I picked up a bunch of nerdy shit the past week but it's all packed away. Most of the stuff I got from the huge recycle shop I used to frequent in Kanazawa, but I found a few things at Akihabara yesterday. They also had a new Gundam Cafe which had a MASSIVE LINE to get into.
I got:
-Super Street Fighter IV Collector's Edition (J360)
-Super Street Fighter IV Players' Guide (Japanese)
-Arcadia Magazine 7/10 (Focusing on...wait for it...SSFIV)
-Hori Fighting Commander 3 Pad (JPS3)
-Ikkitousen Xross Impact LE Box (JPSP)
-No More Heroes (J360)
-Onimusha 1 (JPS2)
-SSX3 (JPS2)
-Rally Shox (JPS2)
-Chu-Chu Rocket (JGBA)
-Some nerdy/perverse animu mini-posters
-Some figures
-Super Street Fighter IV (PS3)
I wanted the Japanese SSFIV for PS3, but since I have all the alternate costumes for the U.S. version, I ended up just ordering it from Amazon. It's cheaper that way anyway.
Ikkitousen seems to be pretty improved over the original. The normal enemies are still pretty stupid, but there's better variety and more stronger/smarter AI types that pop up. The difficulty in arcade mode (at least starting out) is pretty easy, but the story mode gets more difficult as you go, especially when you are stuck with a character that kinda sucks. They changed up the game play a bit and made it play even more like a side-scrolling Musou game; the combo system is exactly the same and you get more combos/moves as you level up. You now have two characters playable on each level and can tag in and out, including during combos.
From what I can tell, yes. It's a full MGS game like MGS1-4 and not a spinoff-ish quality MGS like Portable Ops. Don't forget that Kojima neither wrote, nor directed, Portable Ops. It was basically by another team like the Ac!d games. Peace Walker is by the main MGS team.
There's TONS of constant story/cutscenes/codecs & lots of gameplay.
I'm almost tempted to play the J-version since the cutscenes have comic balloons in English, but will still probably wait. MGS is one series where I prefer the American VAs.
