Holy Shit, Square Enix is Becoming the Best Japanese 3rd Party Video Game Company

Well, Square Enix is apparently on a roll this year, looking to satisfy their many American fans. First we got word that Dissidia 012 will be released only 3 weeks after the Japanese version (and in the same month no less), then we hear that Type-0 would receive a summer release this year, and finally news that Final Fantasy XIII-2 would take into account people's (American's) complaints of the original game. Just to throw everyone for an even bigger loop, Square Enix announced that The 3rd Birthday, the long awaited sequel to Parasite Eve 2, would receive an American release March 29, 2011, not only about 3 months after the Japanese release (extremely fast for a non-remake from Square Enix), but also only seven days after Dissidia 012 is released here. Square Enix is clearly trying to lump these two games together to make quite an epic March for the PSP.

As if that weren't huge enough news, SE also released the main voice actors for the English version, Yvonne Strahovski as Aya Brea and Jensen Ackles as Kyle Madigan. I'm a bit disappointed that Ali Hillis could not voice Aya like Maaya Sakamoto voiced Lightning and Aya to make Aya's Lightning costume that much more hilarious, but Strahovski is a damn fine voice actress, something that most live action actors struggle with, especially with video games. Although I've never seen Supernatural (although I'm told it's quite the manly show despite it being on the CW), I have heard Ackles in Batman: Under the Red Hood playing Jason Todd/Red Hood where he was absolutely fantastic.

I have a feeling I'm going to run out of money this year on all the games I'm getting....