Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: Stratos on April 02, 2009, 05:11:39 PM
Title: Nintendo/Taito game Wand of Magic
Post by: Stratos on April 02, 2009, 05:11:39 PM
Some of you may have noticed this game from screens at last years media summit. IGN just reported that it is going to be released in Japan this May the 21st.
Quote from: IGN
You hold the Wiimote like a wand and draw out shapes to perform magic. The game includes over 100 spells. In addition to casting magic, you also control a battle party, whom you direct on the battle field from an overhead perspective.
Article link (http://wii.ign.com/articles/968/968795p1.html)
Looks a bit like Orge Battle to me except battles are real-time instead of going into a separate battle screen.
I also want to underscore that this is a 1st party game. This is one of the things that Nintendo has been working on that is new.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: Stogi on April 02, 2009, 05:26:46 PM
Nintendo made this? It must suck if NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT.
It looks like an RTS with okami like magic controls. Color me interested.
P.S. What's with the smileys in the screens? And you realize the first and last screen are the same, right?
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: vudu on April 02, 2009, 05:37:19 PM
I thought this game was related to LostMagic (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/reviewArt.cfm?artid=11371) for DS. Are you sure it's a first party game?
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on April 02, 2009, 05:37:48 PM
Tact of NOT GETTLING LOCALIZED CUZ IT'S NON-CASUAL
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: Stratos on April 02, 2009, 05:38:52 PM
My copy and paste commands are weird today. I don't think it is registering when I copy a new link because twice now it is pasting an old link I copied instead of the recent one I copied. Thanks for pointing that out.
I thought this game was related to LostMagic (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/reviewArt.cfm?artid=11371) for DS. Are you sure it's a first party game?
IGN said it was 1st party.
Quote
The latest Shounen Jump offered up first solid details on Takt of Magic, a first party Wii game that's now set for May 21 release in Japan.
Tact of NOT GETTLING LOCALIZED CUZ IT'S NON-CASUAL
It used waggle though, so casuals will love it! ;)
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: Mop it up on April 02, 2009, 06:35:23 PM
They misspelled "tact" so it must be good.
I'm just glad this isn't WiiWare, I might check this out if it is released in North America. Though if it is, I can see it topping a lot of "most-overlooked" lists.
GameFAQs info says it is developed and published by Nintendo. The title is also spelled as "tact" so who knows how accurate that info is.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: Stratos on April 02, 2009, 06:38:27 PM
When I did a search to see if a thread already existed here I found only one occurrence of each spelling so I went with IGN's since that was the most recent info I have seen for this game.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: MoronSonOfBoron on April 02, 2009, 07:44:44 PM
Color me interested.
I guess those icons are supposed to indicate a character's status. For some reason I can see a Mii taking the place of those smiley icons.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: Chozo Ghost on April 02, 2009, 09:47:57 PM
Where is the petition we sign to get this released in NA? Don't just assume this is going to come here, because many excellent games never did. The sooner we start pestering Nintendo about this the sooner something might get done.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: TJ Spyke on April 02, 2009, 10:16:42 PM
Mother 3 shows that fans pestering Nintendo doesn't do squat to help a games chances of being localized.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: Stratos on April 02, 2009, 11:52:27 PM
Mother 3 shows that fans pestering Nintendo doesn't do squat to help a games chances of being localized.
The Mother series is barred due to legal issues. And the Winter one may have done something because nSpace has some publishers interested in the game now.
But I agree that most petitions online don't do much.
Don't write this up yet though. We may be getting this later this year. I'm would guess a Fall release depending on localization time.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: TJ Spyke on April 03, 2009, 12:09:27 AM
The Mother series is barred due to legal issues. And the Winter one may have done something because nSpace has some publishers interested in the game now.
What legal issues? I have never heard of any such thing. Nintendo owns the IP, they could release the games here if they wanted.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: BeautifulShy on April 03, 2009, 12:30:32 AM
The Mother series is barred due to legal issues. And the Winter one may have done something because nSpace has some publishers interested in the game now.
What legal issues? I have never heard of any such thing. Nintendo owns the IP, they could release the games here if they wanted.
There are lots of refererences in the game to pop culture. Getting through those issues is a problem.
Anyway this game looks interesting. I'm going to have to check it out.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: Stratos on April 03, 2009, 12:35:02 AM
This article explains most of the why regarding no Earthbound, TJ Spike. (http://vc.nintendolife.com/news/2009/02/rumour_earthbound_not_coming_to_virtual_console)
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 03, 2009, 01:08:15 AM
Do those issues only apply to Earthbound or do they exist with all 3 games?
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: Dirk Temporo on April 03, 2009, 04:16:44 AM
I wanna see some scores from Japan for this.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: Peachylala on April 03, 2009, 11:16:50 AM
Do those issues only apply to Earthbound or do they exist with all 3 games?
Well the SNES one was a loose remake of the NES 'Earthbound Zero' if my memory serves me right so I'm willing to bet that the material is in all of the games. It seems to be a major theme for the series having a take on American pop culture.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: Mop it up on April 03, 2009, 06:37:28 PM
I think that this game has a better chance of being released outside of Japan then certain other recent Japan-only exclusives. It seems it is being developed by Nintendo themselves so that always increases chances of world-wide releases. They'll probably release it during a month when they have nothing else to offer.
Just be glad this game isn't titled something like "Captain Rainbow" and features evidence that Birdo is male.
Well the SNES one was a loose remake of the NES 'Earthbound Zero' if my memory serves me right so I'm willing to bet that the material is in all of the games.
Both games do contain some of the same music so it is very possible that said music falls under the copyright troubles that SNES Earthbound faces.
Title: Re: Nintendo 1st party game Takt of Magic
Post by: AV on April 04, 2009, 12:23:28 AM
I think that this game has a better chance of being released outside of Japan then certain other recent Japan-only exclusives. It seems it is being developed by Nintendo themselves so that always increases chances of world-wide releases. They'll probably release it during a month when they have nothing else to offer.
Just be glad this game isn't titled something like "Captain Rainbow" and features evidence that Birdo is male.
Well the SNES one was a loose remake of the NES 'Earthbound Zero' if my memory serves me right so I'm willing to bet that the material is in all of the games.
Both games do contain some of the same music so it is very possible that said music falls under the copyright troubles that SNES Earthbound faces.
