ATLUS
The Game of Life DS
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: gering
Viel Info gibts über das game nicht, nur dass es schon 3 Teile auf der PS1 gab und das game ne Art Familien-game ist, wiefern man das noch RPG nennen kann, kann ich jetzt nicht beurteilen, es erscheint allerdings sowieso sehr unwahrscheinlich, dass es das game nach Europa schafft.
Shin Megamitensei DS
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: gerüchtenzufolge hoch
"Shin Megami Tensei (pronounced "shin MEH-gah-mee TEN-say") is a Japanese phrase that translates as "True Goddess Metempsychosis". An unusual piece of philosophical jargon, "metempsychosis" refers specifically to the unending process of birth, death, and rebirth that is of central importance to the Buddhist religious tradition. Even deities are slaves to the cycle of metempsychosis in Buddhist thought, and this belief features prominently in the plotlines of the various Shin Megami Tensei games. Who exactly the titular "goddess" is supposed to be is usually left up to the player. Each SMT game features a female character that the title could be referring to, or it could be taken as a reference to radical transformations that Japan itself experiences during the course of a game."
3 Titles TBA for North America
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Große Unbekannte, möglich wäre ein Tactics Ogre Titel und eben Shin Megami Tensei
Capcom
Mega Man Battle Network DS
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Am GBA hat feierte die Serie gerade den 4ten Teil. Durchaus erfogreich und ein weltweiter Millionenseller.
Hudson Soft
RPG Title TBA
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West Release: 100%
Nichts ist darüber bekannt, Hudson ist auch nicht unbedingt als RPG Producer berühmt geworden, lassen wir uns also überraschen.
KONAMI:
Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Lizenz-Karten-RPG...
Vandal Hearts
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Zwei Spiele hat die Serie auf der PS1 hervorgebracht, die Serie heimste zwar nicht unbedingt Top Wertungen ein, für Strategie-RPG Liebhaber aber sicher nen zweiten Blick wert.
Maverlous Interactive
Legend of the River King DS
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Bekannt vom GBC, ne Art Fischer-Simulation als RPG aufgebaut, dürfte intressant werden.
Harvest Moon DS
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
RPG Title TBAign hat geschrieben:When Marvelous Interactive unveiled first details on Harvest Moon DS last week, we weren't expecting to get our hands on the game for some time. Surprise, surprise... Harvest Moon DS appeared at Nintendo Japan's Nintendo World Touch! DS event yesterday in playable form.
Limited playable form is more like it, as there wasn't a whole lot to be done in the game's demonstration version. Players could walk around a small area of town, go into a few houses (including their own) and interact with a few animals. Of course, take any five minute play session of Harvest Moon on any platform, and it would probably sound something like this.
In our five minutes with the demo, we got to try out the new DS-powered interface. During overhead sequences, you move your character about using the D-pad while viewing the action on the top screen. The bottom screen displays the screen that would normally appear when you press start during one of the other Harvest Moon games. You use the stylus to select tools from the bottom screen, and have your character make use of the tools by pressing A.
The area of town we were in featured lots of animals, including chickens, sheep, horses and cows. In this latest Harvest Moon update, pressing A next to the animal makes a large version of the animal appear on the bottom screen. You then have a fixed time to touch the animal, using the stylus to stroke away to your hearts delight. Most often, we basically pet the animals until a little heart appeared on the screen (which presumably meant the animal was happy).
We, of course, wanted something a bit more provoking. Hoping to use scissors to fleece a sheep, we selected the scissors from the bottom-screen menu and moved next to a sheep, only to find that the sheep was asleep. The lady working the booth told us to come back at night. We reminded her that the show closed its doors at 4:00, then realizing that she was talking about the in-game night, we returned home (with the press of a single button using the stylus), took a nap, and went outside to try again. It still wasn't night, and our time was up.
We'll have to wait for another chance to play in order to fleece a sheep, but we did get to take a look at a couple of the other "touching" mini games. The cow can be milked and the horse (and presumably the other characters as well) cleaned by selecting the appropriate tool before hitting the A button in front of the animal. As expected, touching is really just a matter of waving the stylus around, but it's more fun than it should be. The only problem right now is the rough transition between touching the animal on the bottom screen and going back to the gameplay on the top screen.
The version of the game on display looked pretty far along visually. It really does look like the Game Boy Advance Harvest Moon titles except on two screens, with colorful 2D visuals used for the overhead sequences. The large versions of the animals are too cute, making us really want to stroke them with blunt pointing objects.
With Harvest Moon DS reportedly being only 30% complete, there's still a long way to go before we'll get to see the final version which currently has a TBA release date for Japan.
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: unbekannt
Ein nicht näher genanntes RPG ist in der Mache...
NAMCO
Namco dreht richtig auf und bringt den GCN Knaller Baten Kaitos sowie das legendäre Xenosaga der PS2 auf Nintendos neuen Handheld!
Baten Kaitos DS
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: sehr hoch
Xenosaga DS
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: sehr hoch
ign hat geschrieben:On the eve of the Nintendo DS Japanese launch (five more hours!), Nintendo updated its Japanese software list with a couple of big surprises for RPG fans. According to the list, Namco will bring Baten Kaitos DS and Xenosaga DS to the DS.
If you don't keep up with the console RPG scene, both of these titles, developed by Namco subsidiary Monolith Software, are epic releases on their respective platforms. Xenosaga has remained a PlayStation 2 exclusive in its first two installments with Baten Kaitos currently being available exclusively for the GameCube.
Nothing is known about the DS versions of the games, but as a first step, just knowing that they exist will make purchasing a DS early Thursday morning all the easier.
NINTENDO
Another
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Point&Click Adventure am DS, wir werden hoffentlich mehr dieser games in Zukunft am DS sehn, hier was IGN zum Game zu sagen hat:
ign hat geschrieben:The Nintendo World Japanese national Nintendo tour, which made its first stop in the city of Nagoya on Wednesday morning, featured as one of its worldwide public debuts a playable version of Nintendo's new, original DS adventure game, Another. Being developed by Japanese developer Cing, the group behind Glass Rose on the PS2, this game looks like it's going to bring some new ideas to the adventure genre.
The demo starts off with you, playing as main character Ashley, en route to an island where you're supposed to meet your dad who's gotten himself involved in some deep trouble. Arriving at the island, your father is nowhere to be found, so you decide to go off exploring.
Another makes good use of the twin DS screens to make for a user-friendly adventure. The bottom screen displays the game world in overhead form. As you move your character around, the top screen switches off between close-up shots of key points of interest.
Movement can be handled either with the stylus or D-pad. The stylus-based movement is particularly interesting because it works surprisingly smoothly. You aren't just pointing to sections of the screen and having the character move there. When you hold the stylus down on a given point, the character will move in that direction, with the screen scrolling to follow. It's possible to make the character move about the entire world in this fashion by just holding down the stylus in a section of the screen located in the direction you'd like to go.
The stylus is also used for interacting with the game world. As you walk around, if you see an area of interest, tapping it with the stylus brings up some on-screen options, including an "investigate" option. A couple of times, this lead to stylus-based mini games in which we solved simple puzzles. One puzzle had us rotate pieces of a broken sign in order to form the complete sign which contained one half of a password. Another puzzle required that we use an item that we'd just recovered to brush off a sign in order to get the second half of the password.
Visually, Another looks like it's going to be a showpiece title for the NDS. The overhead visuals offer a 3D perspective view, with smooth movement and occasional zooming in and out of the action. The artwork for characters and still backdrops is clean and easy to look at either on the top or bottom screens.
The Another demo ended after less than ten minutes of gameplay, with a Cing representative telling us that the game still has a ways to go before completion. A release date in Japan has not been set.
Animal Crossing DS
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Das game bekommt fürn NDS ne neue Engine spendiert und sieht teilweise besser aus als die GCN Version[die eigentlich nur ein N64 Port ist] die Steuerung wird Diablo-like durchgeführt, indem man den Stylus an einen punkt am schirm tippt und der ausgewählte Charakter dorthin geht, bzw den Stylus in die richtung hällt und die camera und der charakter in diese Richtung gehen.
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Ich sag zu dem Game mal besser nichts, wird sicher wieder ein unglaublicher systemseller das steht schon jetzt fest
NeoPong
Project DA
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Die amerikanische Firma NeoPong arbeitet zurzeit an Project DA, der Titel wird sich wohl zum Release noch ändern, Neopong über ihr game:
neopong hat geschrieben:Project DA (temporary title) is a work in progress. Tat has a mysterious power, Valin has a mysterious past; perhaps it's no surprise that these two became best friends and set out to learn the truth about themselves. What they find is high adventure, a couple of lovely ladies and dark, terrible truth. Join Tat, Valin, Althea, Pias and the whole crew as they embark on a fantastic adventure full of swords and sorcery, love and betrayal and more than a little goblin stomping!
This is not a touching journey of self discovery featuring cute, furry animals, big-eyed gnomes and heart warming musical numbers. This is a serious adventure that will feature moments of sheer joy and profound sadness. People will die, heroic deeds will be performed and when all is done and fades to silence you'll sit back and say, "Whoa!" So turn back now if you want a lovable orphan in a red dress, talking mice or some other fanciful cuteness. Project DA is about real adventure and real heroism! The stuff of legends never looked so good!
Orbital Media
Strategy RPG Game TBA
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Die kanadische Firma Orbital Media hat mehrere DS Projekte, darunter auch ein Strategie-RPG, näheres ist bis dato allerdings nicht bekannt...
SQUARE-ENIX
Egg Monster Heroes
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: sehr hoch
Seltsames RPG am besten lest ihr was IGN dazu zu sagen hat:
Final Fantasy III Remakeign hat geschrieben:While Square Enix's console-based Hanjuku Heroes series has strategy gameplay at its core (it's actually referred to as a "Low IQ, High Tension, Gag-full" series), the NDS spinoff of the series, Egg Monster Hero, looks like it's going to be a bit different. A playtest of the latest build of the title shown at Nintendo's Nintendo World Touch! DS event today suggests the makings for a full-blown action-RPG, although it may still manage to retain the low IQ, high tension and high gang level of its predecessors.
Egg Monster Heroes takes place in the Almamoon Kingdom, which is at peace due to the former king's use of the Legendary Eggs to unite the land as one. You, the King's son, inherited the throne when the King passed on, but since Almamoon was at peace, you managed to get lazy. To get you back into shape, Sebastian the Wise takes you off on a trip to an island, and that's where the story begins as you get entangled in some mysterious happenings.
We're not sure how far into the storyline the version of the game shown at Nintendo World was, but then again we're not entirely sure what was going on throughout most of the game. We were first confused by the functionality of the bottom touch screen. Throughout most of the demo, this screen displayed an overhead view into a room housing a few characters. Where exactly this room was located and what it had to do with the game were questions even the hot girl working the Egg Monster Hero booth couldn't answer.
Ignoring that, we did our best to not look too confused as we played. The demo featured a town and field sequence. In the town, we were able to move around, go into rooms (none of them were the same as the room shown on the second screen, though) and talk to other characters. When we headed out the town exit, the bottom screen displayed a map, allowing us to select, using the stylus, a field of play as our next area.
In the field, we were able to speak to speak to people and hatch egg-shaped items (with the mysterious room still shown on the bottom screen). When we ran into an enemy, the bottom screen at last changed to something meaningful: a battle scene.
Egg Monster Hero actually has two forms of battle. After encountering an enemy, you're first taken to what's called a "Scratch Battle." During these battles, the bottom screen displays the action from above with the top screen showing the action from the side. You and your army of -- well, we're not sure what they are, but there's a giant group of "dudes" following you about -- face off against an enemy who also has an army of "dudes" (the enemy dudes looks more evil than your dudes, though). You attack the enemy by, as the name implies, scratching the screen using the stylus, aiming your pen movements in the direction of the enemy. Your character pounds the enemy in succession. This form of battle doesn't really seem to have much strategy to it, as all you do is just frantically scratch the touch screen.
The other form of battle, "Touch Battle," can be entered while you're in a Scratch Battle. Tapping a treasure chest icon located on the touch screen opens up an inventory of egg monsters, one of which can be selected for use against the enemy. Select an egg monster, and your army disappears on the top screen, replaced by the egg monster. The egg monster automatically attacks enemies, who are infinitely weaker than he.
You're not the only one who has egg monsters, though. The enemy can counter your summoning of a beast by summoning its own. With two egg monsters facing off, the game changes a bit. Taking a more turn-based form, you now select which area of your opponent's egg monster you'd like to attack, by pointing and clicking on the bottom screen. This continues until one of the egg monsters has died. The enemy, incidentally, can also be the one to call on an egg monster first, and you'll probably want to follow that up by calling on an egg monster for yourself.
There seems to be a number possibilities for egg monsters, some weak and some strong. While playing through the demo, we tried one of the weaker creatures and saw it die rather quickly. Most of the time, we were able to stick with this one dinosaur looking egg monster, who managed to take out the enemies without taking too much damage.
And once we'd finished a battle, that darn mysterious room was sure to reappear on the bottom screen. We'll probably have to play a bit more of Egg Monster Hero before fully understanding it. A Japanese release date has yet to be finalized.
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Remake eines games, das es auserhalb Japans noch nie in spielbarer Form gab. Der dritte Teil der NES-Final Fantasy's soll die Fähigkeiten des NDS voll nutzen und alles andre als ein simples Remake werden.
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Am Cube bereits berühmt berüchtigt, als ein Spiel das nur zu viert wirklich genial ist. Am NDS dank WIFI könnte das Spiel zu neuen Höhen katapultiert werden, es bleibt abzuwarten was Square daraus macht...
Secret of Mana 4
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: 100%
Ein neues Secret of Mana, darauf haben viele schon seit dem SNES gewartet. Die Saga rund um den Mana Baum wird am NDS EXKLUSIV vortgesetzt.
Dragon Quest Monsters
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: unbekannt
Dragonquest Spin off der sich in Japan am GB/A schon eine fixe Fan-Gemeinde gesichert hat und durchaus erfolgreich ist, ein West-Release ist eher auszuschließen.
Slime Morimori Dragon Quest
Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein West-Release: unbekannt
Ein weiterer Dragonquest Verschnitt, der wohl den Japanern vorbehalten bleibt
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So das wars fürs erste, ca. 25 RPGs sind derzeit für den DS in der Mache, ist wohl nur eine Frage der Zeit bis es nochmehr werden. Positiv zu bemerken ist, dass die games denen ich 100% zuschreibe bereits für Amerika angekündigt wurden, was auch ein Europa Release sehr wahrscheinlich macht
Enttäuscht bin ich etwas vom restlichen Square-Line Up. Ein neues Final Fantasy wie es die PSP bekommt, sollte schon drin sein.
