Fist of the North Star for Europe

By Robert Purchese Published 5 March, 2010

Dynasty Warriors spin-off this summer.

Tecmo Koei is bringing Fist of the North Star to Europe this summer.

The game moulds the Japanese manga series into a Dynasty Warriors template, so hero Kenshiro uses his martial arts to batter hordes of angry bad guys, notching up combos as he goes.

There are loads of moves to uncover, hidden characters to find and faithful recreations of the Fist of the North Star world and stories.

A video and some screenshots await on the Fist of the North Star gamepage below.

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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. @Clert on Twitter.

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  • Vlad27145 #1 2 years ago

    Yes! HOKUTO!!! I really wanted to hear this.
    /it will probably suck, but it's hokuto

  • dirtysteve #2 2 years ago

    Will this even feature a fraction of the Animes OTT violence? I want to kick a man 500 times in the belly, only to have him laugh at me for a second before his intestines blast skywards out of his belly.

  • the_dudefather #3 2 years ago

    Hope it's as fun as the arcade punching game


    DADADADADADADADADADADADADA

  • dudefella #4 2 years ago

    looks better than any other DW game, ever

  • VicViper #5 2 years ago

    So far what I have managed to see in action has been slightly disappointing and very dynasty warrior looking, fighting loads of grunt then followed by a boss which oddly enough was how the cartoon/manga worked.

    @dirtysteve
    I'm with you and hoping that the moves are that signature stuff Kenshiro did as my memory of fist of the north star mainly relates to staying up late to watch the english version on Channel 4 back in the day when they showed it envoled lots of grunts exploding and one instance where a guy drowned himself because a technque made his spine bend himself backwards into and aquairum... oh and that 3 min death one where a digital style counter showed up on screen to count it down.

    That show was awesome sometimes...
    Edited by VicViper at 05/03/10 @ 16:51

  • melch #6 2 years ago

    @dirtysteve

    i want this also......it would be beyond coolness

  • VicViper #7 2 years ago

    On that note did anyone ever play the arcade game with the punch pads? not as gory but doing the 100 fist attack was an experince... especialy after a few pints.

  • telboy007 #8 2 years ago

    Awesome! It's more "Yhatatatatatattatatatatatatatatatatataa-TAAAAH! Huh huh huh, ehh? Splutch."

  • Matt_Edwards #9 2 years ago

    I used to own a Fighting Mania cabinet. Still have a load of videos up on youtube of me looking stupid playing it :p

    [link url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO_bBJY6AJc
    ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO_bBJY6AJc
    [/link]

    This and Arc Systems' FOTNS 2D atomiswave fighter are the best Hokuto no Ken games.

    *sigh* I really miss my Fighting Mania cab :(

  • chrisola #10 2 years ago

    Sweet!

    Please please please do a quick release of the 2d PS2 fighter on LIVE or PSN aswell. Even if you don't localise the text!

  • Lamb #11 2 years ago

    Your already dead!!!!! OKARI MASCA? Okari mas!

  • raion #12 2 years ago

    I feel like my manliness grows by 250% by just thinking about HNK.
    I am wary tough. Through the generations too many mediocre games have burned me already.

    ... I soooo hope it's going to be good, and not too much Dynasty Warriors-like. The repetition in that franchise kills me.
    Instead a nice beat 'em up arcade style... hmmm. This game begs from every pore for some co-op action? Is there any?
    Edited by raion at 05/03/10 @ 19:35

  • Ornithophobe #13 2 years ago

    That sounds awful, every demo of that genre has bored me to tears. KOEI are imagination-less automatons.

  • TriggerHippie #14 2 years ago

    They're the ultimate in marmite game styles. Personally I lose hours if I sit down to one.

  • KDR_11k #15 2 years ago

    I don't like Dynasty Warriors, it may have hundreds of enemies but you'll rarely see even one of them attack. It's no EDF where one ant getting into your flank can mean instant death (at least on the harder difficulties).

  • metalangel #16 2 years ago

    I remember the MegaDrive game being a rather average brawler (still, exploding motorcycles and bad men exploding in sprays of blood is nice) but the Game Boy game being quite popular as it was the only fighty game when the Game Boy first came out.

  • Pastici #17 2 years ago

    @metalangel

    That was my first Mega Drive game, it was called "Last Battle". I never completed it :(.

  • cherryuk #18 2 years ago

    'Didn't you know you're already a dead man' cruuuush and boooomb!

  • Dizzy #19 2 years ago

    /orders

  • Ranger101 #20 2 years ago

    Omaede shin daeru!

    *PSHTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN*

    THE ONE THOUSAND CRACK-FIST OF THE NORTH STAR!!

    *SPLRSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

    You are SHOCK!

  • Ranger101 #21 2 years ago

    Nice vids Matt - I had a few goes on Fighting Mania when they had it at Troc, and did abysmally every time. The PS2 fighting game was good, though I wish they released an XBLA version of it so I'd have someone to play it against. Even Casino didnt get it as an arcade.

  • SpaceMonkey77 #22 2 years ago

    As a big manga and game fan, I hope this will be good enough for me to buy. Such a a game needs good NPC AI, and the DW series previous efforts care nothing for such things.

    I'll probabaly bag it on the cheap, and look forward to Quantum Theory instead, a much more forward thinking game from pre mergerTecmo. Lets hope KT can push more original ideas like QT in the future, as DW is burnt out.

  • metalangel #23 2 years ago

    @Pastici: I've got the actual Japanese version. It's quite hard, the big fat dude who throws the balls at you is tough to beat. There was a funny review of it on SomethingAwful but I can't find it now.

  • Kevf #24 2 years ago

    @
    metalangel : Does it have english subs? Is the game any good?