VC Japan: Esper Dream, Bare Knuckle III, Gunpei Toumaden
Drafting from Japan‘s October Virtual Console lineup, the first batch of three games is rolling in this week. They come in the form of Esper Dream, Bare Knuckle III (Streets of Rage 3 in the US), and Gunpei Toumaden: Kannoni (Samurai Ghost), and they’re to be delivered today.
Firstly, Bare Knuckle III is probably the most familiar in the bunch for those of us living in the states. Streets of Rage 3 had its moments of pure win during the Sega Mega Drive era: street brawls, hand-to-hand combat, and a mysterious criminal overlord hiding in the shadows of the city.
Gunpei Toumaden: Kannoni hails from the PC engine. It’s a side-scrolling action title that some of us probably know better as “Samurai Ghost“. It’s a whole barrage of demons coming at you from all sides, and you get to unleash your cool powers at them.
Konami‘s Esper Dream is an RPG that I’ve personally never heard about. For one, it was never released outside of Japan and comes from back in the prehistoric age of the Famicom Disk System. The game uses Zelda‘s usual top-down perspective and was supposedly well-received in Japan when it originally came out.
All three titles cost 600 Wii Points each.
Drafting from Japan‘s October Virtual Console lineup, the first batch of three games is rolling in this week. They come in the form of Esper Dream, Bare Knuckle III (Streets of Rage 3 in the US), and Gunpei Toumaden: Kannoni (Samurai Ghost), and they’re to be delivered today.
Firstly, Bare Knuckle III is probably the most familiar in the bunch for those of us living in the states. Streets of Rage 3 had its moments of pure win during the Sega Mega Drive era: street brawls, hand-to-hand combat, and a mysterious criminal overlord hiding in the shadows of the city.
Gunpei Toumaden: Kannoni hails from the PC engine. It’s a side-scrolling action title that some of us probably know better as “Samurai Ghost“. It’s a whole barrage of demons coming at you from all sides, and you get to unleash your cool powers at them.
Konami‘s Esper Dream is an RPG that I’ve personally never heard about. For one, it was never released outside of Japan and comes from back in the prehistoric age of the Famicom Disk System. The game uses Zelda‘s usual top-down perspective and was supposedly well-received in Japan when it originally came out.
All three titles cost 600 Wii Points each.
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