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Cars that transform into robots, at first the thing that may pop into your head is Transformers. But Super Speed Transforming Gyrozetter is is a new franchise from Square Enix developed by the Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road team. Instead of licensing characters, Square Enix partnered with Toyota, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Mitsuoka, Mazda, and Nissan to add their cars to Gyrozetter, so yes you can have a Prius turn into a robot.

Another neat touch is Gyrozetter’s arcade cabinet transforms too. In driving mode (left) the game puts a steering wheel right in front of you. Players lift the wheel up in robot battle mode (right) to reveal levers. Each play costs 100 yen and the price includes a card Gyrozetter gives you for use with the arcade game.

Gyrozetter launches in arcades this summer, but Square Enix has big plans for this new franchise. A manga series will kick on on December 3 in Saikyo Jump. Next year, A-1 Pictures, the animation studio behind Persona: Trinity Soul and Blue Exorcist, will create a Gyrozetter anime series. Square Enix also plans to sell toys and make a Nintendo 3DS Gyrozetter in 2012 too.

Tell me what you think

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Oh and here are some images:

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and

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The graphics look amazing. More on this later

Release Date:
Summer (Arcade)
TBA 2012 (3DS)
Price:
100 yen per play (Arcades)

We're never seeing this in the west.

That may be true, but maybe they'll surprise us.

There's a tonne of licensed cars, and are all Japanese, some of which don't even have a western branch, haha. Unless the 3DS game, and the anime use generic cars (which I doubt, since the manga is clearly showing that they're licensed) I doubt SQenix US will go through the trouble.

I might be eating crow soon: Trademarked in the EU.

Oh yes! But it might be heading to Europe only, like Inuzuma Eleven

Anime and arcade game trailers:

Yeah, Square Enix release bullshots for the 3DS version a while back:
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They also released a new trailer for the Arcade game: