These days, you can’t go a day without seeing worlds collide in a crossover of epic proportions. Square-Enix, not content with their gigantic fantasy mash-ups with Disney and Dragon Warrior, have Summoned nearly every big publisher under the sun with their ultimate Limit Break on gaming, Lord of Vermillion Re: 2.
Dissidia Final Fantasy is a good start, but there's lots more Japan-only arcade games that we'd love to see brought to the West.
I love Taiko no Tatsujin. Really hoping it comes to the West, but if it does, they need to also bring over a good quality drum so we can fully enjoy it.
Perhaps I'd be better off importing an arcade machine.
They did seem dead for the last decade or so, certainly here in England. The odd one survived in London and a few big cities, possibly a couple at seaside resorts as well. Both arcades in my town closed late nineties.
However, we just got a VR arcade and plans afoot for a big cafe bar with both retro and new cabinets. Lots of online leaderboards, events and competition nights are the way they want to try it.
It certainly seems there is a western appetite to at least make out we want arcades back but you have to worry it might be nostalgia driven and unlikely to succeed on that alone. They need kids to use them as well and I dont see many western youngsters doing the arcade thing these days. I hope Im wrong but I just dont see them getting big again unless VR in big play areas kicks off.
Square Enix has today released a gameplay trailer for Lord of Vermilion Arena.
GameDynamo - "One of the most recognizable and longer-standing names in video game music composition, Nobuo Uematsu, was never formally trained. However, he began music at an early age. After being approached randomly by a Squaresoft employee while working in a Tokyo music rental shop back in 1985, he has since composed dozens of soundtracks. While the Final Fantasy series is his most popular, there are plenty of other OSTs which he has composed that are simply amazing. Here is our list of top five non-Final Fantasy, Uematsu soundtracks."
I guess no one liked SaGa huh? (aka FF Legends in the west)
But oh man when Kenji Ito and Uematsu worked on SaGa 2... that was a godly and legendary OST. I was expecting it to have this more popular works, but tbh he hasn't worked on too much else...
I also liked Anata o Yurusanai's OST...
SaGa Frontier 1,2 and Unlimited. Were all great soundtracks too.
Sadly every time I think of Blue Dragon's music I'm reminded of that terrible Eternity song from the boss battles.
I was getting really pumped up until I saw this: "the game is an arcade card-based series", meh. =/
The one with the S in the company title wins.
Capcom would beat all of them
It's a card-game. This is not making it a reality.
If I see SNK vs. anyone I'm expecting to be able to invite friends over and punch them to death with Kyo Kusanagi and Terry Bogard over who has to go buy more beer before the looming threat of sobriety becomes a reality. I am most certainly not imagining myself playing Yu-gi-oh.