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Featuring:

• CLANNAD Side Stories (PC)
• Onechanbara Z2: Chaos (PC)
• Twinkle Star Sprites (PC)

Also - "Siren: Blood Curse" (PS3) is included in June's Playstation Plus games. Episodes 1 - 12!

Random game music of the day: BB Queens singing the Afterburner song

I stumbled upon this earlier:

It's B.B. Queens singing the theme to the 1980s Sega game Afterburner. It has lyrics?!

B.B. Queens are perhaps best known for singing the ridiculously catchy Chibi Mariko-chan anime song "Odoru Ponpokorin", so this is different... :)

Japanese video game English localisation news - 80

Featuring:

• Muv-Luv (PC)
• Biblinthus (PC)
• Dragon Quest Builders (PS4, PS Vita)
• Corona Blossom (PC: crowdfunding)
• Sharin no Kuni (PC: crowdfunding)
• Yomawari: Night Alone (PS Vita, PC)
• Kindred Spirits On The Roof Drama CD #2 (video file, PC via Steam)

Japanese video game English localisation news - 79

Featuring:

• Ne no Kami - The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto (PC: crowdfunding)

Also, the VisualArts / Key visual novel "Harmonia" has been delayed.

Japanese video game English localisation news - 78

Featuring:

• Steins;Gate 0 (PS4, PS Vita)
• Ke-Tsu-No-Ana (PC)
• I Am Setsuna (PS4, PC)
• Trouble Witches Origin (PC)
• War of the Human Tanks - Limited Operations

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It's entirely a Steam round-up today.

Featuring:

• Higurashi When They Cry - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi (PC)
• Umineko When They Cry (Question Arc) (PC)
• Cherry Tree High Girls' Fight (PC)
• SENRAN KAGURA SHINOVI VERSUS (PC)

Rare track "Xanadu" by Anthem is now available to buy on Amazon Music

This is really something special if you're a fan of the old Japanese metal band ANTHEM like I am.

It's a promotional song that they made for the Falcom video game Xanadu back in 1986.

I've been looking for this track for years, thinking it was only ever going to be available on rare import 1980s vinyl, and I thought I'd never be able to buy a copy.

But here we are:



I just "bought" this track for myself with the free MP3 store credit Amazon give you when you buy something on Amazon Prime and tell them not to hurry about it. :)

The sound quality is as good as you'd expect from any of their CD releases of their 1980s albums. Absolutely 100% crystal clear!

I tried looking further, and... alas, still no sign of Xanadu Act 2! And if only they had the Falcom Special Box '90 up there for Holy Fighter and Protecters.

But still, wow! Getting a copy of this track, especially for free in a promotion... it's like receiving a surprise gold bar!

Japanese video game English localisation news - 76

Featuring:

• htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary (PC)
• Assault Suit Leynos (PS4, PC)
• "Love, Guitar, and Nashville Skyline" (PC)
• Conveni Dream (3DS)
• Gran Turismo Sport (PS4)
• King of Fighters XIV (PS4)
• Romancing SaGa 2 (mobile)
• Dragonball Xenoverse 2 (PS4, Xbox One, PC)

Information sources for Japanese gaming news

I thought I'd post a list of sources for the English-language Japanese game news I've been posting.

I guess it's quite European-centric, but then... I'm in Europe! The internet pushes me in a direction...

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Featuring:

• Wild Arms 3 (PS4)
• Valkyria Chronicles Remastered (PS4)
• Shall We Date? Eternal Vows (mobile)
• Yomawari: Night Alone (PC)
• Phantom Brave (PC)
• Attack On Titan Wings of Freedom (A.O.T.) (PS3, PS Vita, PS4)
• The Orchard of Stray Sheep (PC - Steam Greenlight)

Japanese video game English localisation news - 74

Featuring:

• Final Fantasy X / X2 HD (PC)
• Yo-kai Watch 2 (3DS)
• Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers (PS4)
• Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics (PS Vita, PS4)
• Dead Or Alive Extreme 3 Free-To-Play-Edition (PS4, PS Vita)
• Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (iOS, Android)

Japanese video game English localisation news - 73

Featuring:

• Style Savvy: Fashion Forward (3DS)
• The Leisure of Grisaia (PC)
• The House in Fata Morgana (PC)

Japanese video game English localisation news - 72

Featuring:

• FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster (PC)
• MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death (Vita)
• Malus Code (PC)
• Megadimension Neptunia VII (PC)
• Helen's Mysterious Castle (PC)
• Murasaki (PC)
• Eternal Destiny (PC)

OST similarities: Ys IV vs Ultraman Leo

My brother and I were listening to the Super Famicon Ys IV soundtrack over the weekend, and noticed this.

Compare:

Ultraman Leo song "Hoshizora no Ballad" (from the mid 1970s)

And this is the tune we were listening to - Ys IV : Mask of the Sun - song "I Want to Be Gentle" (well, that's what YouTube calls it)

(NB: YouTube timed embed code appears to be a little dodgy, wait a few seconds for the song to start, or manually skip to 51:34)

Or, the nice FM oscillator / PC Engine version of the same Ys IV tune (also available on Amazon!):

Very similar, eh? Don't know whether this is the same composer, or based on the same folk tune or lullaby or something.... or a happy coincidence or it's just plain old plagiarism. Very similar, though!