Meet Izuna: The Unemployed Ninja

A R G H !

“A throwback to the old dungeon RPGs that change every time you play them.”

Roguelike games are not throwbacks, dammit! They’re a fair sight more interesting than most “modern” RPGs.

(Hey, it’s my duty to rant about this every time I hear it.)

These day, I’ll take a “dungeon RPG” over a “Walk in the in the field until you reach the town and stop every 4.7 seconds to fight a random battle” RPG. As much as I use to love Random battle and turn base RPGs, I no longer seem to have the patience for them. I just can’t figure out how I use to be able to handle the fact that when I wanted to reach point A to point B, I had to be interrupted by 10 battles, which turned a simple walk of 1 minute into a holdup of 20 minutes.

This game looks like it may be the game that finally gets me to buy a DS. Is the battle system turnbased like Azure Dreams, or is it real time like Diablo?

I never really had a problem with random battles, just the way the algorithms seemed to be programmed to factor in pi multiplied by infinity just as you were three steps away from an exit/treasure chest/heal point/save point. THAT always drove me up the wall.

The battle system looks more like Diablo than a turn based system. Looks good and the story sounds great.

Turn based battles are fine with me as long as I alternate between them and action/adventure ones. That said, it looks like a fun little game. The characters kind of remind me of Naruto.

For the combat I beleive D-Fuse is right in saying that it is action based.