Lots of games get sequels. Some of them Japanese games want, and others Japanese games want really bad. Game magazine Famitsu polled its readers about which franchise sequel they crave the most.
Here’s the raw data:
(Oh, and do please tell us which sequel you would like!)
1. Sakura Taisen (aka Sakura Wars) 267 votes
2. Shenmue 249 votes
3. Okami 204 votes
4. Gotchaforce 189 votes
5. Xenogears 185 votes
6. Breath of Fire 180 votes
7. Rockman Dash (aka Mega Man Legends) 176 votes
8. Ogre Battle 174 votes
9. Chikyuu Boueigun (aka Earth Defence Force) 162 votes
10. Kowloon’s Gate 151 votes
11. Shinobido 141 votes
12. Demon’s Souls 123 votes
13. Rockman X (aka Mega Man X) 110 votes
14. Chrono 107 votes
15. Z.O.E 94 votes
16. Mother 92 votes
17. Romancing SaGa 90 votes
18. Senjou no Valkyria (aka Valkyria Chronicles) 87 votes
19. Justice Gakuen 82 votes
20. Medarot 81 votes
21. Subarashiki Kono Sekai (aka The World Ends With You) 79 votes
22. Shadow Hearts 77 votes
23. Ore no Shikabane o Koete Yuke 75 votes
24. Panzer Dragoon 72 votes
25. Baten Kaitos 69 votes
26. Infinite Undiscovery 65 votes
27. Lost Odyssey 65 votes
28. Wild Arms 64 votes
29. OZ 60 votes
30. Jet Set Radio 59 votes
31. Dewprism 58 votes
32. Ougon no Taiyou (aka Golden Sun) 57 votes
33. Another Century’s Episode 56 votes
33. Estopolis Denki (aka Lufia) 56 votes
33. Fire Pro Wrestling Spike 56 votes
36. Biohazard Outbreak 55 votes
37. Eternal Arcadia (aka Skies of Arcadia) 54 votes
38. Shirokishi Monogatari: Inishie no Kodou (aka White Knight Chronicles) 51 votes
39. Panzer Front 50 votes
40. Seiken Densetsu 48 votes
41. Front Mission 46 votes
42. Grandia 43 votes
43. Arc The Lad 42 votes
44. Bullet Witch 41 votes
45. Racing Lagoon 39 votes
46. Drag-On Dragoon 37 votes
47. Panekit 36 votes
48. Metal Wolf Chaos 33 votes
49. Tokimeki Memorial 33 votes
50. Famicom Tantei Kurabu 30 votes
Famitsu Readers Voted Their Most Wanted Sequels [PS3 Hyper]
Dousatsu
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 4:16 PMAm I the only one who feels they’ve lost a lot of gaming street cred for not knowing heaps of those games?
RocK_M
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 7:01 PMLol.. don’t feel too bad. You would only ever know about a huge chunk of those games if your were really into the jp import and jrpg scene =3
Jonathan Betten
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 4:26 PMDitto.
Trent
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 4:44 PMElder Scrolls V?
@Dousatsu: you’re not japanese are you? If not, then no, no street cred lost.
APK
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 4:45 PMahahaha Dousatsu,
fortunately i know most of these games. I agree with Valkyria Chronicles the most but also like
Sakura Taisen
Okami
Shinobido
Demon’s Souls
Z.O.E
Mother
Shadow Hearts
Panzer Dragoon
Front Mission
Another Century’s Episode
Shirokishi Monogatari: Inishie no Kodou (aka White Knight Chronicles)
Infinite Undiscovery
p3ss3ssod
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM“2. Shenmue 249 votes”
Ironically thats the same number of copies of Shenmue 2 sold on Xbox.
Blah2
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 5:30 PMIs Sakura Wars as in the really old steam-powered mech anime? Because that was pretty cool, although it’s been a few years since I saw it.
RocK_M
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 6:57 PMYes the anime was based on that game.. it was actually part dating sim and part SRPG and part ADV/Visual Novel and part mini games xD
The SRPG part was the combat scenes where you control the main guy and the squad against the demons. The Dating Sim part was in between when you spent time w/ the girls and did mini games and stuff… building relationships with girls usually unlocked unite moves w/ the girls you could use during the combat bits.
It was one of the longest running classic SRPG series actually… no brainer everyones screaming fer a sequal…
On a side note.. wow.. the Toki Memo craze musta really died down over there in jp. That used to be the equivalent of Idolmaster ie. fanboi crack xD And sweet Grandia managed to squeeze in! xD
plmko
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 6:00 PMI fail to see why people still crave for Shenmue, can’t they see that essentially Yakuza (ryu ga gotoku) was pretty much created to get around the Shenmue liscensing problem. The is practically identical too in terms of gameplay and story.
T-Rocket
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 6:19 PMOkami definitely could do with a sequel. Maybe not a direct sequel but something very close to the original.
Scruffy
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 7:08 PMJust give me a new metroid and the puppy doesn’t get hurt.
Oh yeah, a Resident Evil Outbreak game that actually has online in PAL regions would be greatly appreciated.
Marco
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 7:54 AMSHENMUE! H E L L O SEGA… do you get it yet?