Marvelous Entertainment's newly announced DS adventure game, Sakura Note, seems to be an extremely promising project. The concept of the game, itself, is pretty interesting, but it's the high-profile development team behind it that really add to it. The game features music by legendary composer, Nobuo Uematsu, and other big names lending talent.

Marvelous Entertainment unveiled the first details behind Sakura Note today, a nostalgia-twinged adventure game for the Nintendo DS. It'll come out November 5 in Japan, with a special soundtrack CD available for customers who preorder in that country; no overseas release has been announced.
Sakura Note is immediately notable for the staff working on it. Nobuo Uematsu, well known for his contributions to the Final Fantasy series, is handling the music, and another old FF veteran, Hideo Minaba, is leading the visual department. Kazushige Nojima, writer of most of the Kingdom Hearts games, is doing the story here, and Contact designer Akira Ueda is the chief designer of this game as well. The whole thing's being produced by Kenichiro Takagi, who's fresh off completing Half-Minute Hero for Marvelous.

As far as the game itself goes, it's a story-heavy, overhead-view adventure set within two towns and the surrounding countryside. A new girl, Nanami Yoshida, has just moved in to your neighborhood, and apparently she's being targeted by a local band of ghosts and ghouls. It seems this has something to do with a pair of sakura (cherry blossom) trees that dominate the landscape of both towns, one slowly withering and another one blooming deep into the summertime, as if to make up for its weaker sibling. You, a normal boy, decide to get to the bottom of both mysteries, talking to people and unlocking new story episodes as you go along.

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