During combat you don’t control a handful of god-like warriors in the Last Remnant, you control multiple parties each consisting of up to five characters. However, the command system is quite similar to your run of the mill turn based RPG. Instead of selecting fight you give each union commands like “time to get [...]

If you’re around the San Francisco area Sega is throwing a pre-launch Valkryia Chronicles event at the PlayStation Store in the Sony Metreon this Friday, September 26th. Ryutaro Nonaka, the Valkyria Chronicles Producer at Sega Japan, will be on hand to answer your questions and sign posters provided at the party. Sega will be [...]

Zoids Assault is another addition to the short list of SRPGs on the Xbox 360. It takes place amidst political turmoil between two factions that just don’t know how to get along. I didn’t pay much attention to the political jargon; I just wanted to get to the gameplay part of the game. I suggest [...]

The September – October price break on cute, but useless Beautiful Katamari accessories and the meaty Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Shivering Isles expansion pack is in full swing. After I saw the post with eighteen pieces of discounted DLC I cycled through various regions to check if the sale was standard – it is [...]

Yakuza had its moments, but the recognizable actors skewed the experience. Luke Skywalker’s voice jilted the illusion of exploring Japan. Sega rectified the issue in Yakuza 2 which includes the original Japanese voice acting with subtitles and no English voiceovers – a rare move. We spoke to Kevin Frane, Associate Producer at Sega, about the [...]

This is a long shot and a blind guess based on a recent Square Enix trademark for “Blood of Bahamut”. Bahamut Lagoon was a late Squaresoft developed Super Famicom game that blended a strategy RPG grid based combat with traditional 2D turn based battles. On second thought, the gameplay is kind of like ASH, at [...]

We may not see KORG DS-10 in North America next month and that’s reasonable. Xseed is busy doing other things like localizing Populous DS. They picked up the Nintendo DS remake from Electronic Arts which includes new gods and miracles. The top screen shows what the gods are doing while you control the action with [...]

Atomize Mario Super Sluggers to the the control scheme and it feels like an enhanced version of Wii Sports Baseball with a touch of additional depth. You still swing the remote to bat and pitch, but now you can charge both moves. A charged pitch is a timed motion that has players swing the [...]

Since the Trauma Center series started it found a home on Nintendo consoles by taking advantage of the unique controls found on the Wii and DS. This could change. In a recent survey Atlus asked their fanbase if they would be interested to see Trauma Center games appear on other platforms such as the Xbox [...]

When I first saw Cooking Mama, I had the great idea of making an Iron Chef game. Unfortunately, Destineer already beat me to that since they’re coming out with Iron Chef America for the Wii and DS.
 
The Wii version has more cut scenes and voice overs, but overall the game play between the Wii and [...]