Awesome Radical Gaming

The Atlus homepage is now teasing yet another announcement on June 9th. The front page simply displays a large number of playing cards with the message “We’ll show you our hand.” This has obviously is lead people to believe the announcement will be for a card-based game, such as Yggdra Union for the PSP, Culdcept DS, Hudson’s Elemental Monsters (a turn-based card fighting game), or Dokapon Kingdom (a hybrid of an RPG and a board game). I honestly have no idea, I can’t even begin to guess. The trailer for Dokapon Kingdom looks pretty crazy, though

[via Atlus]

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This latest Resident Evil 5 trailer looks pretty cool. The game play seems somewhat similiar to Resident Evil 4, but with a lot more enemies on screen at the same time. Are people infected with the same Plaga parasite like in Resident Evil 4, as well?

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I honestly never played the first one. Thrasher loved it and I finally did buy it for the Xbox. However, by then I had an Xbox 360 and the game wasn’t backwards compatible with it. I was too lazy to get the Xbox out of it’s box, so that was the end of that. Anyway, Ubisoft has officially announced the sequel for the Xbox 360 and PS3, so I’ll probably pick up the sequel.

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Just in case you’re into awesome and radical video game soundtracks, the Bionic Commando Rearmed Soundtrack is up for sale on iTunes. I like “Power Plant”, the song sounds a lot more fun then I imagine a power plant to be. This game is going to be fucking awesome.

[via Bionic Commando Blog]

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That’s right, if you want this super special pokemon all you have to do is go to a Toys R Us with your DS from 12 to 4 PM any day this weekend and download it. Totally awesome!

Official Press Release | May 28, 2008

It’s a Pokémon player’s dream come true! Pokémon USA, Inc. is offering an opportunity to receive the Legendary Pokémon Darkrai, during a two-day event at Toys”R”Us stores nationwide from 12 noon - 4 pm. During this time, all Pokémon aficionados who bring their Pokémon Diamond or Pokémon Pearl Game Card, along with their Nintendo DS, to any Toys”R”Us store in the United States have a chance to add one of the most sought-after characters in the Pokémon Universe, Darkrai, to their game. Darkrai, best-known for lulling people to sleep and causing nightmares, is the star of the latest movie, Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai, now available on DVD, and is featured in the new Pokémon Trading Card Game Diamond & Pearl-Majestic Dawn.

Who: All Pokémon fans

What: Darkrai distribution for your Pokémon Diamond or Pokémon Pearl Game Card

When: May 31 and June 1, 12 noon - 4 pm

Where: Toys”R”Us stores nationwide

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I like lighting effects when she’s fighting the guys in the spot light.

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I receive email announcements from Atlus telling me all about the latest happenings and various other information about upcoming Atlus titles. Today, I receive this (click to view it at a higher resolution):

I have no idea what it means, I really can’t think what game this would be referring too, but it links here. So I guess we can expect some big (or not so big) announcement on June 3rd at around 10 AM PST.

I also received another Atlus email about a new production diary entry, basically behind the scenes information about what goes in to video game production (obviously). This one is about the naming of things in game, which I found to be pretty interesting. Basically, you can’t do a literal translation on enemy names are you get stuff like “Owner of the Malicious Glare.”

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Venetica is an upcoming RPG by Deck 13 and DTP Entertainment. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of either of them before, but apparently Deck 13 is a big deal in Germany. In the game you play as death’s daughter, which maybe could be cool but also could end up incredibly lame. The graphics don’t look particularly amazing for a 360 game, either. Honestly, I don’t even know why this is a news story on every game website, I just don’t see why I should care, yet. These two companies haven’t done anything amazing in the past, why is Venetica automatically going to be amazing? The whole press release is below…
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Before I actually begin this review I think I should make it clear that I really didn’t like Crystal Chronicles. As a fan of the more “traditional” Final Fantasy games, I found Crystal Chronicles to be extremely lacking, just a half-assed attempt to put a “Final Fantasy” title on the Gamecube. So, when I heard about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King and saw all the screen shots, which made the game look very similar to it’s Gamecube predecessor, I was instantly turned off. However, after hearing more about it, I realized My Life as a King is a completely different game and decided to go ahead and give it a shot. I was pleasantly surprised and my prejudice against the Crystal Chronicles name was quickly washed away. My Life as a King is a unique game play experience that combines two different game genres (RPG’s and city-building games such as Simcity) to create something truly memorable.
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A few weeks ago there was an Etrian Odyssey II contest where you could win the games imported 3-disc soundtrack. That was pretty awesome, but not quite awesome enough. Now there’s another, better, more radical contest. Basically, you write a blog entry on Destructoid.com about “your most memorable experience associated with the series.” Like, basically it would be something like this.

Etrian Odyssey was totally awesome. I made a party and named them after my friends. It was fun. Until that first FOE kicked my ass. Then…not so much fun.

Then, if it’s really good, you could win…

• A SIGNED copy of Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard
• A SIGNED copy of the official 3-CD soundtrack (Import)
• A 6.5″ Female Protector figurine (Import)
• A copy of the rare Japan-only preorder bonus soundtrack CD
• A copy of the orchestrated Super Arrange soundtrack CD (Import)

…which is really, really nice actually. More information below:

[via Destructoid.com]

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