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| And it's here! The biggest gaming show of the year next to E3! This is usually the most exciting one for me because of the RPGs due to come out. This year is VERY exciting for the DS! First off, Squaresoft. Three games are expected to make big waves by next year: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time, Valkyrie Profile and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. The new FFCC is said to be a sequel to Rings of Fate. Hm. The twins all grown up? We'll have to wait and see. IHere's a big thing though: The game is cross-platform playable. DS players will be able to play with the stylus and Wii players with the wiimote. Innovative, if you ask me. Interesting to say the least. Release date is scheduled for Japan by January 29. KH: 385/2 Days is another anticipated title. It's been rumored for the DS even way before I had mine. Well, finally, there's some news on it. It controls like the PS2 games and... well... kinda looks like em. This time around, you control Roxas. It must be some sort of morbid fascination as to WHY I am considering looking at this game. Oh well. Release date for Japan rumored February 2009. Valkyrie Profile was a game I was looking forward to. Then I heard that it was going to be somewhat a strategy RPG. WTF? I liked the original battle system. Aww.. does that mean I can't yell out "FINISHING STRIKE... NIBELUNG VOLESTI!!!'" like I used to? XD Not much to say on it so far but I might get it for old times sake. Ok. Up next is... SUIKODEN TIERKRIES! Seems like they're going for a cross between 2 and 3, it seems. It has the usual look of the battle and has a four person party so far. The world map's 2D but once you get into battle, the backgrounds become 3D? I think? The protagonist of Suikoden Tierkreis is a young man who sets out from his village to rid the surrounding area of monsters, only to end up in a wide, forested valley. As we played, we reached a point where the ground began to rumble violently, trees began to fall, and rocks began to crumble. Out of the valley floor rose a vast stone statue of a human guardian holding a large staff. This statue turned out to be a large temple, and upon exploring the interior, we discovered a mysterious book lying in the middle of a circular chamber. In one of the frequent animated cutscenes, the protagonist was drawn inextricably toward the book and grabbed ahold of it, unleashing a flood of memories that seemed to echo the past destruction that left the temple in its currently ruined state. This book also seemed to endow our hero with some magical powers, which we tested out on a later level that allowed us to sink our teeth into the combat system. -Preview from Gamespot. Phantasy Star series also comes to the DS! It looks quite interesting, really. You can create up to three characters in different classes. Sounds like a portable MMORPG! There is an MMORPG mode, really... Chat is enabled using a doodlepad of sorts on the touch screen. You draw on it and send that to your party members. Soloing can be played in Story Mode. Up to three characters can be saved. Gardening Mama. Yes, you heard me. I know I've mentioned it before. Mama steps out of the kitchen and heads to the garden. This time, you need to grow plants from seeds and you do this the same way you used to cook with mama. O_o The mind boggles. Little Magicians is also looking even more interesting the more I read about it. The main charm is that it's Animal Crossing... without the daily drudgery. It's like... Animal Crossing meets the Sims. You have missions to complete, classes to go to, spells to cast... Actually, half the charm of it to me is the similarity it has to my original work, Mahou Gakuen Academe Arcanum. XD /self plug -- Cid to Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon: Toki Wasure no Meikyuu DS. This one plays like the Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon series on the Playstation. You go around a randomly generated dungeon and a character follows you around and you kick your enemies. Except this time, you have Cid tagging along rather than Mog. No screenshots for me to stare at yet but there was mention of amazing FMVs. 8D Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon: Majo to Shoujo to 5nin no Yuusha is said to be a sequel to the FFFables one released early in the DS' career. Interestingly enough, it starts off with an island... and being attacked by mermaids. o_o | ||||||||||
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