Kousoku Card Battle: Card Hero

[parrothead]

Remember the Maruo Maruhige trophy in SSBM? A sequel to the Game Boy Color title he appeared in, Trade & Battle: Card Hero, will be released in Japan on December 20 this year, and he will appear in the sequel. Nintendo might bring it to North America (and perhaps elsewhere), because they were planning to release the Game Boy Color version, but for some unknown reason, the localization was cancelled. Going to www.card-hero.com redirects you to Nintendo of America's home page.

Let's start with the first title of the series. This is the only video of it I found on YouTube. The Wikipedia article about it needs some work. The Japanese article is about to discuss more about both titles of the series, so I suggest the English article should be like the Japanese article. This video shows:

The opening of Trade & Battle: Card Hero

And now for some videos and magazine scans of Kousoku Card Battle: Card Hero.

Opening

Trailer

Here are the two commercials for the DS version

Commercial 1

Commercial 2

And here are some scanned pages from a magazine, showing screen shots, promotional artworks, and other stuff about the DS version:

Scan 1

Scan 2

Scan 3

Scan 4

I really do wish that Nintendo would release it worldwide.

[Flip]

Holy CRAP those monsters look AWESOME. Oh, Nintendo... you are such a taunting little wench sometimes :/

[Manspeed]

What sucks is that people are gonna tout this as a rip-off of Yu-Gi-Oh or something in the event that it does get released outside Japan. Still, unlike more JRPGs, I'm really diggin' the designs here.

[parrothead]

Here is a real gameplay video I found on YouTube.

[kirbychu]

robert said:

What sucks is that people are gonna tout this as a rip-off of Yu-Gi-Oh or something in the event that it does get released outside Japan.

Well, it... is. The Yu-Gi-Oh craze hit Japan in the late 90's, and Card Hero was developed and released when the craze was at it's strongest, presumably to cash in on it. Japan already had a Yu-Gi-Oh feature film before it had Card Hero.

[Flint]

What I liked the most of the original Card Hero was the incredible crazy Character artwork (I am talking about the humans not the monsters) this game has generic looking Anime guys, so its a bit of a let down