I think it looks like a hot mess. Like the developers just lifted animations from anime and went 'yeah, that sorta works'. In the fights the character doesn't even seem to be looking at the monsters she's clobbering.

namco bandai, excuse me

Having two souls is a disability.

I didn't realize it was a disability that turned me on until I saw this, though.

It says right in there, she's got a bad case if two souls. How more disabled can you get?

anita could never understand.

you suck

I don't care what any of you say, Capcom is still a fun company, and I loved the new DMC, especially the Bill O'Riley boss fight.

I haven't run into any Japanese writing that terrible, unless the translators/fansubers are REALLY generous and self-aware.

it was intentionally written that way to sound like that. that's how it goes.

look, a person of low culture like you could never appreciate a high taste game such as this. ;)

It's intentional. I've bitched at length about this problem on various GameCenter CX fan pages - it's what ruined the RGM localization project - and I've probably ranted about it here. Rest assured, they know exactly what they're doing.

Basically, there's this horrible, horrible corner of American marketing that's decided, when Americans see something that's obviously from Japan, they want to hear it narrated to them in the most obnoxious, faux-melodramatic, and intentionally awkward manner possible. I guess it's supposed to remind us of a really bad Shaw Brothers dub, and hey, it worked for Most Extreme Elimination, so why wouldn't it work for Hurf Durf Durf? In fairness, it does sometimes work on casual Japanophiles, idiots, and small children, but I'd have a hard time imagining even fans of G4 and Spike TV getting behind this particular trailer.

G4, to their credit, broadcast Ninja Warrior/Sasuke with just subtitles for the original Japanese announcer.

casual Japanophiles

Lets all just sit back for a minute and enjoy this thing EvilHomer just gave us.

yep

Narrator may actually make her look credible for once, am I right?

You know what I'm talkin about!

It's all part of the plan. Nerd Dworkin gets to grandstand about bullshit, Lunar the Crappier Star gets free publicity, both sides win. That's how fag dances between self-righteous moralists and "socially irresponsible" entertainment producers always go.

At least Sarks is a lot hotter than Tipper Gore. That's progress.

Gross.

That's how I found this thing. When I first heard of it, I was hoping it was going to be something like Namco's 'tales' series. I lost a lot of that faith when I saw the NIS logo, then the rest of it upon hitting play.

At least Tales of Xillia is right around the corner.

Shin megami Tensei IV as well, now that I think about it. I'm pretty well set.

To be fair Nikon, you should have seen that coming given that the trailer literally tells you that you'll be repeating the same things over and over again.

NIS has made some very good games!

This... is not one of them.

I really enjoyed Disgaea, but I really can't think of anything else I've played from them that lived up to the hype, I hate to say it.

The 5 seconds of gameplay honestly looks terrible.

I /think/ 1:30-1:34 is the movement system, and it looks like they tried to combine old school roguelike games, Resident Evil, and anime, and failed horribly at it...