Next month Japan is getting a couple of RPGs to play with as Virtual Console downloads. Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together is one of them, but don’t count on this coming out here. Even though an English translation in exists it was done by Atlus for the PlayStation release. The Super Famicom version never [...]

… in Europe, but it’s better than nothing right? Newcomer Key to Play picked up Ys Online: Call of Solum and is starting a closed beta on January 2009. No details about how to enter the closed beta have been announced. The associated website looks bare now too, but keep checking it for possible beta [...]

Brandish begins with Ares, a swordsman, being chased by Dela, when they both fall underground. The goal of the game is pretty much to get Ares out of there. Dela’s side isn’t the focus of the original Brandish, but it’s a new element in the PSP remake.   In Brandish: The Dark Revenant you also [...]

Falcom is going all out for their remake of Brandish. The overhead action RPG will be transformed into a full 3D for the PSP. Brandish: The Dark Revenant looks different, but the story sounds about the same. You play as Ares a swordsman that gets falls into a hole and into a dungeon. If you [...]

Thanks to a Gamestop leak we know Atlus is working on the Nintendo DS Ys remakes. And when Atlus is done we’re not going to have to buy each game separately. Atlus is bundling the two games together to make Legacy of Ys: Books I & II, just like the classic TurboDuo release. However, this [...]

Zwei 2 is scheduled to come out for PCs sometime this month. After Zwei 2 launches we’re going to see Pipiro and Pokkle on the PSP. Nihon Falcom is continuing their trend of PC to PSP ports with the upcoming release of Zwei! The press release is light on new features, but the PSP version [...]

Nihon Falcom released the first two Sora no Kiseki games on the PSP. Why not the third chapter? It’s coming to Japan on July 24. That’s around a year after the game came out for PCs. Take a look at the opening movie from the PC release.   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c-Fi5SzQ5k[/youtube]  Don’t expect this to be in [...]

Seeing Estelle and Joshua Bright in Vantage Master Portable was just the beginning of Nihon Falcom cameo characters. They are leveraging the popularity of The Legend of Heroes VI: Sora no Kiseki to its fullest by adding at least in ten familiar faces from Liberl Kingdom. With this many characters I wonder if they are [...]

Nihon Falcom announced Ys Online around five years ago and most people probably forgot about it. The good news is Ys Online did not silently fade away. Nihon Falcom’s MMORPG is out in South Korea with 500,000 registered accounts since the game quietly launched in July 2007 in conjunction with CJ Internet Company. In November [...]

While we’re on the subject of Nihon Falcom it’s an opportune time to mention Vantage Master Portable’s release date. The PSP remake is scheduled to debut in Japan on April 24. New features include ad hoc player versus player battles and characters from Sora no Kiseki. The real kicker is Vantage Master Portable costs the [...]

Ys I & II DS are looking decent from the promotional video Falcom released. I should probably say Ys I is looking decent and Ys II is looking considerably better because these games are being sold individually as full priced Nintendo DS titles!   Ys II looks like the one I’ll purchase since it is [...]

Natials masters take note, Falcom is adding extra content in the PSP version. And nothing sells a game like adding cameos from a successful game. Joshua and Estelle from Sora no Kiseki will be playable characters in Vantage Master Portable. Falcom is also adding on the fly, multiplayer PSP play with an ad-hoc mode. Both [...]

Jeff L. sent over a link to the latest investors report straight from Nihon Falcom (thanks!!), which announces a number of new titles. The list has:   Ys SEVEN Zwei II Vantage Master Brandish Zwei Sora no Kiseki the 3rd Legend of the Heroes 7 (confirmation that it is in development)   Jeff mentions that [...]

Last month, Hudson released Ys: Book I & II on the Japanese Virtual Console. For 800 Wii Points ($8) you get two Ys games, which is a bargain. Hudson has not confirmed the Turbo Grafx-16 CD game for North America, but the ESRB gave it an “E” rating. I would say chances are good we’re [...]