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Special Rosario + Vampire boxart lets you choose your own generic anime girl

Posted Mar 4th 2008 2:15PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Imports


Capcom's anime adventure game Rosario + Vampire will include a very cool preorder bonus: a pair of reversible replacement boxarts, for a total of four possible boxart choices. Each one focuses on one of the game's female characters, of course. The second reversible cover can be seen after the break.

We aren't really that taken with the Rosario + Vampire cast -- they seem like pretty standard anime characters, who no doubt confound the hapless protagonist with their one personality quirk each -- and we don't care much about anime in the first place. However, the idea of alternate boxarts as a bonus appeals to us. We don't really see our DS boxes all that often, but we find the idea of customizing them fun.

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Rosario + Video

Posted Jan 26th 2008 12:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Video, Imports


Capcom has released a trailer of their game adaptation of the conceptually wacky manga series Rosario + Vampire (Rosario and the Vampire). As you'd expect for a game based on manga and anime, the trailer spends most of its time showing some anime footage, then fits some actual gameplay in at the end.

Past the adventure-game-style location searching, past the cutscene of the poor protagonist being bitten by his vampire girlfriend (what did he expect?) and past the clicking-on-floating-hearts minigame, you can catch a glimpse of the unusual touchscreen-based combat. On the bottom screen, it looks just like an Ouendan-type thing. On the top, it's a 2D fighting game!
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Everybody was touchscreen fighting

Posted Jan 4th 2008 6:00PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Imports

The DS's touchscreen technology has allowed us to indulge in some truly unique activities, from painting tanks to DJing to slapping women. Seriously, who would have guessed this kind of thing was the future in 2003?

Not wishing to be left out, Capcom's Rosario + Vampire (which, Capcom has confirmed, won't be appearing in the west) also uses the touchscreen in a novel way. Rather than the traditional method of pressing buttons, the game's combat sequences are carried out with directional stylus swipes, with different Ouendan-esque strokes producing certain moves.

It's definitely an interesting approach, and it makes us wonder whether we'll be seeing more fighting games embracing this method in the future. If Rosario + Vampire pulls it off well, we wouldn't bet against another developer picking up this idea and running with it.
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Rosario + Vampire = huh?

Posted Dec 4th 2007 1:30PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Screens, Imports

Capcom has created a site for a game based on the manga Rosario + Vampire. Like most manga, we didn't know what the hell this was. It turns out to be some high school romance thing, but it's at least got an unusual twist: the main character has been enrolled in a school for monsters by mistake! And then he falls in love with a vampire girl, so rather than going to the principal, he decides to pretend to be a monster. Oh, the comical misunderstandings that must ensue!

The game looks like a pretty standard dating sim/graphical text adventure thing. Travel to different locations around the school, talk to girls, that sort of thing. But ... monsters! Check out the "pre-opened" site for more screens.

[Via Famitsu]
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