Important Importables: Vampire Knight DS review

Title: Vampire Knight DS (Vampire Kishi DS)Price: $58.90System(s): DSRelease Date: January 29, 2009Publisher (Developer): D3 Publisher (D3 Publisher)ESRB Rating: N/A, Cero B for ages 12 and up.Pros: Lots of mini-games, follows the storyline of the Vampire Knight manga/anime, seven brief “chapters” of the story, full voice acting, interesting simulation aspects and can be quite funny at times.Cons: Controls in some of the mini-games really suck. (No pun intended – really.) CGs featuring eye-less Yuki are incredibly disturbing.Overall Score: 9/10

Vampire Knight is an interesting series from Matsuri Hino that centers around a school where vampires and humans learn side by side. It’s developed a loyal fanbase, and its popularity has resulted in a manga series, which has been translated in English by Viz and appears monthly in Shojo Beat magazine, an anime, drama CDs and light novels.

And now, Vampire Knight has become a video game. Vampire Knight DS, which is also referred to online as Vampire Kishi DS, is a genre-bending, import friendly game that allows players to experience events in the series in a whole new way…