Fist of the North Star

The new game being teased by Koei Tecmo -- the one with the flowers? Um, yeah, it's actually about punching people: As predicted, the game's been revealed by Famitsu as Fist of the North Star Musou (officially, just Hokuto Musou, or North Star Musou) combining Koei's populous Dynasty Warriors series with the venerable manga series, and it's the smartest thing Koei has ever done with the Warriors series since the original idea.

 

The Fist of the North Star franchise follows a martial artist named Kenshiro who wanders around a post-apocalypse Earth, using his "Hokuto Shinken" style to fight gangsters that prey on hapless innocents. Why is this series so perfect for Warriors? Because it's a well-known universe in which it's perfectly believable for one guy to beat up a couple hundred enemies with his bare fists. This license will not require much adapting in the transition to a Warriors game.

 

Hokuto Musou, according to the magazine, will be out sometime next year on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

KOEI have released first information on their recently announced Fist of the North Star, titled Hokuto Musou in Japan. As you may or may not already know, Fist of the North Star isa popular manga that's influenced both manga and anime creators for over twenty-five years.

 

The game puts players in the shoes of Kenshiro, the rightful successor to the Hokuto Shinken, a centuries old art of assassination. However, Kenshiro's older brother Raoh has refused to give up the style and killed their master to soon leave and raise his own army. Now, Kenshiro seeks his love Yuria, but must face mobs, fighters and gangs in his journey. Kenshiro's journey will ultimately lead him to Raoh, who has set forth a path of vengeance.

 

Gameplay consists of fighting and more fighting. Kenshiro can unleash moves that will blow enemies into pieces on screen or knock them out in a single blow. Kenshiro's signature move, a ruthless flurry of ferocious punches, will break down enemies organs and cause them to collapse to their death.

 

Hisashi Koinuma, producer of the game, promises that they will remain faithful to the original manga for doubters out there. The story mode will follow the original manga series, and a second story mode yet to be introduced will take on a completely new storyline.

Koei's simply calling the game Fist of the North Star for now, pegging the European release for a vague "summer 2010." Bodies that "violently explode on screen" and punches that trigger "the instantaneous breakdown of internal organs" will be gracing the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in PAL territories soon.

na japonai jau dziaugiasi,o mes dar laukiame vasaros

While the newly released Fist of the North Star game with Dynasty Warriors mechanics is already bursting with blood and guts, the liquefying of internal organs and the sprays of bodily fluids may get an overhaul for European and North American consumers, according to the game's producer Hisashi Koinuma.

 

"There won't be any gameplay changes," Koinuma tells 4gamer.net, by way of Andriasang, "However, for overseas fans, we'll probably adjust the expressions of violence so that it's more extreme."

 

Good! The fountains of blood just didn't seem quite fountainous enough for my tastes!

 

Tecmo Koei has made a European summertime release of Fist of the North Star official, but has not yet confirmed a release for North America. Or maybe they already have and we just don't know it yet...

na kas lose demo?....OMFG...kazko as neikirtau ten..beat em up ok..bet kad kaunies tik vienas pries viena.ir dar ringe..turi viena pagr ataka,ir dar viena soec ir viena permetima arba kitoki spec veiksma..ir niekaip nesugebejau iveikt to priesininko kazkaip..bet nei grafika nei nieko manes tai nesuzavejo..juk cia tik 1 vs 1 . tai turejo blizget milijonais poligonu ir nerealiu spec efektu...nes ringas tuscias,kelios dezes kuriose vistos yra kad HP pasipildyt ir viskas..FTW !! ne nu rimtai..ok jei butu begi per mapa ir visus ten taskai..bet ne ringe tipo..nebent cia tik demo tokia parinkta tipo su bosu kautis. nu nzn. pradzia buvo idomi.bet..net ne 2 ar 3 skirtingi judesiai ,bet 1 . kazkaip mazoka..na is to gali ten kombinacija viena padaryt. po to i tave meto firebolus tai su issisuki,ir tada begi prie jo ir jam trenki,po to vel begi atgal..bet asme kad zeme lygi be nieko.ne vieno daikto nera tam metalo ringe.tuscias plotas..visiskai..hmm...kur grafika?..

Manau, kad ten tik demo su bosu, nes paziurejus per youtube su tuo zaidimu gameplay tai atrodo kaip Dynasty Warriors. Begi ir trankai visus is eiles.

nu tada bosu kovos labai jau lievos tureciau pasakyt...kamera keistai elgiasi.valdyt kazkaip nepatogu save.kartais negali rast kur tas bosas nusoko.reika dairytis aplink, galetu but toks greitesnis veiksmas ir daugiau kombu kai viena ataka eitu po kitos. nu tada aisku kad grafika gal ir naomrlai jei ten begi kokiu open world tipo mapu..bet matyt begi takeliais nuo tasko iki tasko..hmm..keista demo versija rimtai.man daug idomiau butu ismegint ta dynasty warriors tipo gameplay.