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Square Enix announces Ellark, a new mobile RPG

11:25 AM on 04.17.2008, Colette Bennett 17 comments

Square Enix announces Ellark, a new mobile RPG photo
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Okay, I don't currently play mobile games, but I have to say I would play mobile games if something that wasn't total crap was actually available to play (or if the majority of US cell phones weren't totally uncomfortable to play games on.) In Japan however, cell phone users are light years ahead of us, programming their phones to signal their friends when attractive potential males are in their immediate radius, alerting them when its time to cram for tests, and summoning giant robots to do their bidding. Ok, maybe my imagination got a little carried away...

At any rate, Square-Enix just announced their latest RPG for mobile phones, Ellark, which I would happily play if I could, but it's a part of Square's mobile program in Japan, which has everything from Dragon Quest to Friends of Mana on it (check out the website.) No further details about Ellark have surfaced just yet, but you can check out the official site, look at the pretty pictures and grumble to your friends that Japan gets all the good stuff (my friends are so used to this complaint that they don't even really acknowledge it anymore.)

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glandseck's Avatar
glandseck at 04/17/2008 11:32
"(...) programming their phones to signal their friends when attractive potential males are in their immediate radius."

It's a trap!
Colette Bennett's Avatar
Colette Bennett at 04/17/2008 11:33
ugh, sorry guys, total typo. Fixed it.
king3vbo's Avatar
king3vbo at 04/17/2008 11:43
Junko, you amaze me in so many ways
Delaric's Avatar
Delaric at 04/17/2008 11:44
Lol MrJunko. Congrats on team america and south park references without even trying.
Rainbowblack's Avatar
Rainbowblack at 04/17/2008 13:43
finally a oroginal Ip from SE

and its weighs in at 500kb and will never see the light of day in NA.

fuck them :(
Novakaine's Avatar
Novakaine at 04/17/2008 14:15
Goddammit Squeenix quit making cell phone games! >=(
mix's Avatar
mix at 04/17/2008 15:16
I downloaded a cell game once and that was the last cell game I will ever buy.
RawwrBag's Avatar
RawwrBag at 04/17/2008 15:47
Squeenix lost it around the time when they released FFX-2...
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kevinski at 04/17/2008 16:17
Okay, I don't currently play mobile games, but I have to say I would play mobile games if something that wasn't total crap was actually available to play...

Umm...Metal Gear Solid Mobile is freaking epic.
Dudemullet's Avatar
Dudemullet at 04/17/2008 16:34
meh, Mobile only means we ain't playing it
SPIDER PIG's Avatar
SPIDER PIG at 04/17/2008 19:53
me no understand mobil, but with Fabula Nova Crystallis my hands are tied
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 04/20/2008 05:15
God dammit, I'm tired of seeing big publishers make "big" mobile games we'll never get to try.
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