’s unique three-dimensional pixel-filled graphics and the overall “old-school” aesthetic that the game has come to be known for.

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Because Atlus doesn’t have a European branch, Japanese games localized by them in the US must find a different publisher for PAL territories.  This usually means long delays.  For example, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, Knights in the Nightmare, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier, The Dark Spire, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, Crimson Gem Saga, and Demon’s Souls… etc. haven’t even been announced there. However, SouthPeak Games has decided to pick up 3D Dot Game Heroes for Europe, which is good news, as the game is scheduled to hit store shelves in May, the same time frame as Atlus in North America.

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Atlus’ Shiren the Wanderer, based upon the popular Japanese Mystery Dungeon series, is something both old and new. Though the series has been prevalent on the other side of the globe for quite some time, North American gamers were first introduced to the randomized dungeon-crawling with 2008’s release of Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer for Nintendo DS.  Now, this series (one that aims for hardcore role-playing gamers) is coming to the Nintendo Wii.

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Like to shoot stuff?  Like when stuff gets shot by you?  Then this trailer might be right in your wheelhouse because it has more bullets than any trailer in the history of video games.  Yeah, I said it.  You heard it here at Spawn Kill first.  There is such a hale of bullets in this trailer that you may need to visit the hospital when you’re through to treat those crossfire wounds. 

The trailer features more than just bullets though.  It also shows off a bit of EPIC BOSS FIGHTS, lots of co-op multiplayer via the snazzy new adhoc system, and just the game in general.  It looks whacky.  It looks zany.  It looks like it stepped right out of the bowling alley I grew up in.  Check out it and prepare to be blown away.  Praise be to Atlus. 

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It feels good to be an Atlus fan.  Where other publishers might disappoint and money-grub, Atlus fans can basically always expect to find something around the corner to look forward to.  2010 brings an announcement no different with a game called Hexyz Force.  Hexyz Force is an RPG on the PSP, and that’s rarely a bad thing.

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