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Square Enix announces TGS lineup, lists Tobal comeback photo

Even more TGS lineup listings are coming out of Japan as we're now only 20 days away from the event. Japanese giant Square Enix now lays out the list of their wares, and it shows that some classic Square franchises are making a comeback.

The listing Tobal M (pictured above) is an eyebrow raiser... until you find out that it's a mobile game. Actually, half of their listed playable titles are Mobile only. We can appreciate that the mobile gaming market is growing in Japan, but they have to understand that non-Japanese gamers are going to be a bit bummed.

While we're still taking disappointments, we have to mention that mega-titles like Last Remnant, Dragon Quest IX, and Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII will only be shown in video form. At least this is playable. Hell, if it wasn't for the obligatory surprise announcements, Square Enix's TGS booth might even be a "pass."

Yeah, I don't really mean that. In fact, while digging around in Square Enix's TGS page (complete with annoying mock show floor noise), I found that line-waiting booth attendees should be able to nab the "Square Enix Music Sampler Vol. 2," which is grade-A swag to a geek like myself. They will have Music CDs and DVDs on sale as well. How did you miss that, IGN?

Hit the jump for a list of titles from Square Enix.

 

 

Play Me!
Dragon Quest IV (DS)
Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon (Wii)
Final Fantasy IV (DS)
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (DS)
Crisis Core FFVII (PSP)
Final Fantasy CC: Ring of Fates (DS)
DS Style (DS)
Dragon Quest Mobile (mobile)
Ganmoba Comics (mobile)
Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode (mobile)
Before Crisis Final Fantasy VII (mobile)
Monotone (mobile)
Tobal M (mobile)
Makai Toushi Saga (mobile)
Chocobo de Mobile (mobile)

Watch Me!
Final Fantasy XI Wings of the Goddess (multi)
Last Remnant (PS3, X360)
Dragon Quest IX (DS)
Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII (PS3, cell)
Dissidia Final Fantasy (PSP)
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete (Blu-ray)

IGN calls this "Kids Corner"
Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road (arcade)
Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (DS)
Slime Mori Mori Dragon Quest 2 (DS)

[thanks, Justin] 


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SourGr8pes's Avatar
SourGr8pes at 09/03/2007 10:27
Please, for the love of all that's holy, stop getting Akira Toriyama to do character designs. Aside from Chrono Trigger, every character he makes looks like an existing Dragonball character in some way or another.

On the other hand, new FFT and Dragon Quest IX (and yeah, I realize the irony, here because of what I was bitching about)
fromagex's Avatar
fromagex at 09/03/2007 10:49
Please report on when Dragon Quest IV will be released
ZMTToxics's Avatar
ZMTToxics at 09/03/2007 10:50
All hands on deck for all DS Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games. I am a damn sucker for Square games.
ajaxender's Avatar
ajaxender at 09/03/2007 10:55
sweet dissidia sounds cool. A bit of a smash bro's knockoff but thats not exactly a bad thing, especially with ff characters. Yay!
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Rainbowblack at 09/03/2007 10:58
tobal was my First PSone game

too bad its probably just a celphone port
yanR's Avatar
yanR at 09/03/2007 11:03
BETRAYAL ! BETRAYAL! BETRAYAL !
Teta's Avatar
Teta at 09/03/2007 11:20
I was hoping some now release of Tobal, so i could beat the crap out o f ppl with the fantasy version of BIG BIRD.

Dale North's Avatar
Dale North at 09/03/2007 11:27
dude, HOM was the man.
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Roflcopter Pilot at 09/03/2007 11:41
First PE and now Tobal.

...fucking Japanese and their cellphones...
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Dennen at 09/03/2007 11:52
I'm with SourGr8pes in this one. His art is alright. Chrono Trigger seemed to be the furthest he's gotten from the art style, since it's hard to transfer that to 2D Overhead. If they released a new Chrono Trigger with the same art style, the game would likely receive mediocre ratings and merely be passed off as "alright".

The guy really needs to develop a new character design, because as he does it at the moment - he sucks horridly. Every character looks near the same to something famous he's done already, but with a color change in skin tone and hair color, maybe an added bang on the front, or a thrown in belt to go around those huge foreheads, and he's done... When is he going to learn that "Different" does not mean "The same, but with a new fashion accessory"
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AngelsDontBurn at 09/03/2007 12:00
Omg I saw Tobal and flipped then I saw mobile and totally frowned. :(
masamunecyrus's Avatar
masamunecyrus at 09/03/2007 12:10
Kid's Corner my ass. Slime Mori Mori Dragon Quest is awesome.
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Tron Knotts at 09/03/2007 12:15
Tobal 2 is my favoriate 3D fighter of all time. It's the only 3D fighter to do projectiles right, and it's single player adventure modewith it's Pokemon style moster capturing (you could catch any enemy in the game, even bosses, and use them in Vs mode) is a gameplay classic of a stature never before seen and not seen since in gaming history.

Some one at Square needs to get off the crack and release that game in he states, either on PSP, DS, Wii, whatever.
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Joseph Leray at 09/03/2007 12:26
I'm a pretty ardent supporter of SE, and even I have to say that I'm a little disappointed by this. I'm not into mobile gaming, at all, and some playable console games would've been nice.

Don't get me wrong, I totally have a boner for SE's DS line-up, but ...
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Cowboy TTop at 09/03/2007 13:08
It may say for mobile phones, but I believe Square Enix are using these cell phone games to generate and measure interest in these games. Don't forget the also previously announced Parasite Eve 3 for mobiles, and if I'm right that's now lined up for a console launch too.

The same could easily happen with Tobal, as its long overdue an update, and we know Square Enix love the gingling sound of our cash. A good move really.

Perhaps they should also stick Tobal 1 and 2, on PSP UMD while they are at it.
Knives's Avatar
Knives at 09/03/2007 13:21
Damn, everything is mobile.
Joe Burling's Avatar
Joe Burling at 09/03/2007 14:05
I don't care about any of these games. Boo.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar
GuitarAtomik at 09/03/2007 14:24
@Angels

That's exactly what I was about to type :[
Spectral's Avatar
Spectral at 09/03/2007 15:45
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PLAY THAT ON MY BOOST MOBILE
Robert's Avatar
Robert at 09/03/2007 18:03
Gohan and Android 18

Oh wait
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 09/04/2007 00:07
*cough* New Einhänder and Bushido Blade games would be nice Squeenix.
LostCrichton's Avatar
LostCrichton at 09/04/2007 00:42
I totally second Mxyzptlk for a new Bushido Blade game. Damn I played the hell out of the original and BB2 back in the day. I need to dig those out right now.
Justice's Avatar
Justice at 09/04/2007 03:21
Why did it have to be mobile!
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