If you follow gaming news, you’ve probably come across this little video:
The game looks great, but the developers keep telling people that it’s aimed at kids. Still, gaming news sites can’t wait to get their hands on this game. I’m a little scared that the game truly is targeted at young kids and that plenty of grown ups are going to be very disappointed when this turns out to be just what it was meant to be.
However, I think this is a great opportunity for the developer to start thinking about branching the game for a more adult audience and deliver a great gaming experience for the adults that grew up playing LEGOs.
Please Net Devil, make it happen, we want a grown up LEGO Universe.
Looks like I missed quite an important news at the E3 this year (2009).
Half-Minute Hero (which was named Yuusha 30) is coming to North America this fall. I talked about this game previously, it’s an RPG with a twist: you have 30 seconds to grind, buy equipment and defeat the final boss. There are many stages and a few other games modes too (one where you play the villain and one where you play a princess surrounded by body guards).
It looks like XSEED Games is doing the job of bringing us this little game that looks like a ton of fun, 30 seconds at the time.
There’s also going to be a demo released tomorrow (september 10th)!
As you may know, there have been quite some news about Final Fantasy games lately.
First of all, coming from E3:
Final Fantasy XIV
FFXIV is the sequel to FFXI in the sense that it is a MMO
They currently want to make it a global game, meaning no separate servers depending on the region: Japanese players will be able to play with American players
They are aiming for a release in 2010
Final Fantasy XIII
Summons are once again a central part of the story. Characters will be attached to one summon (not selectable by players). It is not known if more than one summon will be attached to characters or if all characters will have a summon (or more). The attached summons seem to be fixed by the story.
Final Fantasy VII
It’s a direct port of the PlayStation game.
It costs 9.99 US$
Available for download now (1.32GB required)
And finally, news coming from Nintendo:
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
The sequel to the excellent Final Fantasy IV (also known as Final Fantasy II in North America)
Released on WiiWare at the beginning of the week
Contains all the episodes (9) from the cellular game from Japan
Team ICO’s next project has finally been revealed at this year’s E3. The game will be called The Last Guardian and looks even more gorgeous than the previous unofficial trailer. This new trailer is very similar to the first one except that the graphics were improved and some scenes were added/removed. The cat/rat/eagle beast looks slightly different too. Anyway, I strongly recommend that you check the embedded video at Gametrailers in HD.
Final Fantasy XIV was just announced at Sony’s press conference at the E3. Not much is known yet, but it’s supposed to be a PS3 exclusive and have some online features.
Sony has just announced that Final Fantasy VII will be available for download over the PlayStation Network today. This is great news for people who have been waiting for a port/remake for so long. So if you have a PSP, you’ll be able to play this classic that changed the role playing genre anywhere you want.
This was just announced at the Nintendo Press conference at the E3. There will be a sequel to the wonderful Golden Sun series on the Nintendo DS. If you haven’t played the Golden Sun games on the Gameboy Advance, I strongly recommend you play them both.
Not much is known about the game yet, but it’s supposed to be released in Spring 2010.
PlayStation LifeStyle has posted a trailer for the next game from Team ICO. If you like games, then check it out. Team ICO has produced 2 of the most beautiful, charming and best games. If you haven’t played ICO or Shadow of the Colossus yet, you should give them a try. Whenever the “game as art” debate comes up, I always think of those two games, they truly are works of art.
Normally when you talk about RPGs, you think about a 30 to 80 hours long game. This PSP game does things differently and I’m really hoping they bring this title to North America.
Basically, an evil wizard is casting a spell that will destroy the world. The spell takes 30 seconds to cast, that’s how long you have to defeat him. That means leveling-up, shoping and getting to the evil fortress. Fortunately, the countdown stops when inside a town to shop and there are ways to reset the clock.
You have to decide how much to level-up, how much to explore and what to buy, all in 30 seconds.
Here’s a video of the gameplay, you can grab the demo on your PSP:
Looks like I missed quite an important news at the E3 this year (2009).
