Shikigami no Shiro III: yet another shooter for Wii
A Wii version of Alfa System's
Type X arcade shooter
Shikigami no Shiro III will be released in Japan on December 13, published by Arc System Works. This is one of
many shooters coming out for the system for some reason-- possibly lower development costs?
Surprisingly, both of the previous entries in the
Shikigami no Shiro series have been released in the US, although you may not have noticed them. XS Games released the first on PS2 as
Mobile Light Force 2, presented as a sequel to their PlayStation
Mobile Light Force, which was actually Psikyo's
Gunbird. Both
Mobile Light Force games had the exact same
Charlie's Angels-esque
boxart that had nothing to do with anything. Despite XS Games' best efforts to destroy the localization,
Mobile Light Force 2 is still a pretty good budget shooter. The second game was released fairly intact as
Castle Shikigami II, also at a budget price
. Obviously, we're hoping for a US release on this new game, but from
someone else, please.Don't take the title as derisive: even though this is, yes,
another shooter, we actually enjoy shooters, and we feel that there's been enough of a lack of them in recent years that a sudden boom on the Wii is more than welcome.
