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"As a fan of post-apocalyptic themes, I am of course drawn to games take place after catastrophic events. Though this list is not exhaustive, it’s revealing that much of is so top-heavy. With the theme becoming increasingly popular, I don’t seem to be alone in my enjoyment of post-apocalyptic games. Here’s hoping for more to come."
"Frankly, 2010 was a pretty big year for gaming. Kinect and the Move opened the door to motion sensitive gaming for Microsoft and Sony respectively (though neither of which are on the list), and we experienced some amazing sequels as well as some brand new titles. We wanted to share what we think you should dash down to your store for if you find it's missing from your collection."
"Ever since Bandai Namco first revealed Fragile Dreams way back in early 2007, there has been constant attention placed upon it. There are numerous reasons for this, one of which being the fact that, at the time, Nintendo's Wii console was not receiving any large-scale RPG content from developers such as Square Enix, Konami and Capcom, despite having a much larger user-base than the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined in Japan. Following moderate success with the card-fighting Baten Kaitos RPG series on..."
"Like a lot of gamers I’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of Fragile Dreams since the game’s initial reveal back in 2008. Hiroya Hatsushiba and tri-Crescendo’s latest title has a natural appeal thanks to imaginative environments and original ideas that, let’s be honest, aren’t too common on the Wii. Thankfully it’s finally here and we can take on the role of fifteen year-old protagonist Seto as we set out to see if we are the last person alive and find out what happened to create this d..."
A celebration of video games, giveaways, Billy Mitchell's hot sauce, and 100 episodes of Distributed Failure. The podcast has been going strong for over 2 years and this is the epic 100th episode with plenty of special guests and awesome prizes!
"In Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon gamers take on the role of an abandoned young boy named Seto, the sole survivor in a world filled with ruined buildings and deserted train stations that's plagued by monsters and disembodied ghosts. His quest is to find survivors from the seemingly unknown event that has devastated the world he lives in."
"In an unprecedented move, leading video games publisher Rising Star Games has today announced it has teamed up with Spanish fans of Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon to translate the game's script, so they can enjoy it in its entirety. Spanish website DSWii.es (part of Blogocio.net) approached Rising Star with the unique idea and, following an announcement calling for volunteers to participate in the translation, recruited a group of fifty dedicated gamers from their loyal community ..."
The spring lineup for the Nintendo Wii is looking extremely promising with big-named games as well as lesser known but still great titles slated from March through May.
"Fragile Dreams has almost escaped the cold, unfeeling tentacles of Japan where it has been held captive for so long. Many people are looking to this title to bring something really different to Nintendo's platform and, I'm here to tell you, it will. I haven't played anything like it on the Wii.
XSEED sent us a preview of the much-anticipated Action-RPG and its dark and beautiful world is haunting my memory."
"While the story is intriguing, what really brings this game home are the beautiful graphics and amazing audio. Fragile Dreams is an experience that is not only enjoyable visually, but it is a treat for the ears. The emotional elements – like a haunting loneliness that pervades the world, the despair resonating in the voices of the characters – are clearly in place and Fragile Dreams’ development team, tri-Crescendo, has found the right mix for a game that is truly a wonderful experience."
"An engaging and unique game, as the story unfolds the gamer gradually begins to make sense of the desolate world while fending off ghosts and other hostile creatures, using the Wii Remote as both weapon and torch. Visually stunning, audio is also crucial in Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon - along with an emotional soundtrack, ghostly sounds emanate from the Wii Remote's speaker, adding to the eerie environment. It can also be pointed at the source of a sound and used as an aid to d..."
New features previously not in the Japanese version will be included in the NA region version. This upcoming release will include an english and japanese voice track and unlockable extras such as the ability to re-watch cutscenes, flip through at concept art, and play the original Japanese trailers. Also, GameStop pre-orders will receive a 12-song Fragile Dreams soundtrack.
"The Nintendo Wii is currently the top console on the market this generation, and Nintendo and its third-party publishers are going to make sure that it stays on top of the game. There will be plenty of new titles to play this year -- sequels to popular franchises as well as new IPs, both on retail disk as well as digital download -- so don't think for a second that it'll be a "sparse" and "light" 2010 when it comes to Wii gaming.
Here's a quick look at the games we're most looking forward ..."
"Rising Star Games has announced the appointment of a new columnist at their Hoshi Club – the online destination for videogame fans to find out the latest details on Rising Star Games’ videogame releases and insight into Japanese culture. Following the signing of ex-Edge deputy editor, David McCarthy, Alex Sim-Wise shall have her own personal space to write about videogames, Japanese culture and pretty much anything she wishes."
"Rising Star Games have become synonymous with those quintessentially Japanese videogame treats that otherwise may have never made their way to European shores. The sweet, inviting world of the classic Harvest Moon series and pleasing guilt involved in commanding your loyal (or perhaps, not so loyal) followers in Little King’s Story is regularly contrasted with the dark, grimy labyrinths of JU-ON: The Grudge or the under-appreciated Nintendo DS First-Person Shooter, Moon."
"Highlights from February include the mind-meltingly mental Half-Minute Hero on PlayStation Portable (PSP). This brilliantly original title fuses classic gaming mechanics with bite-sized thirty-second gaming to create one of the format’s most audacious twists on the Role-Playing Game (RPG) genre. Animal Kororo, a ludicrously cute Puzzle game will also be published on Nintendo DS this month."
""In the game you control a boy with a flashlight who wanders the world, searching for survivors -- like the mysterious girl in the picture -- and the answers behind the disappearance of everyone else in the world.""
Let's face it. Without the XSEEDs, Atluses, and Working Designs of the world, playing these odd games from Japan in English with no real Western backing would be a wet dream. We would at the mercy of the giant publishers and their wholly-established brand names, and at the general blandness of video games today. The mainstream US publishers have stopped to consider what Japan has to offer, and even the big publishers from Japan only localize their bigger games.
But these are the compani...
"Rising Star Games has today confirmed they have secured the publishing rights for the much anticipated fantasy adventure title, Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon, as previously revealed by Electronic Theatre. Developed by Tri Crescendo, the team responsible for Baten Kaitos and, more recently, Eternal Sonata exclusively for Wii, Fragile is scheduled for a Q1 2010 release in the PAL territories."
"Seto may be the last human alive. He buried his grandfather at the end of the summer. Desperately lonely, he decides to search for other survivors on this ruined and dying planet. But he will have to fight off the demons and ghosts that haunt this forsaken and crumbling world, while piecing together the mystery of mankind's disappearance."
Rising Star Games, XSEED Games' counterpart in the PAL regions and Marvelous subsidiary, has confirmed today that they will be bringing the tri-Crescendo adventure RPG Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon for the Wii in early 2010.
Fragile released back in Japan in January, and will see a US release by XSEED Games this winter in North America.
XSEED Games is usually good with their customer relations; you can send them questions and for the most part they'll be happy to answer. NeoGAF user Hero of Legend sent a bunch of questions XSEED's way recently, and received a response, gaining the following information:
""As a Wii owner, I often feel like that lonely kid on the playground at recess, desperately waiting my turn to be picked for dodge ball, only to be passed over again, and again, leaving me disappointed and neglected on the bench. Any remotely “serious” gamer who owns a Wii console has likely felt this way at least once: a new game is announced, but Wii is sadly left by the wayside. Or, worse, a title is released in Japan, but never for the North American market. Instead, we are left with a..."
Hot off of freshly announcing three new games this past week, publisher XSEED Games has formally announced it's lineup for this year's E3 Expo:
The 2009 Electronics Entertainment Expo begins next week on June 2nd.
XSEED Games has revealed through IGN that they will be localizing Wii Adventure RPG Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon, which will release this Winter in North America. Following numerous requests from fans, XSEED President Jun Iwasaki confirms that the publisher has obtained the rights to the North American release from Namco Bandai. An interview with localization manager Kenji Hosoi is also included in the article.
Fragile: Farewell Ruins to the Moon has the player in control of Seto,...
A new promotional video was released the day after Christmas for Namco Bandai's upcoming exploration RPG, Fragile ~Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo~ for the Nintendo Wii. The video shows off more of the story elements of the game with some minor gameplay, with the game's theme song, Hikari by Aoi Teshima, playing in the background.
The game's story features the main character Seto in a post-apocalyptic near future where the world's population has gone missing, save for a few survivors. Seto expl...
Namco Bandai's upcoming adventure RPG, Fragile ~Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo~ for the Wii, now has an official date in Japan. It will hit store shelves on January 22nd, with a price of 7140 yen. The game's opening theme will be performed by Aoi Teshima, accompanied by a part-CG animated sequence.
In Fragile, you control the protagonist Seto in a post-apocalyptic world where there are only a few survivors. His goal is to locate a mysterious girl, and unravel the mystery of everyone's disappe...
There are new screenshots for Namco Bandai's upcoming adventure RPG, Fragile ~Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo~ for the Nintendo Wii.
In the post-apocalyptic world of Fragile, there are four different types of weapons the protagonist Seto can wield from whatever he can pick up in the field. These are the rod, the hammer, the spear, and the arch. The rod class is for stuff like wooden sticks and iron poles; they have a quick attack and are easily used in a combo. The hammer class includes things...
Namco Bandai has released a new commercial for their upcoming Wii exploration RPG Fragile: Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo, depicting some of ruins and locations that will be present in the game. The video can be found at the source, and later in the day through Neoseeker Videos.
The world in Fragile has been reduced to ruins. The player will control Seto, one of the world's few survivors as he explores the ruins in search of any other survivors, and as to why everyone else hss disappeared. Ar...
Alongside Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces at C3xHOBBY this past weekend, Namco Bandai had playable demo kiosks for their upcoming Wii RPG, Fragile: Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo. AndriaSang.com's Anoop Gantayat, after playing the Sky Crawlers demo, had the chance to play Fragile at Namco Bandai's booth.
While the game is an action RPG, Fragile focuses more on exploration, with the main character Seto using a flashlight to illuminate his surroundings. The game's camera is controlled by IR pointing...
The latest batch of screenshots for the Namco Bandai-developed Fragile: Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo have hit the internet, at both Japanese newssites Watch Impress and Dengeki Online. Please check out both sites as there are different sets of screenshots.
Fragile is set in a post-apocalyptic world where most of the inhabitants have disappeared, leaving cities abandoned. As the protagonist, Seto, players travel the world, looking for survivors, and any clues as to why most of the world's pop...
Fragile: Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo is a Wii RPG that was first announced back in November 2007. Aside from a debut trailer and some gameplay and story details, news on Fragile have been relatively silent, leading some to believe that the game would be vaporware.
A bevy of new screenshots and art were released today via Japanese newssites Game Watch, GPara and Online Player EX, along with more preview information and character profiles. Fragile is shapening up to be a very tight and must-h...
"The latest issue of Famitsu magazine has thrown up a number of new details about what looks like one of the Nintendo Wiis most promising upcoming single-player experiences, Namco Bandais Fragile. Information on exploration, battling and enemies, was all divulged."
Earlier today, Namco Bandai announced that they are developing a Wii-exclusive RPG currently named Fragile. Although all we have right now is a bit of artwork and a teaser site, but the game itself will be shown this coming Thursday and an event will be held the Saturday after that. Two days later, on Monday, November 26th, the official site will open.
Certainly good news for the rather RPG-starved Wii.
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