Quick Hands on with Tobal M

By Spencer . September 28, 2007 . 11:28am

Quick Hands on with Tobal M images Tobal is reemerging with a mobile phone fighting game set to come out in Japan. It looks impressive with Nintendo 64 quality 3D graphics and the frame rate isn’t too bad for a cell phone game. However, Tobal M is extremely basic. You use the arrow keys to move and the 6,9,# buttons on the numeric keypad are used for attacks. The biggest problem with the set up is the phone I played Tobal M on had an extra key below the # button that I kept hitting by mistake.

After winning a fight it was time to put the game down and move on to Chocobo’s Mysterious Dungeon.

TAGS: Cell Phone, Square Enix

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SomeDude

Damn. When are they going to rework Tobal 2 and bring it to the US?

Veilknight

It's a shame that, like Parasite Eve before it, the Tobal series big revival to the gaming industry had to be on a cell phone. And judging from Spencer's above impressions as well, Tobal M leaves much to be desired, despite excelling in the graphics department for a mobile game. Honestly, I don't know what Square-Enix was thinking here, pulling off a 3D fighter on such a tiny screen seems needlessly difficult, especially having to deal with the pressure of properly dealing out combos using such tiny buttons found on a typical mobile phone.

I don't know if Square would be willing to release Tobal 2 separately in the US at this point in time, meaning unfortunately the only way to play the game may only remain as importing for now. Although I would certainly love to see a compilation of the Tobal series on PS2 for $19.99 in North America which naturally would include Tobal 2 being on the roster.

Aoshi00

Even though our phones are not as advanced as the Jpn counterparts, I really don't miss them at all, why would I want to play games on a tiny vertical screen if I can play either the DS or PSP (Castlevania Order of Shadows, yuck).. Do they make a lot of money but putting out cellphone games in Jpn, like Before Crisis? That's probably the only thing I'm interested in.