Japanese VC releases next month: Square Enix shares a Secret

by JC Fletcher { Aug 29th 2008 at 5:20PM }

Nintendo has updated their Japanese VC website with next month's planned releases, including one extremely beloved game from general VC holdout Square Enix: Seiken Densetsu 2, otherwise known as Secret of Mana. Super Famicom fans will also have the opportunity to give Square Enix eight bucks for Space Invaders, which seems kind of high but also irresistably alluring. It does allow you to simulate the cellophane color bars from the arcade machine! Taito's Liquid Kids, a platformer about a hippo who freezes enemies with water bubbles, rounds out the Square Enix (and affiliates) releases.

We're particularly excited to see Capcom's shooter Forgotten Worlds and the PC Engine version of Super Dodge Ball. See the full list after the break, along with some upcoming US releases via Hudson. There's a surprise!

Famicom

Tantei Jinguuji Saburo: Yokohama Minato Renzoku Satsujin Jiken (Detective Saburo Jinguuji: The Case of the Yokohama Harbor Serial Murder
Wagyan Land

Super Famicom

Seiken Densetsu 2
Space Invaders: The Original Game

Mega Drive

Sorcerian
Forgotten Worlds
Hokuto no Ken: Shin Seikimatsu Kyuseishu Densetsu (Last Battle)

Nintendo 64

Mario Golf

PC Engine

The Ninja Warriors
Nekketsu Koukou Dodge Ball Bu: PC Bangai Hen
Final Blaster
Mizubaku Daibouken Adventure (Liquid Kids)

US Turbografx-16 releases for September, via vc-pce.com:

Final Soldier
Cho Aniki

Tags: cho-aniki, japan, releases, secret-of-mana, space-invaders

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

scissors125 @ Aug 29th 2008 5:31PM

This could actually mean that Secret of Mana might (and I really mean JUST might) get released outside of Japan.

...please?!

telee @ Aug 29th 2008 5:38PM

WAT

DO WANT. IMMEDIATELY

iMeh @ Aug 29th 2008 6:49PM

I have the original right next to me, but no SNES to play it with. DEAR GOD RELEASE THIS GAME IN THE US!!!

DaisukeKiriyama @ Aug 29th 2008 6:51PM

Cho.
Aniki.

My mind is blown.

Roto13 @ Aug 29th 2008 7:29PM

We get Cho Aniki? Are you serious?

omghaha @ Aug 29th 2008 8:38PM

i got the game for vc anyway...
i have an snes but only one controler...... :((:(:

ITS THE F++++++ BEST GAME EVER!!
I want to play the fansubbed Seiken Densetsu 3 -Secret of Mana 2-

mrar10 @ Aug 29th 2008 8:55PM

secret of mana was one of my absolute favorite games to play growing up. i am seriously baffled that there hasn't been any similar action-rpg since (with multiple onscreen playable characters), and upset that the "of mana" series have gone a different route. children of mana had a similar fighting engine, but it was a disjointed dungeon crawler and only had one main playable character.

please get secret of mana to north america vc. oh please oh please oh please :-P

Gewurztraminer says: R.O.B. is the last Cylon! @ Aug 30th 2008 9:24AM

Me too. I remember being extremely disappointed with Secret of Evermore (on many levels, but that's besides the point) in the fact that it wasn't 2P! How hard would that have been? augh. SOE was ok, but could have been so much more. Secret of Mana on the other hand, fantastic. Don't know why I ever sold it.

Atlantis1982 @ Aug 30th 2008 3:22AM

Cho Aniki

Give me a "HELL YEAH!"
But don't give me stupid Christians (I am one myself, just not the stupid kind) that think the game will make their kids homosexual. :P

Gewurztraminer says: R.O.B. is the last Cylon! @ Aug 30th 2008 9:27AM

For me this is better news than hearing of SMRPG is on the horizon. Of the two, I regretfully sold Secret of Mana. bah.

Get to it Nintendo/Square! SoM on North America VC, stat!

Now, if I can only convince my wife to play the game...

Kassidy @ Aug 30th 2008 10:55AM

Kinda bittersweet news to me... See, this only makes me think it's a cop-out of doing an actual remake of the game. But, could it be they're seeing if there's any actual interest in the market? Not sure.

I've linked to your post over at http://www.seikens.com

Omen @ Aug 30th 2008 11:55AM

Make it playable online and I'll buy it.

samfish @ Aug 30th 2008 11:50PM

Man, fuck you, NOA. There's absolutely no excuse for week after week after week after week of near absolute garbage constantly released on the VC when NOJ not only shows us what we'll be seeing a month in advance but also releases TONS of truly GREAT titles!
When was the last time there was a VC game in the US that was REALLY worth being excited about? Ys is a classic, but it's HARDLY on the level of Secret of Mana.

Grr! NOA make samfish ANGRY!