Monday, February 1, 2010

RPGs of the Week: Late Knight Edition

It's a new week and a new month all at the same time today, and that means new RPGs!

January was quite good, and with this week's offering, it looks like February will be keeping up with that trend.

Check out what RPGs are available this week (February 1 - 6, 2010):

North America
Global Agenda – Hi-Rez Studios – PC
Legends of Exidia – GameLoft – DSiWare
Puzzle Chronicles – Infinite Interactive, Konami – Nintendo DS, PSP
Star Trek Online – Cryptic Studios, Atari – PC
White Knight Chronicles International – Level 5, SCEA – PlayStation 3

Japan
Moe-Moe 2-ji Taisen(ryaku) 2 – SystemSoft – PlayStation 2, PSP
Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope International – tri-Ace, Square Enix – PlayStation 3

Europe
Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days – NIS Europe – PSP
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers – Square Enix – Nintendo Wii
Legends of Exidia – GameLoft – DSiWare
Star Trek Online – Cryptic Studios, Atari – PC, Xbox 360

North America starts out the month with a couple of new sci-fi MMORPGs for the PC, Star Trek Online and Global Agenda, along with the portable version of Puzzle Chronicles, and Sony's original first-party PS3 JRPG, White Knight Chronicles (which has taken more than its sweet time getting over here).

Japan gets the PS2 and PSP versions of an obscure SRPG, as well as the PS3 port of last year's Star Ocean 4.

Europe meanwhile gets Square Enix's first real attempt on the Wii, The Crystal Bearers, the PSP port of Disgaea 2, and both PC and 360 versions of Star Trek Online.

Additionally, the first DSiWare RPG (that I am aware of, at least), Legends of Exidia, is hitting both Europe and North America this week.

Nothing really striking to me this week, though I may give Puzzle Chronicles a spin just to check it out.

Anything for you this week?

4 comments:

sav said...

nope.

what u guys think of last rebellion ?

i'm not really sure, although it seems to be releasing later this month.

hmm.

Brandon said...

@sav:
I haven't played Last Rebellion, but Hit Maker - the developer behind it - has a track record of having interesting ideas that they never seem to actually develop, so their games tend to be quite disappointing.

That said, maybe Last Rebellion is the game that will change that. Or maybe not.

From what I've seen, the game doesn't look extremely promising, but it could be okay.

I would probably pick it up if I only had a PS3, otherwise, I'd wait until after it's been on the market for a while.

Billy said...

Hmm. The only games I'm planning to pick up this month are Endless Ocean: Blue World and the VC release of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. It's going to be nice to save a little money for once.

sav said...

@brandaon, yeah man, personally i really enjoyed blade dancer on the psp however i was a bit indifferent towards dragoneer's aria.

that said i hope LR will be decent.

i really wished for another blade dancer game, it was a nice simple little rpg, ahh it reminded me of a the rpg franchise Legend of Legaia.

too bad that one died off too, it was really good with it's fight-based battle system.

damn now i'm getting all nostalgic lool.

the good ol days yep.