This Week In Imports: The Crystal Bearers

By Spencer . November 9, 2009 . 6:06am

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers lands in Japan this week along with Hexyz Force, and a When Cicadas Cry game for PSP.

The game is When Cicadas Cry Character Mahjong or as its called in Japanese Higarushi no Naku Koro ni: Jan. AQ Interactive developed the title which features an original story explaining why they’re playing mahjong. Remember when AQ Interactive used to publish RPGs?

Nintendo DS
Rockman EXE Operate Shooting Star

PSP
Battle Spirits: Kiseki no Hasha
Hexyz Force
Higarushi no Naku Koro ni: Jan
J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 6: Pride of J
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
Need for Speed: Shift
Sengoku Hime: Senran ni Mau Otometachi
Warship Gunner 2 Portable

Xbox 360
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast
Final Fantasy XI: Vana’diel Collection 2

PlayStation 3
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast

Wii
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers

PlayStation 2
Final Fantasy XI: Vana’diel Collection 2
Sengoku Hime: Senran ni Mau Otometachi

Key European Releases
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, PS3)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Mobilized (DS)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex Edition (Wii)
Cooking Mama 3 (DS)
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast (Xbox 360, PS3)
Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier
Invisimalz w/ PSP Camera (PSP)

Key Domestic Releases
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, PS3)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Mobilized (DS)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex Edition (Wii)
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans (DS)
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast (Xbox 360, PS3)
Final Fantasy XI: Ultimate Collection (Xbox 360)
Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands (DS)
Harvest Moon: Animal Parade (Wii)
Jambo! Safari Animal Rescue (Wii)
Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble (PSP)
Phantasy Star Zero (DS)
Pop’n Music (Wii)

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Ishaan

Crystal Bearer? Come on, seriously!

lostinblue

I'm a Selkie, I can handle it solo!

Ishaan

You really are nothing but trouble...

malek86

Releasing Hexyz Force the same week as Lunar and Crystal Bearers... well, but the first one is a port/remake, and the second one is for a home console. I'm still not sure whether it was a good idea, hopefully Atlus knows their business better than I do. It doesn't look like a big seller anyway. Still, my copy should be almost ready to ship.

By the way, any known bonus with the first shipment? Sting might do that, but maybe Atlus isn't so keen (we're not talking Atlus USA here). I think I've read something about tereka, but I'm not sure.

Tim Nguyen

Phantasy Star Zero this week for me, and possibly COD:MW2...I just got into Dragon Age: Origins, and I'm really enjoying it, so I'll probably wait it off.

cowcow

I hate Dragon Age Origins. Waste of time unless you have a decent PC. And bad presentation anyway. FF XIII, Resonance of Fate and Alpha Protocol ftw

Aoshi00

So I heard Dragon Age wasn't that good huh, at least we have Mass Effect 2 to look forward to from Bioware right? Definitely FFXIII / Resonance for me as well RPG-wise, very impatiently waiting for them. Alpha Protocol not so sure.. I think I would prefer Splinter Cell Conviction. I totally didn't know DBZ: Attack of the Saiyans is coming out here so soon, hope it'd be fun. But that could wait along w/ Raging Blast... watching DB Kai every week is giving me my DB fix already.

cowcow

I thought like you at first too. Splinter Cell's got some nice new additions like sneaking in multiple ways and clearing a room really cool by taking out multiple opponents and stuff but you reaaaally gotta search more and watch more Alpha Protocol. The stuff you can do in that game is insane like a multi targeting system like Fallout 3's VAts system only not so boringly slow and you gotta level up your ability or equipment to use it. And also a device that lets you see where and how many opponents are on the other side of a wall before you go in to clear out the room. Crazy stuff. Plus its 30 hours minimum game time with many different story paths. I hope the delay gives them the extra time to put the Uncharted 2 polish onto it

Ereek

There's nothing I'm terribly interested this week for, perhaps, the first time in months. XSEED really needs to give us a Lunar release date, though.

Asura

Wow, I have never seen so much fanservice of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni on one cover before.

Clearly, the Jan isn't the appeal.

Mr_Qoo

So, what's the chances this is actually a good Pop N' Music and we get a controller to go with it? A person can hope...

TokyoGuy

Wow. I got the DS Rockman EXE game yesterday and what a disappointment. I'm sorry, was Capcom billing this as a REMAKE? It has the same awful graphics as the original GBA game released in what? 2001? Absolutely pathetic. I can't believe that Capcom would do such a lazy job at...oh wait. I forgot it's Capcom.

Seriously, is anyone else outraged by this game? Weren't there screenshots with the 3-D battles from the DS Shooting Star Rockman series? I mean Dekao's room still has a Gamecube in it and NONE of the battle system improvements from the later installments are here.

As for Lunar, surprisingly the game opens with a scene that wasn't even in the demo. (I assumed the demo was the official start of the game). The loading times KILL it though.