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Dragon’s Crown still looking ridic

Yes, the figures here are grotesque, seemingly designed by the Japanese Robert Crumb, we’ve already talked about that ad nauseam.

What we haven’t discussed is the dancing wizard mouse, the giant Diablo, and this PS Vita game being totally my shit right here. Okay, we might have mentioned that last bit maybe, but I think we’ve reached the point where that topic is more interesting than the usual Boobiewitch comments.

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Dragon’s Crown screens are blowing my mind

The last few minutes have just been a stream of semi-angry IMs to Eric about how crazy great these screens look.

  • “this art my god”
  • “how is this a screenshot”
  • “THIS GAME”

This game looks better every time I see it.

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Why you shouldn’t dump your PS Vita

As worrisome as PS Vita’s future looks at the moment, now’s not the time to throw your system in the bin (in fact, never is the time when you should leave your handheld in the trash). There’s still Dragon’s Crown to think about, after all! Don’t these screenshots look amazing, like a modern day version of the old Dungeons & Dragons arcade games?

And here’s the new Dragon’s Crown trailer from the Vita Heaven event again in case you missed it this morning. There’s no released date for the PS Vita and PlayStation 3 game yet, though. :o/

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Muramasa Reborn on Vita Muramasa: The Demon Blade, a game you’re no doubt familiar with if you’ve endured our website for any amount of time, will be released on PS Vita in North America by Aksys Games, under the title Muramasa: Rebirth. The Vita port adds new DLC with four new characters to the original Wii edition, and a new localization by Aksys’s esteemed writers. It’s gonna look so good on that screeeeeeeen. BUY Muramasa: The Demon Blade

Muramasa Reborn on Vita

Muramasa: The Demon Blade, a game you’re no doubt familiar with if you’ve endured our website for any amount of time, will be released on PS Vita in North America by Aksys Games, under the title Muramasa: Rebirth.

The Vita port adds new DLC with four new characters to the original Wii edition, and a new localization by Aksys’s esteemed writers. It’s gonna look so good on that screeeeeeeen.

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Oboro Muramasa’s Japanese boxart is hot No one’s announced a U.S. release for this PS Vita port yet as far as I know, but you can still grab the Wii edition for like twenty simoleons. BUY Muramasa: The Demon Blade, PS Vita

Oboro Muramasa’s Japanese boxart is hot

No one’s announced a U.S. release for this PS Vita port yet as far as I know, but you can still grab the Wii edition for like twenty simoleons.

BUY Muramasa: The Demon Blade, PS Vita
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade for PS Vita. If you’re wondering how it compares to the Wii original, here:

It looked great as a Wii game, and now it looks great as a Vita game. The new version will be supported by new DLC, featuring four stories of four new characters. 

Buy: PS Vita
See also: The years I spent obsessively collecting Muramasa fanart
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Someone actually got that NSFW/bootytastic fanart of Momohime (from Muramasa: The Demon Blade) and her Yakuza-style tattoos inked on their arm. This is crazy. Buy: Muramasa: The Demon Blade ($12.96) See also: More Muramasa stuff [Via Albotas, mydoodlechamp]

Someone actually got that NSFW/bootytastic fanart of Momohime (from Muramasa: The Demon Blade) and her Yakuza-style tattoos inked on their arm. This is crazy.

Buy: Muramasa: The Demon Blade ($12.96)

See also: More Muramasa stuff

[Via Albotas, mydoodlechamp]

NSFW: Vanillaware’s “Survive”

For his nengajo (New Year card), Vanillaware president George Kamitani chose to ring in the new year with girls in jars using a robot to fight a xenomorph with another girl in its head. 

The Muramasa/Odin Sphere studio head also sent out an original painting as his nengajo last year, the lovely “Three Graces.” That one doesn’t feature ladies crammed into monster carapaces, but is still NSFW.

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Alter’s Momohime figure, photographed by Colette Bennett of Tomopop. This is just one of a series of really nice photos of the far-too-expensive figure of Muramasa’s heroine. I appreciate both the photography and the chance to look at one of these in detail without dropping insane money. Buy: Muramasa: The Demon Blade See also: This thing I used to do where I’d post Muramasa stuff all the damn time

Alter’s Momohime figure, photographed by Colette Bennett of Tomopop. This is just one of a series of really nice photos of the far-too-expensive figure of Muramasa’s heroine. I appreciate both the photography and the chance to look at one of these in detail without dropping insane money.

Buy: Muramasa: The Demon Blade

See also: This thing I used to do where I’d post Muramasa stuff all the damn time

Muramasa’s Kongiku, painted by Vanillaware artist (and Habanero-tan creator) Shigatake. Not only is it notable to have one Vanillaware artist contribute his take on the work of Vanillaware head George Kamitani, this piece is notable for another reason: it was created using DSiWare’s Art Academy! In fact, it was actually made using two DS games. First, Shigatake drew Kongiku in WarioWare DIY. He then took a picture of a screen displaying that image with the DSi camera, and, using that as a template, drew over it in Art Academy’s “free paint” mode. If you’d like to see the all-DS drawing process for yourself, there’s a video at Nico Nico.

Muramasa’s Kongiku, painted by Vanillaware artist (and Habanero-tan creator) Shigatake. Not only is it notable to have one Vanillaware artist contribute his take on the work of Vanillaware head George Kamitani, this piece is notable for another reason: it was created using DSiWare’s Art Academy!

In fact, it was actually made using two DS games. First, Shigatake drew Kongiku in WarioWare DIY. He then took a picture of a screen displaying that image with the DSi camera, and, using that as a template, drew over it in Art Academy’s “free paint” mode. If you’d like to see the all-DS drawing process for yourself, there’s a video at Nico Nico.

“Oboro Muramasa” by Simosi. This fanart is just jaw-droppingly gorgeous! It looks very reminiscent of official Vanillaware art, but with a different shading technique or something. If you think that style is nice, but wasted on dynamic group shots instead of pictures of inari Kongiku with her top off, well, here you go (NSFW, obviously!) See also: More Muramasa stuff [Thanks, SixSided!]

“Oboro Muramasa” by Simosi. This fanart is just jaw-droppingly gorgeous! It looks very reminiscent of official Vanillaware art, but with a different shading technique or something.

If you think that style is nice, but wasted on dynamic group shots instead of pictures of inari Kongiku with her top off, well, here you go (NSFW, obviously!)

See also: More Muramasa stuff

[Thanks, SixSided!]