Today was the very specific day on which Amazon.com would take delivery of Hori's EX Pad 2. Yeah, it didn't quite happen like that. Amazon US didn't even bother making up a new date, Play-Asia still lists "Nov 2009" for the US version, and "December 2009" for JP, while Amazon Japan has a December 31st. So in true Hori tradition, this one will be available whenever you find it in a store.
In more concrete news, Mushihime-sama Futari Ver.1.5 is hitting the Xbox this Thursday, or earlier as is usually the case with these things. This one is more important than your average 360 import shooter though, because Cave will use the sales numbers from exporters (the guys who sell to people like Play-Asia and NCSX) to gauge foreign player interest. To help it shift as many copies as possible they've decided to forgo region coding, making this baby region-free and playable on all the world's Xboxes. High import sales equal more localizations, for those who haven't had their morning coffee yet. Cave games have been notoriously scarce in other territories, when even the likes of Chaos Field have made it over the Pacific. Unfortunately, I don't think they'll have much luck with that little experiment. Mushihime wasn't very warmly received by the shooting crowd, especially the Cave faithful. It obviously won them over with it's quality, some claiming that it's in fact Cave's best work to date, but most "casual" shooting fans don't appreciate the magical anime girls thing Cave has been doing for a few years now. If they ever finish that Ketsui port, that would be a better indicator of Cave's worldwide fanbase.
A last minute addition for me is the 3D Dot Game Heroes OST. The game is an homage to everything 8-bit, while the music is more along the 16-bit lines. Just how I like it.
Next week we get Yggdra Unison, a cellphone game ported to the DS, and Kamen Rider Climax Heroes W, a PS2 game ported to the Wii. Yggdra is getting bought no-questions-asked. I only put Climax Heroes down because I was in a fighting game mood, and it was announced before BlazBlue and KOF hit. If it's good I'll pick it up, otherwise, pass. Those "sentai" heroes are one aspect of Japanese pop media I can do without.
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