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Kencha Bancho: Badass Rumble just got a little bit awesomer. With Atlus handling the localization for this PSP title, the script is peppered with similar humor.

That doesn’t mean Atlus went all “Working Designs” with the translation; according to Eastern Mind, who I trust on matters of this sort, Kenka Bancho’s English release is “one of the best-ever adaptations/translations of a game originally designed in Japan.” High praise!

Eastern Mind also posted a diary with accompanying screenshots for the game’s first half-hour, and it’s as good an argument as any for why you should buy a copy. And if you need more convincing, hearing punk band The Blue Hearts sing “Train Train” over the Japanese trailer will get you hyped (Why didn’t Atlus use this song in its stateside promotions?! Totally dropped the ball there.):

Buy: Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble

See also: Kenka Bancho online music game

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tags / atlus / csi / ec / kenka bancho / kenka bancho 3 / meme / spike / psp

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"Badass Rumble" and Sing a Song →

Badass Rumble won Atlus’s Kenka Bancho 3 title poll by a 3-to-1 margin, the company announced today. The final title of the PSP brawler will be Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble.

To celebrate having an excuse to post about Kenka Bancho 3, here’s the Flash game that Spike released for the Japanese version. It’s a music game in which punching dudes to the beat adds hair to your character’s ridiculous pompadour.

tags / kenka bancho / kenka bancho 3 / badass rumble / jc / atlus

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Alternate titles for Kenka Bancho 3

Atlus’s announcement of Kenka Bancho 3 included a survey about potential English names. None of them really stuck out as ideal names for a game we thought looked pretty great, and, since we were talking about Kenka Bancho for quite some time anyway, we ended up with a list of possible alternate titles.

Some of them are better than the ones Atlus came up with, in my opinion (with the possible exception of Badolescents, which is a terrible name I couldn’t leave off), but all of them are better than Turf Wars. If anyone at Atlus is reading, you’re totally free to use any of these, no strings attached.

Hot Blood Tough Guy Hancho
Tough Guy High
Punchtown USA
Brazen Knuckles
Badass Class
Tough Guys Are Go
The Bancho Bunch
Gungho Bancho
School’s Out for Blood
Rumble Punks
Badolescents

tags / atlus / spike / psp / kenka bancho 3 / jc

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Kenka Bancho 3 trailer featuring “Train Train” by The Blue Hearts. I was kind of interested in this Spike series when it was out in Japan, because of its high school theme reminiscent of River City Ransom and its over-the top dramatic brawling. I got more interested when Atlus announced a North American release today.

I was finally driven to hot-blooded desire to purchase both the game and the required PSP hardware (guess it’s time to eBay some junk!) when Eric posted this trailer and the fucking great song on GameSetWatch.

The only issue I have with this game is that one of the proposed titles for the American release is Turf Wars, which is terrible for reasons including, but not limited to, the fact that it reminds me of Jaleco’s Rival Turf! box.

Seriously, that box is like a cast photo from a school musical adaptation of an afterschool special about drugs.

tags / kenka bancho / kenka bancho 3 / spike / atlus / jc / don't call it turf wars

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