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This week's (Oct 3rd) Famitsu news (Etrian Odyssey 2!)

duckroll

Member
Sekaiju no Meikyu 2 - The Royal Grail (DS/Atlus/Coming this Winter)



- New classes: Doctor Magus, Gunner and Pet. The Magus is sounds like a combat mage, which has healing properties as well as offense boosts from studying the body. The Gunner can use various elemental bullets. The Pet class is an animal class.
- Existing jobs will have brain new artwork.
- Battles will be much more visually exciting.
- FOEs will have new rules and new types.
- The director is Komori (the writer of EO1, Devil Summoner PS2 and Princess Crown), and she says they decided to make a sequel when they looked into the template and realized they could improve the balance of the calculations and skills, as well as brushing up the existing formula.
- There are two settings this time: the Sekaiju as well as the flying castle.
- You can create a total of 30 charcters this time.
- They have added a quicksave function for saving in the middle of dungeons. (YAY)
- For map creation, there are now 3 different colors you can use.
- There are also more icons and arrows to use.
- When buying equipment now, the character status is displayed so you can see how effective they are before buying. (YAY!)
- Game is 70% complete, release date will be announced soon.
- The character design, monster design and sound are handled by the same staff as the first game. (KOSHIRO COME TO ME!!!!!!!!!)



Yggdra Union PSP - 24th Jan 2008

- New additions to characters and the scenario
- There is a brand new 3 min opening movie
- Battle animations will be improved
- Types of Tactics Cards will be increased



Star Ocean 1 Remake on PSP will be released on 27th Dec, there will also be a PSP bundle.




Reviews:

Arcana Heart - 7/6/7/6
SuchiPai4 - 8/7/6/5
Lair - 9/7/8/9
Operation Darkness review - 6/6/6/5
PGR4 - 9/8/8/8

For Operation Darkness, Famitsu sez:

- Graphics suck donkey nuts
- Highly strategic, battle tempo is good
- The game is pretty tough, without using the game's cover and ambush systems properly it can be extremely hard to win
- Camera and minimap are kinda dodgy
- The worldview is a good mixture of fantasy and historical settings
- The game systems involved in developing your characters are rather hard to understand
- The game isn't very cinematic and the presentation is a little dull
 

icecream

Public Health Threat
I have one:

Yggdra Union PSP / Sting / 01.24.08
-New Scenario and Characters
-Opening movie (~3min in length)
-Improved battle animation
-New tactic card types
 
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Y2Kev

TLG Fan Caretaker Est. 2009
Duckroll does this every week. Once he went to make noodles. :D

He has to wait for the news to leak out.
 

Chromax

Member
icecream said:
I have one:

Yggdra Union PSP / Sting / 01.24.08
-New Scenario and Characters
-Opening movie (~3min in length)
-Improved battle animation
-New tactic card types

Damn I should've saw this coming after Riviera...now I'll have 2 of each games.
 

ZealousD

Makes world leading predictions like "The sun will rise tomorrow"
duckroll said:
Operation Darkness review - 6/6/6/5

WHAT? How can anime-style Nazi werewolves score so low? I demand a recount!
 

Wario64

works for Gamestop (lol)
Duckroll has informed me that there is no more Famitsu news to report since he used the magazine to wipe his arse. Lock this thread up, boys.
 

duckroll

Member
Sekaiju no Meikyu 2 - The Royal Grail (DS/Atlus/Coming this Winter)

- New classes: Doctor Magnus and Gunner. The Magnus is sounds like a combat mage, which has healing properties as well as offense boosts from studying the body. The Gunner can use various elemental bullets.

- There are now pets that follow and aid you in the adventure.

- Existing jobs will have brain new artwork.

- Battles will be much more visually exciting.

- FOEs will have new rules and new types.

- The director is Komori, and he says they decided to make a sequel when they looked into the template and realized they could improve the balance of the calculations and skills, as well as brushing up the existing formula.
 
duckroll said:
Sekaiju no Meikyu 2 - The Royal Grail (DS/Atlus/Coming this Winter)

- New classes: Doctor Magnus and Gunner. The Magnus is sounds like a combat mage, which has healing properties as well as offense boosts from studying the body. The Gunner can use various elemental bullets.

- There are now pets that follow and aid you in the adventure.

- Existing jobs will have brain new artwork.

- Battles will be much more visually exciting.

- FOEs will have new rules and new types.

- The director is Komori, and he says they decided to make a sequel when they looked into the template and realized they could improve the balance of the calculations and skills, as well as brushing up the existing formula.
Yay.
 

NomarTyme

Member
duckroll said:
Sekaiju no Meikyu 2 - The Royal Grail


- There are now pets that follow and aid you in the adventure.
Hmmmm.

Edit: Anyways good to see they keep the core of the game intact, HOPEFULLY MORE SAVESSPOTS!
 
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