Black Rock Shooter The Game

I'm only posting this here because not only does the game look Pretty damn good but it is also very likely that Nis America will be releasing this game overseas.

That and the fact that it has a totally fucking awesome theme song.

The article states that it's been tough to sell PSP games in the west... and that's apparently the reason why the Black Rock Shooter game isn't quite confirmed for localization.

A few months ago, NISA released a port of Phantom Brave on PSP. And as of this writing, NISA is still planning to release the second Cladun game on PSN.

Other companies who release niche games are still releasing PSP software. Atlus plans to release Persona 2 Innocent Sin in a few months, and Aksys is planning to release Fate Extra and Hakuouki in the near future.

Its official, we're getting this game overseas.

Hooray for NISA. Seriously, they've done a lot lately.

America and Europe? God damn it NISA I love you so much

Estimated shipping time: 2-4 weeks.

I wasn't sure if an translation would happen. I'm glad to hear it's been confirmed.

Gamertell's article on Black Rock Shooter says, "We don’t know when it will be out, if it will be on a UMD or a PSN exclusive or what it will cost." I suppose all this will be announced in the next weeks or months... With the Vita slated for worldwide release around early 2012, I wonder if NISA will benefit by releasing Black Rock Shooter before then, or around the same time. Also, since not many physical stores carry more than a dozen PSP games, and since there may not be very many people looking to buy it, I would not be surprised if it's only sold through PSN.

So what is this. I've seen art on various anime-tangential sites and imageboards and it always struck me as something with a fanbase built on an unsubstantial foundation like Tohou, TF 2 youtube videos or that Hatsune Miku, except with a goofy engrish name.

It started out as a Darker and Edgier Vocaloid fan vid of Miku Hatsune. Then it got really popular

I still don't know what the background and morsels of the premise is all about. On that note, whenever I see BRS I think of Asuza with a BFG

What profit is it to a man, when he gains his money, but loses his internet? Anonymous 16:26 I believe...

The whole thing was unsubstantial in the beginning, just like Touhou. The fandom ran away with what would otherwise have been just one of the millions of illustrated Vocaloid vids out there. Then at some point commercial Powers That Be took notice and unlike ZUN, huke didn't exactly care about keeping his baby indie.

A great man once said, "Keeping it real doesn't pay the bills."

When I said unsubstantial, I meant memetic, how a lot of the fans bases fan work and fanon of of other fan works and not the game itself, like those asinine TF 2 youtube videos. And if I take the info from this thread as confirmation, it is entirely memetic.

Even if this turn out to be the next great franchise it will still be built on a 'unsubstantial' foundation of memes. Cool Spot could be remade into a game so beautiful it would end all DRM, burn Bobby Kotick into ash, bring a tear to Segata Sanshiro's eye and finally lay Sonic's soul to rest, but it would still be based on a fucking soda.

I'd call a meme more substantial than a single man/woman/etc.'s momentary flash of genius and yet the latter has produced a lot of classics.

Updating this thread.

Apparently NISA is not sure of when they will actually release the game here.

If they release if after the PS Vita comes out in the NA and EU then it will most likely be a PSN-only title.

The soundtrack is composed by Manabu Namiki.

Yes, Namiki.

He even confirmed it on Twitter.

What.

edited 16th Oct '11 10:36:23 PM by TsundeRay

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they probably waiting for Vita released date