Topic: Konami Announces Upcoming Nintendo Titles

[NWR_Lindy]

Major releases include Boktai 2, TMNT 2, and a Nintendo DS title.

Today Konami announced its game lineup for 2004 and early 2005.  These are the games scheduled for Nintendo platforms and their tentative release dates:

Yu-Gi-Oh!(TM) Reshef of Destruction (GameBoy Advance) - June 2004

This card-battling RPG allows players to choose from 800 different cards (including Egyptian God cards) and battle over 100 different duelists on their way to a showdown with the evil Reshef.

 Shaman King: Master of Spirits (GameBoy Advance) - August 2004

Another game based on a popular TV series, Shaman King lets plays stop the resurrection of the "Guardian of Demons" with hero Yoh Asakura.

 Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (GameBoy Advance) - September 2004  

Django continues his vampire-hunting ways in this sequel to the innovative original.  Featuring new weapons, characters, and game elements as well as the always-intriguing solar sensor, Boktai 2 is sure to please.

 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (GameCube, Game Boy Advance) - October 2004

The "heroes in the half-shell" are back to battle Shredder with four-player and two-player cooperative action.  A cool bonus is the ability to unlock the original TMNT arcade games.

 Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler (Game Boy Advance) - October 2004

This board game allows up to four players to duel it out, choosing from more than eight different characters.

 Rave Master (GameBoy Advance) - October 2004  

Based on the popular Japanese manga/TV series, Rave Master promises players a blend of action, fighting, and RPG elements as they guide Haru Glory in his quest to defeat the evil Dark Brings.

 King Arthur (GameCube) - November 2004

Based on the upcoming movie, this title allows players to choose from up to five different characters (including Arthur, Sir Lancelot and Guinevere) and three different battle modes.

 Frogger (GameCube, Nintendo DS) - TBA 2005

This upgrade of the 1981 classic features new levels, characters and environments rendered in full 3-D (even on the Nintendo DS).

[Ian Sane]

Looks like Konami wants to leave their number of Cube games that we actually want to buy to one.  Has it ever occured to these guys that the reason they don't have good Cube sales is that they never give us anything worth a damn?  MGS has been IT and they didn't even make that game entirely themselves and it was only a remake.

And if Frogger is the best they can give the DS well they can have fun sinking with the PSP ship (which according to IGN is getting an MGS game).

[KDR_11k]

Hey, don't dis Frogger! Frogger 3d was good.

[odifiend]

It's kojima's love of movies.  There was an interview at Gamespy awhile ago, and it is ridiculous how he'll bend over for the playstation due to its connection with movies, which he loves, despite the fact that he admits it is the hardest console to develop for.  The way he was speaking it is a wonder Nintendo's non-dvd console was even allowed to receive the 6-year old game remade.  Still kicked ass.
Looking at the list i continue to be dissappointed in Konami's support for GCN.  They're like atari, they just haven't announced that they're screwing us over.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

A game Konami doesn't make (Castlevania GCN) is a game I can't buy.

[KDR_11k]

Kojima also stated that his team has masochistic tendencies for developing for the PS2 and they expect the PS3 to be even worse, so...