Good morning and welcome to March and a new week!I've been on something of a sabbatical for the past few days, having spent nearly every waking moment on my couch playing the living crap out of Star Ocean 4. I have a The First 3 Hours preview coming up early this week, so you can look forward to that. :)
In terms of RPG releases, March again improves on the volume of February, though this week is a little slim pickings unless you have very specific tastes. Check out what's hitting shelves this week (March 2 - 6, 2009).
North America
EVE Online - CCP, Atari - PC
Phantasy Star Portable - Sega - PSP
Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen - Quest, Square Enix - WVC
Japan
7th Dragon - Sega - Nintendo DS
Senjou no Valkyria (The Best) - Sega - PlayStation 3
Europe
AWAY: Shuffle Dungeon - Mistwalker, Artoon, Majesco - Nintendo DS
Battle Fantasia - Arc System Works, 505 Games - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
North America gets a re-release of EVE Online, and the gimped North American port of Phantasy Star Portable (thanks a lot, Sega). Also, the SNES obscure classic Ogre Battle is getting a virtual re-release via the Wii Virtual Console.
Japan gets the neo-retro RPG project 7th Dragon, as well as a budget re-release of the highly-acclaimed low-selling Valkyria Chronicles.
Europe bags the puzzle/action-RPG AWAY: Shuffle Dungeon and the odd fighter/action-RPG mix Battle Fantasia.
I'm passing on all the North American releases this week, though I know there are some hardcore Ogre Battle fans that will be downloading the virtual console port immediately. I might give 7th Dragon a whirl to see how this neo-retro thing goes down.
What's looking sweet to you?
3 comments:
I wasn't super impressed with the demo of Phantasy Star Portable so I'm not picking up the game right away, though I might later on if I can find it cheap enough. Think I'll break out the Sega Genesis Collection and enjoy some old-school Phantasy Star instead.
poor Phantasy Star. how you have fallen. :(
I ended up finding both PS2 editions of Phantasy Star Universe for $15 each, so that's about my target price for this one. The way new game prices are freefalling these days, it may not take too long.
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