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The Wizardry Renaissance: Labyrinth of Lost Souls PSN! And also the Apple store!(!?)
cj iwakura
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The Renaissance has come in three waves so far:
On the DS.
And the PS3!
It's a two-pack of the PSN Wizardry titles: Dungeon of Imprisoned Souls/Town of Imprisoned Spirits.
Coming to the US sometime soon! Hopefully!
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oh man
this needs an english menu option so bad. make it so acquire. i will play the shit out of this.
care to elaborate?
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It's not on the Wii, duh.
Are you kidding me? The Japanese fucking LOVE Wizardry, unless he's talking about PS3 owners in America. That's a valid concern though, all the American PS3 owners want is the next Madden game and the next Killzone*
*not true
Its one of those rare cases where a game developed on this side of the pacific makes it big over there.
Then again, it does have fantasy spaceships, playable fairies, and samurai cat-people.
The PS3 really isn't shaping up to be an RPG console, though.
...So it needs all that it can get.
Though honestly, none of the consoles seem to be shaping up to be RPG consoles this gen. Quite sad, really.
360 has a few, but aside from Mass Effect they're all shit. The few that are on PS3 are shit as well, Folklore is decent but that's it.
Hey. Hey. Valkyria Chronicles is some kind of RPG, Mister, and it's still wonderful. (I know, I know, you keep forgetting about it. :P)
But seriously, for JRPGs, this generation has been fucking abysmal.
For Western RPGs, it's a different story though. 360 has Mass Effect and is about to get Mass Effect 2 soon, but luckily both systems are getting Dragon Age and Alpha Protocol in October, so that's very nice indeed.
Lost Odyssey was awesome you heathen.
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I never asked for this!
The Thousand Years of Dreams sequences were incredibly compelling, and far from generic.
The rest of the game... was good enough to play through, although it did drag at times. Still better than pretty much any other console JRPG this gen outside of Valkyria Chronicles. Which isn't saying much, but still.
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Better late then never?
Well, the N64 has like 2 RPGs, and I remember Ogre Battle 64 better than 99% of the 10 billion RPGs on the playstation.
I remember reading about some details about this whole Wizardry Renaissance project on GAF: I believe this is a PSN title, and there's also a DS game coming, Pledge of Life, along with a PC title and a manga. 1up writeup on the Famitsu details.
I hate to push things further OT, but everyone confused about the PS3 not really being the JRPG beast that the PS2 was really needs to take a look at today's gaming landscape in Japan. Considering there's something like 13 handhelds for every one home console sold, it's really no surprise the DS and PSP are getting the lion's share of JRPGs.
http://www.siliconera.com/2009/08/04/wizardry-crawling-to-ds-too/
There's also a Wizardry headed to the DS, which I should've expected.
Wizardry: Pledge of Life, being made by Genterprise(?), and sold exclusively through Amazon JP(:( ). At least it'll be import friendly if it doesn't get released here, but I bet it will.
The PS3 game is called 'Dungeon of Imprisoned Souls', I was way off. :P
Partially beated. I would like to know more about the PC game.
The Ultima series seems like it's singlehandedly responsible for a lot of the conventions of JRPGs. I took a quick look at the wiki entry, and sure enough the games apparently hit it off well back in the day:
Man what.
Also made in Japan, but you can hardly tell by the art design.
I get a Record of the Lodoss Wars/Rune Soldier Louis vibe from the elves actually. I'm pretty sure I've only seen that angle for the ears used in Japanese art.
As for the DS game, apparently it's only going to be sold on Amazon Japan. So we're talking about a rather limited release.
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Also I haven't been impressed with the latest RPGs out on next gen so this is a huge boost for veteran RPG fans. I hope this game appeals to new gamers not familiar with old school dungeon crawls
http://www.youtube.com/ssjfry14
I doubt it, try getting new gamers to play any sort of game that is retro or old-school. They'll talk for hours about how much it sucks, it's too hard, the graphics are shitty, etc.
Wizardry has a huge (HUGE) following in Japan. Unfortunately the series forked in Japan before 6, so they still use the original small group of classes and races.
Edit: I forget the details, but doesn't some Japanese company have an unlimited license to make new Wizardry games at will? Something SirTech did back in the day and is the reason the series out-lasted them?
http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/1226462_1407.html
Looks hot.
I will play this to death.
My DS needs this.
Wow, that looks really awesome. First time since Nanashi No Game that I've been tempted to import something.
Looks like no animation on the enemies, though. The poses on the mummy and the ghoul are too weird to move.
http://www.youtube.com/ssjfry14
What the hell is the status of the license in the US anyway? I know some company picked up the rights to Jagged Alliance since there's a new one being worked on, but did anyone pick up the Wizardry license? If not, that could be one less barrier to get some of the Japanese games licensed. If so, why the hell aren't they making us a new one already?
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