Gorgeous Wii Game Demon Blade Hits in September

April 21, 2009 11:49 AM

Vanillaware's beautiful Wii action game Muramasa: The Demon Blade will arrive in North America in September, publisher Ignition has just revealed. Previously, the game was set to be published in North America by XSEED, but plans have obviously changed.

Sporting two playable characters, a male ninja and female kunoichi, the game has players slashing their way through various side-scrolling levels with multiple paths. It supports the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, Classic Controller, and GameCube controller.

"I want it to be a very fun game for everyone who picks it up," said game director and Vanillaware president George Kamitani. "We developed Muramasa: The Demon Blade in the same way as we did Odin Sphere, so there are bound to be a lot of similarities."

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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April 21, 2009 12:18 PM

Looks nice, gota love the 2D games I know I do.

But here is a question for Shack, where do you think would sell more units of this game?

A. On Wii
B. On Xbox Live
C. PSN
d. PC
- Pneum0
  
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  April 21, 2009 12:36 PM
  
  Wii.
- pyide
  
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  April 21, 2009 1:16 PM
  
  PS2 or Wii
- Vincent Grayson
  
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  April 21, 2009 1:16 PM
  
  I dunno, but I can't imagine that most of the people interested in this sort of game are Wii owners.
  - YummiGummi
    
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    April 21, 2009 10:44 PM
    
    You are correct. I'm highly interested in this game but would never touch a Wii.
- [deleted] 1271987451
  
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  April 21, 2009 1:18 PM
  
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- ECMIM
  
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  April 21, 2009 3:13 PM
  
  Taking into account worldwide userbase? Wii.
  
  Taking into account the Japanese-ness of the game? Wii.
  
  Taking into account development costs on a hyper-niche game? Wii.
- cetra00
  
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  April 21, 2009 7:22 PM
  
  PSN/XBL for sure.
  
  It already did poor sales in Japan on the Wii especially considering the current Wii game drought over there not to mention the size of its userbase. Wii owners simply are not buying games like these.