Three minutes with Umihara Kawase DS. This crummy footage is more than 10 months old, but I wanted to bring up the game because this is probably Suzak’s “secret” DS project that Siliconera brought up yesterday (if not this, then Genterprise’s new Wizardry).

Sega had a demo station for Umihara Kawase DS at Tokyo Game Show, and while the title failed to receive any coverage on the U.S. side, I hear it’s bangin’.  At the least, I doubt it’s as disastrous as last year’s PSP release.

This hits stores in Japan soon — next week soon even. Decorate your desktop with Umihara Kawase to remind yourself that you should import this!

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Umihara Kawase DS trailer. One of our crazy readers (you know who you are) has campaigned for more coverage of this grapple-based game, a DS port of Japan-only — but still revered — PS1 release Umihara Kawase Shun Second Edition, so I hope this will make him happy.

[Update: As reader MX7 points out, the video indicates that the DS game will also include the original Umihara Kawase released for Super Famicom in 1994.]

The game is on track to hit stores in Japan late next month. Publisher Genterprise has even put up wallpapers and widgets to make sure you don’t forget its release.

While we haven’t seen much news on the game, JC and I were chit-chatting about it a few weeks ago and dug up this old trailer, which I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere else:

And if you’re starving for even more media, here’s a video showing eight minutes of the game (starting at 05:14), presumably at a demo event, accompanied with hands-on impressions. So far, it doesn’t sound as terrible as last year’s Umihara Kawase Portable for PSP.

Preorder: Umihara Kawase DS

See also: Umihara Kawase DS may not be terrible, Natsume likely not localizing Umihara Kawase DS

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