Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces soaring out of Japan! Holiday 2009 US!

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As Aussie-Nintendo stated, an entry for SkyCrawlers for the Wii has appeared on a number of Australian websites. Could be nothing, could be a hint that Bandai-Namco decided to localize it or license it to an outside company.

Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces is a flight combat game based somewhat off of Mamoru Oshii's anime movie "The Sky Crawlers." The game was developed by Project Aces of Ace Combat fame and was released in Japan last November. As expected, there is a motion control option for the Wiimote-Nunchuk, but players can still opt to use the Classic Controller or Gamecube controller.

Here's the first Japanese trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUfy_n4m9Gs

And this one is a gameplay video of the 3rd mission:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxEhFSokqFw

UPDATE 7/03: Confirmed!
Interview where it was announced (Thanks EXStrike!)
Press Release
Torrance, Calif., (July 3, 2009) –XSEED Games today announced that they have secured the North American publishing rights to The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, an intense flight simulation game on Wii™. Originally released in Japan by NAMCO BANDAI Games, this latest title from Project Aces, will be available Holiday 2009 exclusively for Wii.

After decades of constant war and fighting, the world has finally come to a lasting peace. But with war being an integral part of their lives for so long, the citizens of the world are desperate for a solution to solve this newfound peaceful life of calm and tranquility.

To ease this tension and to appease its citizens, the government has started pursuing a new round of wars. These new campaigns are not a power struggle between hostile countries, but rather sponsored events between private corporations with military-trained personnel contracted by each side to do their biding for them. It is the battles fought by these war contracted corporations such as Rostock and Lautern and the constant media reports on them that satisfy and replace the basic human instinct to fight using the war as a show.

The latest rookie pilot to join the Sky Crawlers, codenamed “Lynx,” is working his way up the ranks and becomes involved in a secret new military project with the goal of making pilots immortal. Join Lynx on his journey to conquer the skies while unraveling the mystery behind the military’s covert new project.

”I’m extremely pleased to be able to confirm The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces for gamers in North America,” said Jun Iwasaki, President of XSEED Games. “The innovative control scheme and gorgeous visuals just go to show what a top-notch development team can do when creating a new game from scratch specifically for Wii.”

In The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, players hold the Nunchuk in the right hand as the flight control stick which is tilted to roll, pitch, and yaw, while the Wii Remote™ held in the left hand is titled up to accelerate and down to decelerate in its role as the throttle. The somber story of a world that needs war to survive, based on a novel series by Hiroshi Mori and adapted into an animated film released by Sony Pictures in the US, is told with a combination of animated cut-scenes and voiced in-game sequences during battle.

XSEED Games partnered with NAMCO BANDAI Games to secure the North American rights to publish and distribute The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces. The title is being developed by Project Aces , the forefront developer of flight simulation games behind the Ace Combat series, and garnered a Famitsu Gold Award upon release.
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