Tuesday, February 23, 2010

RPGs of the Week: Awake and Rebellious Edition

Well, this is the last week of February. It seems like it went much faster than January (for me anyway). With that in mind, check out your last fix of RPGs before March hits.

Here are the new titles hitting shelves during the week of February 22 - 28, 2010:

North America
Last Rebellion – Hit Maker, NIS America – PlayStation 3
Risen – Piranha Bytes, Deep Silver – Xbox 360

Japan
Arc Rise Fantasia (Minna no Osusume) – imageepoch, Marvelous – Nintendo Wii
Borderlands – Gearbox, Microsoft – Xbox 360
Demon’s Souls (The Best) – FromSoftware, SCEI – PlayStation 3
Estopolis: The Land Cursed by the Gods – Neverland, Square Enix – Nintendo DS
Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 4: Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso – ChunSoft, Spike – Nintendo DS
Grand Fantasia – Aeria, Cyberfront – PC
Kin’iro no Corda 3 – Koei – PSP
Oboro Muramasa (Minna no Osusume) – Vanillaware, Marvelous – Nintendo Wii
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Mugen no Frontier EXCEED – Monolith, Namco Bandai – Nintendo DS
Tales of Symphonia: Ratatosk no Kishi (Minna no Osusme) – Namco Bandai – Nintendo Wii
WiZman’s World – Jaleco – Nintendo DS

Europe
Adventures to Go! – Global A, Zushi – PSP
Fable II (Classics) – Lionhead, Microsoft – Xbox 360
Puzzle Chronicles – Infinite Interactive, Konami – Nintendo DS, PSP
White Knight Chronicles – Level 5, SCEE – PlayStation 3

Yikes! That's a lot of stuff!

Japan gets a tidal wave of stuff this week including the 360 version of Borderlands, Neverland and Square Enix's Lufia II remake/reinvention, the sequel to the busty turn-based Super Robot Taisen OG Saga, Jaleco's second attempt at an RPG, a for-girls dating sim/music RPG, yet another MMO, the fourth DS Shiren the Wanderer, and a small fortune of budget reprints. (Whew)

Europe takes distant second this week with amount of new RPGs, scoring Global A's Adventure's to Go, Infinite Interactive's Puzzle Chronicles, and Level 5's White Knight Chronicles. Fable II is also getting a budget reprint for those who have been holding out for the cheap.

By contrast, North America nabs only two titles, with Piranha Byte's 360 Risen port, and Hit Maker's Last Rebellion.

Anything looking worth it this week?

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