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Warriors of the Lost Empire picked up for European gamers
Apparently, it's no secret that Lost Regnum didn't go over very well in Japan once it was released on the PSP. Something about it does seem a little too western -- we mean that the Japanese probably wouldn't welcome something like Wizardry very warmly, despite its success in the US. Poorly received games in Japan usually don't get localized elsewhere, but European publisher Mercury Games picked this one up and renamed it Warriors of the Lost Empire -- so Europe will get its hands on another dungeon-crawling hack n' slash action RPG and the US can import it if they really want. The title doesn't look that bad, really, so pehaps it really just wasn't the type of game for the Japanese audience? We'll scour for some more information and let you know if it's something to pay heed to.
Find painting zen on the DS
Mercury Games is planning to release a series of Ertain's non-competitive DS games in the West as "Zen Games." The first game scheduled is something that recently popped up at the Renchi sale, in its Japanese incarnation as Kokoro wo Yasumeru Otona no Nurie DS. It'll be called Paint by DS here, and its user interface appears to have undergone a cosmetic makeover. Since it obviously has the same pictures, we assume that the minigames and puzzles are still there as well.We were pretty interested in the Japanese version (as some of you seemed to be), so we're pleased to have the chance to check this out whenever it comes out in the US. It'll be out in Europe on the 24th of August.[Via Game|Life]
