Bangai-O Spirits heading to Europe

By Robert Purchese Published 21 May, 2008

DS masterpiece is August-bound.

D3Publisher will be bringing Bangai-O Spirits to Europe in August. Celebration! Happiness!

This is the fantastic DS side-scrolling shooter you may notice we gave top marks to at the beginning of the month.

But it's much more of a game than its genre suggests. "It's glorious; eclectic, furiously inventive, dizzying, baffling, confusing, witty, clever and beautiful," beamed Dave McCarthy after fiddling with a Japanese import.

"Some of the time it's like WarioWare; some of the time it's like Gradius; some of the time it's like Brain Training. But you never know what to expect."

And he had even more excitable words to use about it in his full Bangai-O Spirits review, which you should probably read.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • HyperShadow #1 4 years ago

    Good Times!

    I enjoyed the Japanese version, but found the language barrier hampered me in my progress.

    Very much looking forward to an english version though.

  • The_Inquisitor #2 4 years ago

    Can't wait, my DS has been gathering a thick layer of dust over the last few months. I've never played any of the previous games but it's never to late.

  • abelardie #3 4 years ago

    Well at least I'll be able to have some idea what's going on in between the levels so!

  • lemonfist #4 4 years ago

    It's Treasure's best game yet.

    Yes, really.

  • Rash' #5 4 years ago

    Says a lot that a quality game like this can only muster a depressing 4 comments... Guess everybody's too busy bitching about others games to actually care. The dreamcast version was brilliant. Can't fault Treasure. A quality dev if you ever needed one. Looking forward to this.

  • Camorrista #6 4 years ago

    Tried it, couldn't make sense of it. Can anyone explain to me how this game is good?

    You have to wade through menus with a bazillion choices for your weaponry before a level that takes about 2 seconds to complete. Menu, next 2-second level.
    I didn't find this rewarding at all - or did I miss something?

  • asphaltcowboy #7 4 years ago

    Says a lot that a quality game like this can only muster a depressing 4 comments...

    I'm still trying to work out wtf this game is!

    And yes. I read the review.

  • Rev.StuartCampbell #8 4 years ago

    It was discussed at length in the review thread, not surprising there's little comment here. Euro release is fantastic news, can't quite believe it to be honest.

  • silke #9 4 years ago

    Indeed, this is wonderful news. I also found out that Dragon Quest IV-VI will find its way over here, starting in september. So yes, I think I'm allowed to feel a bit happy. Right?

  • Bangaioh #10 4 years ago

    Can't wait!! Great news :)

  • Rash' #11 4 years ago

    "I'm still trying to work out wtf this game is!"

    Surely that's the beauty of the game???

  • erp #12 4 years ago

    Amazing news!

    I got stumped by level 17 on a borrowed Japanese version, but after reading some reviews I think I need to customise my weapons... due to the language barrier I didn't even know that was possible! :)

    I'll definitely be picking-up an English release. No question.

    Bangaio on the N64 was already my favourite Treasure game anyway, and if this iteration can surpass that (which it sounds like it may very well do) then I'll be very happy indeed.