Itadaki Street

[jvgfanatic]

I've been playing (get ready for this title) Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable (cough) lately. It's a board game more like Monopoly than Culdcept however it has uber-Monopoly features including auctions, buyouts, levelling up, etc... I just played my first "Battle Road" game (story mode) and it was a great game. I pretty much stayed ahead of the curve for the whole game and got to the goal amount. I was two squares away from winning when one of the AI opponents blew by me and scored a win. Frustrating as all hell but very entertaining.

This game is on the PSP and only in Japanese however since the PSP is region free...it's on sale at Play Asia right now:

www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-nto-71-bl-77-1-49-en-15-itadaki-84-j-70-1a3k.html

Cheers

[Kuroi Kenshi]

It's a good game, though you may also want to let people know (for any collectors sake) that Play-Asia usually puts the Chinese version of games on sale, not the Japanese. Usually this is only minor differences in quality of booklets and 'assembly' of inserts and such. Good stuff though, and thank goodness for the sales on the affiliation program! They have some great deals every week.

[jvgfanatic]

The link I posted was indeed a link to the Asian version, it's a few dollars cheaper. The instructions and game are still in Japanese. I have the Asian version myself.