The rather wonderful Jiji at Namako Team has posted an extremely lengthy overview of D3 Publisher's recent Japanese output, including information on the latest Simple 2000 releases in Japan.

There's actually some really neat stuff out there (none of which is ever coming to the States, curses!), including Simple 2000 Series Vol. 99: The Caveman, "...kind of a cross between Pikmin and Artdink's Tail of the Sun. You lead your little tribe of monkeys around a series of environments, coordinating to achieve goals and overcome enemies, and evolving them bit by bit into humans."

But, ironic detachment aside, the Simple 2000 games often aren't actually that good, being borderline shovelware, after all, and Jiji's review of The All*Star Kakutou Matsuri makes that clear: "It's a semi-cel-shaded 2D fighter with 3D backdrops featuring characters from a bunch of different D3 games. It's...unsurprisingly average."