Zekkyo Senshi: Sakebu Rain JPN DS

[J0e Musashi]

Anyone have it yet? More importantly does anyone have it and has actually played it? Does it support English voices as I've been led to believe? Also does it support single cart multiplayer or does everyone need the game?

[r3z]

Like the look of it but I haven't ordered as it is only multiplayer (2-3 player).. say's here that it is download play only also.

Going by the demo video the commands are just going to be Japanese, although words like 'punch' and 'kick' are the same as English (apart from pronunciation). There's no reason that English voices wouldn't be recognised as long as you pronounce the words correctly - although for special actions, etc you're gonna need to be able to read Japanese or find out the commands and proper pronunciation for the Japanese words used.. and also teach them to your friends when you want to play it!

btw - the subtitle is Sakebu Rain

[Kaladron]

I've ordered this for completion's sake, since I have the other two Club Nintendo games. I'm not optimistic that I'll ever play it though - too many barriers to entry.

[importaku]

Even if you know the word commands theres parts that you have to be able to read japanese as it brings up a screen with a timer & you have to read aloud what it says before the timer runs out.

Only one person needs the game as the other people, like the link above says just use download play, however it cant be played in single player as its only for 2 or more people.

[fuse]

Don't have enough points to get this properly, but it seems to be going fairly cheap on eBay so similarly I might look to pick this up for completion's sake (G&W Collection + Tingle's Balloon Fight are still sealed on my shelf). Any idea if the reading is kanji-based, or is it Hiragana / Katakana? If it's not too kanji-heavy it might actually be a fun little practice exercise...

[Kaladron]

I have a friend who can read Japanese. Guess I'll be playing all my games with him then.

[DeathAdder]

My copy arrived today - just had a VERY quick go on the practise bit, so apologies, this will not be an in depth first play thread, just to answer a few queries.

It is download play - if you don't have another DS in the vicinity it doesn't let you get any further than the start up screen, from which you can choose rankings or download play.

So far everything has been in kana, including crucially the commands you have to shout into the mic. I've only practised the first few so far - things may change.

You control your character with a mixture of button pushes and voice commands. Pressing a button (IIRC "B") punches, but if you press it and shout "HAA!" your character does a punch and a kick.

More later.

[J0e Musashi]

Anyone played a lot of this yet?

What are the three option on the main screen? I want to know what the middle one is mainly as I've gathered that the bottom one is a tutorial and the top one is to do with connection. I seem to have to go through a tutorial again when selecting the middle option, and I don't really get why.

[J0e Musashi]

BTW here are the phrases you'll need in order to beat the boss:

"kaze no byakko" for pink
"mizu no seiryuu" for blue
"tsuchi no genbu" for green
"honoo no suzaku" for red
"hikari no kirin" for yellow

Then everybody must say "zekkyou senshi sakeburein sanjou" together.

[Swallow]

But you're playing it by yourself, no?

Lol, J0ey-no-mates.

[J0e Musashi]

Nobody else at work has the front to shout out any of the phrases, so I have 3 DS's set up here on my desk, and I take turns to say each phrase. Obviously I cannot beat the boss as I only have one mouth. I'll teach the boy how to say it next weekend. I'll tell him he cannot play Mecha MG until he is fluent. Lol.