Square Enix has managed to place themselves back in the race again with some inspiring titles in the upcoming quarters. Ever since this game was first announced back in 2006, I somehow managed to endure the long wait. Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky ????????IX ?????? is the first original Dragon Quest game in the series made specifically for the Nintendo DS.
After a long delay, Level-5 decided to kick it back old school by completely revamping the battle system from what was suppose to be an action-RPG to turn-based RPG. As a DQ fangirl, I’m glad they made the right choice by switching it to the turn-based system.
Dragon Quest IX is set to go on sale on the 11th of July in Japan. I’ve already called a couple stores here in NYC and I have my fingers crossed that they will be receiving an early shipment on Friday.
I will admit that when the game was announced I was a little bit skeptical. I was expecting the new Dragon Quest to be made for the PS3 or 360. Dragon Quest VIII had such a massive and expressive world to explore, and the DS is so tiny that I’m a little wary of being disappointed by this attempt on the DS. I want it to live up to it’s predecessors. I know they managed to port over DQ4 & DQ5, which is a good sign, but even so I don’t want to get my expectations up too high. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, unbelieveable things do come in small packages (of all people I should know this!).
Also, let’s see if Dragon Quest IX will convince me to upgrade my DS for a DSi or not.
For now, here’s a couple clips of DQ9 — please stay tuned for my first impressions of the game once I get my hands on it!
I rarely post…let alone post about music (eeeek!)!!! I guess I got inspired to look into bands I used to/still like after playing Rock Band with Dylan. I totally suck at vocals, but I can out hum you any day! Also…don’t ask me about drums…would have been a nice dream of me playing the drums, but…nope…the horrors!
Ok, enough about Rock Band, this is a post about Weezer. They have their sixth album coming out in April 2008! I’m excited. I haven’t bought a CD since their last album, which came out in 2005 (can’t believe it’s been 3 years since I bought anything related to music for myself…).
I guess I was a little disappointed with their fifth album. Hopefully, they don’t disappoint us with this one.
I still support you Weezer!
FFIV’s 2007 remake is coming out on December 20th in Japan. I’m gleeing with excitement over here. I mean look at it…how can you not fall in love with this game again? (T_T) I will be stalking and camping import stores here for this game. I will update again once this game comes out.
Until then…Here’s a clip from FFIV’s theme song “Theme of Love” remade with some beautiful lyrics it aired on MTV Japan. If I could sing, I would definitely sing this song…believe me! But I can’t, so let’s watch someone who is better off doing this song justice:
Here’s the trailer + translations:
Just wanted to let everyone know that today is our (Jon H.) webmonkey’s birthday. He is officially old.
A lot of Americans seem to hate this series. I guess it’s because of the lack in gameplay that seems to turn people off.
Hello, I’m Tally and I’m an RPG-fiend.
The last RPG I bought before Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny was Grandia III (which I waited a really long time to buy, until GameStop decided to drop the price to $29.99). I’m not here to give you a review of these games. I’m here to admit that I am one of the few people out there that may happen to like Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny. I’ve never played any of the other NIS or Gust games, but the reason why I picked up Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny was because it was sitting in a $5.99-$9.99 bin at Toys ‘R Us in Times Square. I picked it up after work, and noticed that it was a game I looked up once upon a time and decided to give it a try, especially since it was only $9.99 (excluding tax). Brother J has officially labeled the game as my favorite game, because I played it 12 hrs straight the next night (not sure if it is, but I do like the old-school RPG style).
Long story short, I was surfing an import store and noticed there was a new RPG for the NDS called “Lise no Atelier: Ordre no Renkinjutsushi”. Ever since Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny I’ve been sort of a fangirl (lack of a better word) for the series. This game supposedly will be more involving in the alchemy aspect, which again I like because I’m still a crafting fiend on FFXI and Dragon Quest VIII.
The game seems to use alchemy much more like you would in Dragon Quest VIII rather than Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny, where you needed alchemy to advance the storyline rather than for personal usage.
This game will be released in Japan sometime in March 2007.
I’m not sure what made me decide to look this up, I think it must have been something I was reading in a magazine I happened to be scanning in for work, but I saw the words “FFXI’s sequel” and it made me jump out of my chair.
I played FFXI religiously for over 2-3 years? I have a female Elvaan character who has been abused with the job of making me millions of Gil to buy me pretty gear for the three level 75 jobs she carries under her belt. Don’t worry I do this legally, I’m very anti-RMT (Real Money Trading), but that’s a different story for a different post. With that being said, I’m extremely excited about the idea of it having a sequel.
So of course, being the curious fangirl I am, I googled it (googled: I think Webster Dictionary made this an actual word, but don’t quote me on that!). I found out that Square-Enix released a “Comment on Media Report” back in summer 2006 stating that they have no intentions of creating a sequel. Read it here.
I’m still excited at the the idea of there being future MMORPG for the next-gen consoles. I think I will have to buy a PS3 soon when this game comes out.
