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Andrew Duff - July 13, 2004 - 11:00 Central Standard Time
Hello, hello....hello.
Ahem, first off, I’m glad everyone enjoyed the Capsule Toy special. Thanks a ton for all the letters, and to answer all of your questions, no, I don’t know where you can get cheap capsule toys outside of Japan. Maybe try searching on Google for import shops, but you’re not going to find’em cheap, so start applying for Study Aboard today, eh?
Claire’s back doing comics this week, and if you’re a big fan of her art, why not place a bid at Ebay auction for your very own art commission? I’m not overly fond of pimping other people’s attempts at getting your money, but the starting bid is dirt cheap and Claire’s saving up for a tablet. Also, if I don’t she’ll break my arm. Please don’t let her break my arm. ;_;
So yeah, this week is just typical humdrum exciting news from Japan and other foreign parts, so try not to drool on your keyboard and get reading!
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Mmm, now who can resist some screens from a new Secret of Mana game? Not me, that’s for certain. And while I don’t know what system it’s being developed for, anything about the gameplay, or pretty much anything useful about the title, I can reveal that it looks an awful lot like the Saga Frontier series, which probably is a good thing provided the gameplay is nothing like it. If it wasn’t for those adorable rabites in the first screen I’d have written off the whole deal as a joke, frankly.
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Hooray! Nintendo continues to introduce new titles to the mini-series, cashing in on yet more of our favorite NES games. This new set actually releases quite a few games I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on, like Zelda 2, the original Metroid, and even the original Castlevania! Other titles like Super Mario 2 and Kid Icarus round out titles you’d recognize on this side of the Pacific, and frankly I doubt we’ll be getting any of the other games. Not that there isn’t a market for, say, Super Deformed Gundam World: Scramble Wars, it’s just not a very big market. Anyway, all ten games will be released in Japan on August 10th, and we’ll hopefully be hearing about a US release date soon.
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Yep, European cell phones are getting both Actraiser and a cell phone version of Drakkengard. (Don’t ask me how THAT’S going to turn out. O_o;;) This is following in the wake of Japanese gamers getting everything from the original Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior on their cell phones to the brand-new Final Fantasy 7: Before Crisis. Heck, even Disgaea and the Ys series has hopped onto cell phones. It’s enough to leave me seriously wondering what’s keeping America in the dark on games like this. Now, I’m not saying that everyone should run out and pick up a joke system like N-gage, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we started seeing a serious increase in good cell phone games in the states within the next year. And yeah, I’ll admit it. When I first heard about cell phone games, I thought they were just a silly fad for Japanese school girls. But hey, with everyone nailed to their cell phones all the time anyway, wouldn’t it be cool if instead of playing Snake or Break-Out while you waited in line at the movies, you got to play Before Crisis?
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Ooo, look! Final Fantasy 1 and 2, with pretty graphics and new quests and items. Sure, it’s basically the same game that was released on the Playstation a while ago, and sure, Square is charging almost 60 bucks for games that everyone has probably already played, but come on! It’s Final Fantasy! So dig out your wallet and head down to Akihabara on July 29 to secure your copy!
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And finally, filed into the category of great-looking games you’ll never get a chance to play, Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata is heading to Japan in late September. The very popular Korean RPG series, has been found mainly on the computer up until now, and somehow I doubt the series will be picked up by an American publisher. But at least we can all gaze at the great art and drool, eh?
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