Japanese Arcades July 2009 (Daemon Blade)

SelectButton.net's Tokyo Rude: King of Fighters XII was a complete failure. It was released, last month right? It's almost non-existent in arcades now. I can find the arcade release of King of Fighters 2002 Ultimate more easily than KoFXII. There's also some lone guy playing the computer at KoF2002U, and I think I'm the only one that plays XII at the arcade closest to my house (which doesn't have 2002U.)
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Tokyo Rude wrote:
Another update about a country none of you live in. I've once again found this information pretty interesting.

King of Fighters XII was a complete failure. It was released? last month right? It's almost non-existent in arcades now. I can find the arcade release of King of Fighters 2002 Ultimate more easily than KoFXII. There's also some lone guy playing the computer at KoF2002U, and I think I'm the only one that plays XII at the arcade closest to my house (which doesn't have 2002U.)

I think Tekken 6 fever is finally dying down. The most surprising thing about Tekken was the people that actually bought cards for it had a win/loss ratio of roughly 50%. This was almost every one that played the game. This pretty much reflects my opinions on Tekken, as I've always gotten halfway bored with it.

Virtua Fighter VR revision whatever is pretty mixed. Half the arcades no one will be playing it and the other half it'll be packed. Street Fighter IV has probably the best luck, with lots of Ryu and Zangiefs to go around.

Not even going to go into the Gundam games.

Though, Daemon Blade appeared on the scenes this week. I hadn't even heard of this sucker before, google tells me it's the Arcana Heart guys. I haven't played it, but stood and watched it at every arcade I've seen it at.

It looks roughly like a Saturn fighting game. I seem to remember Arcana Heart having a little more graphical muscle. As for the characters What the hell?. Oh okay, I guess that's not actually the main character or whatever. So less moe~ more garish design trainwreck.

I'll play this game tomorrow and actually report with opinons on how it plays, and not that it looks like a Guilty Gear level of cluster fuck I don't want to understand.