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Mobile Light Force 2 (PS2)
Published by null - 05-2003

I am, by dint of a three-year gig at Working Designs, intimately familiar with the process of localizing Japanese video games for the North American market, so I understand why certain choices (and mistakes) are made. Yet despite my gobs of experience, I couldn't begin to tell you what was going through the minds of the people at XS Games when they localized the seven-year-old PSX shoot-'em-up, Gunbird, and the one-year-old PS2 shoot-'em-up, Shikigami no Shiro. These localizations of otherwise decent games were done with absolutely no respect for the Japanese developers or American gamers. Before we document the litany of pain, let's talk about the two gameplay elements that make Mobile Light Force 2 (aka Shikigami) a surprisingly strategic shmup, and very hard to resist at the budget MSRP of $15. First is the dual-attack system. You can press and hold the square button to autofire your