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Here we have all the games in the Shop Section.
PS Vita
One on One Beat Em Up
Here is the formula for Shinovi Versus: play as a pretty lady with some serious weaponry, such as pigtails with rotating blades. Clear a small section of the stage by taking on hordes of adversaries, often fellow ladies. Progress through the level to meet the boss. Power up and reveal (via an anime sequence) a skimpier outfit and seemingly boosting your stats other than your vital stats. Give boss a good beating and cause her to lose items of clothing (again via anime sequences.) Defeat boss, end level. Stylishly done with a real aplomb and an appreciation of the mass market as much as the doujin title. Hats off (and not just to protect the boss’ modesty.) Its more chefs hats in Dekamori as players button press to the onscreen rhythm helping the girls whisk up a culinary storm whilst bizarrely losing their clothes at the same time. Some even being squirted with chocolate sauce. An unusual combination of ladies and the Japanese love haute cuisine.
Super Famicom
Simulation
Build and run your very own high school. Thought must first go into the building planning, then into how to make the students improve in the subjects they are struggling in. Sports days allow or some good old button bashing and holidays mean for trips to the seaside.
PC Engine HU Card
A Bit Special
Paperboy style action in that you run around town on a bicycle or moped delivering items to the good folk, but freer than Paperboy as there is no forced scrolling. The bike needs pedalling via the joypad and is slower, but it doesn’t require fuel stops like the moped. As expected, its not a simple task of getting from A to B: the police, the obligatory oil slicks, traffic and obasan’s on mopeds conceive to hinder your progress. Known in Japan as Kattobi Takuhai Kun.
Neo Geo Pocket
Simulation
Colourful slot machine game with Mexican themed reels including obligatory sun, sombrero and tequila symbols. Gamble your nudges.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Draw string bag featuring Nezuko from the hit anime series with elegant Japanese print design and a generous size to make it practical for use.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Very tasteful kimono shaped pouch with acrylic charm on the zip for ease in opening. Perfect for the Demon Slayer fanatic.
Merchandise
Merchandise
A very nicely designed A4 file to reward those preordering the sword slashing, supernatural game in Japan. Japanese inspired design with Tengu and fox masked character illustrations. Full title of the game: Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba The Hinokami Chronicles.
Merchandise
Magazine
First issue as the Dreamcast takes up the Saturn’s baton. The adverts are very well drawn and Saturn games still feature. Sonic Adventure, Sega Rally 2, Kita e, D2, Frame Gride, Blue Stinger, Climax Landers, Evolution, Incoming, Aero Dancing, Buggy Heat, Power Stone, Seventh Cross and Tetris 4D all feature along with a briefer look at upcoming releases at the time. Virtua Fighter 3tb, Pen Pen Triathlon, July and Godzilla get play guides along wit a couple of Saturn titles.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Anime poster awarded as a preorder gift in Christmas 2010.
Gamecube
Quiz
A quiz game including Bingo and Roulette that is great for gamers looking to boost their Japanese ability and kanji count, alongside a good bit of general knowledge. With questions as varied as from Cambodian temples to chemicals of the brain, the mic fitted with button adds to the authenticity. I will have a B please Bob.
Playstation
Simulation
Live the childhood dream and put on your white drivers gloves and kick back in your drivers cabin as you ferry the good citizens of Tokyo around the Yamanote Line amongst others: the busiest and most famous train line in Japan with 30 stations. Keep to the timetable with varying light and weather conditions including some torrential downpours. Brings a new dimension to on the rails gameplay and adds a new aspect to the series with full motion captured graphics.
PS2
Simulation
Great weather effects as drivers whiz through suburban and metropolitan Japan ensure the workers and schoolchildren get to where they need to be on time. Its crucial to keep up speed, but signals and stopping distances must be observed in a land where trains stop to coach markings on the platform. Highly unusual.
Playstation
Rhythm
Self-titled musical adventure game, creators follow our funky dolphin through a showcase of techno infested waters, swimming through underwater cables to beautifully illuminated crystal mines with clams opening and flowers blooming to the beats.
Playstation
Sports
Horse racing and breeding for the Playstation with very nice graphics. Its very compelling to bring up a young foal to eventually win the cup, before being put out to pasture.
Nintendo 64
Sports
Horse racing and breeding for the 64 with very nice graphics in that distinctive 64 style. Its very compelling to bring up a young foal to eventually win the cup, before being put out to pasture.
Dreamcast
Sports
Or Lets Make a Race Horse as the popular Sega Sports series changes from baseball and football to breeding and training a derby winner. Strangely compelling as you build up the race tracks to the most prestigious of courses.
Dreamcast
Sports
Or Lets Make a Race Horse as the popular Sega Sports series changes from baseball and football to breeding and training a derby winner. Strangely compelling as you build up the race tracks to the most prestigious of courses.
Super Famicom
Action
Desert Strike caused quite a storm when released with its tight controls and excellent mission based gameplay from taking out power stations to rescuing POW, you really felt the power of the chopper to make a difference. Completing a level rewarded a mini sequence of politically charged cinematics. The final level required various briefings to be completed in the one mission and having gone through so much hard work the fear of being shot down was overwhelming.
Sega Saturn
Stimulation
Expertly realised animation shows the power of hardware in the right hands in this yellow label adventure. All is not what it seems on the island of Desire.
PS4
Action
Like a Hollywood Blockbuster, Destiny 2 grabs the bull by the horns and charges for its entire duration with relentless combat, huge pyros and dramatic score with obligatory voice acting.
Playstation
One on One Beat Em Up
Sweepingly huge arenas as Koei invigorates the fight fest by making battles projectile based. Players never go split screen like DragonBall Z however: they are always on the same screen. Innovative and well executed.
Miscellaneous Games
Simulation
Conan, star of the Case Closed anime, gets cut loose on the Bandai Super Note Club with this adventure for the little known curio format. Choosing different options in game affects the outcome of the story. The cart also includes mini games of the Skateboard Chase, 3D Maze and Kick Out.
Soundtracks
Soundtrack
Four track pre order gift for fans of the gruff detective who came to fame originally in manga form.
Switch
Shoot Em Up
Not sure when a hard rock riff became de rigueur for shoot ’em ups, but it certainly helps to grit ones teeth through the bullet hell. Lovely parallax scrolling often reveals the boss in wait which is ominously circling in the background.
PS2
Action
Gothic Splendour meets Castlevania style Transylvania as our J Rock style hero slices up all and sundry in order to prevent being over whelmed. Stylishly executed both in terms of the gameplay and in terms of the hero’s actions.
PS2
Action
Gothic Splendour meets Castlevania style Transylvania as our J Rock style hero slices up all and sundry in order to prevent being over-whelmed. Stylishly executed both in terms of the gameplay and in terms of the hero’s actions.
PS2
Action
Fluid and frantic gameplay as players leap around levels avoiding the undead with rolls and leaps before unleashing a volley of fire from the twin pistols or slicing and dicing with a traditional katana. Epoch defining PS2 action.
PS3
Action
Capcom injects new life into its DMC series with stunning cityscapes to test out your combo skills and a quite staggering attention to graphical detail promoting this to the high art genre. The waves of assaults can be relentless, yet the control remains intuitive giving great satisfaction when a perfect slice and dice combination rolls off the pad. Top hats off to Capcom for maintaining its triple-A status despite the shift in format to the PS3.
PS4
Action
Capcom injects new life into its DMC series with five playable characters, stunning cityscapes to test out your combo skills and a quite stunning attention to graphical detail promoting this to the high art genre. Alas the waves of assaults can be relentless, yet the control remains intuitive giving great satisfaction when a perfect slice and dice combination rolls off the pad. Top hats off to Capcom for maintaining its triple A status despite the shift in format.
PS2
Action
Its hard to avoid the cliche gothic splendour when sampling Capcom’s tribute to the darker side of life as players bask in moonlight diffracting through stain glass windows and the broad moonbeams formed in the dusty cathedrals. Yet little time for basking is permitted: the action is fast and relentless as the series really hits its straps.