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Namco Bandai calls dibs on Magna Carta: Crimson Stigma
11:40 AM on 01.12.2009, Colette Bennett 9 comments

Namco Bandai calls dibs on Magna Carta: Crimson Stigma photo
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Remember that Korean RPG, Magna Carta? No? Well, pay attention: the Softmax-developed (which by the way, sounds like a mix of softcore and Cinemax to me) title which was recently confirmed as an Xbox 360 exclusive officially has a publisher in the form of Namco-Bandai.

No word on a release date yet, but since I loved both Eternal Sonata and Tales of Vesperia, I tend to keep a close eye on whatever Namco-Bandai sees fit to publish when it comes to RPGs. I missed out on Magna Carta: Tears of Blood for PS2 -- anyone play it and love it?

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Mr Gilder at 01/12/2009 13:25
Assuming you can get over the fact that the male lead seems to have hotter legs than the female love interest, the original Magna Carta is a top notch quirky RPG. I'd say it's right up your alley Colette. It's got a unique active battle system, a mature story, and some of the best graphics on the PS2. Not to mention the art is breathtaking.
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Trev at 01/12/2009 13:25
I really don't see why they keep releasing exclusive RPGs other than Microsoft payouts. Neither Eternal Sonata or Tales of Vesperia seem to have done especially well as 360 exclusives; it's like they're ignoring twenty million potential buyers who explicitly want more RPGs (admittedly not all 20m of them want rpgs, but it isn't as though there are only a few there).

Also: Hyung-Tae Kim is a hell of an artist.
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calpis at 01/12/2009 13:55
I have Magna Carta on my bookshelf. I bought the game purely because I love that guy's art. I never got around to playing the game past 2 after the intro movie though so I can't say how good or bad the game is. It's sitting next to all 3 Shadow Hearts games and BoF: Dragon Quarter as "PS2 rpgs that I bought but never played but will when I find time to" collection.
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ninjikiran at 01/12/2009 17:12
The gameplay was pretty bad in the PS2 Magna Carta. Combat was rigid and limited, it was kind of a real time turn based system or what not where you had to baby sit(IE control every character manually or just use 1 character as the other 2 stand around doing nothing) every character. It was a while ago, very wierd and not much fun.
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Celdurant at 01/12/2009 22:32
ninji got pretty much all of it. Hated the battle system. The story seemed like it had potential, but the battles just made it too unbearable. It's a shame too, since I really wanted to like the game.
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silvain at 01/13/2009 09:51
Game sucked. Don't get excited about this one.
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Gen Eric Gui at 01/13/2009 12:42
Magna Carta as a series is pretty well known to have absoultely terrible gameplay and lackluster stories. The only reason to even look at news re: the game is for the art.
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