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Super Swing Golf teeing off in Europe this June

Posted Apr 12th 2008 4:15PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News

Manga-fied golf title Super Swing Golf (or, as U.S. readers may know it, Super Swing Golf: Season 2) will be appearing in terminally neglected Europe this June 27th, courtesy of Rising Star Games.

As most Americans may well have already played/completed/traded in/completely forgotten about Tecmo's criminally under-rated golf game (it launched stateside back in December), it probably won't hurt to remind you that there's plenty of mascot cameo goodness, and quite a lot of a very serious sport not being taken seriously in the slightest. Which is for the best, really.

[Via press release]

More waiting for No More Heroes in Europe

Posted Feb 13th 2008 5:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Imports

European gamers are already feeling pretty sensitive about No More Heroes, since they're getting the original Japanese version and not the "extra bloody" American version. Now there's one more thing to complain about, as Rising Star Games has bumped the release date back a week from February 29th to March 7th. That's not too long to wait, but considering that the game has been out for two months in Japan and one month in the U.S., we can imagine how it would sting.

In lighter news (to distract the European audience from the boiling rage they're sinking into), check out Suda 51's joking, Suda-like design idea for an 'adult' Mario game: "Maybe Mario could wear an Italian suit and have a machine gun," he hypothesized, adding, "But Nintendo probably wouldn't like that idea." Oh, Suda, you certainly do enjoy making games about professional killers.

Gallery: No More Heroes

No More Heroes' European boxart is familiar

Posted Dec 17th 2007 12:45PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Imports

We're starting to think that Rising Star Games are taking all their cues from the Japanese release of No More Heroes. The European version of the game will, of course, lack blood like the Japanese version; this was revealed as the decision of the game's creators, Suda 51 and Yasuhiro Wada.

Now the European boxart has been released, and it features the exact same piece of artwork that the Japanese boxart used. The artwork has been tilted and, for some reason, a white haze now decorates the bottom quarter of the box. In addition, the logo has been moved around and given a border. But those are minor changes compared to the American boxart. Maybe Rising Star is exercising just a bit of safe rebellion by making extremely slight changes.

No More Heroes: possible U.S. boxart, possible attempt at placation from European publisher

Posted Dec 15th 2007 2:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Imports

Two interesting items related to localized versions of No More Heroes have popped up, and we decided to combine them despite the fact that they don't necessarily relate to one another. First, Amazon's page for the American version of No More Heroes now contains a boxart image. We have no idea if it's the final boxart or a placeholder, but it's cool and doesn't have too much clutter.

The other news tidbit is that Rising Star Games has apparently been responding to angry emails from European gamers who want ichor. The message, as reported by NeoGAFfer Dachande, says not to "rule out a revised, 18+ version released some time in 2008 incidentally."

If this happens, it's either a fan-pleasing move or an open grab at double-dippers' wallets -- or a confusing bit of marketing that will make people hesitate to buy the game the first time and, at worst, forget to buy it the second time. Most likely the statement is just Rising Star's way of trying to get people to leave them alone about the blood thing.

Suda and Wada behind bloodless No More Heroes

Posted Dec 12th 2007 4:00PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News

A recent announcement that Europe would be getting a bloodless version of No More Heroes didn't go down well with many of our bloodthirsty commenters. At the time, PAL publisher Rising Star Games refused to reveal what was behind the decision, but more light was shed on the omission earlier today, in a joint statement from director Suda51 and producer Yasuhiro Wada (pictured above unsuccessfully trying to give away free toilet roll and autographs on the streets of Akihabara).

Turns out that it was Suda and Wada themselves who decided to drop the outrageous levels of gore from the European version, citing the "broadly growing Wii market" in the region.

Not that this affects many of you, as the U.S. version still contains plenty of the crimson stuff. Buckets of it, in fact.

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Super Swing Golf teeing off in Europe this June

More waiting for No More Heroes in Europe

No More Heroes' European boxart is familiar

No More Heroes: possible U.S. boxart, possible attempt at placation from European publisher

Suda and Wada behind bloodless No More Heroes

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