So I've been in the main parts of Japan for the first time in a while (being in the middle of no where and all) and I finally found Border Break Union. Tried it without buying a player card...loved it so much I immediately bought a player card and played for at least 2 hours. I've been in the Tokyo area for a week and I've probably played it for around 20 hours heh. For around 500 yen you get around 30 minutes of play. I really hope they port this game to a console soon. Problem is it has a touch screen interface for communicating and some commands. Plus I dunno if the Wii U would be a good choice though since their network is garbage compared to PS and Xbox heh. Although they could do what they did for Otomedius which was make a special touch panel controller for it. For those who don't know what this game is, it is simply a FPS Robot game. It's 10vs10 Japan network game and you try to destroy the enemy's core in their base. You can actually register a clan with the arcade game and have your clan play in network games too. There is also special events that pop up every once and a while as well. On top of this there is tons of customize modes. Why they haven't brought this to the US, I dunno.. This is really one of the first times since the dreamcast came out that I was really excited about a game heh. (Btw if you actually watch the video....check out what happens when you touch the girl lol) I tried to record a little bit of what it is like (I'm sure you can find better ones since it was hard to record by myself while playing lol)
Controls are very strange and they do take some getting used to. Namely the joystick, but the other is just a mouse hah.
Ahh i get a better idea now thought it was all touch screen controls Is it awkward trying to move and using the touch screen or is the screen just used for menus? Seems it has a bit of a following
The touch screen controls are used for communicating what you are doing, choosing rewards, customizing and choosing a target to shoot if you use a long range weapon (probably some other things as well). The main fighting is done with the regular controls.
There is no network infrastructure or arcades willing to put up the money for these units so there is a very good reason as to why you'll never see this outside of Japan. From an income perspective, it has been failing lately as Konami's copy, Steel Chronicles, has become more popular.
