Konami Announced the Release of Suikoden Tierkreis

After long years of waiting, Konami finally announced a new sequel for Suikoden series. Suikoden Tierkreis is a side-story game that is totally different from its predecessors-- Suikoden Tactics and Suikogaiden. This time all 108 Stars of Destiny are present and a new True Rune will be introduced.



Unlike other Suikoden titles, Suikoden Tierkreis will be released on Nintendo DS. With a four-character party in a fight, somewhat retaining the Suikoden 4 battle system. Surprisingly, the game will offer two identical worlds of different dimensions. Each world will consist of the same characters that you can recruit from its parallel world. A new twist that will lead to criticism whether die hard fans will going to embrace this sudden change of storyline.

Konami announced the Japanese release date of the game will be on 18th of December. North American release will yet to be determine later next year.



Product Info:

Suikoden Tierkreis
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genre: Role-playing
Number of Players: Single player
Prices: $34.99
ESRB Ratings: Everyone +10

Square Enix Revealed Some Information of their Latest RPG

Although there has not been a wide range of role-playing selection in Nintendo DS, Square Enix has announced a new rpg exclusively for the console. Blood of Bahamut has released a teaser website which can be found at Bahamut.jp. Right now, not much can be found in there, just expect more information coming out later this month.



For the meantime, only character arts and screenshots of the game are available. In addition, some information about the main characters and a piece of story behind the scenes were revealed. A co-operative play will be consist of 4 players at max in a multi-cartridge multiplayer. Release date of the game is yet to be announced and may take more months to have its North American release.



Product Info:

Blood of Bahamut
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Square Enix
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genre: Role-playing
Number of Players: 1 to 4
ESRB Ratings: Rating Pending

Two Upcoming Tales Games Announced

From the creator and developer of Tales games, comes 2 new rpg installment added on the series. Namco, just announced the release of Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for Wii and Tales of Hearts for Nintendo DS.



Namco is now putting more of their games on Nintendo consoles. With very few role-playing games on Nintendo consoles these two new titles will surely fill the craving of all Wii and Nintendo DS gamers. Both games were originally scheduled their release this November 11, but Tales of Hearts will be pushed back for one week.

Tales of Hearts will be released on two versions: the CG movie edition and the Anime movie edition. New notable feature is the Combination gauge, that let your character pairs to other playable characters who were not in the battle field. Also added was the Combination Aerial LMBS system, as seen in the Tales of Destiny game. Tales of Hearts will only be available on Japanese version for now. The North American and European release is yet to be announce.



Product Info:



Tales of Hearts
Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
Devloper: Namco Tales Studio
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genre: Role-playing
Release Date: December 18, 2008
ESRB Rating: Rating Pending

Chrono Trigger Re-released on Nintendo DS

Originally released on Super NES when videogames are still on 16-bit era, Chrono Trigger already made a major recognition for its excellent storyline and advanced fighting mode. With the same game system and 2D environment will take you back to the old gaming days. Though it may not seem to be on the standard RPG experience due to innovative development of video gaming these days, yet this is true at the time of its release a decade ago.



That was September of 1995, when SquareSoft, a video game giant and developer of Final Fantasy series launched the release of the game on Playstation. Now after, a long years of waiting Chrono Trigger will make its comeback this November 25 of this year for Nintendo DS.

Chrono Trigger received wide recognition by role-playing gamers and was hailed to be one of the greatest classic of all time by game critics. Impressive character design made by Akira Toriyama, the man behind the Dragonball anime series and Dragon Quest games. Amazing features include an optional touch-screen control, the Arena of Ages monster battle field, the Lost Sanctum quest and the Dimensional Vortices' dungeons. Other bonus content is the new translations while maintaining the relevance of the story, thus giving it a deeper meaning and emotion. With endearing cast of characters, soothing sounds of classical rpg and multiple endings will make this game worth playing again.



Product Info:


Chrono Trigger
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Square Enix
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genre: Role-playing
Number of Players: Single Player
Price: $39.99
ESRB Rating: Everyone + 10