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New Out of Order clip tries to push Magical High School

After the shocking sales for Lost Dimension, Namco has to hope for better things for its own, broadly-similar-looking, Magical High School Out of Order, which is approaching launch for the end of October. Perhaps the magic factor will help it sell more, but there's still the similar dodgy uniforms, weak-looking combat and cut-and-paste characters to wade through.

Magical High School does have a popular source material anime behind it to help generate some hype, while Lost Dimension was an original work, so there's some hope for it, but there does seem to be an small herd of these games to confuse even the most eagle-eyed of Japanese gamers. Any westerners watching MHS? Any impressions on the gameplay in this latest clip?

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