This weekend IGN's Craig Harris had the opportunity to play a few minutes of the first Square Enix game for the Nintendo Wii: Dragon Quest Swords. There were more than two dozen kiosks dedicated to Dragon Quest Swords at the Square Enix Party in Japan, and after a short wait in a very long line it wasn't that extensive a wait to get a bit of hands-on with the Wii adventure.
Overall, the demo offered a good amount of fun...but it's, in its current form, a simple design that's far from a game that's going to reach classic status on the Wii system. It definitely has merit as a Wii-specific design that uses many of the unique elements of the Wii remote, and had a lot of keen nods to the Dragon Quest series with its monster-infested forest. It also didn't look all that bad on the widescreen LCD displays at the show, running at a smooth and consistent 30 frames per second rate.
The game is scheduled to ship in Japan on July 12th.
Banjamin Yoder: That’s not a ridiculous proposition if you think about all the first party successes the platform had with Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, and other big Nintendo franchises. Where my love of the system does get a little strange is that I prefer the Wii’s third-party titles over other consoles.
The Wii had some incredible games, but just not enough to go up against the PS3 or 360's exclusives. (Opinion, obviously) That being said, I'm so glad I got to play on all three systems this generation. I didn't miss out on any of the games!
Gaming website 4gamer conducted a massive survey and received 21,810 responses.
The Naked Sample was the tech demo... hinting that Snake Eater might be the game that will be on the 3DS but nothing has been confirmed.
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"Atlus titles like the Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, and Etrian Odyssey games ranked pretty high for 4gamer’s readers.
Those series beat out Kingdom Hearts 3D and Gundam. Wow."
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Awesome.
Shin Megami Tensei series & fans manage to beat Kingdom Hearts 3D & Gundam.
GO INDEX HOLDINGS- I mean...
GO ATLUS!!!!!!!!!
Of course they are, in Japan (and most of the world) people are always excited about those franchises no matter what platform they are on.
According to their GDC presentation, here are the top-selling video games from Level-5.
I never realized Dark Cloud sold a million.Wow.
Also I easily knew Dragon Quest VIII is their most successful game.
The first one was horrible though. The second one was pure awesome. Just creating your own towns, fishing and taking pictures of stuff to create things was addicted enough.
O man "Jeanne d’Arc (PSP) - 220,000 World Wide"- this game deserved so much more than this :(
Dark Cloud 2 also deserves way more than 900k, that game is so awesome, i finished it 3 times, don't remember when i last did with any game. For me that was/is Sonys Zelda.
Jeanne d'arc is amazing. Sad to see great games with such low sales and see generic average games get big sales numbers. Level 5 are great game makers and I can't wait for WKC to arrive in the U.S.
Yeah, that is a truly a shame how badly it sold. It was a high quality title. My favorite Level 5 game by far. I'd say even deeper and more balance then Valkyria Chronicles and it was a handheld game. But I guess we may never see a sequel to either game though...
so why havent we heard anything about a new Dark Cloud since obviously Level 5 has a large fanbase? And Im sure Sony would be glad to publish the game...
Heh, Sony own the rights to the game, but I have no doubt Level-5 will be happy to carry it on.
I'm guessing that coming off White Knight, they're probably starting on their next project which will probably be announced at TGS.
They're probably busy with DQIX right now but they've probbaly got plans for it.
Can't wait for DQIX, Armor Project + Level 5=Awesome.
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