Gemaga writes: Square Enix's Sigma Harmonics for the Nintendo DS is due out this summer. The description says that it's a Mystery RPG. Gamaga is intrigued by the art style, the imagery, and the pretty music in the background of the site itself.
Russ tells of console sales and other RPG deals as he begins, "September may have a lot of games coming out for it, so it is a good thing the prices of the 360 and PS3 dropped. Plus you still might be able to grab a decent computer during the back to school sales. Gaming triple play ahoy!"
Knightnui.com Blog writes: "Having reviewed Sonic's first RPG, the DS' own Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, it left me with an odd taste in my mouth: When I reviewed the game, I hadn't quite finished it, but now I'm literaly at the tail end of the game, (Just the last boss to go, peeps!) it leaves me a question: What Next?"
Both fabled producer Yoshinori Kitase and respected musician Masashi Hamauzu were brought on to the staff, but even these two high profile names have failed to inspire the Japanese public to go out and purchase the game.
This is kinda sad. SE always makes great new IP's but no one buys them and they just revert to making more FF games. The World Ends With You was a great game that I would love to see more of but I doubt we will. I'm also very excited for Sigma Harmonics but it's looking like if it's good we won't get a sequel either. I would like to see SE bring back some of their older games as well such as Brave Fencer Musashi. I know they made a PS2 game based on the franchise but it really sucked and in no way felt like the first game. Also Einhander was a great PS1 game that sold decently well and got great reviews but Square never went anywhere with it.
It's not like the game cost them a lot to make; I'm pretty sure they've covered their expenses just by selling 23k.
I am pissed to see Sigma Harmonics flunking in sales.Knowing Square Enix and how they recuperate their losses,they will get back to making Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest spinoffs merely to cash in.
I think Wada already said earlier this year that they're going to be producing more "branded" games in the future.
Well a few of us want jrpg to actually appears on more next gen consoles and the wii , not just the DS ... maybe its time to think about those customer instead of cutting corner and trying to make money out of cheap ds releases .
