Wark Wark Wark! Chocobo launches in Japan!

RenegadeDrizzt · December 2006

Chocobo and the Magic Picture Book

Chocobo and the Magic Picture Book starts when the Final Fantasy black magician brings a picture book onto the Chocobo farm. This book is actually home to the great devil Bebuzu, and it sucks the entire farm into its pages. Chocobo heads on an adventure with the white and black magicians in order to stop Bebezu from reviving himself to full form. Chocobo and the Magic Picture Book combines field exploration like that of an RPG, with card-based battles. You're free to move about through the game's picture book influenced world. Encounter an enemy, and you find yourself in a card battle, referred to officially as a "Pop-Up Duel." You and your enemies take turns sending out cards to perform attacks.

Apparently this game just hit Japan. It's just so goddamn cute- I hope it'll see a stateside release with Tingle RPG. wark wark

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You can read a recent IGN preview here:
http://ds.ign.com/articles/751/751192p1.html

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Pata · December 2006

Darn it Square.

Stop being awesome.

The Sphinx · December 2006

This is like Square-Enix's answer to Super Princess Peach.

earthwormadam · December 2006

The Sphinx wrote:

This is like Square-Enix's answer to Super Princess Peach.

Except that this looks like it is pushing the DS hardware to new limits. Me wants.

Eliot Dubois · December 2006

It's the SNES all over again. Nintendo making great games while Square is making good to great games and pushing it to its limits.

TroubledTom · December 2006

OMG CUTE

Even the story is cute.

Henroid · December 2006

Card-based battles? God, fuck, knock it off with those already. :?

Target Practice · December 2006

Man, Henroid, you hate everything.

Sushisource · December 2006

Target Practice wrote:

Man, Henroid, you hate everything.

Yuk yuk yuk.

Target Practice · December 2006

Sushisource wrote:

Target Practice wrote:

Man, Henroid, you hate everything.

Wark wark wark!

Zeon · December 2006

RenegadeDrizzt wrote:

That cactus is giving the finger.

Also, how japanese is this? If i import it, will i be able to understand it?

And someone mentioned the Tingle RPG... is that slated to come over here? Because ive seen the videos, and i figured there was no way in hell itd make it over...

SpeedySwaf · December 2006

They should just go ahead and make a Slime/Chocobo RPG. Two mascots, joining forces to fight evil!

....Or be cute. Whichever's more convinient.

Pata · December 2006

SpeedySwaf wrote:

They should just go ahead and make a Slime/Chocobo RPG. Two mascots, joining forces to fight evil!

....Or be cute. Whichever's more convinient.

Can't they fight evil cutely?

RenegadeDrizzt · December 2006

Zeon wrote:

RenegadeDrizzt wrote:

That cactus is giving the finger.

Also, how japanese is this? If i import it, will i be able to understand it?

And someone mentioned the Tingle RPG... is that slated to come over here? Because ive seen the videos, and i figured there was no way in hell itd make it over...

I just checked with the grapevine and it keeps telling me summer 2007 for a stateside release of Tingle RPG.

I pray to the Valar and our great Iluvatar every night for Tingle RPG.

PikaPuff · December 2006

Target Practice wrote:

Sushisource wrote:

Target Practice wrote:

Man, Henroid, you hate everything.

Wark wark wark!

Henroid has a good point though. There's so many card based square games. :roll:

Imran · December 2006

What's the difference between cards and items

Pata · December 2006

Imran wrote:

What's the difference between cards and items

Decks.

SilentCoconut · December 2006

I swear, by the end of the year, more then half of my DS games will be made by Square.

Imran · December 2006

Pata Hikari wrote:

Imran wrote:

What's the difference between cards and items

Decks.

As opposed to item limits?

Mario RPG in particular was terrible about this.

Aroduc · December 2006

Imran wrote:

Pata Hikari wrote:

Imran wrote:

What's the difference between cards and items

Decks.

As opposed to item limits?

Mario RPG in particular was terrible about this.

Yggdra Union was getting some bad press about this as well, and that doesn't even make sense. There are only about 30 'cards' total, and there's zero randomness involved in any of it. It shouldn't be what tools you use, but how you use them. That said, I know next to nothing about this game's implementation of such.

Pata · December 2006

Imran wrote:

Pata Hikari wrote:

Imran wrote:

What's the difference between cards and items

Decks.

As opposed to item limits?

Mario RPG in particular was terrible about this.

Plus I hear cards can be shuffled.

Also they tend to be more square then items.

sethsez · December 2006

Imran wrote:

What's the difference between cards and items

Have you ever actually played a card game?

Vincent Grayson · December 2006

SilentCoconut wrote:

I swear, by the end of the year, more then half of my DS games will be made by Square.

It's so true. In fact, among DS games I'm definitely looking forward to, I can't think of any non-Square ones save the new Zelda.

RenegadeDrizzt · December 2006

Vincent Grayson wrote:

SilentCoconut wrote:

I swear, by the end of the year, more then half of my DS games will be made by Square.

It's so true. In fact, among DS games I'm definitely looking forward to, I can't think of any non-Square ones save the new Zelda.

Hotel Dusk? Pokemon Diamond/Pearl? Phoenix Wright 2 (unless you already have the import copy)? Chibi Robo? Wario?

Come on.

PenguinSeph · December 2006

Wait, by card game battle do they mean a card game like (for example) Yu-gi-oh or something?

Because that would be awesome.

JAEF · December 2006

PenguinSeph wrote:

Wait, by card game battle do they mean a card game like (for example) Yu-gi-oh or something?

Because that would be awesome.

No that's a type. They actually mean crab battle.

BigDes · December 2006

So, when exactly did Square decide to stop milkinng FF7 and decide to start being awesome again? Cause this is like the third story of SE doing omehting cool this week and it just isn't on!

Resident0 · December 2006

I've played this, it's very, very good.

You get cards you can draw in battle like Attack +2 Damage, Cure, Firaga, etc.

It's kinda bit like Chocobo Mystery Dungeon with card battles.

8)

Mahnmut · December 2006

It puts the chocobo in the states or it gets the mallet again.

PenguinSeph · December 2006

I want this. I really want this game.

Matthew · January 2007

This is a little off-topic, as it's about a different Chocobo's dungeon game than this one, but it's so cute, and the end may just leave you crying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUo71-qYhKg

Also, isn't this game due out in March? I'll be in line to get it.

scootch · January 2007

wow... squares doing some amazing things with the DS.

BiggNife · January 2007

You guys know that this game (the DS one) has been officially confirmed for the U.S. right? Except the name is Chocobo Tales now.

http://na.square-enix.com/chocobotales/

I am very interested.

LockeCole · January 2007

I'm with Henroid(and his avatar of awesomeness), knock it off with the damn card based battle systems. (Chain of Memories... BITE ME!) That said, sooooo cuuuuuuute.