Sakura Wars for PS2/Wii this autumn

By Robert Purchese Published 8 May, 2009

Mech warriors meet the Wild West.

NIS America plans to release Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love for PS2 and Wii this autumn.

This a strategy RPG in which robots meet the Wild West - a bit like that film with Will Smith in. There are six endings depending on the choices you make along the way - character interaction is very important, apparently.

Combat is split in two: ground battles are fought in two-legged mechanised robots, which can transform and take to the sky, prompting missile-based, long-range battles. There are around 30 to 40 hours gameplay in total.

There's no word on what the platform differences are, nor when we'll see this in Europe. We're checking.

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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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Comments (8) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • riz23 #1 3 years ago

    Is this the first Sakura wars game in english? I have played japanese ones before but never a US/EU one

  • zazzabubu #2 3 years ago

    It is. But given the horrible adaptation NIS did to AT2, I'm not giving it much hope.

  • riz23 #3 3 years ago

    Thanks zazzabubu

  • zazzabubu #4 3 years ago

    To be precise, there were some ST edition in Russian, but I don't know if they actually reached the market.

  • NegativeZero #5 3 years ago

    One assumes that a game with as big an established import nerd fanbase as Sakura Taisen and given the terrible slamming they received over Ar Tonelico 2 they'd do a better job this time. Probably helps that they can rely on Idea Factory's programmers to help with the localisation rather than Gust's, who appear to be borderline incompetent if AT and AT2 are anything to go by (for the unaware, NISA only handle the translation and testing of their games. Actual coding related to localisation is handled by the original developers)

    EDIT: Hoping it sells well, because that might be enough justification for them to bring over the PSP re-release of the first two games.
    Edited by NegativeZero at 09/05/09 @ 05:18

  • Danj #6 3 years ago

    I'll probably end up buying this anyway just to support the idea of Sakura Wars games in English. But I'm a little disappointed they picked 5. Still I guess it's understandable given the American setting of the game and the almost total lack of connection with the previous titles in the series.

  • Scribble #7 3 years ago

    I'll buy this.

    If there's no EU release I will buy an US Wii to buy this.

    I have Sakura Taisen 1-4 for my Dreamcast, and 1, 3, 5 Episode 0 and 5 for my Japanese PS2.

    I even have the Columns spin off games :D

    Truly brilliant series.

  • menschenfracht #8 3 years ago

    I'm currently working on sakura taisen 3 for the russian market.

    we've already released sakura 1&2 on the PC, yes.

    They've reached the market and we still receiving some feedback from the community.