Good god, this game looks incredible. I know I've said it before, but I have to say it again. The closer we come to seeing a US release, the more excited I find myself about it. It comes out in Japan on April 9th (Wii exclusive, by the way) and is slated for a 2009 release for North America, so it can't be too long for us, but I do have to admit I'm jealous Japan only has to wait another week or so.
Of course, if you want to know a little about what it's like to make the wait more bearable, you can check out out Jim's impressions from last year's Tokyo Game Show. I'm hopeful we may see a demo of this on the E3 show floor, and if so we'll be sure to bring you our thoughts on what the localized version looks like. In the meantime, hit the jump and go watch that delicious trailer!
If the trailer's what to go by it's to be limited to the two leads.
My question is that if Marvelous is the publisher this time around, if the localization will be good. Atlus did Odin Sphere, which was awesome, but NIS-America handled GrimGrimoire, which was still-great-but-less-so, which is kind of sad since NIS-A did so much to raise the bar back when they put out Disgaea.
Also, I hope it will be in dual-audio. Both of the previous Vanillaware games' US release had it, so I'm hoping Marvelous will continue the trend.
I'm hoping for a good localization. I know I'm in the minority when I say Japanese voice acting gets on my nerves after a while.
The visuals are absolutely STUNNING. The short clip of the Octopus fight looked lifted straight from the old Japanese prints made during the Edo Period. Man, I need to finish Odin Sphere.
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8:40 AM on 03.31.2009
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Definitely going to have to keep this on my radar; hopefully more info gets released soon.
As in one big story populated by multiple playable characters?
I liked that :D
Love the ninja-run too -ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch
If the trailer's what to go by it's to be limited to the two leads.
My question is that if Marvelous is the publisher this time around, if the localization will be good. Atlus did Odin Sphere, which was awesome, but NIS-America handled GrimGrimoire, which was still-great-but-less-so, which is kind of sad since NIS-A did so much to raise the bar back when they put out Disgaea.
Also, I hope it will be in dual-audio. Both of the previous Vanillaware games' US release had it, so I'm hoping Marvelous will continue the trend.
Geh, which only reinforces my belief that NISA STILL isn't as good when it comes to the 'biz of catering to weeaboo nerds like me ;_;
The visuals are absolutely STUNNING. The short clip of the Octopus fight looked lifted straight from the old Japanese prints made during the Edo Period. Man, I need to finish Odin Sphere.
Madwhat?
Everyone should buy this game, even if they don't have a Wii, just to support this kind of thing. That's reasonable, no?