Many American gamers would consider today's Japanese VC update to have two winners: the isometric RPG
Landstalker, and Konami's wonderful SNES shooter
Gradius III. Japanese gamers, for whom, of course, this update is intended, would be just as likely to gravitate toward the Famicom version of Namco arcade "classic"
The Tower of Druaga, which, uh, they can enjoy with our compliments. We keep getting fooled by
Druaga's appearances in
Namco Museum collections into thinking that it's really a good game and we're just missing something, but we really don't think we are. It's a brutally hard maze game with unresponsive controls and no point. It's part RPG and part action game and all
arrrrrrggghhhh.This week's Japanese Virtual Console releases:
Nintendo of Europe isn't wasting any time -- when they tell you the Neo Geo is coming, they mean it. The first Neo Geo title, Fatal Fury, debuted today on the VC, along with four other games. That's quite a haul! We expect there are some wallets that are hurting today after the bevy of releases.
