Support NeoGAF

[flipping_heck]

Sauce: gamefront.de

Square Enix soll angeblich an Chocobo to Mahoo no Ehon für Nintendo DS arbeiten. Das geht aus einer Händlerpreisliste hervor, wo der Artikel mit einem Erscheinungstermin im Winter 2006 auftaucht. Um was es sich handelt, ist unklar.

Eine offizielle Ankündigung bzw. Bestätigung von Square Enix liegt noch nicht vor.

Not formally announced yet by SE, but still nice to have more SE support for the DS.

btw, what does Chocobo to Mahoo no Ehon mean?

*sigh* forgot to put (DS) in topic title oh well

 

[S. L.]

Chocobos and Mahoos Picture Book ?

 

[sprsk]

chocobo and the magic picture book

 

[flipping_heck]

Sounds like a non-game to me..

 

[Archie]

Sounds like a non-game to me..

3 million copies sold

 

[RevenantKioku]

Maybe they mean Chocobo no fushigi no ehon?
Chocobo dungeon crawling through classic fairy tales!

Spoiler

I have no idea what this game will be.

 

[jesusraz]

Sorry to drag this up, but only just spotted it. Right, so let's have a look-see at what Square Enix has for the DS:

24th August - Final Fantasy III
~October - Dragon Quest Monsters
Winter 2006: Chocobo & the Magic Picture-Book
2007 - FF: CC

And there are the already released Egg Monster Heroes, DQ: Rocket Slime, Children of Mana and Mario Basket...

Not a bad turn out, don't you think? What else could they have up their sleeves? A DS remake of Super Mario RPG? A Jupiter-developed Kingdom Hearts? ANOTHER Mana?

Damn, wish they'd give us some Chrono loving...

 

[Netrunner2k2]

A DS remake of Super Mario RPG?

I'd KILL for this.

 

[BrodiemanTTR]

I'd KILL for this.

I would sneak up behind this guy, kill him, and take his copy.

 

[Jonnyram]

FFTactics DS perhaps?

 

[Pureauthor]

FFTactics DS perhaps?

WHY MUST YOU TAUNT US SO.

 

[Galactic Fork]

I'm going to say it's a capture the monster game. They've got one for DQ, why not FF?

 

[The Friendly Monster]

I think it'll be a non-game.

Berieve!

 

[jesusraz]

FFTactics DS perhaps?

Considering how successful FF Tactics and Kingdom Hearst were on the GBA, you'd think they were givens for the DS.

Personally I'd like to see them resurrecting some of their Enix properties - a compilation of Soul Blazer, Illusion of Time/Gaia and Terranigma would do just nicely But more likely are a set of DQ ports/remakes...

 

[jarrod]

FFTactics DS perhaps?

NO! OGRE DS!!

 

[Chris Michael]

Sounds kiddy as hell. Has there been a FF Fushigi no Dungeon yet?

More SE support is always nice. I'd love to see more remakes like FFIII. Or a Nintendo Hearts.

 

[jarrod]

Sounds kiddy as hell. Has there been a FF Fushigi no Dungeon yet?

There's been 3...

-Chocobo no Fushigi Dungeon (PS) 1997 Square/Chunsoft
-Chocobo no Fushigi Dungeon 2 (PS) 1998 Square/TOSE
-Chocobo no Fushigi Dungeon for WonderSwan (WS) 1999 Bandai/TOSE

 

[Jonnyram]

The description I read on the site where the news originated didn't sound like a typical Fushigi no Dungeon game. In fact, there's already been a couple of Chocobo Fushigi no Dungeon games on the PS, so they'd probably stick to that title if that's what it was going to be.

The site said that you also adventure with White Mage and Black Mage amongst others. The Black Mage is carrying a Magic Book which tells your adventure. Dungeons bear a close resemblance to typical FF and the "warm" graphical style is said to me the appealing feature of the game.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/odeko_06/archives/50598751.html

 

[ethelred]

FFTactics DS perhaps?

NO! OGRE DS!!

Now, now, kids, no need to argue. Let's compromise and say that the correct answer is "both!"

The description I read on the site where the news originated didn't sound like a typical Fushigi no Dungeon game. In fact, there's already been a couple of Chocobo Fushigi no Dungeon games on the PS, so they'd probably stick to that title if that's what it was going to be.

The site said that you also adventure with White Mage and Black Mage amongst others. The Black Mage is carrying a Magic Book which tells your adventure. Dungeons bear a close resemblance to typical FF and the "warm" graphical style is said to me the appealing feature of the game.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/odeko_06/archives/50598751.html

I... have absolutely no idea what to make of that description.

 

[jesusraz]

...and the "warm" graphical style is said to me the appealing feature of the game...

Erm...sold? :lol Seriously, you have to wonder what approach SEx will take with this after DQM and FFIII's style. Perhaps this will be more of a Children of Mana in terms of appearance.

Thanks for the update Jonny, by the way

 

[ethelred]

Erm...sold? :lol Seriously, you have to wonder what approach SEx will take with this after DQM and FFIII's style. Perhaps this will be more of a Children of Mana in terms of appearance.

Thanks for the update Jonny, by the way

Children of Mana? Nah. For something like this, I think it'd be really cool for Square Enix to take a bit of inspiration from a game like, say, Yoshi's Island... for the approach of their artistic style. Or go back to the water-color style of SaGa Frontier II.

If they play around a bit with different types of artistic styles that emphasize a fanciful world with a really artistic storybook theme, they could create something visually that's extremely engrossing.



I'm still really puzzled by Jonny's quoted description of the game, though. I'm quite unsure of what to expect in terms of gameplay. Dungeons that resemble standard-FF... really doesn't make it sound like a Mysterious Dungeon game, but what else could it be? Standard traditional RPG battles? I have absolutely no idea what to expect. I'm definitely interested, though.

Edit: Hmm. A thought occurred -- it sounds like they're playing up the magic book aspect, so I wonder if the gameplay will involve some elements of drawing to accomplish goals (like Lost Magic, Magic Pengel, etc.).