Shoeisha

Shoeisha at a Glance

Shoeisha is a Japanese company founded in 1986 that began releasing video games in 1994 and stopped in 2004. While the publisher is known for over 1,000 computer and software books today, its time in the game industry saw it release 17 titles listed on PlayPile. These games cover a wide range of genres including shooters, puzzles, fighting games, role-playing games, simulators, adventure titles, and arcade games. The platform distribution shows a heavy reliance on Sony systems, with ten games for the original PlayStation, seven for the PlayStation 3, and seven for the PlayStation Portable. They also released titles for the Nintendo GameCube, Sega Saturn, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and DOS. The company's output was split almost evenly between two decades, with nine games appearing in the 1990s and eight in the 2000s. However, the reception of these titles has been consistently poor. Only two games have received ratings on IGDB, and both score a dismal 22 out of 100. There are no great, good, or mixed rated titles to show for their effort. The lowest scoring entries include Zoids VS released in 2002 and its sequel Zoids VS III from 2004. Other recent releases like Kikou Heidan J-Phoenix: Burst Tactics and Zoids VS II did not receive scores on the same rating scale but follow a pattern of low engagement. It is worth noting that the IGDB biography states the company produced twenty-three titles between 1995 and 2001, which conflicts slightly with the count found in current databases. Despite this discrepancy, the available data paints a clear picture of a developer that struggled to find critical success. Their catalog includes several entries in the Zoids franchise, but even these failed to gain traction among reviewers. Shoeisha operated for a decade before focusing entirely on book publishing, leaving behind a library of games that few players or critics remember fondly. If you are looking for high-quality releases from this studio, the data suggests you will not find them here.

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