I was jealous when I heard Stephen Totilo played Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep at the Tokyo Game Show. But even if he saw it first, it looks like he didn’t see everything.
Apparently there’s a board game-type of mode in Birth By Sleep that breaks up the hack ‘n’ slash monotony many non-KH fans complain about. The first I’ve heard of it appears in this magazine scan dug up by fans. According the amatuer translation, the board game mode is called Command Mode and playing the mode rewards you with power ups for your Command attacks in regular gameplay. I can’t tell if it’s optional like a lot of Final Fantasy grind-reducing mechanisms, or mandatory like the $#&%ing Gummi Ships.
The fan translation goes on to suggest that Board Points control movement on the Command Board and you get them by rolling dice. Landing on event spaces triggers chance cards and special characters will somehow help you during the board game by jacking Board Points from your opponent.
Hm. Didn’t Devil May Cry 4 have something like this…?
Oh, also, there’s a new character that appears in the scanned page. His name is something like “Master Eraqus” in English and the scuttlebutt is that this is supposed to be “Square” backwards. You know, like Disney’s “Yen Sid” character.
New Scan Shows off Apprentice’s Master, Land of Departure, Command Board [Kingdom Hearts Insider]
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Kotaku has seen God of War III being played, and hot diggity, did it look good. Played it, too! Would you like to play it? Would you?
Sony Japan is giving out codes to download God of War III from the PSN Store as part of the promotion for Infamous.
The God of War III demo will be available on November 19 in Japan, and these codes can be redeemed between November 19 and February 2010. No word whether the demo will be available to those without these codes.
The game is expected to be out next March in North America.
God of War III Demo Dated [Siliconera]
Hideo Kojima might be making Metal Gear Solid games right now, but he’s made other games in the past. Games like Zone of the Enders. But when will we get that game?
Kojima tells PlayStation.Blog.Europe:
A lot of [people] love Zone of the Enders, and we love the title as well, especially at Kojima Productions and we always want to create one for the next gens as well.
Of course, Kojuma Productions has a long list of things we want to bring out, and of course Zone of the Enders is one on the top of the list.
However, we have to manage staffing and work around projects therefore it’s not going to be out too soon, but we are really considering it.
He also says that he wants to create an original title and he could produce Z.O.E.
Oh, and Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear Solid anymore. Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear Solid anymore. Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear Solid anymore. Kojima-san doesn’t have to…
Kojima on Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker [PlayStation.Blog.Europe via VG247]
Who knows? Maybe it has something to do with Rare being owned by Microsoft, and it and Nintendo being unable to decide who divides the loot. But yeah, answering a reader question, they don’t know what the deal is either.
Asked in the latest RARE Scribes mailbag why Donkey Kong 64 isn’t on the Wii Virtual Console, the guy delegated to answer this gave a throw-up-your-hands questions that sounds like earlier answers regarding Goldeneye and whether we’ll ever see it again.
I have no idea why DK64 hasn’t shown up yet, and whether Jetpac would still be in there or they’d replace it with Mario’s Cement Factory (which ate about three years of my life as a child) or something. Or maybe a single-screen 2D shooty version of Jet Race would be more appropriate. Who knows? Not us, obviously, or we wouldn’t be sitting here pitching clueless alternatives.
Sounds like a “don’t ask me, I just work here,” type of response. And who can blame ‘em?
Who knows? Maybe it has something to do with Rare being owned by Microsoft, and it and Nintendo being unable to decide who divides the loot. But yeah, answering a reader question, they don’t know what the deal is either.
Asked in the latest RARE Scribes mailbag why Donkey Kong 64 isn’t on the Wii Virtual Console, the guy delegated to answer this gave a throw-up-your-hands questions that sounds like earlier answers regarding Goldeneye and whether we’ll ever see it again.
I have no idea why DK64 hasn’t shown up yet, and whether Jetpac would still be in there or they’d replace it with Mario’s Cement Factory (which ate about three years of my life as a child) or something. Or maybe a single-screen 2D shooty version of Jet Race would be more appropriate. Who knows? Not us, obviously, or we wouldn’t be sitting here pitching clueless alternatives.
Sounds like a “don’t ask me, I just work here,” type of response. And who can blame ‘em?
She appeared in the Tokyo Game Show Final Fantasy XIII trailer, and we didn’t know her name until now.
Her name is Oerba Yun Fang — she’s a mysterious L’Cie lady with a nifty tattoo.
And her summon? Her summon is “The Dragon King”, Bahamut.
Shonen Jump: New details on new, blue l’Cie lady [Final Fantasy XIII]
She appeared in the Tokyo Game Show Final Fantasy XIII trailer, and we didn’t know her name until now.
Her name is Oerba Yun Fang — she’s a mysterious L’Cie lady with a nifty tattoo.
And her summon? Her summon is “The Dragon King”, Bahamut.
Shonen Jump: New details on new, blue l’Cie lady [Final Fantasy XIII]
Jen Groeling went off on a two-week vacation and came back to find her cube at Sega cordoned with plastic wrap and filled with about a zillion pages from Game Informer magazines. See for yourself in this video.
I totally would have cannonballed into that pile.
SEGA’s Office Pranks [YouTube, big hat tip thanks to Nightwheel]
Remember that huge PSP in New York City’s SoHo? The one that was up since 2005? It has been taken down, sadly. But Sony has put up a new PSPgo billboard in SoHo — albeit smaller.
That’s okay! The PSPgo is smaller, and the economy is crap. And who can afford enormous PSP billboards these days?
PSPgoes For Smaller Visual Placement [Pasta Tech] [Pic]
I’ve always wondered if Pepsi guys, on vacation with the fams, ever pull into a McDonald’s and go, the hell with it, gimme a Coke. Of course, that’s a smidge different from deliberately buying and complimenting a competitor’s flagship product.
But give the Major his due, the Xbox Live community guru Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb has tweeted that he’s going to pick up Uncharted 2. If the context of this story escapes you and you also live under a rock, the game is a PlayStation 3 exclusive. And it speaks to the overall excellence of a game when your No. 1 competitor’s public face says he’s paying retail for it. Tweeteth the Major:
I’ll have to pick up UnCharted 2 this week. It’s being very well received. Congrats to @Naughty_Dog on a job well done!
Very nice gesture, but let’s not make a compliment of Microsoft into something greater than the credit Naughty Dog and Sony are due. Uncharted 2 is legitimately such a great game that it can be said everyone’s buying it.
Xbox’s Major Nelson To Buy PS3′s Uncharted 2 [Hot Blooded Gaming]
I was jealous when I heard Stephen Totilo played Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep at the Tokyo Game Show. But even if he saw it first, it looks like he didn’t see everything.
