Topic: Official Weekly Famitsu Thread of Another Code, M&L3, and Phantom Brave

[Caliban]

A Klonoa game, sweet! Valhalla Knights (online co-op *giddy*), and Destiny Links seem interesting. Where the hell is our Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles game that we watched with the flying superhero character? Come on Square-Enix, did you really toss it out?

[Bill Aurion]

Updated with Rune Factory Frontier scans!  (Hahaha, the swimming suit event!)

[DAaaMan64]

Ya think a new Klonoa is awesome!

[Dirk Temporo]

What is all this RPG madness?

And why the hell isn't there any news about the REAL Wii FFCC yet?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Updated with Rune Factory Frontier scans!  (Hahaha, the swimming suit event!)

ahahahahahah YES

ahahahahahah YES

[Bill Aurion]

Sorry for being late...The lack of new and interesting news sorta kills my enthusiasm for uploading a bunch of scans...

October 10th Edition

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Wii/DS)



Kirby Super Star Ultra (DS)




(There's also a Dead Rising scan out there, but it's crappy...)

[vudu]

Dead Rising, or the scan?

[Bill Aurion]

Well I meant the scan, but I don't blame you for getting confused...

[Bill Aurion]

So yeah, I decided to do this for once, since it was actually worth doing this time...Plus I threw in a few scans from the previous weeks...Now be grateful or I won't do it anymore...(No one cares anyway...)

November 14th Edition

Rune Factory Frontier (Wii)



Arc Rise Fantasia (Wii)



Gyakuten Kenji (DS)



Dragon Quest IX (DS)



Last Bullet (DS)

~ Half-mystery/text adventure, half "Silent Scope"-like strategy sniper gameplay
~ Young girl forced to work as a sniper (Gunslinger Girl, anyone?)

[BeautifulShy]

I care Bill.
Thank you Bill for doing this.If you don't want to do it every week you can do it every other week or monthly.

I am liking Arc Rise Fantasia.

[Bill Aurion]

Monthly update time! (Actually, this is just the first week where a crapload of Ninty news came out...)

December 12th Edition

Another Code: R (Wii)



Arc Rise Fantasia (Wii)



Phantom Brave (Wii)



Mario & Luigi 3 (DS)



Shining Force Feather (DS)



Dragon Quest IX (DS)

[vudu]

Those Mario & Luigi 3 scans look great!  I love the huge ball of Goombas that Bowser is holding in the first scan.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Capcom is porting Monster Hunter G to Wii.  Monster Hunter G is an enhanced version of Monster Hunter 1 and is apparently one of the hardest games in the Monster Hunter Series.



So here is the official release timeline of the monster hunter series: Source

Timeline is like this.
PS2:
MH
MHG
MH2
---------
PSP:
MHF(this is a MHG port)
MHF2(this is MH2 port with some features excluded from MH2)
MHP2G(this is a Expansion MH2 port with new features that not included in MH2)

------
Wii:
MHG (Port from the PS2 MHG but maybe capcom will add new stuff to it.)
MH3

[Kairon]

Can I get Famitsu in America? Wait a sec I don't know how to read Japanese... gosh darn it I should've paid more attention in HIGH SCHOOL RRAARRGGHHH.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Source: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=14123549&postcount=1

Monster Hunter G (Wii)
- Spring release
- online fee unknown
- wide picture
- 77% complete
- control with classic controller exclusively

Monster Hunter 3 (Wii)
- New area: desert
- 40% complete
- new rock monster

Devil Survivor (DS) (Shin Megami Tensei series)
- a 25 year old guy who is waiting for his sweetheart, and he's an owner of some place
- another is a girl who is a vocalist for a town which has been quarantined or something
- a new devil: resemble a white hydra with medusa face, but blue roses at the tip of the tentacle
- if you can execute an additional attack move if you can strike the first hit on the weak point

7th Dragon (DS)
- Jpn release date: 5th Mar
- 5040 yen
- new job: Princess (support by singing?), skill = ninetail
- Princess & Knight have dual attack: Knight blade
- peorder special: a booklet

[Kairon]

Looks like Monster Hunter 3 still has a way to go.

[Luigi Dude]

Well if Monster Hunter 3 is only 40% done now, I'd imagine it wont be out until early 2010.  With this Monster Hunter G port coming in spring, I wouldn't be surprised if Capcom ports Monster Hunter 2 G for the fall on the Wii as well.

This is Capcom we're talking about, they live to port.  And with them now releasing a version of the first game in the series, before the 3rd game is even done, it's only a matter of time before some version of Monster Hunter 2 hits the Wii as well.

[Flames_of_chaos]

They are most likely doing this intentionally to transplant the PS2/PSP monster hunter audience to Wii.

[Kairon]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Maybe it's a prep release with a lower cost port?

[Flames_of_chaos]

That and easy sales each monster hunter sold practically a million each in Japan.

[Kairon]

No, I don't think the console versions were EVER too hot. When they got ported to the PSP they were million sellers but the PS2 games were lucky to move 500k I believe.

So even though the Wii getting the next console version is still a coup, smart observers are NOT expecting a million seller.

[GoldenPhoenix]

No, I don't think the console versions were EVER too hot. When they got ported to the PSP they were million sellers but the PS2 games were lucky to move 500k I believe.

So even though the Wii getting the next console version is still a coup, smart observers are NOT expecting a million seller.

We'll see, the PSP version has made tons of penetration so that will most likely spill over to the Wii. I'll say it right now, the game will sell over a million in Japan, easily. You have to realize (at least from what I understand) that the game just recently caught on, so it may have just been a matter of building a userbase with the PS2 versions that jumpstarted the craze on the PSP. In fact by looking at the numbers the game started out slow, around 300k for PS2, then the next iteration sold around 700k for PS2 and then the next PSP game sold like 1.4 million then that was almost doubled with the next game. So it looks like it is slowly, but surely trending up and may not have anything to do with what platform it is on, but the growing popularity for the franchise.

 I'm not sure about NA with sales though, but I do know that I want it to come out here! MH3 looks amazing with some great production values.

[Flames_of_chaos]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172055

In a surprising, if Capcom-esque move, the company has announced a port of Monster Hunter G for Wii via the pages of Famitsu. First released in January 2005 for the PlayStation 2, MHG was an incremental upgrade to the original Monster Hunter from 2004 (seen above), adding G-Level Quests and a new weapon class. The Wii edition, to be released in Spring, will be an almost direct port: Control will use the Classic Controller exclusively, although minor upgrades such as a 16:9 widescreen mode and the ability to send items purchased from shops directly to your home will be added. Fees for online play, if any, have not yet been announced.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Street Fighter IV (PS3/Xbox 360, Capcom): 9 / 8 / 8 / 9 - (34/40)
Mario & Luigi RPG 3 (NDS, Nintendo): 9 / 9 / 8 / 9 - (35/40)
Another Code:R - Kioku no Tobira (Wii, Nintendo): 7 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (28/40)
Tantei Jinguuji Saburo DS: Fuserareta Shinjitsu (NDS, Arc System Works): 7 / 7 / 7 / 6 - (27/40)
Hidamari Sketch: Doko Demo Sugoroku x 365 (NDS, Idea Factory): 6 / 6 / 6 / 6 - (24/40)
Saka no Gabaibaa-Chan (NDS, TryFirst): 6 / 6 / 5 / 5 - (22/40)
Skate It (Wii, EA): 6 / 6 / 6 / 6 - (24/40)
Skate 2 (PS3/Xbox 360, EA): 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 - (32/40)

Another Code R review summary :

- The transition to 3D improved the cinematic direction
- Big emphasis on story/dialogues over the purely puzzles based aspect.
- Story is in the vein of a young adult novel.
- Music is splendid
- The emphasis on the story is such that the pace of the game suffers somehow.
- Not enough puzzles.

sf4 alternate costumes are in fact paid dlc.
400yen on psn, 320 ms points, 5 different packs.
or you can get all costumes for 1200 yen / 1000 microsoft points.
only 12 dollars.

[Caliban]

Mario & Luigi RPG 3 (NDS, Nintendo): 9 / 9 / 8 / 9 - (35/40)

YAY!

Another Code:R - Kioku no Tobira (Wii, Nintendo): 7 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (28/40)

Another Code R review summary :

- The transition to 3D improved the cinematic direction
- Big emphasis on story/dialogues over the purely puzzles based aspect.
- Story is in the vein of a young adult novel.
- Music is splendid
- The emphasis on the story is such that the pace of the game suffers somehow.
- Not enough puzzles.

I see.
I'm still getting this game even if they say that there weren't enough puzzles to solve.