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Soul Eater: the game for blue arc enthusiasts

Posted Jun 20th 2008 10:15AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Imports, Screens


Square Enix's anime-based action game Soul Eater: Monotone Princess has just been given a Japanese release date and price: September 25, for 6,090 yen ($57). Judging from the latest (small) batch of screens, you get a lot of flashy blue lights for your money, at least. It would appear that if you want to see blue arcs more than any other element on the screen, this is your game.

Just as we saw in the last screens, any attack performed in Soul Eater results in a blue tracer. Any impact then registers as a blue circle. It's part of Soul Eater's signature look, and emphasizes the awesomeness of the game's weapons, but it's also a bunch of streaky stuff covering the screen.
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First decent screens of Soul Eater

Posted Apr 11th 2008 10:31PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Imports, Screens


We're vaguely excited about Soul Eater, even though we aren't sure we should be. We aren't the biggest anime fans in the world, but the comments on the initial Soul Eater post suggest that there's good stuff to be found in this universe, and the concept of a school for weapon creation certainly holds promise.

But as high-quality as Square Enix's games usually are, and as interesting as this game concept sounds, we have to be wary of non-RPGs from the company. There are a lot more The Bouncers, Ehrgeizes, and King's Knights in Square's history than there are Einhänders. For that matter, the crowds of generic enemies suggest a possible Kingdom Hearts-alike, which seems like a good idea given the sale of Kingdom Hearts.
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Square Enix's new Wii game: some anime thing

Posted Apr 10th 2008 11:15AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Imports, Screens


Square Enix has announced their fifth Wii game (fourth if Crystal Bearers doesn't pan out, of course), and, for the first time, it's not a Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest spinoff. Instead, it's a licensed anime/manga game! Soul Eater: Monotone Princess is based on the Soul Eater manga (and the anime that just started this week) about students in some kind of crazy school where they learn to make living weapons.

Normally we'd groan about a licensed game, but Soul Eater is an action game! It has adventure elements, of course (those still portraits of the manga's characters have got to tell the story sometime!), but it looks like a pretty cool bit of 3D weapon-based brawling.
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