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
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).