User blog comment:Blademaster00/Official Amatsumagatsuchi Talk Page/@comment-125.164.30.247-20101217164337/@comment-3214667-20101218183554

Western sales were never good when the first hit shores. I think the only time it was ever talked about was during one of the gameshows and that was it. So really there was no word of its existence and not many knew what it was about. Then you have the people that just whine "It's too hard" "No target system" and so forth.