Resonance of cash

2010 has been pretty good so far. Three months in, and a handful of worthwhile games have dropped already. Now comes the other handful, within a single week, all for America. Resonance Of Fate is the most interesting to me. This has to be the most low profile "hardcore" game I've ever seen, even in japan. Other than upskirt screen caps of the sole female party member, I've never seen or heard anything about this game, good, bad, or indifferent. Therefore, I have no choice but to buy it and make up my own damn mind. Then the game that wasn't going to ever come over, was announced for localization with an ambiguous release date, which just happened to get finalized as the same day as ROF. God damn it, Xseed. Not only is your company name stupid, but do you realize how expensive video games are these days? Between your Fragile Into Dreams (or whatever the fuck the name wound up being) and ROF, I'm shelling out over $100. Not to be out done in the bonehead decision department, SEGA decided this Tuesday would be a great time to "release" Infinite Space, also known as Infinite Line (I knew I wasn't crazy). The word "release" is in quotes because unlike a regular game release backed up with press releases, reviews and advertising, the recent trend seems to be to just ship boxes of the things to amazon.com and hope that they get impulsively thrown into the cart during checkout. I'd be shocked if this one sells over 500 copies. Japan is also playing catchup, with Konami's Darksiders ～審判の時～ across both PS3 and 360, while the J-360 finally, maybe gets that Moe-moe 2-ji Taisen(ryaku) Ultra Deluxe.

Next week I have Red Steel 2 with Motion +, which I actually have a use for now, and Hokuto Musou, which costs like $90 for no fucking good reason. The video game industry is out to get me.