It's been a while since we last heard about Namco Bandai's God Eater. If you know Japanese (or have enough trust in your ability to navigate a menu without understanding a thing about it), you'll get to do more than hear (or read) about it soon. You can get to play the demo.

Namco Bandai is releasing a God Eater demo this month through a few outlets. The official release on the Japanese PlayStation Store will commence on November 26, but Famitsu.com members can get it a week earlier starting November 19. Also on November 26, Namco Bandai will make it available from a special download site.

Those who are actually in Japan can also get a UMD demo in early December. The retail demo is actually pretty cool, since it has a Memory Stick install feature that lets players copy it and distribute it to friends.

The demo weighs in at 150MB and includes a total of ten missions. Five of these are tutorials. The remaining half consists of four demo-exclusive special missions and one challenge mission. All of the non-tutorial missions support ad-hoc multiplayer for up to four players.

God Eater will launch in Japan on February 4, 2010.

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