A lot of impatient folk imported Fatal Frame IV when it came out in Japan this week, rather than wait around for someone to announce a US ship date, and they may be regretting it. The game shipped to stores with some crippling bugs unfixed. Most of the bugs are documented at the NeoGAF forum, the most severe causing the game to freeze and lock up. These sort of errors tend to be fixed before North American releases, but Tecmo has apparently released some extremely buggy DLC content for Ninja Gaiden 2 in the US.
Nintendo has acknowledged the bugs and problems in this post on their Japanese site, which also recommends some ways of avoiding them by not performing specific in-game actions. it also notes how severe issues like blank encyclopedia entries and a post-game option that fails to unlock are. The post notes that it is still totally possible to beat the game and that no bugs can damage save data, but admits that playing through the game with the bugs can be "annoying", an understatement that borders on the insulting.
