This game is soooo good :)

I'm working on one for tomorrow, a very impressive fight to say the least :)

I heard Sega has no plan for that game in Europe at least.

I think it's bigben interactive who published that very average game Murakumo in Europe. At least they distributed it.
The video of the fight (it's not a boss fight really) is being uploaded right now.

My pleasure

It got a quite nice 8 / 9 / 9 / 7 (32) in Dorimaga and and 7 / 8 / 8 / 7 (30) in Famitsu Weekly. I have not seen the score of Famitsu Xbox yet.

Last week I think, but I did not see any score posted for the moment.

I would not really trust any score from Famitsu anyway.

One of these days I'll translate a small text written by a french games journalist who also works for Famitsu where he explains how a game gets a score. Quite interesting to say the least.

Finally found it. This text is written by Greg of the french magazine Gaming. He also works for Famitsu Xbox and some other japanese publications.

"The scores of famitsu, how it works :

1) Famitsu is a weekly magazine. Thus there are 4 teams making one magazine per month, with one chief editor each.

2) Before starting testing a game, the chief editor and the testers have a meeting and discuss about the game. If the chief editor got special orders from the publisher (don't be to harsh or so) he tells them there.

3) The 4 testers play the game.

4) They go back to the chief editor the day the magazine is finished and discuss again. They each agree on the score they will give to the game.

5) The chief editor sends the scores to the publishers so they can comment about them.

6) If the publicher is not happy with the scores, he negotiates. For exemple : "All right, you are harsh on that one, but the next one you give me an adverstising, ok ?"

There it is, it's not that difficult. I say "Famitsu" because I know it from the inside, but in Japan it works like that everywhere. The magazine get the images and infos MONTHS before the official press release, but wait for the publishers before doing anything with them. There is absolutely no research from them.

All the pages about a game are sent and verified by each publisher. If they do a feature about Devil May Cry, it will be check by Capcom who will send back the page saying them to change a title or some texts...

I hope I did not destroy a myth"

End of the lousy translation ;)