April is quickly approaching, meaning that if you had a monthly goal of buying an RPG in March, your days are numbered.Check out what's hitting shelves during the March-to-April transition week (March 29 - April 3, 2010):
North America
Mimana Iyar Chronicles – GungHo, Aksys – PSP
Monster Rancher DS – Cing, UFO – Nintendo DS
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love – RED, NIS America – PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii
Japan
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel – Ascaron, E-Frontier – PC
Sekaiju no Meikyuu III: Seikai no Raihousha – Atlus – Nintnedo DS
Europe
Rune Factory Frontier – Neverland, Rising Star – Nintendo Wii
North America's featured release this week is the ill-advised half-a-decade-late Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love, complete with a sub-par Wii port alongside the PS2 version. Flying only slightly lower on the radar is the latest Monster Rancher and a quaint old-school-ish RPG for the PSP called Mimana Iyar Chronicles.
Japan finally gets around to the PC version of Sacred 2, as well as Atlus' third Etrian Odyssey.
Europe, meanwhile, finally gets around to taking care of a farm while also trying to save the world in Rune Factory Frontier.
Anything looking worth your cash this week?
2 comments:
Picking up Sakura Wars on PS2 for all of the bonus swag, but I am interested in hearing how the Wii port fares. I don't really get why people are making such a huge deal about the Japanese audio track missing from the Wii version; 99% of our JRPGs up to now have only included a dub track and we've just dealt with it, but now suddenly with an obscure Wii port it's this huge sin.
Mimana looks sort of interesting but the $40 price tag is ridiculous for a no-name, no-hype PSP game.
i think the big deal with Sakura Wars is that since they included the Japanese track for the PS2 version, there is no real reason to leave it out of the Wii (which is supposedly the more powerful console) version.
however, NIS is not far from Sega in the 'making obviously stupid decisions' department, imo, so i suppose its not a huge shocker. too bad. i used to think very highly of NIS until quite recently.
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