A new entry in the Senko no Ronde shooting game series is PS Vita bound. It’s expected out in 2013, and it could be different from pervious entries. [Kotaku Japan]
Meet Changpo. She’s adorable. She’s also one of the stars of G.Rev’s super-hard arcade/360 shooter Senko no Ronde, which was released earlier this year and went completely unnoticed by everyone (except Mike). Not to matter. This Changpo figure comes courtesy of – who else – Max Factory, stands 140mm and will set you back ¥5800 ($5US 1) when it’s released in April. From the front, she looks…approachable. From the back?
Shooter specialist G.rev let slip the other day that Senko no Ronde 2 was in the works, revealing two new gender ambiguous additions to the cast of fighters. Now, courtesy of Yahoo! Japan blog Gemaga, we know a half-dozen characters who will comprise a portion of the roster. As fans of the first can see, gender confusion runs amok yet again, as Cuilan returns and a character known as ??? blurs the line between the sexes. Someone at G.rev should be made to pay for this.
Senko no Ronde 2 [Yahoo! Japan]
The Naomi based fighter-shmup Senko no Ronde eventually wound up on the Xbox 360, arriving in the West as WarTech: Senko no Ronde. It didn’t do particularly well with critics or buyers, which seems odd considering its can’t-miss formula of gender neutral anime teens piloting robots that shoot pastels lasers at each other. Still, developer G.rev is giving it another go, it seems, as an arcade sequel tentatively known as Senko No Ronde 2 is due to arrive in Japan next year. A teaser image featuring Lev Lefanu (left) and Henri Xia Xiaotien (right) is all that we’ve seen so far—another very blurry character is shown in a second pic—but we have little in the way of details beyond that. Anyone willing to wager the sexes of these two new additions? I’m withholding judgment for now.
